The virus has a "bug": when it does its filthy things with window shares it also does something with shared printers, so if one morning you find a stack of paper on the printer with one line of gibberish per sheet (and something about a DOS program not being able to execute) it could be BearBug. Or someone who printed out and exe file from notepad.
With my neighbour, we have a total of 9 machines: Solaris, Irix, Linux and Windows (XP and 2000). We managed to have centralized logins AND centralized home directories on all the systems. Here is how we did it:
We tried Kerberos, NIS and LDAP. We got the best results with LDAP.
First of all you need a server. An old box (like a 200MHz) will be far enough. We installed: LDAP, Samba and Samba-TNG. The last two because of Windows: Samba-TNG can act as a domain controller. Here are the main problems we encountered:
IRIX: you have to get one of the latest versions (6.5.13+), and change in the file/var/ns/ldap.conf
USERPASSWORD{{CRYPT\}}{}
to
USERPASSWORD{{crypt\}}{}
Windows is the hardest one because the little changes you have to do depend on the service packs you installed. It's usually a key in the registry you have to modify.
Another good thing about LDAP is the fact that you can have two LDAP servers running and slurpd does the data synchronization, so when one server goes down you still can log in.
It is damn hard to watch it when it nearly always gets preempted by football! I watched every episode of it, it was annoying to wait for an episode and get football or the last 8 minutes of the show.
Fox may be teaching a lesson to the autors, or taking revenge on them. I cannot see another explanation to the fact that they have been trying to ruin the show for all this time and now they cancel it.
If Futurama doesn't get cancelled this time, it's not for lack of trying!
I own a Sony Vaio (Superslim series, PGC-Z505), and it has nearly anything you're looking for. It really lacks in battery life time. 2hrs if you VI on it. But you can buy a "6hrs" battery, that means you can VI on it for 6 hrs. And then you'll still have the 2hrs battery shipped by default... well I guess you could fill in your suitcase with batteries. Other thing that sucks is 64MB of RAM. But I don't really notice it with Linux (but default OS: WinME aghhhhh...).
I installed a Debian on it with NO problem, even if I had no CD rom, not even an external one. Builtin networking is enough - quite good, not a 3com but having in my home network with just 3coms and a kickass switch the Vaio integrated well.
It is small (letter paper sized x 1inch) and light (3lbs maybe), but has a max res of 1024x768 (there are some smaller ones which only have 600x800). Didn't get the modem working.
And I find it really nice. That's also a reason I bought it, but I don't think you actually care.
But if you really want to build your own... well, if you have the money to buy the parts and the patience to put it all together I think it will be at least a very instructive activity and you'll learn a lot from it. I'd like to hear of the result.
It will be pretty bad since the peak will be around 11h00, 18h31 and 19h19 CET, on November the 18th, but you can still have a decent show the night between the 18th and the 19th.
Anybody has some more information about the sighting in Europe?
I have a rip of the latest Garbage CD. I had it loooong before the release date of the cd. This also proves Copy Prevention is not working. And I owe each member of Garbage a pizza because I'd like to pay them for the music they give me but I cannot becuse I am afraid their CDs may be defective and not work in my PC thus be useless for me.
Those defective CDs are making me feel less guilty of not paying for music. They make me evil.
I grew up in Europe, I am still living in Europe, so I think the Tick is one of those other things that are specific to the American culture.
Well, I asked Google, and for the other non-us/.ers here are some links:
What I did is put the edonkey client on my server, the php stuff on the server too and I can easily connect via http from anywhere and control my edonkey command line client!
It would be great to know how they implemented the monitoring in order to apply it to other useful daily needs. For example:
HTCPCP: Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (RFC2324)
Coke machine monitoring: I remember the frustration of being in the computer lab, willing to get a cheap coke and having to go to the next building (coke next to the computer lab was damn expensive) and then finding NO COKE in the coke machine.
I had to do a Browser comparison with an application which needed hiding and displaying parts of a web page: depending on what you clicked some different stuff appeared.
This application uses a lot of features a browser can handle: stylesheets (and the nasty "display" attribute), JavaScript, tables, forms and XML.
I tried the following browsers (under Windows, since the people who will use it mainly have Windows):
Netscape 4.x
Netscape 6.1
Internet Explorer 5.x
Opera 5.12
Amaya 5.1
Mozilla 0.9.3
Here are the results:
- IE kicked ass in everything, and even displayed the XML stuff right.
- NS 6.1 kicked ass too, but 6 or 7 times slower. Prettier display, but hideously slow (and no XML, but we didn't care). Same thing for Mozilla (duh).
- NS 4.x sucked. Couldn't handle the "display: none" property properly. No XML.
- Opera faked kicking ass, but in fact had JavaScript problems... just wouldn't show anything whatever you clicked. No XML.
-Amaya didn't even fake. I guess it was a JavaScript problem because the display of the object was weird. But it faked some XML. displayed the source as plain text (ohh it's displaying something!! no, it's the source)
Conclusion: best results on Win: (sniff) IE. Followed by NS6.1 and Mozilla. Then comes Opera.
Gotta try some browsers under Mac and Linux now too, maybe.
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I have been working lately on some hardcore css/JavaScript/XML stuff which was based on hiding and displaying parts of a document, and we had to test it on several platforms. We arrived to the following conlusion:
IE is not bad.
Come on, look at the reality: it does CSS well. Netscape kinda sucks in that. It is more W3C compliant than Netscape. XML: IE can interppret xml/xsl stuff. Netscape 6 can do that too, but it sucks at it.
The bad things about IE are: it's Micro$oft and I can't run it on my machine from linux. Hey, if there existed IE for Linux, I'd install it. I kinda need it now. I might delete it afterwards, but hell, it would last on my computer as long as this job of mine.
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Yeah, I was running apache on port 80 too, and so suddently I couldn'connect to the webpages from outside... Since I the server is connected with Verizon I thought that it was some new sucky feature of this provider. I moved to port 8080. Thanks to/. I discovered that there was a good reason for that.
I am wondering if the cable companies usually allow to put a server up.
The company I am using now used to forbit it, and it used to have quotas too.
I didn't really want a Laptop, but then I saw the Vaio's SR series, and they were just too cute not to buy one, so I decided I really wanted one. I finally got a PGC-Z505LE, less cute but a bit more performant (more video RAM!). It has no CDrom drive but I don't really care, I don't even use the usb floppy disk they gave me... well, I used it once.
Then I got interested about installing Linux on it: I now have a Debian potato with a 2.4 kernel. It supports my usb floppy drive, well, can always be useful in emergency situations.
It has a winModem, but ethernet too, and since at home I have a little domestic network, well, who cares.
So I am definitely happy with my Vaio and I would suggest it to anyone. Well, it was shipped with WinME, and that kinda sucks, but Linux wasn't hard to install, even without a CDrom.
I was in UK 6 years ago and was hosted by a family with 2 kids in school age (9 and 13). They had to wear a uniform.
I don't know if now they stil have to wear it (usualy gray or brown).
By the way, when I see a bunch of people all dressed in the same way I think of some sort of brainwashing.
The point is: what are those kids taught about copyright? I hope they're not taught to tell the authorities if their friends download copyrighted material. And, would you imegine a 15-year-old boy, fan of Britney Spears, surfing the web and finding a really nice jpeg of her, and downloading it but deteting it after discovering it's copyrighted.. that would make me shiver.
I was in middle school and at the local grocery store they were selling Red Bull at a test price (0.30$). My mom saw sodas for cheap and got some for me. I was 12 at that time. I tasted it. Here are my thoughts/words:
It looks like carbonated pee!
It tastes like carbonated pee!
Well, it really tastes like carbonated gummi-bear juice
Mom, that sucks, can you drink it please? and never buy test products again.
After some years I was in college and there I saw people drinking that stuff in various ways:
Fast: because they needed the caffeine and they hated the taste... same as I did with Mt Dew as I came to the US
With Vodka. You will be happy all night. And sick the day after.
3 espresso coffee concentrated in 2dl of carbonated pee... I still prefer coke
Just because as I first read the title I understood it as an Italian word, as it is, and I understood its Italian meaning, which involves the implication "Prima Donna" => woman. The article had a mysogyn flavour then. It took me a while to get the real meaning of it -- I just woke up and I already learnt something.
I once found out two male users who had as password $GIRLNAME . $NUMBER, where $GIRLNAME had the same value for both of them. I don't remember the number. I know them, so I am sure they are two different ppl. Well, that's not password psychology, that's pure gossip...
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From the article:
She talks about physics like it's cooking. (at the beginning), and In the meantime, she's hard at work, and waiting for the oven bell. (at the end).
Why are women always associated with cooking? Maybe she does cook well but that's not the point of the article... so why open and close it with that?
Bolo's Computer Museum is a collection of old computers started by Yves Bolognini. Some of the computers are exposed at EPFL, and they all work.
The virus has a "bug": when it does its filthy things with window shares it also does something with shared printers, so if one morning you find a stack of paper on the printer with one line of gibberish per sheet (and something about a DOS program not being able to execute) it could be BearBug. Or someone who printed out and exe file from notepad.
#gnuwin on openprojects (irc.debian.org)
The French Version of Big Brother is called Loft Story and here is a page with the big house and the people playing the French Big Brother.
Here
Less pretty but more understandable
With my neighbour, we have a total of 9 machines: Solaris, Irix, Linux and Windows (XP and 2000). We managed to have centralized logins AND centralized home directories on all the systems. Here is how we did it:
/var/ns/ldap.conf
We tried Kerberos, NIS and LDAP. We got the best results with LDAP.
First of all you need a server. An old box (like a 200MHz) will be far enough. We installed: LDAP, Samba and Samba-TNG. The last two because of Windows: Samba-TNG can act as a domain controller. Here are the main problems we encountered:
IRIX: you have to get one of the latest versions (6.5.13+), and change in the file
USERPASSWORD{{CRYPT\}}{}
to
USERPASSWORD{{crypt\}}{}
Windows is the hardest one because the little changes you have to do depend on the service packs you installed. It's usually a key in the registry you have to modify.
Another good thing about LDAP is the fact that you can have two LDAP servers running and slurpd does the data synchronization, so when one server goes down you still can log in.
It is damn hard to watch it when it nearly always gets preempted by football! I watched every episode of it, it was annoying to wait for an episode and get football or the last 8 minutes of the show.
Fox may be teaching a lesson to the autors, or taking revenge on them. I cannot see another explanation to the fact that they have been trying to ruin the show for all this time and now they cancel it.
If Futurama doesn't get cancelled this time, it's not for lack of trying!
I own a Sony Vaio (Superslim series, PGC-Z505), and it has nearly anything you're looking for. It really lacks in battery life time. 2hrs if you VI on it. But you can buy a "6hrs" battery, that means you can VI on it for 6 hrs. And then you'll still have the 2hrs battery shipped by default... well I guess you could fill in your suitcase with batteries. Other thing that sucks is 64MB of RAM. But I don't really notice it with Linux (but default OS: WinME aghhhhh...).
I installed a Debian on it with NO problem, even if I had no CD rom, not even an external one. Builtin networking is enough - quite good, not a 3com but having in my home network with just 3coms and a kickass switch the Vaio integrated well.
It is small (letter paper sized x 1inch) and light (3lbs maybe), but has a max res of 1024x768 (there are some smaller ones which only have 600x800). Didn't get the modem working.
And I find it really nice. That's also a reason I bought it, but I don't think you actually care.
But if you really want to build your own... well, if you have the money to buy the parts and the patience to put it all together I think it will be at least a very instructive activity and you'll learn a lot from it. I'd like to hear of the result.
It will be pretty bad since the peak will be around 11h00, 18h31 and 19h19 CET, on November the 18th, but you can still have a decent show the night between the 18th and the 19th.
Anybody has some more information about the sighting in Europe?
I have a rip of the latest Garbage CD. I had it loooong before the release date of the cd. This also proves Copy Prevention is not working. And I owe each member of Garbage a pizza because I'd like to pay them for the music they give me but I cannot becuse I am afraid their CDs may be defective and not work in my PC thus be useless for me.
Those defective CDs are making me feel less guilty of not paying for music. They make me evil.
Well, I asked Google, and for the other non-us
-
Columbia TriStar Television - The Tick
- SPOON! The Tick Headquarters
- Google Webdirectory
I guess if it's not in my culture, then it's not that fun.Better: a php interface.
What I did is put the edonkey client on my server, the php stuff on the server too and I can easily connect via http from anywhere and control my edonkey command line client!
http://www.inet-manufaktur.f2s.com/phpdonkey/
This thing really kicks ass, give it a try!
It would be great to know how they implemented the monitoring in order to apply it to other useful daily needs. For example:
- HTCPCP: Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (RFC2324)
- Coke machine monitoring: I remember the frustration of being in the computer lab, willing to get a cheap coke and having to go to the next building (coke next to the computer lab was damn expensive) and then finding NO COKE in the coke machine.
EI had to do a Browser comparison with an application which needed hiding and displaying parts of a web page: depending on what you clicked some different stuff appeared.
This application uses a lot of features a browser can handle: stylesheets (and the nasty "display" attribute), JavaScript, tables, forms and XML.
I tried the following browsers (under Windows, since the people who will use it mainly have Windows):
Netscape 4.x
Netscape 6.1
Internet Explorer 5.x
Opera 5.12
Amaya 5.1
Mozilla 0.9.3
Here are the results:
- IE kicked ass in everything, and even displayed the XML stuff right.
- NS 6.1 kicked ass too, but 6 or 7 times slower. Prettier display, but hideously slow (and no XML, but we didn't care). Same thing for Mozilla (duh).
- NS 4.x sucked. Couldn't handle the "display: none" property properly. No XML.
- Opera faked kicking ass, but in fact had JavaScript problems... just wouldn't show anything whatever you clicked. No XML.
-Amaya didn't even fake. I guess it was a JavaScript problem because the display of the object was weird. But it faked some XML. displayed the source as plain text (ohh it's displaying something!! no, it's the source)
Conclusion: best results on Win: (sniff) IE. Followed by NS6.1 and Mozilla. Then comes Opera.
Gotta try some browsers under Mac and Linux now too, maybe.
E
A DeCSS Gallery. Enjoy DeCSS in Traditional Haiku.
For more information, here is the main page. E
I have been working lately on some hardcore css/JavaScript/XML stuff which was based on hiding and displaying parts of a document, and we had to test it on several platforms. We arrived to the following conlusion:
IE is not bad.
Come on, look at the reality: it does CSS well. Netscape kinda sucks in that. It is more W3C compliant than Netscape. XML: IE can interppret xml/xsl stuff. Netscape 6 can do that too, but it sucks at it.
The bad things about IE are: it's Micro$oft and I can't run it on my machine from linux. Hey, if there existed IE for Linux, I'd install it. I kinda need it now. I might delete it afterwards, but hell, it would last on my computer as long as this job of mine.
E
Yeah, I was running apache on port 80 too, and so suddently I couldn'connect to the webpages from outside... Since I the server is connected with Verizon I thought that it was some new sucky feature of this provider. I moved to port 8080. Thanks to /. I discovered that there was a good reason for that.
I am wondering if the cable companies usually allow to put a server up.
The company I am using now used to forbit it, and it used to have quotas too.
E
I didn't really want a Laptop, but then I saw the Vaio's SR series, and they were just too cute not to buy one, so I decided I really wanted one. I finally got a PGC-Z505LE, less cute but a bit more performant (more video RAM!). It has no CDrom drive but I don't really care, I don't even use the usb floppy disk they gave me... well, I used it once.
Then I got interested about installing Linux on it: I now have a Debian potato with a 2.4 kernel. It supports my usb floppy drive, well, can always be useful in emergency situations.
It has a winModem, but ethernet too, and since at home I have a little domestic network, well, who cares.
So I am definitely happy with my Vaio and I would suggest it to anyone. Well, it was shipped with WinME, and that kinda sucks, but Linux wasn't hard to install, even without a CDrom.
Vic
Well, here is the proof:
http://infinity.hn.org/xena_and_scully.jpg
V
... like earning money thanks to programmers who give their code to the public because they believe in that?
... like backstabbing people who just do something for the community?
... like selling something that is supposed to be free?
V
I was in UK 6 years ago and was hosted by a family with 2 kids in school age (9 and 13). They had to wear a uniform.
I don't know if now they stil have to wear it (usualy gray or brown).
By the way, when I see a bunch of people all dressed in the same way I think of some sort of brainwashing.
The point is: what are those kids taught about copyright? I hope they're not taught to tell the authorities if their friends download copyrighted material. And, would you imegine a 15-year-old boy, fan of Britney Spears, surfing the web and finding a really nice jpeg of her, and downloading it but deteting it after discovering it's copyrighted.. that would make me shiver.
V
After some years I was in college and there I saw people drinking that stuff in various ways:
3 espresso coffee concentrated in 2dl of carbonated pee... I still prefer coke
V
Just because as I first read the title I understood it as an Italian word, as it is, and I understood its Italian meaning, which involves the implication "Prima Donna" => woman. The article had a mysogyn flavour then. It took me a while to get the real meaning of it -- I just woke up and I already learnt something.
V
I once found out two male users who had as password $GIRLNAME . $NUMBER, where $GIRLNAME had the same value for both of them. I don't remember the number. I know them, so I am sure they are two different ppl. Well, that's not password psychology, that's pure gossip...