Would you use something marked *dontuse* on one of your FreeBSD mirrors?
Linux distributions only include a kernel that has been tested by the distribution builder. The people that got bit in the ass are the ones that follow the Linux Kernel Mailing List and grab new releases. The reason they follow and install bleeding edge kernels is so that they can test them out en masse for Linus and friends, and they expect to wreck thier system. That's how the linux kernel development works.
Read the disclaimers for FreeBSD-5 previews and RC's - it's remarkably similar.
Go buy a fresh raw ginseng root (they look like white, dirty shriveled carrots)
Wash it and chop off the top and stringy bottom. Chop it up into slices like you would when you serve carrots. Boil up some water. Dump the slices in the water, and add a Earl Grey teabag. The Earl Grey helps cover up the rotting-leaf taste of the ginseng root. Steep to taste (too long tastes VERY nasty). Add sugar and or milk to taste/color.
If you have never tried ginseng, this will kick your ass. If you have a tolerance, it's a nice picker upper. Bonus points for taking ephedrine and aspirin with it, but you should only do this if you have no heart complications.
Back up your home directories, and any other custom file collections (such as nfs or samba shares), keep special configuration files that will still work on the stuff included in 8.1.x, such as smb.conf.
Install 8.1.x and restore said backed up files. Bonus points if/home is a separate partition because you didn't have to "back up" anything.
I saw Resident Evil matinee today, and sat through the opening ads.
The Toyota "Matrix" car. no comment.
Lipton Brisk Iced Tea. Near the end when they are throwing eggs and goo at the billboard for the iced tea, the Danny DeVito puppet chucks an egg at the "D" in GOOD, and it splats into E.T.
The Internet = Internet Explorer to every single Windows user.
IE may be (in your opinion) the best browser right now, and that is because Microsoft (intentionally) destroyed all development of any other browser using anti-competitive tactics as determined by a court of law.
Using IE is immoral and unacceptable, I just with the American justice system enforced the law on Microsoft instead of letting them extend thier monopoly into schools as a "punishment" while giving them billions of dollars worth of tax credits.
rdesktop is an open source client for Windows NT Terminal Server and Windows 2000 Terminal Services, capable of natively speaking Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the user's NT desktop. Unlike Citrix ICA, no server extensions are required.
5. Has implementation work started for some new API functions found on WindowsXP?
Alexandre Julliard: No, not really. We only implement functions that are needed by applications, and so far there are no applications that depend on XP-specific functions to work. In fact there are many APIs from older Windows versions that we haven't implemented, simply because we haven't found yet a single application that requires them.
PowerCalc.exe from Windows XP Power Toys is a fully featured scientific graphing calculator, as opposed to the Windows 3.1 calc.exe in Windows 2000 and previous.
PowerCalc.exe does not run on Windows 2000 or previous. It has XP specific hooks or functions. Do they have anyone working with WINE to investigate XP specific calls?
For example, my friend put 512mb of RAM in his system (since it's like $30 per 256meg stick!) and used XP's ability to "cache the OS and critical DLL's" into memory.
Where in XP do you do this? I can't seem to find it. If this keeps up I'm going to have to go back to 2000, as there are more reasons to not use XP than there are to use it.
Please say you read the EULA, and did not agree with it, and returned it to the vendor for a full refund.
At least this would send a message out that people won't put up with shit for software, and shit for software licenses, and tell the vendor that yourself, if possible, to the manager if it's a big chain store like Best Buy/Future Shop.
END-USER LICENSE AGREEMENT SERVER LICENSE FOR
MICROSOFT WINDOWS 2000 SERVER PRODUCTS
IMPORTANT-READ CAREFULLY: This End-User License Agreement ("EULA") is a legal agreement between you (either an individual or a single entity) and Microsoft Corporation for the Microsoft software product identified above, which includes computer software and may include associated media, printed materials, and "online" or electronic documentation ("Product"). An amendment or addendum to this EULA may accompany the Product. YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS EULA BY INSTALLING, COPYING, OR OTHERWISE USING THE PRODUCT. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, DO NOT INSTALL OR USE THE PRODUCT; YOU MAY RETURN IT TO YOUR PLACE OF PURCHASE FOR A FULL REFUND.
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Once started, it's just as fast as any other browser (it still starts slowish, but it's way better than it used to be.)
In Windows, you can configure Mozilla to load itself in the background when Windows boots up, just like Internet Explorer.
Now that Mozilla uses the same cheat to lower startup times, which browser starts faster?
Answer: Mozilla.
Which browser renders pages faster?
Answer: Mozilla
I installed the IE6 Public Preview (read: Beta)
and I found the autoresize image thing to be the most annoying feature, so I disabled it. Never used the sidebar. IE6 also fucked up Windows Explorer, so that large directories, when expanded, lost the "-" sign to unexpand them in the left pane. There was no symbol at all.
Uninstalling IE6 did not correct the problem.
This was in Windows 2000.
Mozilla does not change how the operating system behaves.
it was the FBI and the article says that he was detained, it makes no mention of an actual 'arrest'.. there's a big difference, they can detain you without any real reason, but they can only do it for so long.
Why don't they hold these hacker conferences in a free country, like Canada? See also: OpenBSD
Canada doesn't have Nazi laws like you do.
Section 2(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms:
freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
Section 8
Everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure.
Section 9
Everyone has the right not to be arbitrarily detained or imprisoned.
Section 10
Everyone has the right on arrest or detention
(a) to be informed promptly of the reasons therefor;
(b) to retain and instruct counsel without delay and to be informed of that right; and
(c) to have the validity of the detention determined by way of habeas corpus and to be released if the detention is not lawful.
You need to buy extra licenses from Microsoft to use Terminal Services, which you have to validate directly from them. If you use Terminal Services in Application Server mode, and don't get it approved by Microsoft, it stops working after 90 days.
What you have to buy is TS-CALs.
TS-CAL's cost:
Windows 2000 Terminal Services CAL 5-pack $749
Windows 2000 Terminal Services CAL 20-pack $2,669
And if you want to connect over the Internet:
Windows 2000 Server Internet Connector License $1,999 Unlimited CAL licensing for Internet clients only.
Windows 2000 Terminal Services Internet Connector License $9,999
Using Terminal Server in remote administration mode does not require extra licenses.
XFree86 and VNC do not have such licensing requirements.
I hope this post helps you decide what method of network application use you want to use.
I grepped throught the syslog, there is no mention of msid.msn.com [207.46.209.203]
What is that particular address for? http on it is pretty unremarkable (MSID.MSN.COM - 207.46.176.51)
After I posted the parent, the box spontaneously rebooted, no blue screen or crash message, and when it came back online, it attempted to connect to (office.watson.microsoft.com 207.46.130.90) without asking.
Here is an account of what network connections Windows XP RC1 make when it is installing itself.
It does all this without prompting the user.
The box was isolated at 192.168.1.3 and had ALL outgoing traffic denied and logged, these are the highlights.
Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=17 192.168.1.3:123 207.46.228.33:123 L=76 S=0x00 I=5 F=0x0000 T=128 (#5)
time.windows.com (207.46.228.33)
This one is rather obvious, it sets the operating system clock, but don't try using netdate on it, it's proprietary to Windows only (whoops!)
Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=6 192.168.1.3:1043 207.46.227.40:80 L=48 S=0x00 I=770 F=0x4000 T=128 SYN (#5)
(wpa.one.microsoft.com try https to it and see the certificate yourself!)
This is the Product Activation certificate, it attempted to connect to this server an incredibly large number of times.
Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=17 192.168.1.3:1039 192.168.0.1:2869 L=48 S=0x00 I=673 F=0x0000 T=128 (#5)
Not sure what it did here, 192.168.0.1 is the gateway
I don't have the packet data at all, I'll do that in the near future.
MAD props to brewt for some of the info!
and there is a fine alternative, Konqueror, if for some reason Netscape/AOL/Time-Warner is prevented from continuing development of Mozilla due to the new anti-GPL/viral clauses in their EULAs.
Go ahead and prevent further development. I have the source code now and it was licensed to me here.
This code is mine now, even if they AOL-ize the next version, I have this one to work from, and I'm sure hundreds of other people who want a superior alternative to Internet Explorer XP are willing to work on it.
There was some talk of this earlier in the Mozilla development. The founding father of Mozilla rejected it, since they steer development, and blocking ads is not in thier best interest.
Recall, Windows NT 4.0 did not come with any kind of a defragmenter. You could download Disk Keeper Lite, which constantly reminded you to buy the full version, Disk Keeper.
Not having to buy a defragmenter is VERY new to the NT world.
Well don't you think that if you can find all these overflows in ipchains or iptables, that you would be an ideal developer for the netfilter team? I mean even they can't find these overflows.
I read some source code and I'm not even a coder.
There was this little utility that prints alot of details about your x86 cpu(s) and it formatted the output incorrectly if you had more than one cpu. I guess the author didn't have any SMP boxes or testers.
It was a screwy printf, I fixed it.
Several months ago, a small kernel patch wouldn't apply, it kept hosing. Because the change was small, I opened the file and edited the source by hand. It worked, and compiled with the changes just fine.
And I'm not a coder.
If you could fix some of those ASININE error messages or "helpful" popups in Windows, would you? That's one of the first thing I would do, with dis-integrating IE5 as a close 2nd. "Why didn't I join Microsoft? [LAUGHTER]"
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Would you use something marked *dontuse* on one of your FreeBSD mirrors?
Linux distributions only include a kernel that has been tested by the distribution builder. The people that got bit in the ass are the ones that follow the Linux Kernel Mailing List and grab new releases. The reason they follow and install bleeding edge kernels is so that they can test them out en masse for Linus and friends, and they expect to wreck thier system. That's how the linux kernel development works.
Read the disclaimers for FreeBSD-5 previews and RC's - it's remarkably similar.
Is that much different from pushing software onto an active directory client using the default active directory tools?
sms just sounds like an expensive package for standard software.
Go buy a fresh raw ginseng root (they look like white, dirty shriveled carrots)
Wash it and chop off the top and stringy bottom.
Chop it up into slices like you would when you serve carrots.
Boil up some water.
Dump the slices in the water, and add a Earl Grey teabag.
The Earl Grey helps cover up the rotting-leaf taste of the ginseng root.
Steep to taste (too long tastes VERY nasty).
Add sugar and or milk to taste/color.
If you have never tried ginseng, this will kick your ass. If you have a tolerance, it's a nice picker upper. Bonus points for taking ephedrine and aspirin with it, but you should only do this if you have no heart complications.
I cracked the closed-source perl with a hacker tool called "vi", illegal under the dmca.
Back up your home directories, and any other custom file collections (such as nfs or samba shares), keep special configuration files that will still work on the stuff included in 8.1.x, such as smb.conf.
/home is a separate partition because you didn't have to "back up" anything.
Install 8.1.x and restore said backed up files. Bonus points if
I saw Resident Evil matinee today, and sat through the opening ads.
The Toyota "Matrix" car.
no comment.
Lipton Brisk Iced Tea.
Near the end when they are throwing eggs and goo at the billboard for the iced tea, the Danny DeVito puppet chucks an egg at the "D" in GOOD, and it splats into E.T.
What movie is being re-released?
E.T.
Subliminal messages are alive and well out there.
No, it's because it is bundled with Windows.
The Internet = Internet Explorer to every single Windows user.
IE may be (in your opinion) the best browser right now, and that is because Microsoft (intentionally) destroyed all development of any other browser using anti-competitive tactics as determined by a court of law.
Using IE is immoral and unacceptable, I just with the American justice system enforced the law on Microsoft instead of letting them extend thier monopoly into schools as a "punishment" while giving them billions of dollars worth of tax credits.
Or http://www.rdesktop.org
rdesktop is an open source client for Windows NT Terminal Server and Windows 2000 Terminal Services, capable of natively speaking Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the user's NT desktop. Unlike Citrix ICA, no server extensions are required.
5. Has implementation work started for some new API functions found on WindowsXP?
Alexandre Julliard: No, not really. We only implement functions that are needed by applications, and so far there are no applications that depend on XP-specific functions to work. In fact there are many APIs from older Windows versions that we haven't implemented, simply because we haven't found yet a single application that requires them.
PowerCalc.exe from Windows XP Power Toys is a fully featured scientific graphing calculator, as opposed to the Windows 3.1 calc.exe in Windows 2000 and previous.
PowerCalc.exe does not run on Windows 2000 or previous. It has XP specific hooks or functions. Do they have anyone working with WINE to investigate XP specific calls?
For example, my friend put 512mb of RAM in his system (since it's like $30 per 256meg stick!) and used XP's ability to "cache the OS and critical DLL's" into memory.
Where in XP do you do this? I can't seem to find it. If this keeps up I'm going to have to go back to 2000, as there are more reasons to not use XP than there are to use it.
Yes it is.
Please say you read the EULA, and did not agree with it, and returned it to the vendor for a full refund.
At least this would send a message out that people won't put up with shit for software, and shit for software licenses, and tell the vendor that yourself, if possible, to the manager if it's a big chain store like Best Buy/Future Shop.
END-USER LICENSE AGREEMENT SERVER LICENSE FOR
MICROSOFT WINDOWS 2000 SERVER PRODUCTS
IMPORTANT-READ CAREFULLY: This End-User License Agreement ("EULA") is a legal agreement between you (either an individual or a single entity) and Microsoft Corporation for the Microsoft software product identified above, which includes computer software and may include associated media, printed materials, and "online" or electronic documentation ("Product"). An amendment or addendum to this EULA may accompany the Product. YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS EULA BY INSTALLING, COPYING, OR OTHERWISE USING THE PRODUCT. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, DO NOT INSTALL OR USE THE PRODUCT; YOU MAY RETURN IT TO YOUR PLACE OF PURCHASE FOR A FULL REFUND.
Once started, it's just as fast as any other browser (it still starts slowish, but it's way better than it used to be.)
In Windows, you can configure Mozilla to load itself in the background when Windows boots up, just like Internet Explorer.
Now that Mozilla uses the same cheat to lower startup times, which browser starts faster?
Answer: Mozilla.
Which browser renders pages faster?
Answer: Mozilla
*BSA storms into business with a warrant*
"Do you have licenses for these Pentium 4 chipsets?"
"Licenses for my hardware??"
"I can offer you a Pentium 4 site license for 20% off right now, or I take you and all your employees to pound-me-in-the-ass prison."
I installed the IE6 Public Preview (read: Beta)
and I found the autoresize image thing to be the most annoying feature, so I disabled it. Never used the sidebar. IE6 also fucked up Windows Explorer, so that large directories, when expanded, lost the "-" sign to unexpand them in the left pane. There was no symbol at all.
Uninstalling IE6 did not correct the problem.
This was in Windows 2000.
Mozilla does not change how the operating system behaves.
it was the FBI and the article says that he was detained, it makes no mention of an actual 'arrest'.. there's a big difference, they can detain you without any real reason, but they can only do it for so long.
Why don't they hold these hacker conferences in a free country, like Canada? See also: OpenBSD
Canada doesn't have Nazi laws like you do.
Section 2(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms:
freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
Section 8
Everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure.
Section 9
Everyone has the right not to be arbitrarily detained or imprisoned.
Section 10
Everyone has the right on arrest or detention
(a) to be informed promptly of the reasons therefor;
(b) to retain and instruct counsel without delay and to be informed of that right; and
(c) to have the validity of the detention determined by way of habeas corpus and to be released if the detention is not lawful.
You need to buy extra licenses from Microsoft to use Terminal Services, which you have to validate directly from them. If you use Terminal Services in Application Server mode, and don't get it approved by Microsoft, it stops working after 90 days.
b uy/pricing/terminal.asp
b uy/pricing/pricingwindows.asp#terminal
What you have to buy is TS-CALs.
TS-CAL's cost:
Windows 2000 Terminal Services CAL 5-pack $749
Windows 2000 Terminal Services CAL 20-pack $2,669
And if you want to connect over the Internet:
Windows 2000 Server Internet Connector License $1,999 Unlimited CAL licensing for Internet clients only.
Windows 2000 Terminal Services Internet Connector License $9,999
But please, don't believe me, observe these web pages!
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/server/howto
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/server/howto
Using Terminal Server in remote administration mode does not require extra licenses.
XFree86 and VNC do not have such licensing requirements.
I hope this post helps you decide what method of network application use you want to use.
I grepped throught the syslog, there is no mention of msid.msn.com [207.46.209.203]
What is that particular address for? http on it is pretty unremarkable (MSID.MSN.COM - 207.46.176.51)
After I posted the parent, the box spontaneously rebooted, no blue screen or crash message, and when it came back online, it attempted to connect to (office.watson.microsoft.com 207.46.130.90) without asking.
Here is an account of what network connections Windows XP RC1 make when it is installing itself.
It does all this without prompting the user.
The box was isolated at 192.168.1.3 and had ALL outgoing traffic denied and logged, these are the highlights.
device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
device eth1 entered promiscuous mode
Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=17 192.168.1.3:123 207.46.228.33:123 L=76 S=0x00 I=5 F=0x0000 T=128 (#5)
time.windows.com (207.46.228.33)
This one is rather obvious, it sets the operating system clock, but don't try using netdate on it, it's proprietary to Windows only (whoops!)
Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=6 192.168.1.3:1027 207.46.197.100:80 L=48 S=0x00 I=88 F=0x4000 T=128 SYN (#5)
(microsoft.com, www.domestic.microsoft.com, and microsoft.net address pool)
Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=6 192.168.1.3:1043 207.46.227.40:80 L=48 S=0x00 I=770 F=0x4000 T=128 SYN (#5)
(wpa.one.microsoft.com try https to it and see the certificate yourself!)
This is the Product Activation certificate, it attempted to connect to this server an incredibly large number of times.
Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=17 192.168.1.3:1039 192.168.0.1:2869 L=48 S=0x00 I=673 F=0x0000 T=128 (#5)
Not sure what it did here, 192.168.0.1 is the gateway I don't have the packet data at all, I'll do that in the near future. MAD props to brewt for some of the info!
Smart Tags are in the IE6 Public Preview (read: beta) and is in all Release Candidates of Windows XP/IE6
and there is a fine alternative, Konqueror, if for some reason Netscape/AOL/Time-Warner is prevented from continuing development of Mozilla due to the new anti-GPL/viral clauses in their EULAs.
Go ahead and prevent further development. I have the source code now and it was licensed to me here.
This code is mine now, even if they AOL-ize the next version, I have this one to work from, and I'm sure hundreds of other people who want a superior alternative to Internet Explorer XP are willing to work on it.
There was some talk of this earlier in the Mozilla development. The founding father of Mozilla rejected it, since they steer development, and blocking ads is not in thier best interest.
The founding father in this case is,
Netscape Corporation
Recall, Windows NT 4.0 did not come with any kind of a defragmenter. You could download Disk Keeper Lite, which constantly reminded you to buy the full version, Disk Keeper.
Not having to buy a defragmenter is VERY new to the NT world.
Well don't you think that if you can find all these overflows in ipchains or iptables, that you would be an ideal developer for the netfilter team? I mean even they can't find these overflows.
You sound like a genious.
I read some source code and I'm not even a coder.
There was this little utility that prints alot of details about your x86 cpu(s) and it formatted the output incorrectly if you had more than one cpu. I guess the author didn't have any SMP boxes or testers.
It was a screwy printf, I fixed it.
Several months ago, a small kernel patch wouldn't apply, it kept hosing. Because the change was small, I opened the file and edited the source by hand. It worked, and compiled with the changes just fine.
And I'm not a coder.
If you could fix some of those ASININE error messages or "helpful" popups in Windows, would you? That's one of the first thing I would do, with dis-integrating IE5 as a close 2nd.
"Why didn't I join Microsoft? [LAUGHTER]"