I fear that these type of laws and treaties will become more common in the next few years. The "content industry" is struggling to reclaim the territory they slowly lost over the years. Napster made it painfully obvious to them that the whole industry has been asleep at the wheel.
Unfortunately, by blinding lashing out at the community we are just that much further from reaching a compromise between consumers and companies.
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Wow. You must attend the University of South Carolina. That is their policy. At least, it was when I was there.
As long as he is reluctant to come forward, the DMCA is not only doing its job in America but the international community is letting it do its job across the globe. If the international community does not stand up against things like this, they will be forever bound by it.
Unless I am confused, the IV is used to create the packet key. One of the attacks is described as the "known IV attack". Since most cards use a incremental IV sequence, it makes prediction (and if you know encryption, predictability is your worst enemy). Sure you can mount a plaintext attack against it, but you need packets with the IV's that you have decrypted.
The latest firmware available for your wavelan cards will force them to randomize the initialization vector used in WEP. For those of you that read the paper on breaking it, this is part of what makes it trivial. I would like to see this test run again with the random IV's. I'm sure it doesn't increase the difficulty by too much.
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My fonts look great. You need to install the truetype fonts, build QT with -xft, set up your Xftconfig file and they will look incredible.
I promise. I even have my LCD screen doing sub-pixel anti-aliasing. See this article detailing how to do it. KDE 2.2 will have the AA more "integrated" (the betas did).
Actually, if you remember from the credits these titles are "Episode" titles... Sort of like chapters in a big book called star wars. So while "attack of the clones" is rather inane, the other titles are pretty much OK. And for the record, "The Empire Strikes Back" is hands down the best. It had the most drama and the least kiddie material. Too bad Lucas didn't learn from it.
I've got FreeBSD -current on my Tecra 8000 right now, and it runs like a dream. Everything works except the winmodem and the IR port (which FreeBSD does not support). I love it.
The only minor problem I had was creating a proper device.hints file that had the right flags for the console driver. Once I got past that it was flawless.
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I felt the same way for a long time. I was bull-headed about KDE using C++ and "K"-everything naming apps. But you know what? After GNOME 1.4 was committed to the Ports system and I installed it, I watch package after package after package of dependencies being installed and I thought "there has GOT to be something better". I installed the KDE2 port. It came with Konquerer, which is hands down better than Mozilla. The UI was much smoother, I got anti-aliased fonts, the level of integration was incredible. GNOME was gone immediately.
Other than a few speed issues, I can't imagine using GNOME again. (And let's not even bring up Mozilla when we talk about speed issues. 0.9 ran so slow on my K6-2 box it wasn't even funny!)
I'm sorry, but we must see a dozen of these a month. It's a wonderful testament to the versatility of linux, but don't some of you wish that instead of wasting time on fringe projects that probably never go anywhere these resources could be better spent funding mainstream kernel development and/or the FSF?
Yeah, plus I'm sure that other wankers have stolen my nick on other networks. It sucks that I worked so hard flooding and pinging all those years ago to take it by force and now thanks to script kiddies I'll lose that. Dang it.
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I suppose it would have some effect on aggregate bandwidth, but less of an increase than whatever they alot per customer.
The telco's need to get off their massive bills for bandwidth wagons. Unfortunately since they have built their revenue models around this, it won't happen any time soon.
I'm sorry, but who died and made the zealots who WROTE their precious "free software" definition king?
Defining these esoteric things is ridiculous, and is always biased. I'm sure I'll get modded way down for this, but a lot of the most outspoken open-source advocates really have their heads in the sand. The "community" needs to evolve into something besides this grotesque beast that simply feeds upon itself to perpetuate. You can't exist like that forever. For the time being, proprietary software is a Good Thing, makes people feel Warm And Fuzzy, and is most definitely a Necessary Evil.
If you simply accept these definitions someone else is forcing on you, that makes you as mindless as the fools who know nothing besides internet explorer.
ISP's will always be stingy with IP addresses because they think you should pay more to connect multiple computers. Have you ever had one refuse to give you more IPs if you pay for it?
In the past, cable companies used to charge per TV despite the fact that you could pick up a splitter at radio shack for a couple bucks. Congress finally put a stop to that. Maybe they will do the same here. After all, what costs your provider money is the bandwidth and adding more PCs doesn't increase that.
Red Hat didn't actually turn a profit. The same funny accounting rules that let Microsoft report enormous profits by excluding certain things (stock options etc) let Redhat report a profit. There was an article on it somewhere. The 'pro forma' numbers are not actually the official SEC numbers. According to the SEC they lost their pants!
Made them rich? You forget that they still lose money hand over fist. Anyone who didn't see this coming long ago was kidding themselves.
Overpriced hardware doesn't build an empire. Their sagging stock price has lead to drastic cuts. And the easiest way to cut is slash the whole hardware division...
Did anyone actually think of VA as anything other than a hardware company? I know they have bought some 'Net real estate, but I certainly don't think of VAL when I think software. Guess we should expect the VALinux Distro next week...
Microsoft Passport. Microsoft.Net. The two services are going to rely on each other like parasites. Don't fool yourself -- Microsoft is going to make this work. They have the monopoly power to do it.
These kind of things scare me. Today, Passport stores your info and fills in fields. Tomorrow, MS will be providing the credit card verification services. All data will flow through Microsoft. Then they start charging money per transaction. Bill Gates is able to pull off what Congress and 50 states haven't -- taxing internet purchases.
Then, when Passport provides verification for 90% of the sites out there, they start charging a monthly fee to maintain your account. Who knows what else will happen.
So go ahead and sign up for your Passport account now, save yourself the time later. Because if the Department of Justice doesn't wake up tomorrow and smell what we do today, I see Jon Katz's predictions about the Internet coming true.
Here's to hoping that we don't find ourselves saying "I told you so" in a few years...
Get real. IPF is a stable, tested, full-featured packet filter. There are NO license issues with IPF under FreeBSD and I would assume NetBSD as well. IPFilter was moved to/usr/src/[sys/]contrib in FreeBSD, and that was that.
Just because someone comes out with a new packet filter doesn't mean it's time to declare everything else dead and hail to the Next Bing Thing. Oh, wait a minute. That's what Linux does. Every release. ~snicker~
I think you miss the point. BSD includes new optimizations, functionality and everything else. All of that without breaking compatability. And as for the size, I was referring to the size of the source, not the compiled library (although the two are related).
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OH so sorry, that was only if you used the blue knots. The green knots were at 45 degree angles.... Amateur :)
As a lifetime resident of South Carolina, I have to say that I am suprised that the 10% adds up to a whole computer. It's probably rounded up...
Seriously though, this does not suprise me one bit given the ass-backwards blue laws we've always had.
That's pretty useless in this case, considering I can fake MAC addresses. Oh, and they can be obtained without decrypting the ciphertext.
I fear that these type of laws and treaties will become more common in the next few years. The "content industry" is struggling to reclaim the territory they slowly lost over the years. Napster made it painfully obvious to them that the whole industry has been asleep at the wheel.
Unfortunately, by blinding lashing out at the community we are just that much further from reaching a compromise between consumers and companies.
Wow. You must attend the University of South Carolina. That is their policy. At least, it was when I was there.
As long as he is reluctant to come forward, the DMCA is not only doing its job in America but the international community is letting it do its job across the globe. If the international community does not stand up against things like this, they will be forever bound by it.
Unless I am confused, the IV is used to create the packet key. One of the attacks is described as the "known IV attack". Since most cards use a incremental IV sequence, it makes prediction (and if you know encryption, predictability is your worst enemy). Sure you can mount a plaintext attack against it, but you need packets with the IV's that you have decrypted.
The latest firmware available for your wavelan cards will force them to randomize the initialization vector used in WEP. For those of you that read the paper on breaking it, this is part of what makes it trivial. I would like to see this test run again with the random IV's. I'm sure it doesn't increase the difficulty by too much.
My fonts look great. You need to install the truetype fonts, build QT with -xft, set up your Xftconfig file and they will look incredible. I promise. I even have my LCD screen doing sub-pixel anti-aliasing. See this article detailing how to do it. KDE 2.2 will have the AA more "integrated" (the betas did).
Actually, if you remember from the credits these titles are "Episode" titles... Sort of like chapters in a big book called star wars. So while "attack of the clones" is rather inane, the other titles are pretty much OK. And for the record, "The Empire Strikes Back" is hands down the best. It had the most drama and the least kiddie material. Too bad Lucas didn't learn from it.
I've got FreeBSD -current on my Tecra 8000 right now, and it runs like a dream. Everything works except the winmodem and the IR port (which FreeBSD does not support). I love it.
The only minor problem I had was creating a proper device.hints file that had the right flags for the console driver. Once I got past that it was flawless.
I felt the same way for a long time. I was bull-headed about KDE using C++ and "K"-everything naming apps. But you know what? After GNOME 1.4 was committed to the Ports system and I installed it, I watch package after package after package of dependencies being installed and I thought "there has GOT to be something better". I installed the KDE2 port. It came with Konquerer, which is hands down better than Mozilla. The UI was much smoother, I got anti-aliased fonts, the level of integration was incredible. GNOME was gone immediately.
Other than a few speed issues, I can't imagine using GNOME again. (And let's not even bring up Mozilla when we talk about speed issues. 0.9 ran so slow on my K6-2 box it wasn't even funny!)
7up is running a bunch of commercials like that. Funny stuff.
I'm sorry, but we must see a dozen of these a month. It's a wonderful testament to the versatility of linux, but don't some of you wish that instead of wasting time on fringe projects that probably never go anywhere these resources could be better spent funding mainstream kernel development and/or the FSF?
Yeah, plus I'm sure that other wankers have stolen my nick on other networks. It sucks that I worked so hard flooding and pinging all those years ago to take it by force and now thanks to script kiddies I'll lose that. Dang it.
Killer Pro for mIRC baby!
Mind 'n Smoke by Drwhatshisname.
Old school rocks!
I suppose it would have some effect on aggregate bandwidth, but less of an increase than whatever they alot per customer. The telco's need to get off their massive bills for bandwidth wagons. Unfortunately since they have built their revenue models around this, it won't happen any time soon.
I'm sorry, but who died and made the zealots who WROTE their precious "free software" definition king?
Defining these esoteric things is ridiculous, and is always biased. I'm sure I'll get modded way down for this, but a lot of the most outspoken open-source advocates really have their heads in the sand. The "community" needs to evolve into something besides this grotesque beast that simply feeds upon itself to perpetuate. You can't exist like that forever. For the time being, proprietary software is a Good Thing, makes people feel Warm And Fuzzy, and is most definitely a Necessary Evil.
If you simply accept these definitions someone else is forcing on you, that makes you as mindless as the fools who know nothing besides internet explorer.
Had to get that out of my system.
ISP's will always be stingy with IP addresses because they think you should pay more to connect multiple computers. Have you ever had one refuse to give you more IPs if you pay for it?
In the past, cable companies used to charge per TV despite the fact that you could pick up a splitter at radio shack for a couple bucks. Congress finally put a stop to that. Maybe they will do the same here. After all, what costs your provider money is the bandwidth and adding more PCs doesn't increase that.
You call anti-freebsd FUD from that dirty mexican working for Ximian a "good quote"?
Those kind of attacks are totally unwarranted. Microsoft picked FreeBSD, not the other way around.
el shame-o, Miguel!
Isn't everyone's password CPE1704TKS?
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Red Hat didn't actually turn a profit. The same funny accounting rules that let Microsoft report enormous profits by excluding certain things (stock options etc) let Redhat report a profit. There was an article on it somewhere. The 'pro forma' numbers are not actually the official SEC numbers. According to the SEC they lost their pants!
Made them rich? You forget that they still lose money hand over fist. Anyone who didn't see this coming long ago was kidding themselves.
Overpriced hardware doesn't build an empire. Their sagging stock price has lead to drastic cuts. And the easiest way to cut is slash the whole hardware division...
Did anyone actually think of VA as anything other than a hardware company? I know they have bought some 'Net real estate, but I certainly don't think of VAL when I think software. Guess we should expect the VALinux Distro next week...
Best of luck...
Microsoft Passport. Microsoft.Net. The two services are going to rely on each other like parasites. Don't fool yourself -- Microsoft is going to make this work. They have the monopoly power to do it.
These kind of things scare me. Today, Passport stores your info and fills in fields. Tomorrow, MS will be providing the credit card verification services. All data will flow through Microsoft. Then they start charging money per transaction. Bill Gates is able to pull off what Congress and 50 states haven't -- taxing internet purchases.
Then, when Passport provides verification for 90% of the sites out there, they start charging a monthly fee to maintain your account. Who knows what else will happen.
So go ahead and sign up for your Passport account now, save yourself the time later. Because if the Department of Justice doesn't wake up tomorrow and smell what we do today, I see Jon Katz's predictions about the Internet coming true.
Here's to hoping that we don't find ourselves saying "I told you so" in a few years...
Get real. IPF is a stable, tested, full-featured packet filter. There are NO license issues with IPF under FreeBSD and I would assume NetBSD as well. IPFilter was moved to /usr/src/[sys/]contrib in FreeBSD, and that was that.
Just because someone comes out with a new packet filter doesn't mean it's time to declare everything else dead and hail to the Next Bing Thing. Oh, wait a minute. That's what Linux does. Every release. ~snicker~
I think you miss the point. BSD includes new optimizations, functionality and everything else. All of that without breaking compatability. And as for the size, I was referring to the size of the source, not the compiled library (although the two are related).