Wish somebody who thinks it's such a great idea bothered to explain how would something like this be implemented on the TECHNICAL level. It's very easy to say "just tax it", but it's much harder to think of a way of doing it.
So, please explain, how is it taxed? Maybe your ISP charges for the use of their mail server? What if you run your own server? What if you just send your mail to a server in china?
If you're running a SSH server, and can live without it for a while, you could just stop it.
As root, run:/etc/init.d/ssh stop
Then, when you get it patched:/etc/init.d/ssh start
Have in mind that usually it will be started automatically on boot.
This works for Debian, in other distributions it may be called 'sshd' instead. If you don't have that file then probably you aren't running a ssh server.
Geez, aren't you ashamed? I mean, we're talking about the biggest, richest country on earth, that's got the most powerful technology and army.
And somehow this country that seems to be so proud of it greatness is going to let a little group of underarmed, undertrained and underfunded morons to influence what they build and what they research?
Duh, it's for finding the OS other machines are running. If you're troubleshooting something, and have a network with 500 computers to check, then being able to automatically see what OS is running where can be very useful.
To put a simple example, you might scan a network for Linux hosts running Samba to then verify that they aren't running a vulnerable version.
Never played BG 1, but I supposed it had to be similar.
In BG2 you just meet some evil guys, pause the game, give everybody directions, unpause, pause again if needed, etc. You can also assign an AI to your characters so that they will target bad guys/cast spells/run away by themselves.
Well, at least in BG2 that would mean you're just not playing well. It's really not a very difficult game.
In BG2 you're supposed to think. Which means building a balanced team, not having all mages or all warriors, learning balanced skills (good combination of defensive and offensive spells), etc.
Of course, maybe you think that's boring. But if you think about it, it's logical. You aren't going to live for very long if you just charge at your enemies yelling like a madman. Now, if you go with a good team, ambush the enemy, use your strong skills, etc, you're going to live much longer.
Then maybe it's just not the kind of game you like.
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You've got to move from the learning stage where you still try to consciously do a syntactic analysis and translate individual words. At some point you no longer need to make an effort to understand the language, and I suppose that's when you become able to read that scrambled stuff too.
I'm not native, English is my third language (after Russian and Spanish) and I can read the article without any problems.
A few years ago I used to play a game called "Creatures 2" a lot. In the game there used to be a big sea monster that appeared when several conditions were met.
A while later I heard that the sea monster was called "Borland"
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but AFAIK it works like this: Something 1 light year away blows up. 1 year later we see it blowing up. We couldn't see it blow up when it actually did, because the light from the event didn't reach us yet!
So, how exactly are going scientists to see that before it reaches us?
Oh, so we're interferring with poor people's livehoods. And why would we care about the livehood of people that live at our cost? Seriously, I don't care at all about how many people live from spamming, telemarketing, or selling heroine. If they all go bankrupt I will be very happy.
Ok, but in any case it's going to be somewhere in the middle of the ocean, probably in a restricted zone. I don't think they'll let people go there without a good reason, so it can be well protected, and it's definitely not a city, so it'd be much easier to shoot planes down in that area.
Since the cable itself will be made from the strongest stuff on earth, it should require quite a lot of effort to break. The base will probably be heavy as well.
Regardless of all this, I think that when we start getting so nervous about what terrorists might do, we have to start wondering how the heck do we let a small group of undertrained and underfunded morons affect the development of the technology in the country that's got the strongest army.
It's been discussed many times that if such a thing failed, damage would be minimal:
1. Depending on what happens it might simply fly into space. 2. If it falls, most of it would burn in the atmosphere. 3. If it reaches surface it'd be somewhere in the ocean anyway, so damage would be minimal. 4. Targeting a thin wire somewhere in the middle of the ocean is much harder than two giant towers.
Windows has one GUI because it's made by one company with one central management. KDE and Gnome are different teams, that work in different ways, use different languages and have different ideas. To expect that just because you think one desktop is needed that they'll leave whatever they're doing and start coding your ideal desktop is foolish. Deal with it, most OSS developers work on things because they like working on them, not because they're working for the common good.
Besides, there can't be a perfect WM. I don't want KDE 3 on a P166, there I'd use IceWM or Enlightenment. I don't want IceWM on my dual Athlon either, where I can use that extra power for something useful. I also don't like Gnome, while many Gnome users probably hate KDE.
Heck, how does anybody expect that we can somehow get independent developers to agree on one unique project when the world still hasn't managed to agree on one unique measure system?
It's odd really. In the poll that's here right now the options are in kg, and half of the posts in it is whining: "But where Americans! Why isn't it in pounds?". Then go to a KDE discussion and somehow now half of the discussion is whining about that we need a single standard.
Yeah, right. You think that somehow C++ and C code written in different ways, and following different guidelines would somehow get merged and turn into The Ultimate Desktop? Hell will freeze over before that happens.
Um, I'm talking about corporate environments where everybody is on a LAN and nobody has any problems with getting the program.
For users that need to access the program from home it's of course much more efficent to run it locally. Home users usually aren't limited to only HTTP, though.
And in any case, a normal mail client needs much less bandwidth than webmail.
1. Install Linux on a good server. 2. Write your program in whatever language. 3. Install an X server on the clients. 4. Profit!
There you go. Just one place to update when you need to change something. Although not even that is needed. I maintain a program that doesn't have such a huge amount of users, but it has auto-update already. We even have support for blocking too old programs. So it's really not such a big problem.
Ah, it is indeed there. However, I've just checked that in Gentoo you *have* to be in the wheel group to su root. It's just done through PAM, not su.
From/etc/pam.d/su:
# Comment this to allow any user, even those not in the 'wheel' # group to su auth required/lib/security/pam_wheel.so use_uid
Which again brings me to my point, RMS can say pretty anything he wants, but that doesn't make it law. Distributions can and do remove and work around his changes. This is one of the reasons why I like Linux. Even the most influential personalities don't have full control of anything.
It's already supported, see the PAM page. On the bottom you can see:
pam_time: authorize users based on when and where they log in (like securetty, but) in a way that is dependent on the service they are requesting;
Andrew Morgan
Hint: RMS, while popular and quite unfluential, doesn't have full control of Linux and never will. Also my su manpage in Gentoo doesn't have that comment.
Well, my calculator uses an AAA battery. I could certainly put a NiCD one there and charge that every few months (NiCD self-discharge themselves in about 3 months, so it wouldn't be very practical)
Anyway, I suppose it was a brain fart. Pretty much everything I have around here uses rechargeable batteries, so I think more of recharging than of changing batteries.
Quite a few people are saying that 12 year olds aren't stupid and can perfectly see what's wrong and what not most of the time, and that being 12 doesn't make things very different.
Maybe, but how about we stop looking at it so rationally? The RIAA is now pushing their "P2P is used to share child porn" idea. So let them taste their own medicine. Any time you get an opportunity to speak about it, just yell "The RIAA is evil! They sued a poor 12 year old girl!".
Apparently, these ways of explaining things are very successful with the vast majority of the population, who never stop to consider issues logically.
Look for a project called "OTP Chat" or something similar, released by vadim_t in a few days. I want to clean it up before releasing it, so it might take a day or two.
Currently, the interface looks a lot like Unix talk. It sends text as you type it, too.
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Bah, again this stupid idea.
Wish somebody who thinks it's such a great idea bothered to explain how would something like this be implemented on the TECHNICAL level. It's very easy to say "just tax it", but it's much harder to think of a way of doing it.
So, please explain, how is it taxed? Maybe your ISP charges for the use of their mail server? What if you run your own server? What if you just send your mail to a server in china?
If you're running a SSH server, and can live without it for a while, you could just stop it.
/etc/init.d/ssh stop
/etc/init.d/ssh start
As root, run:
Then, when you get it patched:
Have in mind that usually it will be started automatically on boot.
This works for Debian, in other distributions it may be called 'sshd' instead. If you don't have that file then probably you aren't running a ssh server.
Geez, aren't you ashamed? I mean, we're talking about the biggest, richest country on earth, that's got the most powerful technology and army.
And somehow this country that seems to be so proud of it greatness is going to let a little group of underarmed, undertrained and underfunded morons to influence what they build and what they research?
Duh, it's for finding the OS other machines are running. If you're troubleshooting something, and have a network with 500 computers to check, then being able to automatically see what OS is running where can be very useful.
To put a simple example, you might scan a network for Linux hosts running Samba to then verify that they aren't running a vulnerable version.
Never played BG 1, but I supposed it had to be similar.
In BG2 you just meet some evil guys, pause the game, give everybody directions, unpause, pause again if needed, etc. You can also assign an AI to your characters so that they will target bad guys/cast spells/run away by themselves.
Well, at least in BG2 that would mean you're just not playing well. It's really not a very difficult game.
In BG2 you're supposed to think. Which means building a balanced team, not having all mages or all warriors, learning balanced skills (good combination of defensive and offensive spells), etc.
Of course, maybe you think that's boring. But if you think about it, it's logical. You aren't going to live for very long if you just charge at your enemies yelling like a madman. Now, if you go with a good team, ambush the enemy, use your strong skills, etc, you're going to live much longer.
Then maybe it's just not the kind of game you like.
You've got to move from the learning stage where you still try to consciously do a syntactic analysis and translate individual words. At some point you no longer need to make an effort to understand the language, and I suppose that's when you become able to read that scrambled stuff too.
I'm not native, English is my third language (after Russian and Spanish) and I can read the article without any problems.
A few years ago I used to play a game called "Creatures 2" a lot. In the game there used to be a big sea monster that appeared when several conditions were met.
A while later I heard that the sea monster was called "Borland"
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And how exactly would they see it coming?
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but AFAIK it works like this: Something 1 light year away blows up. 1 year later we see it blowing up. We couldn't see it blow up when it actually did, because the light from the event didn't reach us yet!
So, how exactly are going scientists to see that before it reaches us?
Oh, so we're interferring with poor people's livehoods. And why would we care about the livehood of people that live at our cost? Seriously, I don't care at all about how many people live from spamming, telemarketing, or selling heroine. If they all go bankrupt I will be very happy.
Ok, but in any case it's going to be somewhere in the middle of the ocean, probably in a restricted zone. I don't think they'll let people go there without a good reason, so it can be well protected, and it's definitely not a city, so it'd be much easier to shoot planes down in that area.
Since the cable itself will be made from the strongest stuff on earth, it should require quite a lot of effort to break. The base will probably be heavy as well.
Regardless of all this, I think that when we start getting so nervous about what terrorists might do, we have to start wondering how the heck do we let a small group of undertrained and underfunded morons affect the development of the technology in the country that's got the strongest army.
It's been discussed many times that if such a thing failed, damage would be minimal:
1. Depending on what happens it might simply fly into space.
2. If it falls, most of it would burn in the atmosphere.
3. If it reaches surface it'd be somewhere in the ocean anyway, so damage would be minimal.
4. Targeting a thin wire somewhere in the middle of the ocean is much harder than two giant towers.
Fortunately, Foomatic seems to be Linux only ;-)
Oddly enough, somebody thought it'd be a good name for a set of printer drivers. http://www.linuxprinting.org/foomatic
Heh, I'm not going to be the one who complains about that. I'm perfectly happy with things as they are now. I'm typing this from a Gentoo box.
I don't care much about the desktop part. Linux is starting to replace Win2K on our servers and that's something I like a lot.
Stop whining. It WON'T happen.
Windows has one GUI because it's made by one company with one central management. KDE and Gnome are different teams, that work in different ways, use different languages and have different ideas. To expect that just because you think one desktop is needed that they'll leave whatever they're doing and start coding your ideal desktop is foolish. Deal with it, most OSS developers work on things because they like working on them, not because they're working for the common good.
Besides, there can't be a perfect WM. I don't want KDE 3 on a P166, there I'd use IceWM or Enlightenment. I don't want IceWM on my dual Athlon either, where I can use that extra power for something useful. I also don't like Gnome, while many Gnome users probably hate KDE.
Heck, how does anybody expect that we can somehow get independent developers to agree on one unique project when the world still hasn't managed to agree on one unique measure system?
It's odd really. In the poll that's here right now the options are in kg, and half of the posts in it is whining: "But where Americans! Why isn't it in pounds?". Then go to a KDE discussion and somehow now half of the discussion is whining about that we need a single standard.
Yeah, right. You think that somehow C++ and C code written in different ways, and following different guidelines would somehow get merged and turn into The Ultimate Desktop? Hell will freeze over before that happens.
Um, I'm talking about corporate environments where everybody is on a LAN and nobody has any problems with getting the program.
For users that need to access the program from home it's of course much more efficent to run it locally. Home users usually aren't limited to only HTTP, though.
And in any case, a normal mail client needs much less bandwidth than webmail.
Quite easy, really.
1. Install Linux on a good server.
2. Write your program in whatever language.
3. Install an X server on the clients.
4. Profit!
There you go. Just one place to update when you need to change something. Although not even that is needed. I maintain a program that doesn't have such a huge amount of users, but it has auto-update already. We even have support for blocking too old programs. So it's really not such a big problem.
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pam_time: authorize users based on when and where they log in (like securetty, but) in a way that is dependent on the service they are requesting; Andrew Morgan
Hint: RMS, while popular and quite unfluential, doesn't have full control of Linux and never will. Also my su manpage in Gentoo doesn't have that comment.
Well, my calculator uses an AAA battery. I could certainly put a NiCD one there and charge that every few months (NiCD self-discharge themselves in about 3 months, so it wouldn't be very practical)
Anyway, I suppose it was a brain fart. Pretty much everything I have around here uses rechargeable batteries, so I think more of recharging than of changing batteries.
If that was supposed to be funny then you have a very strange concept of humor. It didn't even make sense to me.
My calculator doesn't have any solar panels. Anyway, what does that have to do with what I said?
Quite a few people are saying that 12 year olds aren't stupid and can perfectly see what's wrong and what not most of the time, and that being 12 doesn't make things very different.
Maybe, but how about we stop looking at it so rationally? The RIAA is now pushing their "P2P is used to share child porn" idea. So let them taste their own medicine. Any time you get an opportunity to speak about it, just yell "The RIAA is evil! They sued a poor 12 year old girl!".
Apparently, these ways of explaining things are very successful with the vast majority of the population, who never stop to consider issues logically.
Okay, good to know that there's interest :-)
Look for a project called "OTP Chat" or something similar, released by vadim_t in a few days. I want to clean it up before releasing it, so it might take a day or two.
Currently, the interface looks a lot like Unix talk. It sends text as you type it, too.