> This piece is a newspaper first story. It's only > secondarily published online. Any factual > innacuracies (l337-speak coming from Quake, and > Valve creating Counter-Strike) are due to the > readership of the East Bay Express.
WTF?!?!!? The READERS are responsible for the innacuracies? Are you fsckin nuts? If you're Alex Handy, aka VonGuard, then you're the knucklehead responsible for the innacuracies - sure as hell not the readers of the newspaper you wrote it for. You (assuming that Vonguard = Alex Handy) even admit that YOU WROTE THE ARTICLE! Look at your own text from the submission:
> VonGuard writes "Ahoy hoy! I've written a new > article for the East Bay Express about..."
Right there you say "I've written..." not "the readers of the East Bay Express have written".
Take some personal fucking responsibility for your own screw ups and admit that the innacuracies are yours. Admit that you didn't take the time to correct the simple errors. Or at least blame it on the editor, but please, oh please, don't blame your readers!
And it's supposed to be a good thing that you're teaching English? To anyone? Check something out on the keyboard. Look down on the right, under the 'greater than' sign - to the left of the question mark maybe (depending on your keybpoard) - is a little key we use called the 'period'. [ooh, look I just used one!] It indicates the end of a sentence. We end sentences to separate thoughts into more coherent statements. [damn, another one right there too!]
Hopefully you might be able to pass that bit of information onto your students.
"NOTE: There was a HUGE increase in the amount of "light flickering" starting Xmas Eve shortly before 7:00PM (maybe Santa's GPS failed, so he was using my house as a navigation aid?!?;-) and some misc. technical difficulties associated with this load spike, so pls try again if something doesn't quite work right. "
This makes me think that a nice idea would be a 'lost identity road trip'. Other than the registration of your car, from your license plate, do you think you could make a trip halfway across the country and back without being identified?
Cash for tolls... Cash for all food and gasoline purchases...
How about hotels? Can you get into a hotel without a credit card anymore? How about without ID? You can get a campground site without id, at least a tent site.
And all those cameras - at all the gas stations, etc.... I'm think a 'filthy dirty car' with filthy dirty license plate would be in order.
If I had time to make such a trip (and cash!) I might try it.
Would be a great subject for a stupid 'I sold my life on ebay dot com' kind of web site. 'I disappeared for two weeks without getting identified by anyone and you can too dot com.'
> There's an old saying that goes something like the > master swordsman doesn't fear another master, he > fears the amateur.
I first saw this and said "ok, I'm not a master swordsman, but I'm well trained at it, and I don't fear anyone with a sword really". Mostly cause I don't go around trying to hack off people's arms and legs for real. But I DO perform on stage with a sword too, and yeah, it's correct - the amateur with a sword on stage is the dangerous one.
If you don't realize that your electronic footprint can be tracked everywhere, you haven't been keeping your eyes open.
Your posts to slashdot can be subpeoned (sp?) for dates/times and content. "I was in my office at 4:00 on tuesday" "Oh, well why were you posting to slashdot from your mother's computer?"
Your ATM transactions, pictures and times and dates. Your logging into NYtimes to read an article - your IP and browser and all that were logged. ad infinitum, as noted in the article and elsewhere on what were once called "conpiracy theory" and "right/left wing wacko" sites that have been talking about this for some time.
If you're only scared after reading an article in the New York Times, you're blind as a bat and half as smart.
Now, if the other 17 people who are still at work after 3 pm on Christmas eve will post replies to the thread, we can all go home now;)
Indeed, the Simpsons have done that numerous times with numerous films/tv shows/songs, etc. Yepper, there's a difference, I just couldn't remember the details of the simpsons show enough to recall if it was deliberate parody or not.
> If Freshmeat isn't going to restrict itself to Unix OSes,
% uname -a Darwin Johns-Computer.local. 6.2 Darwin Kernel Version 6.2: Tue Nov 5 22:00:03 PST 2002; root:xnu/xnu-344.12.2.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc
http://www.daemonnews.org/200104/bsd_family.html indicates that OS X is a kind of UNIX.
Apple indicates (http://www.apple.com/macosx/jaguar/unix.html): " The most widely-distributed UNIX-based operating system, Mac OS X offers a unique combination of technical elements to the discerning geek, such as the fine-grained multithreading of the Mach 3.0 kernel, tight hardware integration and SMP-safe drivers, as well as zero configuration networking. Jaguar integrates features from state-of-the-art FreeBSD 4.4 and GCC 3.1 into Darwin, the Open Source base of Mac OS X, to provide enhanced performance, compatibility and usability. "
It quacks like a duck, walks like a duck and looks like a duck, I think it's a duck.
Some of the folks in the DashPC list have systems that will play DVD's, but they also have screens in the back for the passengers. Not that it'd be impossible to put the DVD up to the front monitor, but they don't, as an admitted practice, do it.
Several people have related stories of being pulled over for a 'TV within view of the driver' which is illegal is LOTS of places, but then the DashPC user will show them 'no, it's navigation, and MP3, and a rear view mirror, and a coffee maker.....' and the cops are generaly intrigued by it. I don't think anyone on the list reported getting a ticket for it yet.
Not having one myself, but knowing how I'm planning to install it, I'm learning a lot from the list. It seems that a lot of the folks have a PC in the trunk wired to a screen and controls up front, while the rest have a custom made tiny PC that fits in some hole in their car. I'm going for the latter option, which will be stored in the center console with a screen in a custom made dash panel.
It also seems that there's been some cry out for some coders to help the project, so if you're interested, go read some archived stuff and jump into the list.
Well, hope that helps with some more info for those that can't get to the Slashdotted site.
j
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· Score: 4, Funny
Mr McKittrick, after very careful consideration, Sir, I've come to the conclusion that your new Wifi network sucks.
> David Meyer argues that UnitedLinux will provide > standardization for the Linux community that will > allow it to win the desktop market from Windows.
I am of the crowd that doesn't really care if linux takes over the desktop. I'm happy enough to have it take over lots of segments of the Internet and server market. Just running in the background as a server for so many things.
IMHO, OS X is the best desktop for non-geek users that's out there now anyway. Enough customization is available for Aunt Jane's needs and even Grandpa can handle most of it. Plus, if there's a problem, the family geek can log into it from the college dorm and perhaps debug some info for the computer-clueless relative.
You won't find every linux supporter in the world clamoring for desktop supremacy. For us it's just not important. I'd rather see people putting their efforts to programs that work in the command line that might have a GUI counterpart rather than the other way around.
As the t-shirt says: Macintosh for productivity Linux for development Palm for portability Windows for solitaire.
But I'll still try and build a portable CARPC on Linux;)
I'm assuming you mean that "Adelphia does not necessarily mean bad, people."
Cause it's quite obvious that Adelphia has had a whole horde of Bad People in it, who are of course under indictment, at least.
Yes, Adelphia can have some pockets of clue amongst the cable guys who poke and prod cluelessly at RF disrupting cable modems and put up insecure websites, et al. Glad to see you're in one of the clueful areas that hasn't (yet) been completely oversold).
Get the guys (Todd et al) from Dash PC on the show. They're doing some cool work with in car PC building and (mostly) linux. The DashPC project is on Sourceforge.
> Are all your networks set up in Ad-Hoc mode without encryption?
Nope, they all have WEP (not encryption, Wireless Equivalent Privacy) turned on. I have keys for all of them saved.
> They all have the same SSID?
Nope, all unique. I think that perhaps I might have trouble with it if there were similar SSID's - not knowing which key to use. I'll have to experiment with that.
> Or do you have (that is maintain) a lot of profiles, you can switch between?
I suppose that's the most accurate answer, but I don't have to worry about the switching of the profiles. I primarily use my iBook with OS 10.2. It sees the familiar SSID, tries the key I have stored and if it works, I'm online. If it doesn't, it prompts me for a password/key for that AP.
Yes, saving the WEP keys and allowing access to them without me authenticating in any way is a little dangerous, but I consider my laptop sacred ground and 'secure'. More secure than most of my computers. Nobody ever borrows it and I always lock the session when I'm AFK. So, I generally consider it safe. Sure, a physical intrusion (theft and then disk work) would allow someone some access to things, but I think anyone going to steal my iBook won't care about the intellectual property, but the value of the iBook on ebay.;)
OS 10.2 makes jumping from AP to AP very very easy. It's nice not to have to worry about it, so I can concentrate on things like why the POP server isn't responding again;)
Slashdot Mirror
And this time they actually are so close that they appear on the same screen!
hooray for double posting!!!!
> This piece is a newspaper first story. It's only
> secondarily published online. Any factual
> innacuracies (l337-speak coming from Quake, and
> Valve creating Counter-Strike) are due to the
> readership of the East Bay Express.
WTF?!?!!? The READERS are responsible for the innacuracies? Are you fsckin nuts? If you're Alex Handy, aka VonGuard, then you're the knucklehead responsible for the innacuracies - sure as hell not the readers of the newspaper you wrote it for. You (assuming that Vonguard = Alex Handy) even admit that YOU WROTE THE ARTICLE! Look at your own text from the submission:
> VonGuard writes "Ahoy hoy! I've written a new
> article for the East Bay Express about..."
Right there you say "I've written..." not "the readers of the East Bay Express have written".
Take some personal fucking responsibility for your own screw ups and admit that the innacuracies are yours. Admit that you didn't take the time to correct the simple errors. Or at least blame it on the editor, but please, oh please, don't blame your readers!
And it's supposed to be a good thing that you're teaching English? To anyone? Check something out on the keyboard. Look down on the right, under the 'greater than' sign - to the left of the question mark maybe (depending on your keybpoard) - is a little key we use called the 'period'. [ooh, look I just used one!] It indicates the end of a sentence. We end sentences to separate thoughts into more coherent statements. [damn, another one right there too!]
Hopefully you might be able to pass that bit of information onto your students.
*shrug*
Can be right!
On the default install of CS with adminmod and hlstats, it does, in fact say "$playername set us up the bomb" to the terrorists when they plant.
This is how my server is right now.
this is entirely customizable by any number of mods, primarily adminmod.
HA HA HA HA!
They said "Stop - in the Name of Law!!!"
From his website this morning:
;-) and some misc. technical difficulties associated with this load spike, so pls try again if something doesn't quite work right. "
"NOTE: There was a HUGE increase in the amount of "light flickering" starting Xmas Eve shortly before 7:00PM (maybe Santa's GPS failed, so he was using my house as a navigation aid?!?
Heh... heh.... bwahahaa....... mwahahahaha...... rotfl.....
That's classic....
THANK GOD FOR SLASHDOT! Now the lights are ALL out!
Not only did the server that runs them crash, it took all 22,000 lights with it.
WOOHOO!!!!
This makes me think that a nice idea would be a 'lost identity road trip'. Other than the registration of your car, from your license plate, do you think you could make a trip halfway across the country and back without being identified?
Cash for tolls...
Cash for all food and gasoline purchases...
How about hotels? Can you get into a hotel without a credit card anymore? How about without ID?
You can get a campground site without id, at least a tent site.
And all those cameras - at all the gas stations, etc.... I'm think a 'filthy dirty car' with filthy dirty license plate would be in order.
If I had time to make such a trip (and cash!) I might try it.
Would be a great subject for a stupid 'I sold my life on ebay dot com' kind of web site. 'I disappeared for two weeks without getting identified by anyone and you can too dot com.'
Hrm.
> There's an old saying that goes something like the
;)
> master swordsman doesn't fear another master, he
> fears the amateur.
I first saw this and said "ok, I'm not a master swordsman, but I'm well trained at it, and I don't fear anyone with a sword really". Mostly cause I don't go around trying to hack off people's arms and legs for real. But I DO perform on stage with a sword too, and yeah, it's correct - the amateur with a sword on stage is the dangerous one.
Definitely worth being afraid of that
you haven't been paying attention.
;)
If you don't realize that your electronic footprint can be tracked everywhere, you haven't been keeping your eyes open.
Your posts to slashdot can be subpeoned (sp?) for dates/times and content. "I was in my office at 4:00 on tuesday" "Oh, well why were you posting to slashdot from your mother's computer?"
Your ATM transactions, pictures and times and dates. Your logging into NYtimes to read an article - your IP and browser and all that were logged. ad infinitum, as noted in the article and elsewhere on what were once called "conpiracy theory" and "right/left wing wacko" sites that have been talking about this for some time.
If you're only scared after reading an article in the New York Times, you're blind as a bat and half as smart.
Now, if the other 17 people who are still at work after 3 pm on Christmas eve will post replies to the thread, we can all go home now
Indeed, the Simpsons have done that numerous times with numerous films/tv shows/songs, etc. Yepper, there's a difference, I just couldn't remember the details of the simpsons show enough to recall if it was deliberate parody or not.
... yes, movie based on the book by Michael Crichton... movie directed by M.C., etc.
> Hopefully it won't go berzerk like the animatronic
> characters in that old Simpsons episode!
This was blatant rip off of the 1973 movie West World, which is a movie you should see. IMDB has the info about it.
It's really a quintessential 'robots gone mad' kind of movie.
> If Freshmeat isn't going to restrict itself to Unix OSes,
l
" The most widely-distributed UNIX-based operating system, Mac OS X offers a unique combination of technical elements to the discerning geek, such as the fine-grained multithreading of the Mach 3.0 kernel, tight hardware integration and SMP-safe drivers, as well as zero configuration networking. Jaguar integrates features from state-of-the-art FreeBSD 4.4 and GCC 3.1 into Darwin, the Open Source base of Mac OS X, to provide enhanced performance, compatibility and usability. "
% uname -a
Darwin Johns-Computer.local. 6.2 Darwin Kernel Version 6.2: Tue Nov 5 22:00:03 PST 2002; root:xnu/xnu-344.12.2.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc
http://www.daemonnews.org/200104/bsd_family.htm
indicates that OS X is a kind of UNIX.
Apple indicates (http://www.apple.com/macosx/jaguar/unix.html):
It quacks like a duck, walks like a duck and looks like a duck, I think it's a duck.
Some of the folks in the DashPC list have systems that will play DVD's, but they also have screens in the back for the passengers. Not that it'd be impossible to put the DVD up to the front monitor, but they don't, as an admitted practice, do it.
Several people have related stories of being pulled over for a 'TV within view of the driver' which is illegal is LOTS of places, but then the DashPC user will show them 'no, it's navigation, and MP3, and a rear view mirror, and a coffee maker.....' and the cops are generaly intrigued by it. I don't think anyone on the list reported getting a ticket for it yet.
Not having one myself, but knowing how I'm planning to install it, I'm learning a lot from the list. It seems that a lot of the folks have a PC in the trunk wired to a screen and controls up front, while the rest have a custom made tiny PC that fits in some hole in their car. I'm going for the latter option, which will be stored in the center console with a screen in a custom made dash panel.
It also seems that there's been some cry out for some coders to help the project, so if you're interested, go read some archived stuff and jump into the list.
Well, hope that helps with some more info for those that can't get to the Slashdotted site.
j
Mr McKittrick, after very careful consideration, Sir, I've come to the conclusion that your new Wifi network sucks.
> David Meyer argues that UnitedLinux will provide
;)
> standardization for the Linux community that will
> allow it to win the desktop market from Windows.
I am of the crowd that doesn't really care if linux takes over the desktop. I'm happy enough to have it take over lots of segments of the Internet and server market. Just running in the background as a server for so many things.
IMHO, OS X is the best desktop for non-geek users that's out there now anyway. Enough customization is available for Aunt Jane's needs and even Grandpa can handle most of it. Plus, if there's a problem, the family geek can log into it from the college dorm and perhaps debug some info for the computer-clueless relative.
You won't find every linux supporter in the world clamoring for desktop supremacy. For us it's just not important. I'd rather see people putting their efforts to programs that work in the command line that might have a GUI counterpart rather than the other way around.
As the t-shirt says:
Macintosh for productivity
Linux for development
Palm for portability
Windows for solitaire.
But I'll still try and build a portable CARPC on Linux
j
I'm assuming you mean that "Adelphia does not necessarily mean bad, people."
Cause it's quite obvious that Adelphia has had a whole horde of Bad People in it, who are of course under indictment, at least.
Yes, Adelphia can have some pockets of clue amongst the cable guys who poke and prod cluelessly at RF disrupting cable modems and put up insecure websites, et al. Glad to see you're in one of the clueful areas that hasn't (yet) been completely oversold).
j
Adelphia sucks. I guess in more ways than one now.
;)
Please, don't mod this down as a troll, it isn't, it may be blatant advertisement for a sucks.com web site, but it's not a troll
j
Two moderators enter, one moderator leaves....
REALLY FRIKKIN HUGE JPEGS....
;)
little tiny low res mpegs....
Someone really might have planned the photo section a little better.
But congratulations anyway, hope you have a wonderful life together.
Get the guys (Todd et al) from Dash PC on the show. They're doing some cool work with in car PC building and (mostly) linux. The DashPC project is on Sourceforge.
j
> Are all your networks set up in Ad-Hoc mode without encryption?
;)
;)
Nope, they all have WEP (not encryption, Wireless Equivalent Privacy) turned on. I have keys for all of them saved.
> They all have the same SSID?
Nope, all unique. I think that perhaps I might have trouble with it if there were similar SSID's - not knowing which key to use. I'll have to experiment with that.
> Or do you have (that is maintain) a lot of profiles, you can switch between?
I suppose that's the most accurate answer, but I don't have to worry about the switching of the profiles. I primarily use my iBook with OS 10.2. It sees the familiar SSID, tries the key I have stored and if it works, I'm online. If it doesn't, it prompts me for a password/key for that AP.
Yes, saving the WEP keys and allowing access to them without me authenticating in any way is a little dangerous, but I consider my laptop sacred ground and 'secure'. More secure than most of my computers. Nobody ever borrows it and I always lock the session when I'm AFK. So, I generally consider it safe. Sure, a physical intrusion (theft and then disk work) would allow someone some access to things, but I think anyone going to steal my iBook won't care about the intellectual property, but the value of the iBook on ebay.
OS 10.2 makes jumping from AP to AP very very easy. It's nice not to have to worry about it, so I can concentrate on things like why the POP server isn't responding again
HTH
j
> I'll be selfupdating tonight ...
If you do that too much you'll go blind ya know.
I used Andrew Clapps designasa starting point for my 'improved collector'802.11b PVC antenna. And unlike the pringles can, this one is weather-tight.
It's at this link.
Blatant self promotion over.