Cliff has marked me as troll, and by gum-golly if someone thinks they can just have that title on a silver platter.
Cross-platform and other whines by moi
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GTK has been written for Win32 systems, but, ironically, not for the older Macintosh systems. Since MacOS X is BSD, which, believe it or not, is Linux, GTK should work with few problems as is on the new MacOS X.
Furthermore, there are Windows libraries, mostly dynamic link, that will allow on-system support for the 9x series, and NT supports it from 2k^.
I mention that as I'll remind you, when you programme using GTK, or should that be if, the language formats available are for cross-platform. As there is primary C++ for ICE systems, or as you call them, *nix, there is Qt for Windows and Mac.
Now, personally, I like Java, but have you noticed how long it takes for Star Office or Netscape to load? And these are already in binary format. PHP, as it stands, takes slightly less time to do more complex things, and it's in run-interpretation non-compiled form. Now that it can be turned into machine code, I'm sure the limits on its power will disappear like the validity of your argument.
Now that that's out of the way, who's up for volleyball!?
Personally, I just flat-out don't care much for the Windows operating system; it's designed for PHB's and Alpha-Geek-Wish-I-Were's. But, I will say this or the NT 5 series and up, they are, for the first time in M$ history, actually stable enough for server use.
Only problem is, we're expected to work with NTFS. So brilliantly designed the NTFS that anyone allowed to sign on with any level of access can damage the entire system.
Perhaps, one day, M$ will just go on some form of Unix/Linux like Apple.
*prays*
He was arrested for wreckless driving & owi.
You can find a pic at www.enemy.org
You'll also find a delightful "Microsoft World Domination 99" CD in there as well.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Linux is secure, and will continue to become more so.
I'm just popping in to show peices of an advertisement for the "Windows 2000 Server Family"
Yeah, whatever, you'll love this.
"For a server operating system, the five nines are a measure of reliability that translates into just over five minutes of server downtime per year.*
*This level of availability is dependent on many factors outside of the operating system, including other hardware and software technologies, mission-critical operational processes and professional services."
What I am reading, expecially with the "mission-critical operational processes" is that when M$ tests this thing, they just install it and don't actually DO anything with the server. I'm willing to bet they don't even use software-dependant hardware, just to make sure they make that "99.999%"
Hmm, upside down, that's,,÷66666,,
Funny how the truth sneakes out in the most peculiar way.
Actually, I think there upset because they're Amiga users.
Well, to the two young men, and the older alpha-geek-wanna-be, I'm happy to inform you that your destinies are to follow me into creating Dotslash!
.oO(I didn't find it laugh out loud funny, but I've been told by several that it atleast puts a smile on their face. I agree with them. The best part is the "Last Beowulf cluster dies in captivity")
These here young fellas in Madison, as I call them all to often, have successfully created tiny little crystal-like slates that, when acted upon by a light wave, act the same as cones being acted upon by magnets. Sequencing many of these little plates can produce the same level of sound and quality as a traditional sound system, and that was the biggest "it'll never be an all light system" hurdle, in my opinion (which is never humble).
The first photo-processor was made in 1998, by either Lucent or Agilent. It used the same theories as electronic processors, read: yes and no, 1 and 0; however, the first 8bit processor was made by another company.
I'll email you links to several relating articles once I feel the need to go forth and scour these things up. Web scouring is a weekend activity for me. Slashdotting is weekday-there's-no-one-at-the-scifi-chatrooms activity.
I may even sent the list into slashdot and query as to the general populous' thoughts into the future of photo-computing.
The New DSL will probably be the only thing using electricity in the future. You see, charged phophorus plates intermittenly lock some 800' of optical cable carrying 8bit signals; ultimately, the setup is capable of reaching many, many miles without any signal degradation
All this will become very obvious to even the casual techno-user within three years.
Trolls know these things, just watch and see.
Now, this doesn't mean "printing" future hardware, for testing or otherwise, won't happen, but I wouldn't wait for the expensive electrical things, when you may be going to the store to pick up very fine threads of optical fiber.
*raises glass* Here's to the hopes of open source designs in the age of photons.
The headlines:
2010 eGates hardware over throws governments
2012 eGates hardwar controls 90% of the internet
2013 TuxBoard Manufacturing, ESR CEO started in conjunction with the GNU Project has begun. The EG Supercomputerweb laughs.
2013 People sick of having their homes burn down try TuxBoard Manufacturing out of curiosity and hope
2014 EG SCW now scared. FUD attacks: TuxBoards don't burn down, they must not be capable of the high-level processing.
2015 Cox on a Chip capable of making eGates hardware work without burn out and without the need for Windows 9000 XPIJFLSFN
2016 Helsinki almost nuked, but bombs fail to go off, and land 300mi out of range...hardware failure.
2018 Redmond uprising attempts to overthrow EG SCW
2020 After the 100 GHZ war, Linus Torvalds reigns as occaissionally benevolent emperor over 98% of the world.
2021 New Zealand finally ready to cater to AmigaSketch users.
2024 Massive solar flare damages most of the computer world.
2025 Etchasketch becomes popular
2026 Printable punch cards arrive on the outskirts of the remaining ecivilization.
2027 Last Beowulf cluster dies in captivity.
2028 Torvalds frozen and displayed for all to look at.
3028 Cockroaches and lawyers wonder why there is a frozen person on the European continent. Lawyers wonder if he has money (which looks a lot like punch cards)
3030 The Troll Niscenus and a band of AnonCows re-establish world order with a central hub of infromation they call DotSlash.
I can only assume we'll need Cox on a Chip to write the drivers for the new e-paper.
I don't think we'll see printers sketching 8-atom wide paths on unborn microchips, ever.
A) The "printer" would cost way to much for any common use.
B) Have you seen the size of the machines that currently do this? They're ENIAC, hyperbolicly speaking.
C) By the time anyone gets this going, computer will be communicating on their boards and processors with 8bit light streams rather than electonic anything...err, not that I know anything. If Century Tel didn't buy GTE from Verizon, you wouldn't not know anything either.
I usually get turned into a troll everytime I say this, but, "Who's up for volleyball!?"
Non-compete applies to suspension as well as termination. The woman who was fired for reading email had a continuing non-compete order for the next six months.
If you're wondering about the man who returned, I had outsourced a group to ensure that access to the internet only included some forty or so servers, thus, making the need for him to find the transplanted ADC less necessary. Other than the that, he was one of the best micro-systems engineers I have known, and we all have our hang ups.
Now, thoush, let me ask you, would you seriously want a woman working for a competitor who may have accessed Linus-knows-what working for your competitor? Emails, when I left, were encrypted for level and could only be open by the destination computer. Sad to say it, but the hubs were BSD.
Hmm, maybe that's the source of the porn problems...BSD/BDSM, yeah, I could see that.
As an official troll, I am now going to whine and harrass. X Windows is laggy and the new GNOME splash screen scares me.
That's pretty much all I can whine about, really. Well, it's very hard to complain about Linux, so:P
I meant PC simply in that context, not IBM Clone, though, that is ironic, really. In honesty, IBM, much as HP, didn't think computers would make it to the private market at that time.... Well, that was until Apple showed us the way.
I'm both an Apple and Linux Zealot.... Well, more zealot for Apple; I'm told I have achieved "guru status," though, I see myself more of a missionary, converting on user at a time. This year alone, I've converted four. Not bad for someone with just ICQ, Email, and two chat rooms.
Now, who's up for volleyball?
And so is the movie.
I especially liked the bulldozer racing scene, but I was disappointed at not seeing Bill Gates' actual mugshot.
I'll assume most of you already know where to get that ^_^
Let's see now, Microsoft gets broken up. Bill Gates heads one of the groups. That group, GatesisgodSoft will buy Verisign, and then, it'll be like that UF cartoon, "Hello? Yeah, I would like to buy the internet."
I'd rather have ICANN being independant. Less chance of eWorld Domination (business plan currently patent pending)
Jon, think fast!
The court will now commence on Microsoft v. Linus Torvalds:
You can't trust floating points, but you can "tutor" the programming to come out with the apparent correct answer.
Of course, this is just a direct math problem where you already know the answer; "tutoring" something incorporated into a more extensive programme, however, can cause all sorts of unexpected problems. Ironically (don't hurt me), doing this directly in BASIC is less likely to cause problems. BASIC, though, is about as blunt as a language can get, and with non-serial linear blocks, all you ever end up with is...Alan Cox's beard.
.oO(Well, I though it was funny, and spagetti is so over used. Though, saying Cox and BASIC together feels wrong.)
Well, now that I confirmed that floating points and BASIC only cause problems, who's up for volleyball!?
Instead of Flaming you, like a certain moderator would like to see, I'm going to give you a fair chance to run a quick logical exercise, kay?
Intial Premise:
I write a firewall that requires you to specify which ports should be open initially and how often to rotate them. It also allows you block access of information, in-going and out-going, or IP's you don't specify. Then, I allow to decide the level of access each net-accessing application and external IP may have to your system.*
Concept:
This is all done Raymond style, i.e. open source. Any script-kiddie and his uncle can stare at the source. By your conception, allowing this makes my firewall weak.
Environment:
Now, naturally, only a person with root priveleges can make alterations to the entailment of the firewall, unless otherwise specified, right? That's obviously yes if you have ever used any firewall worth it's weight in electrons.
On top of that, we'll assume you were smart enough to download from MY site, not some third party site, which would put you at risk. You know that already, like most of us, and that's why you're at MY site.
Nothing mentioned so far is abnormal, or even sufficiently outside the realm of what's expected of a super user, i.e. the ability to think.
Paradox:
The script-kiddie knows of some really stupid flaw that I didn't think of, oy, well, that happens***. He/She will assume you will initialize ICQ/ICU on its normal port****. Why do you do that? Same reason you wrote this post to begin with. Anywho, they create a portal string through ICQ/ICU. You're not tracking the IP movement because of the pre-mentioned reason. Ditto for why you don't cut&rotate for additional IP-links. Now, how's this script-kiddie going to affect the firewall? He doesn't have the localhost IP or root priveleges.
You're thinking, "But he got inside, he can do stuff!" NO HE CAN'T!!! Where have you been!? He doesn't have root priveleges! He has NO user priveleges! THIS IS LINUX!**
Conclusion:
Well written, open-source software is more than secure enough*, especially on the right system**. Even if the software has a flaw***, a capable user can take extra precautions to increase it's ability****.
Comment:
Hack your own box, but, whatever happens to you will nolonger be my fault:P
I will avoid saying, "Class dismissed," only because it's used ATLEAST once a week on Slashdot.
Besides, I now have lots of time, because I'm on strike due to an anti-semetic comment in, I think, The Mandrake article. As long as that's up, I have all sorts of extra time to kvetch an jibber. Actually, I'm thinking about making "Dotslash: The Crossfire of the Geeks" text adventure...well, slashdot-facade, but that's all; it'll be like that old commodore 64 game "Portal" but less plot and more "Nonsense", see Jon's Humorix Toys at i-want-a-website.com/about-linux and yes, Jon likes dashes very much.
Hmm, I guess I will now be intergrating Nonsense; feh, now Jon will want a copy before I release it.
I hope this was informative to you "Open Source Isn't Secure" types. In fact, just to mention about BSD for a moment: The reason why it seems constantly out of date is because it is constantly being tested for those "flaws" and insecurities. I compliment the effort, but it does cause the appearance of antiquation. Sure, their 3.0 compiler is more stable than your 4.0, but it lacks features and advancement. Their 4.6 firewall is more powerful than your 6.2, but it's not as customizable or as scalable. However, if you would consider OpenBSD, or any for that matter, you would have little in the ways of worries and only the occasional woe. And, every once in awhile...you can get an impressive application that makes us GNU-ists stop and say, "Woah!"
^_^
Now...about that anti-semetic AnonCow, could someone do something...NOW-ish?
If a home user just installs mandrake as it wants, I could see why you would see it as not being high-scale for other systems.
The last version I installed was 7.1. 7.1 allowed me to do lots of things 7.2 refuses. 7.2's auto-detect lacks a lot to be desired, and limits tweak-ability for root. Trying to upgrade only creates two damaged kernel-based systems.
Needless to say, I went back to 7.1 and have been adding bits and pieces, rpm by rpm, and, in some places, because it was put together by a group of people who stopped caring about the technical details of self assembly, hack by hack.
Yes, Mandrake has issues, and I have no intention of looking at 8.0 until it's fully released. If I find it to be just as sad, I'm going to switch AGAIN!
For those of you not familiar with my general what-chya-do-carizmo, I've been extending the powers of Linux since Red Hat 4.0, and then moved to Mandrake at 6.0.
Since Mandrake has been going all out to make me mad (thank linus I have/mnt/iso, something newer versions don't incorporate), I very well am considering Caldera or Debian, yet, if the hardware expansion continues, I may even move to Storm, mostly because I've grown fond of the never-to-actually-be-released U1 Strike Server. I'm lightly playing with the idea of SuSE and Best, but I'm sticking with Mandrake until I say it's not worth my time anymore.
You know, whining at AnonCows may be my new hobby. I've refused to do now as I did in...the account before this...
Anywho, whine, B*, complain
Now, Who wants to this AnonCow find his head with both hands? Don't point out where to look, thank you.
It's a lot like engrish (see "all your base are belong to us"): If you think in Japanese, the English will become Engrish; if you think in C, the architecture will become englisH.
Being an AnonCow shouldn't exempt you from being whined at.
Now, since I'm taking the time to pick on an AnonCow, I'm going to throw in my massive list of Slashdot sigs and odd comments. As an experiment, I wanted to see what I could find in one half hour. I'm amazed Jon's slashdot sig's section isn't twenty pages long; based on my success, it should be eighty by this point in time.
Random slashdotting:
The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them...-Einstein
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
I do not avoid women, Mandrake, but I do deny them my essence.
the skunks, on the other hand, are graffiti bastards.
This sig is xenon coated, and will glow red when in the presence of aliens
Ah! A Moderator in the wild. Look at it! I'll stick my thumb up its ass. That'll really piss it off!
* CmdrTaco is an idiot.
* CmdrTaco can admit it.
DOS is dead, and no one cares...
If there's a Bourne Shell, I'll see you there
Linux has no chance to survive make your time
"just connect this to..."
BZZT.
"ahrg! You didn't unplug it?"
They fsck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
-- dont feed the trolls.... TEASE the trolls.. It's fun to get them upset. --
"I may not have morals, but I have standards."
http://mail-abuse.org/rbl/ - kills spammers dead
Time to die, nerd-boy!
All buffers are full
Your message can not be posted
Base directories have no inode reference
Are you irratable
Belong to a group of people who care
To whine now is a little late
US residents encouraged to run away
Someone should pay me.
Set the dogs on these dotheads
Up your own A*!
US president Bush died today..dreams, man, dreams
The stuff after the enter is mine.
Bomb the Canadians!
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
All buffers are full
Your message can not be posted
Base directories have no inode reference
Are you irratable
Belong to a group of people who care
To whine now is a little late
US residents encouraged to run away
I swear, I really do read "reply to this rant"
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The Modem Lives On
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Anywho, I'd like to thank Alien54 for bringing this idea to my attention. Living in the middle of nowhere, I thought, gave me one small problem, and I really do consider this the only problem. The problem of no broadband is only a concern when upgrading my sweet li'l Red Hat. I, ironically, am writing that from IE on you-know-what, but this is a problem I'm soon to surpass.
So, as I was saying...who's up for volleyball?
I have some serious doubts that you even have the ability to write in C, much less compose a compiler, and I, personally, do not spend time keeping "cooties out of beard," as I keep my self clean daily, not just "that time of the month, oh, darn it."
I apologize if forgetting to select "Plain Old Text" made me appear as though I was "driveling."
I would hit preview, but I have grown the habit of just hitting submit and moving on. I don't have the time to reload slashdot eighty times a day in the hopes of harping against a figure in the Linux culture, GNU/Linux at that. As I see it, you must realize that you have little to contribute to Slashdot, to Linux and I'm willing to bet, you have little to society.
As for your ever so cute description of "drain on society," I am fairly certain that I have been far more productive in the past ten years than you will be in your life time.
If you actually have something to say, and have the need to explain to people how you think some eighty plus people are wasting away their lives, feel free, Ma. AnonCow, to keep in mind that you're the one that came here for the purpose of whining the first place.
Don't worry, I remembered "Plain Old Text" this time, so, I won't appear to be drivelling, just Kvetching.
You don't happen to goto abuzz.com, do ya? I think we could get along.
Anyone looking for my comment to the article, it's in a reply to an offensive AnonCow.
Who's up for volleyball?
^_^
Dear Dothead,
Thank you for the respect you have given Richard and the many people who have spent the better part of a decade working at the GNU Project. It is because of cowards like you who bash, or Bourne Again SHell, without fear of retrobution that reminds us that the ignorance of a generation is a massive obstacle that will not be easily overcome.
It is of fact that ingrates like you are unable to recognize the kind of influence such an extensive work like GNU Project has had that makes one realize how important a GNOME v KDE discussion actually is...though, ultimately may not seem like that, but I'm getting there.
When there was just the linux kernel, it only allowed the most basic interaction with the computer; the computer remained, a phrase from "The Pirates of Silicon Valley", "A pretty blinking box with lots of lights." Without the GNU Project, the amount of work and development from Linux would only have be at four to eight percent of what it is now.
When the GNU Project developed a shell for the continuing NFS from UNIX, it made a easy to use interface to work with. From that shell, were the programmes of further use developed, such as gcc, now essential to most Linux distributions, GNU and otherwise (yeah, there are otherwises, say BSD for example). From the later developed collection of shells, other programmes and systems, from GTK to SMB developed, some essential, some creating ease of use. Then, as the command line was frightening the potential masses, the GNU Project developed an environment that made users feel at ease--it was GNOME (GNU Network Object Manipulating Environment) and it was good! It used the ever so young X Windows System developed from another valiant project based on the already successful work of the GNU Project. From this point on, The GNU Project developed tools, incorporated utilities and contributed to what would become the robust operating you just call "linux."
And furthermore, it should be blatent to you and anyone who actually READ the article that the GNU Project is a lot more than taking credit for a style of operating system, but is about an entire philosophy. Unlike a larger number of Open Source Movement who are more than happy to co-exist with proprietary software, the GNU Project, the driving force behind the Free Software Movement, wants "intellectual property" to become an oxymoron. It is not wrong to take credit for something you did, but to keep for the soul purpose of gaining capital? Come on, really, you don't think that is the purpose of software development? No, you're smart enough, or is that an assumption, to realize that development and understanding come from sharing what has been done.
And in continuance with that, you can now see why paragraph two is SO important, to allow people to incorporate and share so that others may learn and do the same. That is why the "Open Source Tag-Along" is in that agreement, Mr. or Mrs. or Mz. X.
If you have a problem with that, well, you can go...fcsk yourself.
^_^
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Cliff has marked me as troll, and by gum-golly if someone thinks they can just have that title on a silver platter.
GTK has been written for Win32 systems, but, ironically, not for the older Macintosh systems. Since MacOS X is BSD, which, believe it or not, is Linux, GTK should work with few problems as is on the new MacOS X.
Furthermore, there are Windows libraries, mostly dynamic link, that will allow on-system support for the 9x series, and NT supports it from 2k^.
I mention that as I'll remind you, when you programme using GTK, or should that be if, the language formats available are for cross-platform. As there is primary C++ for ICE systems, or as you call them, *nix, there is Qt for Windows and Mac.
Now, personally, I like Java, but have you noticed how long it takes for Star Office or Netscape to load? And these are already in binary format. PHP, as it stands, takes slightly less time to do more complex things, and it's in run-interpretation non-compiled form. Now that it can be turned into machine code, I'm sure the limits on its power will disappear like the validity of your argument.
Now that that's out of the way, who's up for volleyball!?
Personally, I just flat-out don't care much for the Windows operating system; it's designed for PHB's and Alpha-Geek-Wish-I-Were's. But, I will say this or the NT 5 series and up, they are, for the first time in M$ history, actually stable enough for server use.
Only problem is, we're expected to work with NTFS. So brilliantly designed the NTFS that anyone allowed to sign on with any level of access can damage the entire system.
Perhaps, one day, M$ will just go on some form of Unix/Linux like Apple.
*prays*
He was arrested for wreckless driving & owi.
You can find a pic at www.enemy.org
You'll also find a delightful "Microsoft World Domination 99" CD in there as well.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Linux is secure, and will continue to become more so. I'm just popping in to show peices of an advertisement for the "Windows 2000 Server Family" Yeah, whatever, you'll love this. "For a server operating system, the five nines are a measure of reliability that translates into just over five minutes of server downtime per year.* *This level of availability is dependent on many factors outside of the operating system, including other hardware and software technologies, mission-critical operational processes and professional services." What I am reading, expecially with the "mission-critical operational processes" is that when M$ tests this thing, they just install it and don't actually DO anything with the server. I'm willing to bet they don't even use software-dependant hardware, just to make sure they make that "99.999%" Hmm, upside down, that's ,,÷66666,,
Funny how the truth sneakes out in the most peculiar way.
Actually, I think there upset because they're Amiga users.
Well, to the two young men, and the older alpha-geek-wanna-be, I'm happy to inform you that your destinies are to follow me into creating Dotslash!
.oO(I didn't find it laugh out loud funny, but I've been told by several that it atleast puts a smile on their face. I agree with them. The best part is the "Last Beowulf cluster dies in captivity")
These here young fellas in Madison, as I call them all to often, have successfully created tiny little crystal-like slates that, when acted upon by a light wave, act the same as cones being acted upon by magnets. Sequencing many of these little plates can produce the same level of sound and quality as a traditional sound system, and that was the biggest "it'll never be an all light system" hurdle, in my opinion (which is never humble).
The first photo-processor was made in 1998, by either Lucent or Agilent. It used the same theories as electronic processors, read: yes and no, 1 and 0; however, the first 8bit processor was made by another company.
I'll email you links to several relating articles once I feel the need to go forth and scour these things up. Web scouring is a weekend activity for me. Slashdotting is weekday-there's-no-one-at-the-scifi-chatrooms activity.
I may even sent the list into slashdot and query as to the general populous' thoughts into the future of photo-computing.
The New DSL will probably be the only thing using electricity in the future. You see, charged phophorus plates intermittenly lock some 800' of optical cable carrying 8bit signals; ultimately, the setup is capable of reaching many, many miles without any signal degradation
All this will become very obvious to even the casual techno-user within three years.
Trolls know these things, just watch and see.
Now, this doesn't mean "printing" future hardware, for testing or otherwise, won't happen, but I wouldn't wait for the expensive electrical things, when you may be going to the store to pick up very fine threads of optical fiber.
*raises glass* Here's to the hopes of open source designs in the age of photons.
The headlines:
2010 eGates hardware over throws governments
2012 eGates hardwar controls 90% of the internet
2013 TuxBoard Manufacturing, ESR CEO started in conjunction with the GNU Project has begun. The EG Supercomputerweb laughs.
2013 People sick of having their homes burn down try TuxBoard Manufacturing out of curiosity and hope
2014 EG SCW now scared. FUD attacks: TuxBoards don't burn down, they must not be capable of the high-level processing.
2015 Cox on a Chip capable of making eGates hardware work without burn out and without the need for Windows 9000 XPIJFLSFN
2016 Helsinki almost nuked, but bombs fail to go off, and land 300mi out of range...hardware failure.
2018 Redmond uprising attempts to overthrow EG SCW
2020 After the 100 GHZ war, Linus Torvalds reigns as occaissionally benevolent emperor over 98% of the world.
2021 New Zealand finally ready to cater to AmigaSketch users.
2024 Massive solar flare damages most of the computer world.
2025 Etchasketch becomes popular
2026 Printable punch cards arrive on the outskirts of the remaining ecivilization.
2027 Last Beowulf cluster dies in captivity.
2028 Torvalds frozen and displayed for all to look at.
3028 Cockroaches and lawyers wonder why there is a frozen person on the European continent. Lawyers wonder if he has money (which looks a lot like punch cards)
3030 The Troll Niscenus and a band of AnonCows re-establish world order with a central hub of infromation they call DotSlash.
So, who's up for volleyball?
I can only assume we'll need Cox on a Chip to write the drivers for the new e-paper.
I don't think we'll see printers sketching 8-atom wide paths on unborn microchips, ever.
A) The "printer" would cost way to much for any common use.
B) Have you seen the size of the machines that currently do this? They're ENIAC, hyperbolicly speaking.
C) By the time anyone gets this going, computer will be communicating on their boards and processors with 8bit light streams rather than electonic anything...err, not that I know anything. If Century Tel didn't buy GTE from Verizon, you wouldn't not know anything either.
I usually get turned into a troll everytime I say this, but, "Who's up for volleyball!?"
Non-compete applies to suspension as well as termination. The woman who was fired for reading email had a continuing non-compete order for the next six months.
:P
If you're wondering about the man who returned, I had outsourced a group to ensure that access to the internet only included some forty or so servers, thus, making the need for him to find the transplanted ADC less necessary. Other than the that, he was one of the best micro-systems engineers I have known, and we all have our hang ups.
Now, thoush, let me ask you, would you seriously want a woman working for a competitor who may have accessed Linus-knows-what working for your competitor? Emails, when I left, were encrypted for level and could only be open by the destination computer. Sad to say it, but the hubs were BSD.
Hmm, maybe that's the source of the porn problems...BSD/BDSM, yeah, I could see that.
As an official troll, I am now going to whine and harrass. X Windows is laggy and the new GNOME splash screen scares me.
That's pretty much all I can whine about, really. Well, it's very hard to complain about Linux, so
I meant PC simply in that context, not IBM Clone, though, that is ironic, really. In honesty, IBM, much as HP, didn't think computers would make it to the private market at that time.... Well, that was until Apple showed us the way.
I'm both an Apple and Linux Zealot.... Well, more zealot for Apple; I'm told I have achieved "guru status," though, I see myself more of a missionary, converting on user at a time. This year alone, I've converted four. Not bad for someone with just ICQ, Email, and two chat rooms.
Now, who's up for volleyball?
And so is the movie.
I especially liked the bulldozer racing scene, but I was disappointed at not seeing Bill Gates' actual mugshot.
I'll assume most of you already know where to get that ^_^
Personally, my first PC was Lisa, but I'm sure some Amiga weirdo will yell at me for saying that. What is with those people anyhow?
Doesn't Linus have a patent on that?
Let's see now, Microsoft gets broken up. Bill Gates heads one of the groups. That group, GatesisgodSoft will buy Verisign, and then, it'll be like that UF cartoon, "Hello? Yeah, I would like to buy the internet."
I'd rather have ICANN being independant. Less chance of eWorld Domination (business plan currently patent pending)
Jon, think fast!
The court will now commence on Microsoft v. Linus Torvalds:
You can't trust floating points, but you can "tutor" the programming to come out with the apparent correct answer.
Of course, this is just a direct math problem where you already know the answer; "tutoring" something incorporated into a more extensive programme, however, can cause all sorts of unexpected problems. Ironically (don't hurt me), doing this directly in BASIC is less likely to cause problems. BASIC, though, is about as blunt as a language can get, and with non-serial linear blocks, all you ever end up with is...Alan Cox's beard.
.oO(Well, I though it was funny, and spagetti is so over used. Though, saying Cox and BASIC together feels wrong.)
Well, now that I confirmed that floating points and BASIC only cause problems, who's up for volleyball!?
Instead of Flaming you, like a certain moderator would like to see, I'm going to give you a fair chance to run a quick logical exercise, kay?
Intial Premise:
I write a firewall that requires you to specify which ports should be open initially and how often to rotate them. It also allows you block access of information, in-going and out-going, or IP's you don't specify. Then, I allow to decide the level of access each net-accessing application and external IP may have to your system.*
Concept:
This is all done Raymond style, i.e. open source. Any script-kiddie and his uncle can stare at the source. By your conception, allowing this makes my firewall weak.
Environment:
Now, naturally, only a person with root priveleges can make alterations to the entailment of the firewall, unless otherwise specified, right? That's obviously yes if you have ever used any firewall worth it's weight in electrons.
On top of that, we'll assume you were smart enough to download from MY site, not some third party site, which would put you at risk. You know that already, like most of us, and that's why you're at MY site.
Nothing mentioned so far is abnormal, or even sufficiently outside the realm of what's expected of a super user, i.e. the ability to think.
Paradox:
The script-kiddie knows of some really stupid flaw that I didn't think of, oy, well, that happens***. He/She will assume you will initialize ICQ/ICU on its normal port****. Why do you do that? Same reason you wrote this post to begin with. Anywho, they create a portal string through ICQ/ICU. You're not tracking the IP movement because of the pre-mentioned reason. Ditto for why you don't cut&rotate for additional IP-links. Now, how's this script-kiddie going to affect the firewall? He doesn't have the localhost IP or root priveleges.
You're thinking, "But he got inside, he can do stuff!" NO HE CAN'T!!! Where have you been!? He doesn't have root priveleges! He has NO user priveleges! THIS IS LINUX!**
Conclusion:
Well written, open-source software is more than secure enough*, especially on the right system**. Even if the software has a flaw***, a capable user can take extra precautions to increase it's ability****.
Comment:
Hack your own box, but, whatever happens to you will nolonger be my fault:P
I will avoid saying, "Class dismissed," only because it's used ATLEAST once a week on Slashdot.
Besides, I now have lots of time, because I'm on strike due to an anti-semetic comment in, I think, The Mandrake article. As long as that's up, I have all sorts of extra time to kvetch an jibber. Actually, I'm thinking about making "Dotslash: The Crossfire of the Geeks" text adventure...well, slashdot-facade, but that's all; it'll be like that old commodore 64 game "Portal" but less plot and more "Nonsense", see Jon's Humorix Toys at i-want-a-website.com/about-linux and yes, Jon likes dashes very much.
Hmm, I guess I will now be intergrating Nonsense; feh, now Jon will want a copy before I release it.
I hope this was informative to you "Open Source Isn't Secure" types. In fact, just to mention about BSD for a moment: The reason why it seems constantly out of date is because it is constantly being tested for those "flaws" and insecurities. I compliment the effort, but it does cause the appearance of antiquation. Sure, their 3.0 compiler is more stable than your 4.0, but it lacks features and advancement. Their 4.6 firewall is more powerful than your 6.2, but it's not as customizable or as scalable. However, if you would consider OpenBSD, or any for that matter, you would have little in the ways of worries and only the occasional woe. And, every once in awhile...you can get an impressive application that makes us GNU-ists stop and say, "Woah!"
^_^
Now...about that anti-semetic AnonCow, could someone do something...NOW-ish?
If a home user just installs mandrake as it wants, I could see why you would see it as not being high-scale for other systems.
/mnt/iso, something newer versions don't incorporate), I very well am considering Caldera or Debian, yet, if the hardware expansion continues, I may even move to Storm, mostly because I've grown fond of the never-to-actually-be-released U1 Strike Server. I'm lightly playing with the idea of SuSE and Best, but I'm sticking with Mandrake until I say it's not worth my time anymore.
The last version I installed was 7.1. 7.1 allowed me to do lots of things 7.2 refuses. 7.2's auto-detect lacks a lot to be desired, and limits tweak-ability for root. Trying to upgrade only creates two damaged kernel-based systems.
Needless to say, I went back to 7.1 and have been adding bits and pieces, rpm by rpm, and, in some places, because it was put together by a group of people who stopped caring about the technical details of self assembly, hack by hack.
Yes, Mandrake has issues, and I have no intention of looking at 8.0 until it's fully released. If I find it to be just as sad, I'm going to switch AGAIN!
For those of you not familiar with my general what-chya-do-carizmo, I've been extending the powers of Linux since Red Hat 4.0, and then moved to Mandrake at 6.0.
Since Mandrake has been going all out to make me mad (thank linus I have
LOL
.sig's are belong to Bob
That's going into my list of "interesting comments"
All your
You know, whining at AnonCows may be my new hobby. I've refused to do now as I did in...the account before this...
Anywho, whine, B*, complain
Now, Who wants to this AnonCow find his head with both hands? Don't point out where to look, thank you.
It's a lot like engrish (see "all your base are belong to us"): If you think in Japanese, the English will become Engrish; if you think in C, the architecture will become englisH.
Being an AnonCow shouldn't exempt you from being whined at.
Now, since I'm taking the time to pick on an AnonCow, I'm going to throw in my massive list of Slashdot sigs and odd comments. As an experiment, I wanted to see what I could find in one half hour. I'm amazed Jon's slashdot sig's section isn't twenty pages long; based on my success, it should be eighty by this point in time.
Random slashdotting:
The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them...-Einstein
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
I do not avoid women, Mandrake, but I do deny them my essence.
the skunks, on the other hand, are graffiti bastards.
This sig is xenon coated, and will glow red when in the presence of aliens
Ah! A Moderator in the wild. Look at it! I'll stick my thumb up its ass. That'll really piss it off!
* CmdrTaco is an idiot.
* CmdrTaco can admit it.
DOS is dead, and no one cares...
If there's a Bourne Shell, I'll see you there
Linux has no chance to survive make your time
"just connect this to..."
BZZT.
"ahrg! You didn't unplug it?"
They fsck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
-- dont feed the trolls.... TEASE the trolls.. It's fun to get them upset. --
"I may not have morals, but I have standards."
http://mail-abuse.org/rbl/ - kills spammers dead
Time to die, nerd-boy!
All buffers are full
Your message can not be posted
Base directories have no inode reference
Are you irratable
Belong to a group of people who care
To whine now is a little late
US residents encouraged to run away
Someone should pay me.
Set the dogs on these dotheads
Up your own A*!
US president Bush died today..dreams, man, dreams
The stuff after the enter is mine.
Bomb the Canadians!
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
All buffers are full
Your message can not be posted
Base directories have no inode reference
Are you irratable
Belong to a group of people who care
To whine now is a little late
US residents encouraged to run away
Anywho, I'd like to thank Alien54 for bringing this idea to my attention. Living in the middle of nowhere, I thought, gave me one small problem, and I really do consider this the only problem. The problem of no broadband is only a concern when upgrading my sweet li'l Red Hat. I, ironically, am writing that from IE on you-know-what, but this is a problem I'm soon to surpass.
So, as I was saying...who's up for volleyball?
I have some serious doubts that you even have the ability to write in C, much less compose a compiler, and I, personally, do not spend time keeping "cooties out of beard," as I keep my self clean daily, not just "that time of the month, oh, darn it."
I apologize if forgetting to select "Plain Old Text" made me appear as though I was "driveling."
I would hit preview, but I have grown the habit of just hitting submit and moving on. I don't have the time to reload slashdot eighty times a day in the hopes of harping against a figure in the Linux culture, GNU/Linux at that. As I see it, you must realize that you have little to contribute to Slashdot, to Linux and I'm willing to bet, you have little to society.
As for your ever so cute description of "drain on society," I am fairly certain that I have been far more productive in the past ten years than you will be in your life time.
If you actually have something to say, and have the need to explain to people how you think some eighty plus people are wasting away their lives, feel free, Ma. AnonCow, to keep in mind that you're the one that came here for the purpose of whining the first place.
Don't worry, I remembered "Plain Old Text" this time, so, I won't appear to be drivelling, just Kvetching.
You don't happen to goto abuzz.com, do ya? I think we could get along. Anyone looking for my comment to the article, it's in a reply to an offensive AnonCow. Who's up for volleyball?
^_^ Dear Dothead, Thank you for the respect you have given Richard and the many people who have spent the better part of a decade working at the GNU Project. It is because of cowards like you who bash, or Bourne Again SHell, without fear of retrobution that reminds us that the ignorance of a generation is a massive obstacle that will not be easily overcome. It is of fact that ingrates like you are unable to recognize the kind of influence such an extensive work like GNU Project has had that makes one realize how important a GNOME v KDE discussion actually is...though, ultimately may not seem like that, but I'm getting there. When there was just the linux kernel, it only allowed the most basic interaction with the computer; the computer remained, a phrase from "The Pirates of Silicon Valley", "A pretty blinking box with lots of lights." Without the GNU Project, the amount of work and development from Linux would only have be at four to eight percent of what it is now. When the GNU Project developed a shell for the continuing NFS from UNIX, it made a easy to use interface to work with. From that shell, were the programmes of further use developed, such as gcc, now essential to most Linux distributions, GNU and otherwise (yeah, there are otherwises, say BSD for example). From the later developed collection of shells, other programmes and systems, from GTK to SMB developed, some essential, some creating ease of use. Then, as the command line was frightening the potential masses, the GNU Project developed an environment that made users feel at ease--it was GNOME (GNU Network Object Manipulating Environment) and it was good! It used the ever so young X Windows System developed from another valiant project based on the already successful work of the GNU Project. From this point on, The GNU Project developed tools, incorporated utilities and contributed to what would become the robust operating you just call "linux." And furthermore, it should be blatent to you and anyone who actually READ the article that the GNU Project is a lot more than taking credit for a style of operating system, but is about an entire philosophy. Unlike a larger number of Open Source Movement who are more than happy to co-exist with proprietary software, the GNU Project, the driving force behind the Free Software Movement, wants "intellectual property" to become an oxymoron. It is not wrong to take credit for something you did, but to keep for the soul purpose of gaining capital? Come on, really, you don't think that is the purpose of software development? No, you're smart enough, or is that an assumption, to realize that development and understanding come from sharing what has been done. And in continuance with that, you can now see why paragraph two is SO important, to allow people to incorporate and share so that others may learn and do the same. That is why the "Open Source Tag-Along" is in that agreement, Mr. or Mrs. or Mz. X. If you have a problem with that, well, you can go...fcsk yourself. ^_^