First: This is awesome. Of course I love this little hack that exploits some pretty serious default misconfguration.
Second: I hate seeing "code" which is really just a 'wrapper' around other tools. This isn't 'Python code' as much as a 'glorified shell script that relies on Linux free tools!".. maybe some attrition for:
Well you said it not me.:-) ["fail"] It's pretty obvious FTA. Maybe you're subtly suggesting that lasers have always been digital??? I don't know enough about it.
FTA: A 'laser beam' apparently has a few components. The "analogue" way - two mirrors on each end of the device. The "digital" way - replace the one curved mirror with an LCD THAT HOOKS UP TO A COMPUTER. The computer controls the LCD (orientation of the liquid crystals) and ultimately affects the laser shape. I'm amazed that they can use an LCD instead of the mirror..
I use a lot of IBM software and hardware on a daily basis. I/really/ feel like this is more of a 'corporate alliance' than an 'opening up' of their 'intellectual property."
I guess I just dislike the fact it's called the "OpenPower Consortium". Somehow I feel it dilutes the word "open", which has a lot to free/libre.
This is mostly true, except, I'm curious about this part (in the article):
"But one important trick may be the group’s added step of treating the gun’s barrel in a jar of acetone vaporized with a pan of water and a camp stove, a process that chemically melts its surface slightly and smooths the bore to avoid friction."
I don't do 3D printing, but this sounds kind of like digital-age gunsmithing (?)
KPH
I barely want to point this out, but, what's "affordable" has a lot to do with where you geographically live.
Fishing == rivers, oceans (ie. coasts, islands,..)
Red Meat / Chicken == land (ie. farms, mountain herds,..)
What's missing in our 'food equation' is self-production and high-valued local produce. Whatever is good/sustainable for your region is what you should consider consuming. Reliance on cheap/subsidized imported food just won't add-up long-term.
It basically allows you to create an archive that's selectively larger, but contains an amount of parity such that you can have XX% corruption and still 'unzip.'
"The original idea behind this project was to provide a tool to apply the data-recovery capability concepts of RAID-like systems to the posting and recovery of multi-part archives on Usenet. We accomplished that goal." [http://parchive.sourceforge.net/]
I've been using djbdns as my BIND alternative for the last couple of years, and I've been very happy with it. Technically it was pretty straightforward to build/install. The only consideration seems to be whether you like the djb way of doing things (I do!) and the few Freedom wrinkles in the license.:-)
Also, since they are standardised on Windows desktops, you presumably have Windows support people. Get them to maintain your desktop and don't worry about it. It's the last line that really spoke to me. I've used w32 a long time. I loved billyg, back in 95, in a technosexual way. But, after being exposed to linux/X, I just can't go back. Backing up '.home' is all that I ever to want to 'maintain.' Ubuntu installs. Is free in every conceivable way. Put in a CDR, drag over your home folder. Done.
So you need to first come up with a good reason or reasons as to why a Windows desktop doesn't work for you. Not liking it isn't a good reason, there's plenty about work I don't like, but then they are paying me so I'll do what I'm told. I agree with that in some ways. When I have to hack on VB6, I do. It's a maintenance job. When I get to create _ANYTHING_ new, though, I use linux&Perl&Java. Kurt.
It's the 'Filesystem Hierarchy Standard by the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard Group' It's more useful for OTHER arguments like '/media' vs '/mnt' and '/var' vs. '/opt', etc.:)
And if that is true, then perhaps collecting enough valid keys could lead to discovering the actual 'validation function' and removing the need for brute force.
"... sharing software within an industry eliminates any competitive advantage that software gives a company within that industry"
This statement is true, assuming that particular piece of software/technology offers competitive advantage. But from the rest of your post, I get the impression you're not fully considering 'Enabling Technology vs. Business Differentiation' Not every type of technolgy offers competitive advantage/differentiation to a businesses.
Anyway. If you haven't already, check out Bruce Perens piece on "The Emerging Economic Paradigm of Open Source" [http://http://perens.com/Articles/Economic.html]
I know that banks/utils/commodity providers 1) should aim to reduce their overall operating expenses (licensing costs, security breach cleanup, etc.) 2) use peer reviewed software (open source) to build their infrastructure. Point 1 is all about business growth, point 2 is all about societal growth.
FTFA: "Picture a buggy pulled behind a rover that is outfitted with a set of magnetrons," he suggests. (A magnetron is the heating element in a microwave oven.) "With the right power and microwave frequency, an astronaut could drive along, sintering the soil as he goes, making continuous brick down 0.5 m deep," Taylor points out. He adds that by changing the power settings the astronaut could melt the top inch or two of the soil to make a glass road.
"Or say that you want a radio telescope," he continues. "Find a round crater and run a little microwave 'lawnmower' up and down the crater's sides to sinter a smooth surface. Hang an antenna from the middle--voila, instant Arecibo!" he ex-claims, referring to the giant 305-m-diam radio telescope formed from a natural circular valley in Puerto Rico. --- When I read that, I had an 'aha!' moment.
I generally like this idea, but I think it would be more useful to present it as a test, which the user must pass in order to install. The user would have to check off the items that actually apply to the software, as described in the EULA. Upon clicking the correct combination, the user would be _allowed_ to install.;-)
I think a simple spreadsheet like program would work well (I heard VisiCalc is pretty sweet.) But, on to the nitty, I think your legend should be listed in ascending-color order. So, the first item in your legend would be Lab 105 V64, then Printer V62, Workstation V60, and Phone(100H) V61. Also, the black items are confusing - consider colour coding them and adding them to the legend.
I really do think it's important to keep this type of documentation. So good on you for the initiative.
No offense but Im curious to know how you came up with 5%? It probably has a lot to do with the size of the project, communication complexities, devastating random occurrence, etc., but even still, there is no reason to quantify it like that. 'Chance of catastrophe', for all *practical* reasons, is not measurable. I think a better way to look at it is from an insurance point of view.
They never say how much the project was worth but if it can generate a million dollars of damage in that short period of time then clearly its valuable/worth a damn lot.
If I'm facing millions of dollars in damages because of system error, I really should have *some* sort of insurance. I think being able to roll back at the flick of the switch, in light of the damages, seems absolutely critical. Im just amazed at how straight forward this seems.
In some ways Im kind of glad to see the egg on the face of management, because so often it seems they are able to blame the people below them. However in this case the management just flat out failed and it is pretty obvious.
I'm sure I'm not the first to say this... but... how about people who release plugins actually sign them? Then we can build our trust network around that, not where you are downloading it from.
"Sun suggested the campaign was far from over and urged governments at the grassroots level to crack down on Internet bars providing services to under-age users and to impose stiffer fines on cafes violating regulations."
Let me get this straight, Sun is actually encouraging this? That sounds more like something Microsoft would do.
SCO official defends Linux sales after suit was filed
By Online Staff May 22 2003
The SCO Group's product management director, Erik Hughes, says the company continued to sell its Linux products for over two months after suing IBM based on "legal advice."
SCO filed the case in Utah on March 7, alleging that code from Unix property which it owns had been used by IBM for furthering its Linux business. Last week, SCO issued warnings to commercial Linux users that they could be liable as well and announced that it was suspending sales of its own Linux products.
SCO officials have made conflicting claims about these alleged violations being present in the generic Linux kernel which is available for download on the web.
The Linux kernel is distributed under the General Public License. The code is available for distribution and re-use in any software which comes under the same licence. The kernel for SCO's own Linux is still available for free download from its website.
Hughes denied that SCO's UnixWare product contained any code from the Linux operating system. After SCO, in 1999, announced that it had added Linux functionality to UnixWare, there has been speculation that this could have been done by using code from the Linux kernel.
He deflected a question about UnitedLinux - an initiative under which SCO and three other Linux companies have been selling distributions built from a common base - by saying that SCO was continuing to honour its commitments to its Linux clients.
However, Hughes said, SCO was not participating in any further development of UnitedLinux until the whole issue of alleged copyright violations had been sorted out.
He had no answer when asked if SCO's partners in UnitedLinux - SuSE, Conectiva and TurboLinux - had been directly informed by the company about the ongoing problems. "I don't know the answer to that one," he said.
Hughes again had no answer when asked what modus operandi SCO would adopt when June 13 came around - the date on which it has threatened to revoke IBM's license for AIX, Big Blue's own version of Unix.
He had this to offer about the GPL and SCO: "The GPL, by its terms, only applies to software programs or works which contain a notice "placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed under the terms of this General Public License. (emphasis by him)
"The following rules follow from this provision of the GPL:
1. To the extent a developer who contributes code is not the actual "copyright holder" of the code (i.e., instances of pirated code) as defined by the GPL.
2. To the extent a developer contributes code to which he claims copyright, but it is in fact an unauthorized (sic) derivative work of a properly copyrighted software, the open source developer does not actually own the copyright and is therefore not the "copyright holder" as defined by the GPL.
"In other words, the GPL itself covers situations where code is improperly or accidentally contributed to the GPL without proper authorization (sic) of the true copyright holder."
Slashdot Mirror
First: This is awesome. Of course I love this little hack that exploits some pretty serious default misconfguration.
Second: I hate seeing "code" which is really just a 'wrapper' around other tools. This isn't 'Python code' as much as a 'glorified shell script that relies on Linux free tools!".. maybe some attrition for:
airplay-ng
line 138: os.system("aireplay-ng -D -0 0 -a" + network.MAC + " mon0 &")
Linux Wireless Network tools????
line 255: 'iwlist wlan0 scan 2>/dev/null',
Third: It really doesn't matter, because 1) Did I mention this is COOL shit. :-)
KPH
I fail to see how that's digital ...
Well you said it not me. :-) ["fail"] It's pretty obvious FTA. Maybe you're subtly suggesting that lasers have always been digital??? I don't know enough about it.
FTA: A 'laser beam' apparently has a few components. The "analogue" way - two mirrors on each end of the device. The "digital" way - replace the one curved mirror with an LCD THAT HOOKS UP TO A COMPUTER. The computer controls the LCD (orientation of the liquid crystals) and ultimately affects the laser shape. I'm amazed that they can use an LCD instead of the mirror..
KPH
PS: FRIGGIN' DIGITAL LAZZZZZERS!?!?!!
I use a lot of IBM software and hardware on a daily basis. I /really/ feel like this is more of a 'corporate alliance' than an 'opening up' of their 'intellectual property."
I guess I just dislike the fact it's called the "OpenPower Consortium". Somehow I feel it dilutes the word "open", which has a lot to free/libre.
KPH
"But one important trick may be the group’s added step of treating the gun’s barrel in a jar of acetone vaporized with a pan of water and a camp stove, a process that chemically melts its surface slightly and smooths the bore to avoid friction."
I don't do 3D printing, but this sounds kind of like digital-age gunsmithing (?)
KPH
Moderators -- come on..this is should +3 Funny.... this is hilarious! :)
I never laugh before noon EST.
Mod parent up.
KPH
WSJ does not allow people to read this content for free.... KPH
I barely want to point this out, but, what's "affordable" has a lot to do with where you geographically live.
..)
Fishing == rivers, oceans (ie. coasts, islands,..)
Red Meat / Chicken == land (ie. farms, mountain herds,
What's missing in our 'food equation' is self-production and high-valued local produce. Whatever is good/sustainable for your region is what you should consider consuming. Reliance on cheap/subsidized imported food just won't add-up long-term.
KPH
Parchive: Parity Archive Volume Set
It basically allows you to create an archive that's selectively larger, but contains an amount of parity such that you can have XX% corruption and still 'unzip.'
"The original idea behind this project was to provide a tool to apply the data-recovery capability concepts of RAID-like systems to the posting and recovery of multi-part archives on Usenet. We accomplished that goal." [http://parchive.sourceforge.net/]
KPH
I've been using djbdns as my BIND alternative for the last couple of years, and I've been very happy with it. Technically it was pretty straightforward to build/install. The only consideration seems to be whether you like the djb way of doing things (I do!) and the few Freedom wrinkles in the license. :-)
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html
Kurt
> How, exactly, do the Men In Black install this uber-spyware on a target system?
I'm not sure if you've seen Independence Day, but basically they upload it using a Mac.
Kurt
This whole slashdot question is a little silly, as your post points out. Who really cares what it stands for as long as we know what goes in there.
I found this document interesting a while ago, thought I'd share it: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html
It's the 'Filesystem Hierarchy Standard by the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard Group' It's more useful for OTHER arguments like '/media' vs '/mnt' and '/var' vs. '/opt', etc. :)
KurtAnd if that is true, then perhaps collecting enough valid keys could lead to discovering the actual 'validation function' and removing the need for brute force.
Kurt
Seriously though.
Kurt
"... sharing software within an industry eliminates any competitive advantage that software gives a company within that industry"
This statement is true, assuming that particular piece of software/technology offers competitive advantage. But from the rest of your post, I get the impression you're not fully considering 'Enabling Technology vs. Business Differentiation' Not every type of technolgy offers competitive advantage/differentiation to a businesses.
Anyway. If you haven't already, check out Bruce Perens piece on "The Emerging Economic Paradigm of Open Source" [http://http://perens.com/Articles/Economic.html]
I know that banks/utils/commodity providers 1) should aim to reduce their overall operating expenses (licensing costs, security breach cleanup, etc.) 2) use peer reviewed software (open source) to build their infrastructure. Point 1 is all about business growth, point 2 is all about societal growth.
Kurt
FTFA: "Picture a buggy pulled behind a rover that is outfitted with a set of magnetrons," he suggests. (A magnetron is the heating element in a microwave oven.) "With the right power and microwave frequency, an astronaut could drive along, sintering the soil as he goes, making continuous brick down 0.5 m deep," Taylor points out. He adds that by changing the power settings the astronaut could melt the top inch or two of the soil to make a glass road.
"Or say that you want a radio telescope," he continues. "Find a round crater and run a little microwave 'lawnmower' up and down the crater's sides to sinter a smooth surface. Hang an antenna from the middle--voila, instant Arecibo!" he ex-claims, referring to the giant 305-m-diam radio telescope formed from a natural circular valley in Puerto Rico.
---
When I read that, I had an 'aha!' moment.
KPH
I generally like this idea, but I think it would be more useful to present it as a test, which the user must pass in order to install. The user would have to check off the items that actually apply to the software, as described in the EULA. Upon clicking the correct combination, the user would be _allowed_ to install. ;-)
Ah.. just a fun idea.
Kurt
I think a simple spreadsheet like program would work well (I heard VisiCalc is pretty sweet.) But, on to the nitty, I think your legend should be listed in ascending-color order. So, the first item in your legend would be Lab 105 V64, then Printer V62, Workstation V60, and Phone(100H) V61. Also, the black items are confusing - consider colour coding them and adding them to the legend.
I really do think it's important to keep this type of documentation. So good on you for the initiative.
Kurt
No offense but Im curious to know how you came up with 5%? It probably has a lot to do with the size of the project, communication complexities, devastating random occurrence, etc., but even still, there is no reason to quantify it like that. 'Chance of catastrophe', for all *practical* reasons, is not measurable. I think a better way to look at it is from an insurance point of view.
They never say how much the project was worth but if it can generate a million dollars of damage in that short period of time then clearly its valuable/worth a damn lot.
If I'm facing millions of dollars in damages because of system error, I really should have *some* sort of insurance. I think being able to roll back at the flick of the switch, in light of the damages, seems absolutely critical. Im just amazed at how straight forward this seems.
In some ways Im kind of glad to see the egg on the face of management, because so often it seems they are able to blame the people below them. However in this case the management just flat out failed and it is pretty obvious.
I'm sure I'm not the first to say this... but... how about people who release plugins actually sign them? Then we can build our trust network around that, not where you are downloading it from.
My 2cents
Kurt
"Sun suggested the campaign was far from over and urged governments at the grassroots level to crack down on Internet bars providing services to under-age users and to impose stiffer fines on cafes violating regulations."
Let me get this straight, Sun is actually encouraging this? That sounds more like something Microsoft would do.
Kurt
PS: I'm joking. RTFA.
SCO official defends Linux sales after suit was filed
By Online Staff
May 22 2003
The SCO Group's product management director, Erik Hughes, says the company continued to sell its Linux products for over two months after suing IBM based on "legal advice."
SCO filed the case in Utah on March 7, alleging that code from Unix property which it owns had been used by IBM for furthering its Linux business. Last week, SCO issued warnings to commercial Linux users that they could be liable as well and announced that it was suspending sales of its own Linux products.
SCO officials have made conflicting claims about these alleged violations being present in the generic Linux kernel which is available for download on the web.
The Linux kernel is distributed under the General Public License. The code is available for distribution and re-use in any software which comes under the same licence. The kernel for SCO's own Linux is still available for free download from its website.
Hughes denied that SCO's UnixWare product contained any code from the Linux operating system. After SCO, in 1999, announced that it had added Linux functionality to UnixWare, there has been speculation that this could have been done by using code from the Linux kernel.
He deflected a question about UnitedLinux - an initiative under which SCO and three other Linux companies have been selling distributions built from a common base - by saying that SCO was continuing to honour its commitments to its Linux clients.
However, Hughes said, SCO was not participating in any further development of UnitedLinux until the whole issue of alleged copyright violations had been sorted out.
He had no answer when asked if SCO's partners in UnitedLinux - SuSE, Conectiva and TurboLinux - had been directly informed by the company about the ongoing problems. "I don't know the answer to that one," he said.
Hughes again had no answer when asked what modus operandi SCO would adopt when June 13 came around - the date on which it has threatened to revoke IBM's license for AIX, Big Blue's own version of Unix.
He had this to offer about the GPL and SCO: "The GPL, by its terms, only applies to software programs or works which contain a notice "placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed under the terms of this General Public License. (emphasis by him)
"The following rules follow from this provision of the GPL:
1. To the extent a developer who contributes code is not the actual "copyright holder" of the code (i.e., instances of pirated code) as defined by the GPL.
2. To the extent a developer contributes code to which he claims copyright, but it is in fact an unauthorized (sic) derivative work of a properly copyrighted software, the open source developer does not actually own the copyright and is therefore not the "copyright holder" as defined by the GPL.
"In other words, the GPL itself covers situations where code is improperly or accidentally contributed to the GPL without proper authorization (sic) of the true copyright holder."
Beer.