I think these are Fedora 8 rpms, note the fc8 in the filenames. Also the versions seem to match the nvidia driver that doesn't work with the xorg in Fedora 9.
I've been making a killing at online poker for about 14 months now. Most of my time is spent at Party affiliates, probably about 85%. There continue to be more people online playing just as poorly as at any time in the last year. Bots are not a problem, collusion is not a problem, online poker sites cheating you is not a problem. Frankly these fear mongering threads are frustrating for us because if anything is interfering with this industry, it's dumbasses spreading around propeganda about how online poker is rigged, legions of bots await you to take your every last dime, and everyone else is a cheater.
(a) Poker sites are not out to cheat you. They're making a fortune by raking every pot, why jeopardize it by cheating as well? Why are focused and dedicated players able to beat the game consistently?
(b) Poker bots are not a problem. There are no known profitable bots, winholdem is a joke, and it's best success stories are almost surely less effective than a good human player. If there are massively successful bots out there, nobody knows about them. Poker remains a game of incomplete information which involves a great deal of finesse and instinct. Coding this into a bot is NOT trivial, and while I don't doubt that it would be possible to write one to post mild profits at the lowest limits, it won't pose a threat to a reasonably competant player. A bot will not know what you hold, will be just as easy to fool or extract money from as people, perhaps even more so once you can isolate and understand it's behavior. Bots are the last thing on my mind at the table.
(c) Collusion is a problem, but it's ridiculusly easy to detect. Groups of people constantly signing on together, playing the same tables, leaving together, that's just a start. You can only do that for a very short time. Then tack on even simplistic collusion detection to find trends of raises that are simply to build up pots, odd behavior outside of that players normal reaction in that situation, even a computer science undergrad could code relatively effective detection for this. Poker sites have every reason to try and protect their players from this, and they do, see point (a). Collusion certainly does take place, most likely in the higher limits where it's more worthwhile, but it's going to be extremely difficult to pull off for any sustained amount of time. I've seen poker sites effort to prevent it first hand, collusion is NOT something I worry about.
Why Party's stock is down I have no idea. Does this necessarily correlate to their profits? Their attendance? Their new signups? The games certainly aren't drying up, that much I can vouch for.
(a) Winholdem is terrible. I'd sit at a table full of win holdem bots (provided they're not sharing information) any day of the weak for any stakes I could statistically afford.
(b) It's a little frustrating to see the endless stream of people spouting off about how online poker sites are surely rigged when they know absolutely nothing about it. I've been playing online poker for a year and have turned $20 into a small fortune. I beat the game for more than I make as a developer on the good months now, and I've successfully withdrawn a little less than half my profits. Poker sites take a rake from each pot that's played. Some of the larger sites have 80k concurrent users at peak times. Start taking a little piece of every pot with that many people online and you're earning a small fortune every freaking minute. They have very little overhead, computers, bandwidth, support, the rest is pure profit, and there's plenty for them. Why the hell would they risk this by cheating their players? If it was impossible to beat online poker, how do many of us do so consistently?
Truth be told I suspect these comments are coming from people who've never played online, or are influenced by the same stereotypes of poker being a game for cheats and hustlers. Bad players who try online poker and can't seem to win tend to enjoy spouting off that the sites are rigged, when in reality weird things happen in poker everywhere. Knowing how to bankroll yourself for what limits to sustain the unavoidable statistical downswings is the key.
Don't worry about the foolishness spouted in this tread. Win holdem is no threat, nor are any other bots at this point in time. And any of the major poker sites are plenty reputable, I was wary at first too but I've seen their business practices for a solid 12 months now. Online poker is booming right now and there's plenty fun to be had and money for the taking if you're half intelligent and can learn the required discipline.
Quite obviously a joke, and a rather humerous segment to watch for those of us not too hung up on being cynical to enjoy it. I came across these vids a few weeks ago and quite liked them. If you're stupid enough to be watching to improve your haxor skills then of course you're going to be disappointed. I see a couple guys having alot of fun with their project and enjoyed their sense of humor and love for technology.
My one and only hacking (that I'm aware of) took place at the hands of a friendly hacker searching the web for OpenBSD 3.x (can't recall the version). I'd just installed it recently and mentioned it in my blog, but hadn't had time to patch it yet, and was running a vulnerable version of ssh. Thankfully he notified me of the hole and claimed to do nothing malicious.
I fired off a quick email myself to point out some of this guys fallacies in my eyes, but the address drdinosaur@covenant.org made me wonder, and I didn't spend a whole lot of time working on it. It bounced just the same. =/
That looks like "trying-to-sound-educated" speak to me. When cornered, trying to breakdown someone's very legitemate point by attacking their intelligence with so many bs phrases doesn't always work.
I think it'd be rather difficult to hold free software developers responsible. On a technical level I think their respective licenses will prevent that. With Microsoft, the fact that you've paid them for a product, and cannot examine source code seems to imply some responsibility on their behalf.
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I like how you speak in the plural sense, as if you have someone siding with you.
And all hammers should have built in protection to ensure nobody uses them for anything bad.
Somewhere along the line corporations have gathered the power to assume that if anything in society interferes with their profit margins, then we're all responsible to cater to their needs.
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I'm not saying compiling kernels is necessary, but it's of interest to ALOT of users. I'm not calling you or anyone else stupid. I'm not OVERUSING CAPS. I'm talking about excessive whining, which has to be discouraging for those running these forums, and is completely unproductive to the community as a whole.
If people want Linux news, there's no reason to ask them again if they want Linux KERNEL news. You seem to continuously glaze over that point and focus more on my use of caps.
If you're interested in Linux, subscribe to the topic. If you're not, don't. If you're interested in Linux, but can't possibly bear to glance over Linux kernel release news, well then you'll have to make this ever so difficult decision on your own.
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(a) Compiling kernels is a part of running a Linux system, depending on how we chose to run one. (b) Linux's main use being servers is certainly open for debate, I for one am an avid desktop user. (c) Some of us enjoy participating in the testing and development of new kernels. (d) We're not all newbies, and enthusiasts who have better things to do than install new kernels every two weeks hardly covers all the non-newbies. (e) Don't get so antsy about glancing over a posting you don't like. (f) Your thoughts on my caps are subjective and irrelevant.
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If developers caved to everyone requesting further subdivisions of topics that really have no business being subdivided, then they soon find themselves with every article being a topic itself. It's foolishness. Linux kernels are quite clearly a perfect candidate for posting under a Linux topic. A further Linux / Linux kernel release subdivision is just stupid, especially to appease a select few people only out to be difficult. Glancing over a kernel release you don't care about is NO BIG DEAL.
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God forbid anyone interested in Linux but not in a kernel updates be forced to glance at a news heading they didn't care about. Maybe we could subdivide even further, so people who are interested in Linux 2.5 kernel releases won't have to hear about 2.4 releases. What about those 2.2 releases?
Nitpicking sucks.
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Yeah that's right, I said it. I LIKE having Slashdot announce new kernels. This is where I always hear about new releases. I don't want to check a kernel site every day of the year, I'd rather see it on a site I'm reading anyhow.
Too many people bitching about such pointless dribble; 2.4 sucks, BSD owns Linux, stop posting these kernel releases.(Despite the fact that it's clearly geek news, and being posted on a geek news site) And then we add capability to exclude topics from your slashdot homepage, and people still bitch.
This is a tech news site, Linux kernels are a perfectly viable news item. 2.4 does not suck. If you think it does, move on to something else. Ignore the topics. Stop ripping up people doing a perfectly good job.
Time for the free software advocates to freakout over all the governments discriminating against their products by chosing Microsoft. It's disturbing Microsoft is bold enough to think that they have enough voice to oppose any hint of a drift from their systems and label it discrimination against their products.
I didn't even know you COULD play DVD's in Linux until recently when I noticed Ogle on Freshmeat's index a few weeks ago. I tried it out once I was home that night, even wrote a brief article detailing my efforts. Maybe it'll prove to be useful. Ogle lets me access menus, always with the keyboard if the mouse seems a little awkward. I've also noticed that some DVDs won't goto full screen as well as they will in Windows, but most will. Overall I've been really pleased, and highly reccomend Ogle.
It's a bad thing because it's another step towards one big massive corporation that owns everything and employs us all. As if AOL isn't large enough already, but they have to continuously buy out everyone else, decisions entirely motivated by greed. I personally find that a disturbing portrait of the future, and I think preservation of what little competetive marketplace we have left is important.
We're probably on our way down the same road as the US, but who knows where they'll be at that point. Maybe we'll continue to be just a few steps behind and still better off.
I'm not entirely sure how well this works, but given that these worms are obviously connecting via the actual numerical ip, it should be possible to filter off logging from any machine connecting via such an ip to a junk log, or maybe even to deny connections altogether. I'm sure this can be tweaked, but preliminary tests indicate that this works:
Well if they can't destroy linux through corporate stronghold tactics and intimidation, they may as well resort to convincing the general public it should be illegal. He's from Microsoft, he *MUST* know what he's talking about.
As scary as it may seem, is this Microsoft eluding to some future legal action against open source? The whole concept is ridiculously disturbing, I think he's essentially implying that it should be illegal for us to sit at home and tinker with a computer and share our findings.
''We can build a better product than Linux,'' he said. ''There is always something enamoring about thinking you can get
something for free.''
Why is it so many of us are vehemently opposed to using Microsoft products? Computer professionals of all people should be able to make educated decisions on such products, why does Microsoft so frequently lose that battle?
'Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer,'' Allchin said. ''I can't imagine something
that could be worse than this for the software business and the intellectual-property
business.''
It's not bad for intellectual-property business, it's bad for Microsoft business.
Allchin's comments indicate that Microsoft is scared, and Microsoft plays dirty. But it's not like any of us didn't know that.
Why must we commercialize every form of Linux? I've used Debian for some time now, and found it vastly superior to any commercial flavor I'd worked with previously. Debian represents a viable alternative for Linux users who don't require a fancy install procedure or commercial support, but prefer to have more power and control. There's no reason to cater to people who can't handle technical details, that market's already taken care of.
Personally I'd rather have my distribution maintained by people doing it because they love it, rather than because someone's paying them too.
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I think these are Fedora 8 rpms, note the fc8 in the filenames. Also the versions seem to match the nvidia driver that doesn't work with the xorg in Fedora 9.
I've been making a killing at online poker for about 14 months now. Most of my time is spent at Party affiliates, probably about 85%. There continue to be more people online playing just as poorly as at any time in the last year. Bots are not a problem, collusion is not a problem, online poker sites cheating you is not a problem. Frankly these fear mongering threads are frustrating for us because if anything is interfering with this industry, it's dumbasses spreading around propeganda about how online poker is rigged, legions of bots await you to take your every last dime, and everyone else is a cheater.
(a) Poker sites are not out to cheat you. They're making a fortune by raking every pot, why jeopardize it by cheating as well? Why are focused and dedicated players able to beat the game consistently?
(b) Poker bots are not a problem. There are no known profitable bots, winholdem is a joke, and it's best success stories are almost surely less effective than a good human player. If there are massively successful bots out there, nobody knows about them. Poker remains a game of incomplete information which involves a great deal of finesse and instinct. Coding this into a bot is NOT trivial, and while I don't doubt that it would be possible to write one to post mild profits at the lowest limits, it won't pose a threat to a reasonably competant player. A bot will not know what you hold, will be just as easy to fool or extract money from as people, perhaps even more so once you can isolate and understand it's behavior. Bots are the last thing on my mind at the table.
(c) Collusion is a problem, but it's ridiculusly easy to detect. Groups of people constantly signing on together, playing the same tables, leaving together, that's just a start. You can only do that for a very short time. Then tack on even simplistic collusion detection to find trends of raises that are simply to build up pots, odd behavior outside of that players normal reaction in that situation, even a computer science undergrad could code relatively effective detection for this. Poker sites have every reason to try and protect their players from this, and they do, see point (a). Collusion certainly does take place, most likely in the higher limits where it's more worthwhile, but it's going to be extremely difficult to pull off for any sustained amount of time. I've seen poker sites effort to prevent it first hand, collusion is NOT something I worry about.
Why Party's stock is down I have no idea. Does this necessarily correlate to their profits? Their attendance? Their new signups? The games certainly aren't drying up, that much I can vouch for.
(a) Winholdem is terrible. I'd sit at a table full of win holdem bots (provided they're not sharing information) any day of the weak for any stakes I could statistically afford.
(b) It's a little frustrating to see the endless stream of people spouting off about how online poker sites are surely rigged when they know absolutely nothing about it. I've been playing online poker for a year and have turned $20 into a small fortune. I beat the game for more than I make as a developer on the good months now, and I've successfully withdrawn a little less than half my profits. Poker sites take a rake from each pot that's played. Some of the larger sites have 80k concurrent users at peak times. Start taking a little piece of every pot with that many people online and you're earning a small fortune every freaking minute. They have very little overhead, computers, bandwidth, support, the rest is pure profit, and there's plenty for them. Why the hell would they risk this by cheating their players? If it was impossible to beat online poker, how do many of us do so consistently?
Truth be told I suspect these comments are coming from people who've never played online, or are influenced by the same stereotypes of poker being a game for cheats and hustlers. Bad players who try online poker and can't seem to win tend to enjoy spouting off that the sites are rigged, when in reality weird things happen in poker everywhere. Knowing how to bankroll yourself for what limits to sustain the unavoidable statistical downswings is the key.
Don't worry about the foolishness spouted in this tread. Win holdem is no threat, nor are any other bots at this point in time. And any of the major poker sites are plenty reputable, I was wary at first too but I've seen their business practices for a solid 12 months now. Online poker is booming right now and there's plenty fun to be had and money for the taking if you're half intelligent and can learn the required discipline.
Quite obviously a joke, and a rather humerous segment to watch for those of us not too hung up on being cynical to enjoy it. I came across these vids a few weeks ago and quite liked them. If you're stupid enough to be watching to improve your haxor skills then of course you're going to be disappointed. I see a couple guys having alot of fun with their project and enjoyed their sense of humor and love for technology.
My one and only hacking (that I'm aware of) took place at the hands of a friendly hacker searching the web for OpenBSD 3.x (can't recall the version). I'd just installed it recently and mentioned it in my blog, but hadn't had time to patch it yet, and was running a vulnerable version of ssh. Thankfully he notified me of the hole and claimed to do nothing malicious.
I fired off a quick email myself to point out some of this guys fallacies in my eyes, but the address drdinosaur@covenant.org made me wonder, and I didn't spend a whole lot of time working on it. It bounced just the same. =/
Heyuk Heyuk.
That looks like "trying-to-sound-educated" speak to me. When cornered, trying to breakdown someone's very legitemate point by attacking their intelligence with so many bs phrases doesn't always work.
I think it'd be rather difficult to hold free software developers responsible. On a technical level I think their respective licenses will prevent that. With Microsoft, the fact that you've paid them for a product, and cannot examine source code seems to imply some responsibility on their behalf.
I like how you speak in the plural sense, as if you have someone siding with you.
And all hammers should have built in protection to ensure nobody uses them for anything bad.
Somewhere along the line corporations have gathered the power to assume that if anything in society interferes with their profit margins, then we're all responsible to cater to their needs.
I'm not saying compiling kernels is necessary, but it's of interest to ALOT of users. I'm not calling you or anyone else stupid. I'm not OVERUSING CAPS. I'm talking about excessive whining, which has to be discouraging for those running these forums, and is completely unproductive to the community as a whole.
If people want Linux news, there's no reason to ask them again if they want Linux KERNEL news. You seem to continuously glaze over that point and focus more on my use of caps.
If you're interested in Linux, subscribe to the topic. If you're not, don't. If you're interested in Linux, but can't possibly bear to glance over Linux kernel release news, well then you'll have to make this ever so difficult decision on your own.
(a) Compiling kernels is a part of running a Linux system, depending on how we chose to run one.
(b) Linux's main use being servers is certainly open for debate, I for one am an avid desktop user.
(c) Some of us enjoy participating in the testing and development of new kernels.
(d) We're not all newbies, and enthusiasts who have better things to do than install new kernels every two weeks hardly covers all the non-newbies.
(e) Don't get so antsy about glancing over a posting you don't like.
(f) Your thoughts on my caps are subjective and irrelevant.
If developers caved to everyone requesting further subdivisions of topics that really have no business being subdivided, then they soon find themselves with every article being a topic itself. It's foolishness. Linux kernels are quite clearly a perfect candidate for posting under a Linux topic. A further Linux / Linux kernel release subdivision is just stupid, especially to appease a select few people only out to be difficult. Glancing over a kernel release you don't care about is NO BIG DEAL.
God forbid anyone interested in Linux but not in a kernel updates be forced to glance at a news heading they didn't care about. Maybe we could subdivide even further, so people who are interested in Linux 2.5 kernel releases won't have to hear about 2.4 releases. What about those 2.2 releases?
Nitpicking sucks.
Yeah that's right, I said it. I LIKE having Slashdot announce new kernels. This is where I always hear about new releases. I don't want to check a kernel site every day of the year, I'd rather see it on a site I'm reading anyhow.
Too many people bitching about such pointless dribble; 2.4 sucks, BSD owns Linux, stop posting these kernel releases.(Despite the fact that it's clearly geek news, and being posted on a geek news site) And then we add capability to exclude topics from your slashdot homepage, and people still bitch.
This is a tech news site, Linux kernels are a perfectly viable news item. 2.4 does not suck. If you think it does, move on to something else. Ignore the topics. Stop ripping up people doing a perfectly good job.
Time for the free software advocates to freakout over all the governments discriminating against their products by chosing Microsoft. It's disturbing Microsoft is bold enough to think that they have enough voice to oppose any hint of a drift from their systems and label it discrimination against their products.
I didn't even know you COULD play DVD's in Linux until recently when I noticed Ogle on Freshmeat's index a few weeks ago. I tried it out once I was home that night, even wrote a brief article detailing my efforts. Maybe it'll prove to be useful. Ogle lets me access menus, always with the keyboard if the mouse seems a little awkward. I've also noticed that some DVDs won't goto full screen as well as they will in Windows, but most will. Overall I've been really pleased, and highly reccomend Ogle.
It's a bad thing because it's another step towards one big massive corporation that owns everything and employs us all. As if AOL isn't large enough already, but they have to continuously buy out everyone else, decisions entirely motivated by greed. I personally find that a disturbing portrait of the future, and I think preservation of what little competetive marketplace we have left is important.
We're probably on our way down the same road as the US, but who knows where they'll be at that point. Maybe we'll continue to be just a few steps behind and still better off.
I too am quite sure that the unstable kernels are always x.odd_num.y.
<VirtualHost 24.222.rest.ofyourip>
ServerName 24.222.rest.ofyour.ip
ErrorLog
CustomLog
</VirtualHost>
As scary as it may seem, is this Microsoft eluding to some future legal action against open source? The whole concept is ridiculously disturbing, I think he's essentially implying that it should be illegal for us to sit at home and tinker with a computer and share our findings.
''We can build a better product than Linux,'' he said. ''There is always something enamoring about thinking you can get something for free.''
Why is it so many of us are vehemently opposed to using Microsoft products? Computer professionals of all people should be able to make educated decisions on such products, why does Microsoft so frequently lose that battle?
'Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer,'' Allchin said. ''I can't imagine something that could be worse than this for the software business and the intellectual-property business.''
It's not bad for intellectual-property business, it's bad for Microsoft business.
Allchin's comments indicate that Microsoft is scared, and Microsoft plays dirty. But it's not like any of us didn't know that.
Personally I'd rather have my distribution maintained by people doing it because they love it, rather than because someone's paying them too.