But I don't have any money:( So I'm using a webcam and TV card I bought for $30 6 years ago... it does the job although I think I'll move the camera out to that archway you can see, so I get better pictures next time.
Recently I got given a crappy old laptop, no battery or drives and the HDD was stuffed. I had a spare drive, it runs off 12v just fine. I've added a 802.11b card and USB webcam and it lives in my van now. I just need to add config to 'motion' so that it'll watch and store the output of the van camera as well as the mailbox one. Total cost of my security system is still almost-nothing.
The movie industry can write off a movie that fails to sell, for whatever reason. They'll just assume that people simply dislike the movie. There's always another movie to take it's place.
No, they'll claim the failure was due to piracy and the solution is _more DRM_
"Free" xandros is only available via BitTorrent. While I don't personally approve of xandros, a friend had already paid them $10 for an http download and then found that [XP|MSIE|dialup] wouldn't stay up long enough to make downloading it practical.. so I grabbed the ISO by BitTorrent for them. I've also used bittorrent recently (mostly this week) to download;
Knoppix 3.7
GamesKnoppix 3.7
FreeSBIE 1.1
System Rescue CD
The Open CD 2.0
That's a few gig of legal p2p traffic right there..
Perhaps this would be even more effective if you pulled out a notepad and pen? Don't even talk to them, just write down all the details. Once they realise you're taking notes expect them to quiet the hell down real fast. If they ask you about it afterwards tell them you were taking notes for SOME GUYS TWO BLOCKS AWAY who couldn't quite hear all the details... they should get the hint.
It's quite hard for a blind person to tell eg "Catfood" vs "baked beans" or "Chicken noodles" vs "Extra-hot Thai noodles". The plan was that his wife would scan each product as she puts them away and record a short audio description. Verne can then scan cans and packets while she's at work and sort out a non-spicy, non-catfood lunch for himself.
I wrote a script for this, but then the computer had an accident so I'm going to have to write it all over again:(
Braille on the numbers, even at a drive-up atm, but no actual way for a blind person to use the machine since everything else (which way up to insert the card, account balances, the actions of the four 'function' buttons) is entirely visual and inaccessable to a blind user.
Perhaps your machines are different, but over here ATM machines are definately not accessable.
There's a Windows (2k/xp) Firewall on sourceforge, but it's 'not quite there yet' and IMHO neither is clamav..
. it doesn't detect polymorphic viruses. I'm not sure how common these are, but it disturbs me that there's a whole class of viruses clamav can't see.
. it doesn't scan on demand. Every other virus scanner does this by default.
. Although there's a plugin for Outlook, that's the only mailer supported. Most people use OE. many use Thunderbird or Mozilla and while these are resistant to most viruses users can still run attachments if they try hard enough. Clamwin doesn't intercept and scan pop3 or imap yet.
If you want a Free firewall for your windows box dig out an old p133 and install one of the many 'linux firewall' projects. If you want Free virus scanning for your windows box install procmail on this linux firewall and dump all the file-types that only ever get used by viruses (.scr,.cpl, etc) then scan the remaining mail with clamav just in case..
Or don't do a google search at all, do a freshmeat or sourceforge search.. Myself, I do an 'apt-cache search' and if I can't find what I want there then I'll try sourceforge.
Even easier; how about if slashdot start a 'makelovenotspam' topic where they regularly post stories about the most prolific spammers, complete with the usual story links. A few people might bother to read the stories. Perhaps many more would set up a cron job to 'wget' the page two levels deep every five to fifteen minutes. It could be very effective.
To be quite honest, I think this is _perfectly_ acceptable. If you think you can make commercial a commmercial product from a 14-year old kernel (that'd be about version 1.0.9 I think) then good luck to you.. Everything later remains under the GPL. It wouldn't be the end of the world!
That was my first thought to. Far from being a compliment, what they're doing now is -entirely- consistent with GHS's previous position.. "Linux is so insecure and dangerous that you should only run it sandboxed in a secure virtual environment provided by a 'real' operating system.."
I've been doing the same, but with a bit of a kiwi flavour. I'm quite keen to do a set of 'kiwiana' stamps for tuxpaint next edition (damn openoffice, next edition will have to be when OOo 2.0 comes out, I only just finished the last edition!)
Only in a SANE world. The current system is so broken I suspect Microsoft could push through a patent on the wheel or fire, sufficiently obfuscated, and get away with it. Probably the only reason they haven't already is that wheels and fire have very limited use in the world of computer software.
I had an idea for a fun virus a while back. This one doesn't do any harm at all. The only thing it does is run a keygen for a while, and replace the current windows key with the first valid key it manages to generate before uninstalling itself as neatly and cleanly as possible. Most Windows users would never even notice..
Well knows? The very first thing I did when I heard about this program was install XP on a crap old machine to see if Microsoft really could recognise a keygen corporate install.. But by the time I had it up and running (Easy my ass, I can have Debian running in half the time I can install XP even without product activation..) it had already been withdrawn. And frustratingly I have since paved my nice pirate XP to play with other things so I think I won't bother this time around either:(
Just a minor nitpick; I think if you check a little deeper (use an IE conditional comment to load a 'really-MSIE' image; anything that doesn't load the image is not really MSIE) you'll find that out of those 93.26% quite a significant number are Opera or Firefox users who can't access some sites without changing the browser string.
Well yeah, but I also don't expect the guy in the next parking space to 'borrow' the lug nuts for any reason and I sure as hell hope that if he did, he'd leave a note on the windshield so I know about it before I drive away!
Agreed.. if you care about your pagerank, your page will be listed in DMOZ. And if it's there it will be in google's directory too, with a pagerank indicator next to it.
It's also worth mentioning that scp has a lot of per-file overhead, and it's REALLY painful when you're copying a large directory/tree full of very small files.
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Was this the same guy at MSFT who said "All software has bugs, just the other day I had to apply a security patch for Firefox.." ?
But I don't have any money :( So I'm using a webcam and TV card I bought for $30 6 years ago... it does the job although I think I'll move the camera out to that archway you can see, so I get better pictures next time.
Recently I got given a crappy old laptop, no battery or drives and the HDD was stuffed. I had a spare drive, it runs off 12v just fine. I've added a 802.11b card and USB webcam and it lives in my van now. I just need to add config to 'motion' so that it'll watch and store the output of the van camera as well as the mailbox one. Total cost of my security system is still almost-nothing.
The movie industry can write off a movie that fails to sell, for whatever reason. They'll just assume that people simply dislike the movie. There's always another movie to take it's place.
No, they'll claim the failure was due to piracy and the solution is _more DRM_
"Free" xandros is only available via BitTorrent. While I don't personally approve of xandros, a friend had already paid them $10 for an http download and then found that [XP|MSIE|dialup] wouldn't stay up long enough to make downloading it practical.. so I grabbed the ISO by BitTorrent for them. I've also used bittorrent recently (mostly this week) to download;
Knoppix 3.7
GamesKnoppix 3.7
FreeSBIE 1.1
System Rescue CD
The Open CD 2.0
That's a few gig of legal p2p traffic right there..
The computer simply needs to file registration of itself as a corporation and it will have right far above any mere human being..
Perhaps this would be even more effective if you pulled out a notepad and pen? Don't even talk to them, just write down all the details. Once they realise you're taking notes expect them to quiet the hell down real fast. If they ask you about it afterwards tell them you were taking notes for SOME GUYS TWO BLOCKS AWAY who couldn't quite hear all the details... they should get the hint.
This is something my friend is very interesed in.
:(
It's quite hard for a blind person to tell eg "Catfood" vs "baked beans" or "Chicken noodles" vs "Extra-hot Thai noodles". The plan was that his wife would scan each product as she puts them away and record a short audio description. Verne can then scan cans and packets while she's at work and sort out a non-spicy, non-catfood lunch for himself.
I wrote a script for this, but then the computer had an accident so I'm going to have to write it all over again
Braille on the numbers, even at a drive-up atm, but no actual way for a blind person to use the machine since everything else (which way up to insert the card, account balances, the actions of the four 'function' buttons) is entirely visual and inaccessable to a blind user.
Perhaps your machines are different, but over here ATM machines are definately not accessable.
There's a Windows (2k/xp) Firewall on sourceforge, but it's 'not quite there yet' and IMHO neither is clamav..
.cpl, etc) then scan the remaining mail with clamav just in case..
. it doesn't detect polymorphic viruses. I'm not sure how common these are, but it disturbs me that there's a whole class of viruses clamav can't see.
. it doesn't scan on demand. Every other virus scanner does this by default.
. Although there's a plugin for Outlook, that's the only mailer supported. Most people use OE. many use Thunderbird or Mozilla and while these are resistant to most viruses users can still run attachments if they try hard enough. Clamwin doesn't intercept and scan pop3 or imap yet.
If you want a Free firewall for your windows box dig out an old p133 and install one of the many 'linux firewall' projects. If you want Free virus scanning for your windows box install procmail on this linux firewall and dump all the file-types that only ever get used by viruses (.scr,
Or don't do a google search at all, do a freshmeat or sourceforge search.. Myself, I do an 'apt-cache search' and if I can't find what I want there then I'll try sourceforge.
Even easier; how about if slashdot start a 'makelovenotspam' topic where they regularly post stories about the most prolific spammers, complete with the usual story links. A few people might bother to read the stories. Perhaps many more would set up a cron job to 'wget' the page two levels deep every five to fifteen minutes. It could be very effective.
To be quite honest, I think this is _perfectly_ acceptable. If you think you can make commercial a commmercial product from a 14-year old kernel (that'd be about version 1.0.9 I think) then good luck to you.. Everything later remains under the GPL. It wouldn't be the end of the world!
Mod parent up..
That was my first thought to. Far from being a compliment, what they're doing now is -entirely- consistent with GHS's previous position.. "Linux is so insecure and dangerous that you should only run it sandboxed in a secure virtual environment provided by a 'real' operating system.."
I hearby patent cows farting. Every farmer that has a cow that farts must pay me a penny for every fart.
Prior fart
I've been doing the same, but with a bit of a kiwi flavour. I'm quite keen to do a set of 'kiwiana' stamps for tuxpaint next edition (damn openoffice, next edition will have to be when OOo 2.0 comes out, I only just finished the last edition!)
http://zcat.wired.net.nz/kiaora/
Only in a SANE world. The current system is so broken I suspect Microsoft could push through a patent on the wheel or fire, sufficiently obfuscated, and get away with it. Probably the only reason they haven't already is that wheels and fire have very limited use in the world of computer software.
I had an idea for a fun virus a while back. This one doesn't do any harm at all. The only thing it does is run a keygen for a while, and replace the current windows key with the first valid key it manages to generate before uninstalling itself as neatly and cleanly as possible. Most Windows users would never even notice..
Well knows? The very first thing I did when I heard about this program was install XP on a crap old machine to see if Microsoft really could recognise a keygen corporate install.. But by the time I had it up and running (Easy my ass, I can have Debian running in half the time I can install XP even without product activation..) it had already been withdrawn. And frustratingly I have since paved my nice pirate XP to play with other things so I think I won't bother this time around either :(
Just a minor nitpick; I think if you check a little deeper (use an IE conditional comment to load a 'really-MSIE' image; anything that doesn't load the image is not really MSIE) you'll find that out of those 93.26% quite a significant number are Opera or Firefox users who can't access some sites without changing the browser string.
Well yeah, but I also don't expect the guy in the next parking space to 'borrow' the lug nuts for any reason and I sure as hell hope that if he did, he'd leave a note on the windshield so I know about it before I drive away!
Agreed.. if you care about your pagerank, your page will be listed in DMOZ. And if it's there it will be in google's directory too, with a pagerank indicator next to it.
It's also worth mentioning that scp has a lot of per-file overhead, and it's REALLY painful when you're copying a large directory/tree full of very small files.
Yep. Enough for Doom3, or Longhorn. Possibly even enough to run doom3 IN longhorn!!
"News for trolls; stuff that starts flamewars"
Anyhow, the forbes article already got mentioned on Groklaw. Perhaps you need to stop relying on one site for all your news?
Been there; just run vncviewer fullscreen under X, and flip between desktops normally.. (mouse, ctrl-F2, etc)
Too easy.