"I see a rift generating," says Abene. "People who have been able to escape their teenage years unscathed have this elitism. They consider themselves better than other hackers who were unlucky enough to be prosecuted for whatever
reason, or for whatever mistakes they made."
Or maybe people who obeyed the law as teenagers look down their noses on convicted felons.
I'm 15 and _really_ tired of the sterotype that places me as little script kiddie who likes to r00t windows boxen for fun. I don't root computers, I don't have an urge to, and I know many other teens who don't get off on uploading root kits or using NetBus. I quote one of them "I'd be about as fun as shoving a 1 1/2 inch marble up my ass".
Don't get me wrong, but all the little kiddies I know don't know shit. I could (theoretically) do a lot more than they could towards cracking computers, but I have no desir to. It seems that they only know how to run pre-made programs to break poorly secured computers.
Don't get me wrong, there are very good crackers out there, but most of them aren't teenagers. If I was a security firm, I'd hire someone who knew what they were doing, not a kid with a script. Security firms don't want the people to crack existing systems (with scripts), they want people who can find security errors before they release the software. There is a large difference.
Many libraries offer telnet now to check the card catalog. While a CLI might not be conciderd an "x-windows" interface, an Xterm sure is. A patent as vauge as that can surely be struck down by any log of someone telnetting to a library card catalog (relational database I think) using some form of an Xterminal.
I really hope someone besides AOL and MICROS~1 get into this market. Because I don't want to pay for AOL service, and it most likely won't work with Linux anyway. I know Microsoft service isn't gonna work with my Linux box...
I hate hearing people talk while trying to program. I work at home and live with my parents (I'm only 15, which is why I live with them). The most annoying thing to hear while trying to work is either a phone ringing or people talking in the background. Television/Radio/Mp3 seems to filter out other talking and provide me with a good work enviroment. I suggest that you buy a good pair of headphones and some good cds.
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I wanted to see what dell would charge me for a laptop with linux on it. So i went to their "home/home office" site, and started to configure an Inspiron laptop. I got here when I found the link at the bottom to install Linux on this laptop. You will see that this link is broken. I noticed that about 6 weeks ago. I emailed dell about it, and they don't listen. They still havn't fixed it...
I for one would like to see more research of this. Using a cli doesn't work well when you have to talk in odd sytax. But saying "ps aux | fgrep "netscape"" is a LOT harder via voice than saying "search ps aux for netscape" or something similar.
Of course this provides that the user knows how to speak in natural language well, and that the computer doesn't get things screwed up. Like removing a directory called "root". You could say "remove all from root" which could translate to "rm -rf/" and "rm -rf root".
I think that instead of a silent boycott people who aren't going to buy cds should let the people know why. If you WERE going to go downtown today and buy a new cd, to downtown anyway, walking into the store, and TELL THEM that you would have bought it if the RIAA decided to work with napster. Otherwise the RIAA will just point and say "look, record sales are going down because of evil napster". Sorta like how those people who are quitting smoking drop the money that would have been spent on cigarrettes into a jar, and then count it up.
I've setup a mirror at http://yoda.kaxis.cx/hemos with the same images, but they are shrunken from 1600x1200 to 640x480 and are about 1/10 of the size. Enjoy.
I had to take them down to free up disk space. I'm in the process of downloading them and running convert on them to make much smaller images, then i'll post them back up.
I'm in the process of grabbing a copy of the hemos images off of another mirror of his site. It seems to be getting slashdotted now too. There are some 200 or so images in all, so this will take a while, i'm about 10 megs into the mirroring process. Check it out here. Hopefully this will take some of the load off of the hemos site and http://www.NOLS.COM/
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Did you even look at the screenshots?
This isn't the same gnome you would be running on a desktop. It's more of a gnome that complies with the early mac "finder" desktop, and the palm "desktop". It has large colorful icons, and none of the desktop-essential clutter that we've seen on Gnome or winCE.
Since most people don't use all of the features of any word processor, i suggest saving every document in an open format, ie RTF. If they need the formatting they can save it in Postscript(pdf).
The makers of OSS office software (ie the gnome and kde desktops and their respective applications) should develop open file formats and pressure other companies to support them.
If people start saving their documents in open file formats _now_ then in perhaps 3 months they can move seamlessly over to another office suite/os.
Personally I always save in open formats, it lets me open my files on my 486 with wordperfect, my m68k mac with Claris Works, my mom's win98 machine, and any other computer I can come across.
For me at least. I don't even own a DVD player, but I still have an anti-DVDCAA shirt. I'm against having a closed standard on DVDs. Partially because independent film makers have a hard time putting their works on dvd, partially because of the stupid 'regions', and because I think the DVD CAA will have unfair control over the market when DVDs become the popular medium.
I don't think most advertisers realize that if they start beaming people adds for their product over a GPS, especially if they are trying to do something important(fly a plane, disarm a nuclear warhead) They would be most likely to NOT buy their product. Banner adds are enough, advertisers should learn some self control.
Actually the explosion that would result from a flyweel breaking is really, really BIG. Currently they can only spin to about 60,000 rpm, but the creator plans on making them take it up to 100,000 rpm. If I had the article on hand i would quote it. But I distincly remember they were putting the flyweels underground, so that if they did explode, it wouldn't kill everyone. There was also a quote stating that the debris would fly away from the flywell at super-sonic speeds. There is a VERY high risk that if these things blow up they will shoot thousands of tiny pieces of carbon fiber into your skull.
3dfx and many other vendors have been working hard on DRI for a while now. Why not use it? I use the development dri to run Quake3a in linux, and it works just FINE. There's no reason to use Propriety Direct3d, DRI should do the exact same thing, and be cross-platform, right?
How can you accuse Hall of dealing with a bad publisher? It isn't his fault that AGES after he signed up and wrote "Linux for Dummies" the company that published for him felt that they should protect their name. While I'm not informed enough to side with IDG or those who they are upset with, you shouldn't be so critical of Hall. Just as not every person who's written a program and released it under GPL agrees entirely with Stallman ATM, or what Stallman says and does years after they write the code.
Even if latency is a huge problem, I won't be bothered. I'd much rather have slashdot come ripping down the airwaves at me at 2mbs after a 1 or 2 second lag than it slowly trickling down my modem connection at 56k.
Doing large amounts of downloading (basically all i do) won't be a problem with lag, now gaming is another issue, if you're a die-hard gamer, you can spare the expense of having a modem connection for games, and just use your satellite for downloading mp3s, or websurfing.
Actually there was an article about these cars in Wired magazine about a year and a half ago. The author mentioned that one of the cars had so much torque, that he actually cracked a gear in his drive system.
They get their power from large arrays of batteries working together, no one battery is required to carry the entire load
Also electric engines are much more efficient at accelleration than gas engines, which is why hybrid cars get such good gas milage, they use the electric engine to accellerate, and the gas engine for crusing. By running off of a battery that is charged by an engine continually running at top speed, they are incredbily fuel efficient.
I love seeing newer faster processors being released because it gives me the ability to by the old ones cheaper. In about 2 months the windows/zdnet/cnet users are gonna say 'oh my god my processor is _only_ 600 mhz' and I'll be there to say 'here is 300 dollars for your system'. -- the joys of running an efficient operating system.
Because there are so many mp3s, and many people store greater than 1000 mp3s on their computers, if you and I go to the same college, there is a large chance I'll have the mp3 you're looking for. Maybe napster could add in the abilitly to search napster clients on a local network before they searched those that are in europe or australia? So search all those with 204.17.30.x, then 204.17.X.X, etc, and finally search the napster servers. It would surely lower some of the bandwith stress on the college networks.
The liberals always do what they're told, because they haven't the imagination or strength of will to create their own freedom. I find that a bit hard to belive, concidering the liberals in America are always pushing for change. Heard of the civil rights movement? Those were some liberals who created their own freedom.
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Yeah, I know. I ment rooting a box as a general term for gaining total control over it.
"I see a rift generating," says Abene. "People who have been able to escape their teenage years unscathed have this elitism. They consider themselves better than other hackers who were unlucky enough to be prosecuted for whatever
reason, or for whatever mistakes they made."
Or maybe people who obeyed the law as teenagers look down their noses on convicted felons.
I'm 15 and _really_ tired of the sterotype that places me as little script kiddie who likes to r00t windows boxen for fun. I don't root computers, I don't have an urge to, and I know many other teens who don't get off on uploading root kits or using NetBus. I quote one of them "I'd be about as fun as shoving a 1 1/2 inch marble up my ass".
Don't get me wrong, but all the little kiddies I know don't know shit. I could (theoretically) do a lot more than they could towards cracking computers, but I have no desir to. It seems that they only know how to run pre-made programs to break poorly secured computers.
Don't get me wrong, there are very good crackers out there, but most of them aren't teenagers. If I was a security firm, I'd hire someone who knew what they were doing, not a kid with a script. Security firms don't want the people to crack existing systems (with scripts), they want people who can find security errors before they release the software. There is a large difference.
Many libraries offer telnet now to check the card catalog. While a CLI might not be conciderd an "x-windows" interface, an Xterm sure is. A patent as vauge as that can surely be struck down by any log of someone telnetting to a library card catalog (relational database I think) using some form of an Xterminal.
I really hope someone besides AOL and MICROS~1 get into this market. Because I don't want to pay for AOL service, and it most likely won't work with Linux anyway. I know Microsoft service isn't gonna work with my Linux box...
I hate hearing people talk while trying to program. I work at home and live with my parents (I'm only 15, which is why I live with them). The most annoying thing to hear while trying to work is either a phone ringing or people talking in the background. Television/Radio/Mp3 seems to filter out other talking and provide me with a good work enviroment. I suggest that you buy a good pair of headphones and some good cds.
I wanted to see what dell would charge me for a laptop with linux on it. So i went to their "home/home office" site, and started to configure an Inspiron laptop. I got here when I found the link at the bottom to install Linux on this laptop. You will see that this link is broken. I noticed that about 6 weeks ago. I emailed dell about it, and they don't listen. They still havn't fixed it...
I for one would like to see more research of this. Using a cli doesn't work well when you have to talk in odd sytax. But saying "ps aux | fgrep "netscape"" is a LOT harder via voice than saying "search ps aux for netscape" or something similar.
/" and "rm -rf root".
Of course this provides that the user knows how to speak in natural language well, and that the computer doesn't get things screwed up. Like removing a directory called "root". You could say "remove all from root" which could translate to "rm -rf
I think that instead of a silent boycott people who aren't going to buy cds should let the people know why.
If you WERE going to go downtown today and buy a new cd, to downtown anyway, walking into the store, and TELL THEM that you would have bought it if the RIAA decided to work with napster.
Otherwise the RIAA will just point and say "look, record sales are going down because of evil napster".
Sorta like how those people who are quitting smoking drop the money that would have been spent on cigarrettes into a jar, and then count it up.
If you could take 2 features from two other operating systems and add them to *nix what would they be?
I've setup a mirror at http://yoda.kaxis.cx/hemos with the same images, but they are shrunken from 1600x1200 to 640x480 and are about 1/10 of the size. Enjoy.
I had to take them down to free up disk space. I'm in the process of downloading them and running convert on them to make much smaller images, then i'll post them back up.
I'm in the process of grabbing a copy of the hemos images off of another mirror of his site. It seems to be getting slashdotted now too. There are some 200 or so images in all, so this will take a while, i'm about 10 megs into the mirroring process. Check it out here. Hopefully this will take some of the load off of the hemos site and http://www.NOLS.COM/
Did you even look at the screenshots?
This isn't the same gnome you would be running on a desktop. It's more of a gnome that complies with the early mac "finder" desktop, and the palm "desktop". It has large colorful icons, and none of the desktop-essential clutter that we've seen on Gnome or winCE.
Since most people don't use all of the features of any word processor, i suggest saving every document in an open format, ie RTF. If they need the formatting they can save it in Postscript(pdf).
The makers of OSS office software (ie the gnome and kde desktops and their respective applications) should develop open file formats and pressure other companies to support them.
If people start saving their documents in open file formats _now_ then in perhaps 3 months they can move seamlessly over to another office suite/os.
Personally I always save in open formats, it lets me open my files on my 486 with wordperfect, my m68k mac with Claris Works, my mom's win98 machine, and any other computer I can come across.
It's about freedom.
For me at least. I don't even own a DVD player, but I still have an anti-DVDCAA shirt. I'm against having a closed standard on DVDs. Partially because independent film makers have a hard time putting their works on dvd, partially because of the stupid 'regions', and because I think the DVD CAA will have unfair control over the market when DVDs become the popular medium.
I don't think most advertisers realize that if they start beaming people adds for their product over a GPS, especially if they are trying to do something important(fly a plane, disarm a nuclear warhead) They would be most likely to NOT buy their product. Banner adds are enough, advertisers should learn some self control.
Actually the explosion that would result from a flyweel breaking is really, really BIG. Currently they can only spin to about 60,000 rpm, but the creator plans on making them take it up to 100,000 rpm. If I had the article on hand i would quote it. But I distincly remember they were putting the flyweels underground, so that if they did explode, it wouldn't kill everyone. There was also a quote stating that the debris would fly away from the flywell at super-sonic speeds. There is a VERY high risk that if these things blow up they will shoot thousands of tiny pieces of carbon fiber into your skull.
no, PalmOS=32bit, at least according to the people who make them.
3dfx and many other vendors have been working hard on DRI for a while now. Why not use it? I use the development dri to run Quake3a in linux, and it works just FINE. There's no reason to use Propriety Direct3d, DRI should do the exact same thing, and be cross-platform, right?
How can you accuse Hall of dealing with a bad publisher? It isn't his fault that AGES after he signed up and wrote "Linux for Dummies" the company that published for him felt that they should protect their name. While I'm not informed enough to side with IDG or those who they are upset with, you shouldn't be so critical of Hall. Just as not every person who's written a program and released it under GPL agrees entirely with Stallman ATM, or what Stallman says and does years after they write the code.
Even if latency is a huge problem, I won't be bothered. I'd much rather have slashdot come ripping down the airwaves at me at 2mbs after a 1 or 2 second lag than it slowly trickling down my modem connection at 56k.
Doing large amounts of downloading (basically all i do) won't be a problem with lag, now gaming is another issue, if you're a die-hard gamer, you can spare the expense of having a modem connection for games, and just use your satellite for downloading mp3s, or websurfing.
Actually there was an article about these cars in Wired magazine about a year and a half ago. The author mentioned that one of the cars had so much torque, that he actually cracked a gear in his drive system.
They get their power from large arrays of batteries working together, no one battery is required to carry the entire load
Also electric engines are much more efficient at accelleration than gas engines, which is why hybrid cars get such good gas milage, they use the electric engine to accellerate, and the gas engine for crusing. By running off of a battery that is charged by an engine continually running at top speed, they are incredbily fuel efficient.
I love seeing newer faster processors being released because it gives me the ability to by the old ones cheaper. In about 2 months the windows/zdnet/cnet users are gonna say 'oh my god my processor is _only_ 600 mhz' and I'll be there to say 'here is 300 dollars for your system'. -- the joys of running an efficient operating system.
Because there are so many mp3s, and many people store greater than 1000 mp3s on their computers, if you and I go to the same college, there is a large chance I'll have the mp3 you're looking for. Maybe napster could add in the abilitly to search napster clients on a local network before they searched those that are in europe or australia? So search all those with 204.17.30.x, then 204.17.X.X, etc, and finally search the napster servers. It would surely lower some of the bandwith stress on the college networks.
The liberals always do what they're told, because they
haven't the imagination or strength of will to create their own freedom.
I find that a bit hard to belive, concidering the liberals in America are always pushing for change. Heard of the civil rights movement? Those were some liberals who created their own freedom.