How can I check whether NTLM or another authentication method is used? Our company recently switched to squid as the proxy server, I have the.pac url loading and I've set the prefs as above, yet I'm not able to get outside our intranet. Until I set the prefs I kept getting a username and password box.
I can't ask our support people as we are an MS only shop and they wouldn't know beans about FF anyway. Anything I can look at with IE that will give me a clue?
One ham radio distro I discovered is AFU Knoppix. The site is in German and hints that it includes several ham radio packages. It'll take me another week to download it via my dial-up and see what it's about.
Another ham radio distro is the Debian DX-pedition Disk found at http://home.iae.nl/users/reinc/dxpedition_disk.htm l. The live CD uses Morphix and a USB memory stick to store newer versions of the logging program and logged QSOs.
These are two live CDs catering to ham radio. Among the traditional distributions, I would guess that Debian is among the most ham radio friendly, although Fedora Core could become a contender (I use Debian exclusively, so I may be a bit biased).
Your assessment is probably why there has been an upsurge in recent years in the interest of older radio designs. Many hams really do want to understand the technology, but today's hand-held radio that is smaller than a pack of cigarettes and receives from 100 kHz to 2 GHz, while a great gadget, is impossible to obtain any hardware knowledge from.
The basics of communications electronics hasn't changed so hams have pulled out designs and projects from years ago and updated them with some of today's technology. The result is a way for experimenters to get hands-on experience and understanding and more than a little enjoyment. It may seem like a step backward, but in the age of nuclear powered ships with GPS guidance, the hobbyist finds a sailboat most rewarding.
It may take some research to find, but one of the magazines (CQ VHF, most recent issue) had an article about a presentation to the ARRL Board of Directors. In it they outlined a proposal that may be made to the FCC requesting the removal of the encryption restrictions for several valid reasons, especially to meet the requirements of served agencies. Many agencies, according the article, are requiring secure communications from their ham radio providers and this is a real stumbling block for continuing to provide emergency communications.
I'm sure it will be several years before the FCC acts, assuming the proposal is filed with the Commission within the coming weeks.
Sadly, as the ham radio coders developed more sophisticated software for DOS/Windows, more of them adopted the proprietary software attitude and stopped sharing their knowledge. Instead they locked it inside of opaque code.
Fortunately, the influence of Free Software spurred by Linux and friends has begun to turn this attitude. Quite frankly, I don't think the ARRL should review or publish an article on any software unless it is Software Libre. We are fortunate as well that the Free Software influence was significant enough to ensure that a Software Defined Radio standard for ham radio is open.
Most hams would find a radio construction article useless without a schematic diagram. Why they accept closed software as a matter of course baffles me.
Not all Radio Shack stores are the cellphone/radio controlled cars only variety.
There is a very good RS in Derby, KS (southeast side of Wichita) that doubles as a ham radio store. The owner is a ham and usually has a good selection of used gear and accessories. Heaven knows that I've left more than my share of a few paychecks there...
Up here (northeast Kansas/southeast Nebraska) the quality of the store for components depends on the ownership. The one in Beatrice, NE is pretty good for parts and some non-RS merchandise.
Is this really a big deal, or is Google kissing up to the Borg? I don't know what DG is about as I really couldn't care less personally, but I think if FF incorporates a search capability for the local system, that would be a killer app for a lot of folks.
BTW, good job on FF 1.0, Mozilla developers. It's great that my browsing from Debian takes a back seat to no other browser (in fact, it's been that way for some time now). Cheers all around!
I heard within the past week that pro wrestling was created so that NASCAR fans have something to watch in the winter.
Ducks, runs...
I do in fact like watching NASCAR races myself along with F1 and the various motorcycle series carried on Speed Channel, but pro wrestling could drop off the face of the Earth and I'd not miss it one whit.
Want a nice text editor that works on WinWhatever(TM), Linux and others? Try FTE! I've used it since 1996 and there are darn few apps this side of Midnight Commander and Bash that I've used daily for that long.
I am running Debian and am annoyed that I am unable to view gzipped text files such as those that populate the/usr/share/doc/* hierarchy. Any time I click on a file that ends in.gz, FF helpfully asks if I'd like to save the file to disk. Well, it's already on my disk, thank you very much, but I wanted to read it!!
Since nearly every other utility on a GNU based system is gzip aware, but the fact that FF is not annoys me to no end. How might I have FF call gunzip and then display the text itself?
I've heard him make similar comments on his show and I think he would really like Apple as a sponsor as he does mention his Powerbooks quite frequently.
Since what someboby's web site is served by apparently means so much:
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com was running Communique on Linux when last queried at 4-Jul-2004 11:24:22 GMT OS Server Last changed IP address Netblock Owner Linux Communique/2.6.4 (build 5217) 30-Jun-2004 212.187.244.14 Akamai Linux Communique/2.6.4 (build 5217) 29-Jun-2004 213.254.241.142 Akamai Technologies Linux Communique/2.6.4 (build 5217) 26-Jun-2004 213.200.107.190 Akamai Technologies Linux Communique/2.6.4 (build 5217) 22-Jun-2004 213.254.241.159 Akamai Technologies Linux Communique/2.6.4 (build 5217) 21-Jun-2004 213.200.107.183 Akamai Technologies Linux Communique/2.6.4 (build 5217) 20-Jun-2004 213.254.241.142 Akamai Technologies Linux Communique/2.6.4 (build 5217) 19-Jun-2004 213.200.107.190 Akamai Technologies Linux Communique/2.6.4 (build 5217) 17-Jun-2004 212.187.244.70 Akamai Linux Communique/2.6.4 (build 5217) 15-Jun-2004 81.52.205.30 Akamai Technologies Linux Communique/2.6.4 (build 5217) 13-Jun-2004 213.254.241.159 Akamai Technologies
No, I didn't forget. In fact that is why I used that reference because it is quite rare for a democrat to be elected and serve multiple terms here in Kansas (except in the KC metro area). Right now we have a democrat governor. Her claim to fame so far is moving up the date property taxes were due this year and vetoing concealed carry legislation. Mostly, she shows up at sporting events...
A little reminder for those of you who believe having a (D) behind one's name means that said politician is anti-big business, I refer you to the article from a few days ago of Dan Glickman being named to succeed Jack Valenti at the MPAA. I would also point out that Mr. Glickman comes from the red state of Kansas and proudly served as the representative from the Wichita area and as President Clinton's Secretary of Agriculture. Mr. Glickman is a Democrat.
I know this is/., but please take your blinders off. Not all Democrats hate Microsoft and big business and not all Republicans find Free Software to be communism. I for one vote predominantly Republican, I go to church on most Sundays, I work for a big company in IT (where I've witnessed the failings of proprietary crud first hand), and I use Debian and recommend Free Software to any one willing to try it.
I think your Big Business rant is a bit over the hypocritical top since this site is run by another "big business"...
Seriously, have you tried FTE? It's in Debian main and I've used it for years. In fact I've banned Vim and friends from my systems and use FTE exclusively.
No kidding! Aptitude rocks, although I think I tried it back in the 0.1 days and it wasn't too safe. I've used dselect since I started with Debian in 1999 and I like aptitude far better. The reverse dependency command, 'r', is just the ticket for keeping a system pruned properly. Deborphan helps here too.
Speaking of updating things, I am contunually amazed that Debian can update libc on a running system and things just keep right on working. I recall updating libc manually on my first Slackware box for some reason. Now that was a hairy experience! I got through it, but it wasn't especially fun.
After some fits and starts I finally have dropped the standard kernel installation in favor of Kernel-package. With the --add-to-verion option it really works slick for multiple versions of the same kernel version and modules all handled neatly in the packaging system.
Four and one half years and Debian still impresses me enough that I've not tried another distribution.
As one who lives in a rural area, I won't my breath.
Anyone remotely familiar with technology should know by now that rollouts move from the population centers outward. The simple fact is that there is too much cost involved in BPL for it too start in rural areas.
If anyone seriously believes otherwise, then I have a bridge to sell you.
I recall a quote from John Milton that went something like this, "None can love freedom but good men. Others love not freedom, but license."
How much would licensing developers much like doctors, lawyers, architects, etc. affect development? It would likely mean more than, say, an MCSE or RHCE, or NCE. Would developers need to be licensed for a specialty?
Most likely there would be some sort of age and education requirement which would prevent some of the younger and perhaps self-taught developers from contributing to certain projects. Also, what about code developed outside the USA? One would have to be rather naive to assume that all the software in use was written in the USA, but sadly, I think that perception is all too common.
IPoHR isn't a new concept, it's been tried in various forms for almost twenty years. The real fly in the ointment is that the Amateur Radio Service in the U.S. and most of the rest of the world is a non-commercial personal radio service. We are not permitted to carry traffic that would be of commercial benefit to ourselves or our employers. Incidental commercial traffic may occur in the U.S., but such traffic may not be conducted regularly. We also have an additional restriction with regard to profanity and obscenity.
Hams may not receive compensation for their communications, directly or indirectly. So, while the idea of using ham radio to implement free wireless access seems workable, somebody's gonna want payment for that bandwidth somewhere along the line, so who pays for that.
Certainly, these restrictions are regulatory and could be removed by the FCC. However, most of us hams would rather not have stuff that generally traverses the Internet on the ham bands--even at 2.4 GHz. Also, most of us would rather not turn the Amateur Radio Service into some kind of quasi commercial radio service. Amateur radio can be thought of as the public parks of the radio spectrum in that it allows the common citizen to enjoy radio communication technology.
Perhaps you are correct. However, it may have been possible that if Saddam isn't captured until after the party conventions and the situation in Iraq continues as it has been for the past few months, then even the capture of Saddam would not do anything for Bush's re-election bid. We will never know, of course.
You are correct in the assessment that the Democrats can only express relief and support and then probably make bin Laden the issue. Right now, though I think that Saddam's capture has stolen much of their thunder.
And the Democrats must still walk a fine line for a reasonable chance of success next November. At least that's how it looks this morning. We all know things can change radically, but with the Dow breaking 10,000 last week, and now Saddam being captured, the news for the Democrats is bleak indeed.
Remember, the same thing that keeps Microsoft a monopoly will get Bush re-elected.
Of course the U.S. is selectively ignoring U.N resolutions. From what country does the U.N. derive the bulk of it's military enforcement power? Yup, that'd be good ol' Uncle Sam. That the administration is selectively using the U.N. to their own ends is no surprise either. If the U.S. doesn't want to play ball, what's the U.N. going to do about it?
I, for one, would like to see the U.N. neutered and recognized for what it is, an elitist debate society. Perhaps Bush's using of the U.N. is a final step before discarding it all together, but in all likely hood won't be.
All of this still doesn't lessen the rock and a hard place the Democrat candidates find themselves this morning.
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How can I check whether NTLM or another authentication method is used? Our company recently switched to squid as the proxy server, I have the .pac url loading and I've set the prefs as above, yet I'm not able to get outside our intranet. Until I set the prefs I kept getting a username and password box.
I can't ask our support people as we are an MS only shop and they wouldn't know beans about FF anyway. Anything I can look at with IE that will give me a clue?
Thanks!
One ham radio distro I discovered is AFU Knoppix. The site is in German and hints that it includes several ham radio packages. It'll take me another week to download it via my dial-up and see what it's about.
m l. The live CD uses Morphix and a USB memory stick to store newer versions of the logging program and logged QSOs.
Another ham radio distro is the Debian DX-pedition Disk found at http://home.iae.nl/users/reinc/dxpedition_disk.ht
These are two live CDs catering to ham radio. Among the traditional distributions, I would guess that Debian is among the most ham radio friendly, although Fedora Core could become a contender (I use Debian exclusively, so I may be a bit biased).
We just need to get the word out, methinks.
Your assessment is probably why there has been an upsurge in recent years in the interest of older radio designs. Many hams really do want to understand the technology, but today's hand-held radio that is smaller than a pack of cigarettes and receives from 100 kHz to 2 GHz, while a great gadget, is impossible to obtain any hardware knowledge from.
The basics of communications electronics hasn't changed so hams have pulled out designs and projects from years ago and updated them with some of today's technology. The result is a way for experimenters to get hands-on experience and understanding and more than a little enjoyment. It may seem like a step backward, but in the age of nuclear powered ships with GPS guidance, the hobbyist finds a sailboat most rewarding.
It may take some research to find, but one of the magazines (CQ VHF, most recent issue) had an article about a presentation to the ARRL Board of Directors. In it they outlined a proposal that may be made to the FCC requesting the removal of the encryption restrictions for several valid reasons, especially to meet the requirements of served agencies. Many agencies, according the article, are requiring secure communications from their ham radio providers and this is a real stumbling block for continuing to provide emergency communications.
I'm sure it will be several years before the FCC acts, assuming the proposal is filed with the Commission within the coming weeks.
Sadly, as the ham radio coders developed more sophisticated software for DOS/Windows, more of them adopted the proprietary software attitude and stopped sharing their knowledge. Instead they locked it inside of opaque code.
Fortunately, the influence of Free Software spurred by Linux and friends has begun to turn this attitude. Quite frankly, I don't think the ARRL should review or publish an article on any software unless it is Software Libre. We are fortunate as well that the Free Software influence was significant enough to ensure that a Software Defined Radio standard for ham radio is open.
Most hams would find a radio construction article useless without a schematic diagram. Why they accept closed software as a matter of course baffles me.
Not all Radio Shack stores are the cellphone/radio controlled cars only variety.
There is a very good RS in Derby, KS (southeast side of Wichita) that doubles as a ham radio store. The owner is a ham and usually has a good selection of used gear and accessories. Heaven knows that I've left more than my share of a few paychecks there...
Up here (northeast Kansas/southeast Nebraska) the quality of the store for components depends on the ownership. The one in Beatrice, NE is pretty good for parts and some non-RS merchandise.
Is this really a big deal, or is Google kissing up to the Borg? I don't know what DG is about as I really couldn't care less personally, but I think if FF incorporates a search capability for the local system, that would be a killer app for a lot of folks.
BTW, good job on FF 1.0, Mozilla developers. It's great that my browsing from Debian takes a back seat to no other browser (in fact, it's been that way for some time now). Cheers all around!
- Nate >>
I heard within the past week that pro wrestling was created so that NASCAR fans have something to watch in the winter.
Ducks, runs...
I do in fact like watching NASCAR races myself along with F1 and the various motorcycle series carried on Speed Channel, but pro wrestling could drop off the face of the Earth and I'd not miss it one whit.
Want a nice text editor that works on WinWhatever(TM), Linux and others? Try FTE! I've used it since 1996 and there are darn few apps this side of Midnight Commander and Bash that I've used daily for that long.
I'm wondering, did I oversleep and it's really April 1? Nope, Firefox clock says its July 22, 2004.
How much more stupid of a patent can the USPTO grant? Surely they were laughing down there when they issued this one. I hope so at least.
Hopefully a Firefox guru will read this. :-)
/usr/share/doc/* hierarchy. Any time I click on a file that ends in .gz, FF helpfully asks if I'd like to save the file to disk. Well, it's already on my disk, thank you very much, but I wanted to read it!!
I am running Debian and am annoyed that I am unable to view gzipped text files such as those that populate the
Since nearly every other utility on a GNU based system is gzip aware, but the fact that FF is not annoys me to no end. How might I have FF call gunzip and then display the text itself?
Thanks in advance.
- Nate >>
Since what someboby's web site is served by apparently means so much:
- Nate >>
No, I didn't forget. In fact that is why I used that reference because it is quite rare for a democrat to be elected and serve multiple terms here in Kansas (except in the KC metro area). Right now we have a democrat governor. Her claim to fame so far is moving up the date property taxes were due this year and vetoing concealed carry legislation. Mostly, she shows up at sporting events...
- Nate >>
A little reminder for those of you who believe having a (D) behind one's name means that said politician is anti-big business, I refer you to the article from a few days ago of Dan Glickman being named to succeed Jack Valenti at the MPAA. I would also point out that Mr. Glickman comes from the red state of Kansas and proudly served as the representative from the Wichita area and as President Clinton's Secretary of Agriculture. Mr. Glickman is a Democrat.
/., but please take your blinders off. Not all Democrats hate Microsoft and big business and not all Republicans find Free Software to be communism. I for one vote predominantly Republican, I go to church on most Sundays, I work for a big company in IT (where I've witnessed the failings of proprietary crud first hand), and I use Debian and recommend Free Software to any one willing to try it.
I know this is
I think your Big Business rant is a bit over the hypocritical top since this site is run by another "big business"...
- Nate >>
Seriously, have you tried FTE? It's in Debian main and I've used it for years. In fact I've banned Vim and friends from my systems and use FTE exclusively.
- Nate >>
No kidding! Aptitude rocks, although I think I tried it back in the 0.1 days and it wasn't too safe. I've used dselect since I started with Debian in 1999 and I like aptitude far better. The reverse dependency command, 'r', is just the ticket for keeping a system pruned properly. Deborphan helps here too.
Speaking of updating things, I am contunually amazed that Debian can update libc on a running system and things just keep right on working. I recall updating libc manually on my first Slackware box for some reason. Now that was a hairy experience! I got through it, but it wasn't especially fun.
After some fits and starts I finally have dropped the standard kernel installation in favor of Kernel-package. With the --add-to-verion option it really works slick for multiple versions of the same kernel version and modules all handled neatly in the packaging system.
Four and one half years and Debian still impresses me enough that I've not tried another distribution.
- Nate >>
As one who lives in a rural area, I won't my breath.
Anyone remotely familiar with technology should know by now that rollouts move from the population centers outward. The simple fact is that there is too much cost involved in BPL for it too start in rural areas.
If anyone seriously believes otherwise, then I have a bridge to sell you.
- Nate >>
Well, duh.
When they say "any document" they mean documents created by any version of MS-Word (there is no other way to create documents, right?)...
Sheesh!
- Nate >>
P.S. If I had mod points I'd have un-modded the Troll modifier. Hopefully, I'll get to meta-mod this clown...
I recall a quote from John Milton that went something like this, "None can love freedom but good men. Others love not freedom, but license."
How much would licensing developers much like doctors, lawyers, architects, etc. affect development? It would likely mean more than, say, an MCSE or RHCE, or NCE. Would developers need to be licensed for a specialty?
Most likely there would be some sort of age and education requirement which would prevent some of the younger and perhaps self-taught developers from contributing to certain projects. Also, what about code developed outside the USA? One would have to be rather naive to assume that all the software in use was written in the USA, but sadly, I think that perception is all too common.
Happy 2004, everyone!
- Nate >>
They're lurking in a nice Linux system just waiting for the moment to come alive and do their dirty work.
Perhaps we penguinistas need to perfect a means of exorcising our systems of these evil daemons! Pure Linux, I say, pure Linux!
Ummmm, they're not aliens. They are the natives of Mars that would rightly percieve our probes as being of an alien nature that must be destroyed!
IPoHR isn't a new concept, it's been tried in various forms for almost twenty years. The real fly in the ointment is that the Amateur Radio Service in the U.S. and most of the rest of the world is a non-commercial personal radio service. We are not permitted to carry traffic that would be of commercial benefit to ourselves or our employers. Incidental commercial traffic may occur in the U.S., but such traffic may not be conducted regularly. We also have an additional restriction with regard to profanity and obscenity.
Hams may not receive compensation for their communications, directly or indirectly. So, while the idea of using ham radio to implement free wireless access seems workable, somebody's gonna want payment for that bandwidth somewhere along the line, so who pays for that.
Certainly, these restrictions are regulatory and could be removed by the FCC. However, most of us hams would rather not have stuff that generally traverses the Internet on the ham bands--even at 2.4 GHz. Also, most of us would rather not turn the Amateur Radio Service into some kind of quasi commercial radio service. Amateur radio can be thought of as the public parks of the radio spectrum in that it allows the common citizen to enjoy radio communication technology.
Perhaps you are correct. However, it may have been possible that if Saddam isn't captured until after the party conventions and the situation in Iraq continues as it has been for the past few months, then even the capture of Saddam would not do anything for Bush's re-election bid. We will never know, of course.
You are correct in the assessment that the Democrats can only express relief and support and then probably make bin Laden the issue. Right now, though I think that Saddam's capture has stolen much of their thunder.
It should be an interesting political show!
And the Democrats must still walk a fine line for a reasonable chance of success next November. At least that's how it looks this morning. We all know things can change radically, but with the Dow breaking 10,000 last week, and now Saddam being captured, the news for the Democrats is bleak indeed.
Remember, the same thing that keeps Microsoft a monopoly will get Bush re-elected.
Of course the U.S. is selectively ignoring U.N resolutions. From what country does the U.N. derive the bulk of it's military enforcement power? Yup, that'd be good ol' Uncle Sam. That the administration is selectively using the U.N. to their own ends is no surprise either. If the U.S. doesn't want to play ball, what's the U.N. going to do about it?
I, for one, would like to see the U.N. neutered and recognized for what it is, an elitist debate society. Perhaps Bush's using of the U.N. is a final step before discarding it all together, but in all likely hood won't be.
All of this still doesn't lessen the rock and a hard place the Democrat candidates find themselves this morning.