It did accept your post, but couldn't add anything to the ultramode.txt file. So yeah; it doesn't actually matter unless freshnews.org decide to syndicate us, but I think it's fixed now.
She's a big Shortland Street fan and I happened to stumble onto the ".st" TLD when I was reading another slashdot article. So I registered it for her, set up PHP nuke, and gave it to here as a christmas present. Bugger all hits so far but a bit of blatant traffic-whoring here on/. might help.. haha..
(For those who don't know.. Shortland Street is a New Zealand made Soap Opera which has been on the air for about 7 years now.)
And I laugh at your gross misinterpretation of my post. a) It's not a first post, it's about fourth and a reply to a post. b) Think about it; speakers aren't 'made of' magnets either, they just happen to contain a large and fairly powerful magnet. The new heatpump referred to in the article isn't 'made of' magnets, but it happens to contain a large and powerful magnet which would be ideal for sticking things to refrigerators (you know.. reminders, floppy disks, backup tapes, etc.. the usual stuff:)
Anyway, I really want to know what chemical or mechanical process makes this work.. I'm guessing that the magnetic field somehow reduces the randomness (entropy!) of the structure, so it has to absorb heat to get back to it's natural random state. Kind of like how icey slush goes much colder when you mix some salt into it?
Well; until now I've been using old speaker magnets as fridge magnets because they don't fall off or slide down the door like regular fridge magnets.
Perhaps in another ten-odd years I'll be able to use old fridge magnets as.. umm.. fridge magnets..
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Is it practical, easily manufacturable, and affordable?
No, it's experimental, protype-only and very expensive. Read the article:)
A virtually silent air conditioner would be nice too. I dodn't really care for a silent fridge that much, since I don't tend to work or sleep in my kitchen very often..
I probably shouldn't even reply to this obvious troll, but it's rather amusing that at the end you mention the entire project was for internal use only; well DUH! The GPL only applies to stuff you distribute. If you're using the code 'internally' then you have no legal obligation to release anything, binaries or source, under the GPL. This even applies to web applications based entirely on GPL stuff; just because my site runs on Apache doesn't automatically force me to set up an apache mirror site for the rest of the world. Sheesh!
Also the bit about releasing anything compiled with GCC is absolute bullshit.. You're only required to make your stuff GPL'd if you used some GPL code in it, or statically linked in GPL libraries. Hell, even MS hasn't tried to pass off this big of a lie yet!!
Here's a test; get hold of some Windows source code (MS allows small amounts out, EG some of WinCE is readily available) and hack it around a bit until you have a useful program. Statically link in some of the windows DLL's even. Now ask your lawyers if they expect any "legal problems" when you try to sell the resulting binaries.
RIAA and friends (via their pocket-reps) are trying to push through laws to force everyone to run a "Digital Media Rights" operating system.
Microsoft have already filed patents on a Digital Media Rights OS.
If this law was passed, wouldn't that give Microsoft control of 100% of the operating system market in any country where this law and their patent were both in effect.
I'd like to know what holes you're referring to!
The last one I'm aware of was about 6mo ago, fairly difficult to exploit, and we patched for it the same day.
Reading back it appears the bigger issue is people driving by and stealing bandwidth, which just using SSH doesn't really solve. Put the access point on it's own network, set up so the only place you can connect from the unencrypted network is to your VPN server, that way both issues are addressed. Oh, except the windows implementation of PPTP is rather flawed too (you didn't provide a reference, so neither will I, but at least mine exists:) so yeah, it's not totally black-and-white.
The real problem is that people want to just plug the card in and have everything configure itself automagically. WEP gets closer to providing this while still being marginally secure. VPN's and stuff take some setting up.
My own view is simple; encryption shouldn't be done at the hardware layer. Assume that everything on the network is wide open and use SSH / SSL on each protocol or an encrypted VPN.
This way you can be sure everything is encrypted consistently from the host machine all the way to the client, even when your packets pass through 'unknown' equipment.
The other advantage of this approach is that you can get all your hardware cheap on ebay because everyone else is abandoning them as 'not secure enough':)
That sounds like a pretty good description of LORD to me, although there were some other very similar games about too. LORD was really addictive with most BBS users, although I can't understand why because it was to me very simple and repetitive. One of the local bbs'es (TooNTowN) even imposed a ratio; you had to post a few reasonably intelligent messages (no "first post!"'s allowed) before you got access to the door games because people were calling to play LORD all day and nothing else.
There was also a similar game (written by the same people iirc) set in a lunatic asylum. You had to fight the other inmates and eventually guess the code on the door to escape.
And then there was "Food Fight" and "Booger Flick" and about a million other really lame games, mostly written in BASIC because speed didn't matter when you're playing over a 2400 baud modem.
I helped set up the second BBS in Hamilton (it was supposed to be the first, but someone else beat us to it by about a week!). We got some help from a posh private school, so we had a 286 with a -huge- (40M) harddrive and a -very fast- (2400 baud) modem to run it on. There wasn't a great choice of software to use back then either; I can't remember what we used, that was a long time ago. Much later I ran my own BBS using Maximus for a few years and maintained the local BBS list. For a while I ran something under Linux too, wrote my own fido-to-usenet gateway, and gave up the scene a little while after when "the scene" had become just three fairly lame systems. (I admit.. my BBS was fairly lame too:)
I should post anonymously because this is a content-free rant and everyone will realise how OLD I am now.. but I won't.. go on, mod me down damn you!!:)
I did finally manage to track down the Waikato BBS list that I used to maintain.. in google groups! And then I suddenly realised that as well as 20 years of usenet, google has archived at least a few years of the usenet-gated fido groups and I managed to track down a few other Fido articles and discussions that I thought had gone forever..
In this article, microsoft happens to make mention of WindowsXP's built-in PnP. I'd like to know if XP embedded therefore contains the same security flaw? And if it does, how do you patch it?
Well no.. the first person to do this (in software or hardware) gets totally nailed under DMCA. The RIAA paid lots of money for it, you bet they're going to make full use of it.
Duh.. I hit preview and everything, but forgot to say that it takes about 20 minutes to rip and oggify each CD on this 800MHz machine.
With a 12 or 20 disk changer, you could just load it up and leave it overnight. I can't see much advantage to loading up a 100-CD stack and leaving it all week, but whatever..
Didn't even know about autorip; I hacked a bash script up to do 6 CD's at a time ('cos we have a 6CD changer) using dagrab and oggenc. I used dagrab because it can look up the cddb info for me. Sometime I'll probably redo this with cdparanoia and some separate cddb code because cdparanoia does a nicer job of ripping. Or perhaps someone will add cddb into cdparanoia soon.. don't look at me for it, I can't really code for shit!:-)
Not on my Savvy.. to type "31337" for example, I'd have to press "3333 11 3333 wait 3333 77777"
Whereas "eleet" is just "33 555 33 wait 33 8"
But most of the time I just use mtnsms.. I expect most ppl here already know about it, which is why I didn't bother to include a link..
Perhaps look up 'ulimit' sometimes.. if you don't allow child processes to consume unlimited resources then they will simply run out of 'allowed' resources themselves long before it becmoes a problem for anything/anyone else..
What makes Linux and similar unix-like OS'es so powerful and reliable? The underlying model; *NIX is a collection of simple tools which each do a single specific task,and because they're simple, each does it's task very well (ie reliably, securely, and fast. Most of the time)
What makes Windows so bloated and buggy? The OS thinks it's also a GUI. The web browser thinks it's part of the OS Every app assumes a GUI must be running and relies on it. Why the fsck would any sane person want to go there?!!
Keyboard shortcuts for everything would be a nice option; it really makes things faster when you've learned even a few of the shortcuts.
And every program really should keep the option of CLI mode (unless the program is primarily graphics-oriented). For the sake of visually impared users. Ever watched a blind guy working in Windows? I have.. even with a good screen-reader it's clumsy and inefficient compared to CLI.
Five or ten years ago if you knew 'the right places' you could get viruses not yet in the wild from the groups that wrote them. I used to collect live viruses for fun and took great delight in always having a few viruses in my collection not yet detected by the latest scanners. I don't know if that's still the case; I never bothered to keep up with the virus underground but I'd like to think that places like Symantec try to. Best defence and all that..
When did they get this patent..? It'd be damn funny if self-updating viruses (like Hybris, but there have been earlier examples) and various IRC worms were used as an example of prior art.
(OK, so I didn't bother reading any of the article, start modding me down now!)
You can define that in/etc/resolv.conf (I assume there's something similar in NT)
EG my home network is "oaco.tla" and I work at "foo.co.nz" so those are the first two entries. If I type "ssh pluto" it'll try "pluto.oaco.tla" and then "pluto.foo.co.nz" for me.. saves lots of typing.
Yah right, RH stole it too, and even put a silly red hat on it.. I'd link to redhat's penguin logo, but frankly I can't be bothered since this this entire thread should probably be modded to "-1 - Lame and pathetic"
Is Tux GPL'd? Do penguins (or cartoon images of them) have source code?
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It did accept your post, but couldn't add anything to the ultramode.txt file. So yeah; it doesn't actually matter unless freshnews.org decide to syndicate us, but I think it's fixed now.
No seriously..
shortland.st
She's a big Shortland Street fan and I happened to stumble onto the ".st" TLD when I was reading another slashdot article. So I registered it for her, set up PHP nuke, and gave it to here as a christmas present. Bugger all hits so far but a bit of blatant traffic-whoring here on /. might help.. haha..
(For those who don't know.. Shortland Street is a New Zealand made Soap Opera which has been on the air for about 7 years now.)
Anyway, I really want to know what chemical or mechanical process makes this work.. I'm guessing that the magnetic field somehow reduces the randomness (entropy!) of the structure, so it has to absorb heat to get back to it's natural random state. Kind of like how icey slush goes much colder when you mix some salt into it?
Perhaps in another ten-odd years I'll be able to use old fridge magnets as.. umm.. fridge magnets..
No, it's experimental, protype-only and very expensive. Read the article :)
A virtually silent air conditioner would be nice too. I dodn't really care for a silent fridge that much, since I don't tend to work or sleep in my kitchen very often..
Also the bit about releasing anything compiled with GCC is absolute bullshit.. You're only required to make your stuff GPL'd if you used some GPL code in it, or statically linked in GPL libraries. Hell, even MS hasn't tried to pass off this big of a lie yet!!
Here's a test; get hold of some Windows source code (MS allows small amounts out, EG some of WinCE is readily available) and hack it around a bit until you have a useful program. Statically link in some of the windows DLL's even. Now ask your lawyers if they expect any "legal problems" when you try to sell the resulting binaries.
- RIAA and friends (via their pocket-reps) are trying to push through laws to force everyone to run a "Digital Media Rights" operating system.
- Microsoft have already filed patents on a Digital Media Rights OS.
- If this law was passed, wouldn't that give Microsoft control of 100% of the operating system market in any country where this law and their patent were both in effect.
An interesting turn of events..(moderators; If you're going to mod me down as 'redundent' please at least wait until the original mention of this url has been modded up a bit :)
I'd like to know what holes you're referring to!
:) so yeah, it's not totally black-and-white.
The last one I'm aware of was about 6mo ago, fairly difficult to exploit, and we patched for it the same day.
Reading back it appears the bigger issue is people driving by and stealing bandwidth, which just using SSH doesn't really solve. Put the access point on it's own network, set up so the only place you can connect from the unencrypted network is to your VPN server, that way both issues are addressed. Oh, except the windows implementation of PPTP is rather flawed too (you didn't provide a reference, so neither will I, but at least mine exists
The real problem is that people want to just plug the card in and have everything configure itself automagically. WEP gets closer to providing this while still being marginally secure. VPN's and stuff take some setting up.
My own view is simple; encryption shouldn't be done at the hardware layer. Assume that everything on the network is wide open and use SSH / SSL on each protocol or an encrypted VPN.
:)
This way you can be sure everything is encrypted consistently from the host machine all the way to the client, even when your packets pass through 'unknown' equipment.
The other advantage of this approach is that you can get all your hardware cheap on ebay because everyone else is abandoning them as 'not secure enough'
That sounds like a pretty good description of LORD to me, although there were some other very similar games about too. LORD was really addictive with most BBS users, although I can't understand why because it was to me very simple and repetitive. One of the local bbs'es (TooNTowN) even imposed a ratio; you had to post a few reasonably intelligent messages (no "first post!"'s allowed) before you got access to the door games because people were calling to play LORD all day and nothing else.
:)
:)
There was also a similar game (written by the same people iirc) set in a lunatic asylum. You had to fight the other inmates and eventually guess the code on the door to escape.
And then there was "Food Fight" and "Booger Flick" and about a million other really lame games, mostly written in BASIC because speed didn't matter when you're playing over a 2400 baud modem.
I helped set up the second BBS in Hamilton (it was supposed to be the first, but someone else beat us to it by about a week!). We got some help from a posh private school, so we had a 286 with a -huge- (40M) harddrive and a -very fast- (2400 baud) modem to run it on. There wasn't a great choice of software to use back then either; I can't remember what we used, that was a long time ago. Much later I ran my own BBS using Maximus for a few years and maintained the local BBS list. For a while I ran something under Linux too, wrote my own fido-to-usenet gateway, and gave up the scene a little while after when "the scene" had become just three fairly lame systems. (I admit.. my BBS was fairly lame too
I should post anonymously because this is a content-free rant and everyone will realise how OLD I am now.. but I won't.. go on, mod me down damn you!!
google is pretty damn useful sometimes..
I always understood ogg had a lowest bitrate of 64k, which is still a bit high for us modem-connected users.
In this article, microsoft happens to make mention of WindowsXP's built-in PnP. I'd like to know if XP embedded therefore contains the same security flaw? And if it does, how do you patch it?
Well no.. the first person to do this (in software or hardware) gets totally nailed under DMCA. The RIAA paid lots of money for it, you bet they're going to make full use of it.
Duh.. I hit preview and everything, but forgot to say that it takes about 20 minutes to rip and oggify each CD on this 800MHz machine.
With a 12 or 20 disk changer, you could just load it up and leave it overnight. I can't see much advantage to loading up a 100-CD stack and leaving it all week, but whatever..
Didn't even know about autorip; I hacked a bash script up to do 6 CD's at a time ('cos we have a 6CD changer) using dagrab and oggenc. I used dagrab because it can look up the cddb info for me. Sometime I'll probably redo this with cdparanoia and some separate cddb code because cdparanoia does a nicer job of ripping. Or perhaps someone will add cddb into cdparanoia soon.. don't look at me for it, I can't really code for shit! :-)
Not on my Savvy.. to type "31337" for example, I'd have to press "3333 11 3333 wait 3333 77777" Whereas "eleet" is just "33 555 33 wait 33 8" But most of the time I just use mtnsms.. I expect most ppl here already know about it, which is why I didn't bother to include a link..
Perhaps look up 'ulimit' sometimes.. if you don't allow child processes to consume unlimited resources then they will simply run out of 'allowed' resources themselves long before it becmoes a problem for anything/anyone else..
What makes Linux and similar unix-like OS'es so powerful and reliable? The underlying model; *NIX is a collection of simple tools which each do a single specific task,and because they're simple, each does it's task very well (ie reliably, securely, and fast. Most of the time) What makes Windows so bloated and buggy? The OS thinks it's also a GUI. The web browser thinks it's part of the OS Every app assumes a GUI must be running and relies on it. Why the fsck would any sane person want to go there?!! Keyboard shortcuts for everything would be a nice option; it really makes things faster when you've learned even a few of the shortcuts. And every program really should keep the option of CLI mode (unless the program is primarily graphics-oriented). For the sake of visually impared users. Ever watched a blind guy working in Windows? I have.. even with a good screen-reader it's clumsy and inefficient compared to CLI.
Five or ten years ago if you knew 'the right places' you could get viruses not yet in the wild from the groups that wrote them. I used to collect live viruses for fun and took great delight in always having a few viruses in my collection not yet detected by the latest scanners. I don't know if that's still the case; I never bothered to keep up with the virus underground but I'd like to think that places like Symantec try to. Best defence and all that..
(OK, so I didn't bother reading any of the article, start modding me down now!)
EG my home network is "oaco.tla" and I work at "foo.co.nz" so those are the first two entries. If I type "ssh pluto" it'll try "pluto.oaco.tla" and then "pluto.foo.co.nz" for me.. saves lots of typing.
Yah right, RH stole it too, and even put a silly red hat on it.. I'd link to redhat's penguin logo, but frankly I can't be bothered since this this entire thread should probably be modded to "-1 - Lame and pathetic" Is Tux GPL'd? Do penguins (or cartoon images of them) have source code?
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