In any given group of humans, there will be a few smart people, a lot of average people and some incredibly stupid people.
Now, smartness is of course relative. And here we are talking about chess. SO, there would actually be VERY FEW smart people, a LOT of low-end-average people and a LOT of incredibly stupid chess players.
BUT... we're still not taking into account that only WINDOWS users could vote. The average Windows user is dumber tha, say, average UNIX use. So we're talking about MOSTLY incredibly stupid people!
When you get all these people together and ask them to vote on a chess move, what do you get? An incredibly stupid move, or an average move.. obviously.
AMOK is the spokeperson for IRC BOTS worldwide. He works at the EFNet Intergalatic Head Quarters and is an OP in #linuxwarez. We interviewed AMOK and asked him if androids, like himself, had feelings...
lets see how many flames this article got (fr**f*ll) does amok have feelings? freefall: um, no (fr**f*ll) there... that proves it. Thank you amok ùíù [mode/#linuxwarez(+b *!*oway@*.telia.com)] by Amok i just nearly spit coke all over my screen trying not to laugh at katz
(NOTE: THIS INTERVIEW HAS BEEN EDITED TO THE PROTECT THE IDENITIES OF ALL INVOLVED INDIVIDUALS. WE DON'T WANT THE KATZ MAFIA TRYING TO WINUKE OUR LINUX BOXES.)
The owner of AntiOnline pays people to crack servers in exchange for full coverage of the crack. It's a brilliant idea for making money.
But then he later gives information about the hackers to the government. Whatever his incentive is, this guy is a total idiot and potentially dangerous.
I bet he's letting some government acency have full access to this LinuxPPC box's logs. The person who cracks the box will probably get noticed by the government.
And even if that's not true, why support an idiot like this?
Make Alan sing too! And bring is wife along for the ride.
I'de ask you to put Richard Stallman on MTV as well, but I'm afriad that he'll kill someone (or himself) as soon as he hears the word "Linux". And then the show would never air.
Long ago, Microsoft thought they knew how to write a Unix Operating System. They made something called Xenix. It sucked, and this made Microsoft sad. Then Bell Labs released the code to Unix. This made microsoft mad. So they branched of their Xenix division. Thus SCO was formed. Microsoft still owns a large part of SCO, if I'm not mistaken.
but i wonder if he's been reading about all the stuff that's happened while he was busy waiting for his trial in jail. maybe he's seen the horrors of windows 98 in PC Magazine.
Many years ago a bunch of farmers and merchants sent a letter to England in which they made fun of their tea and said that the Britsh sucked. And so it was, that the United States of America was formed.
Now, these farmers and merchants were very smart. They understood that power (any form of power) cannot rest dominantly in the hands of a single party. If the Government has power, so must the people. This prevents the system's decline into tyranny. The government has guns, so must the people. The government has strong encryption, so must the people. Obviously this does not apply to military power because that would be insane.
If power is left unbalanced then corruption comes into play. All parties must be left in check with eachother so that no one can beat the shit out of anyone else.
Chances are, a good majority of the American people understand this. So if you're lucky, crypto laws will be forced to respect this basic axiom of political science.
Hmm. Perhaps the Internet is the one place where communism will actually work. Yes... yes it's perfect. If OpenSource and GNU (which is essentially communist thinking) works on the Net, so will my communist government.
I shall form my own communist government. I will entertain the ideas of all those guys who got their assess kicked in real life, like Nazis and the Soviets.
And one day we too will register ourselves in the United Nations. And we'll capture 40 square miles of washington DC and declare it as our own.
Then we'll have a war against CY.. our only online competator in the cybernetic nation business. We'll kick their asses.
And then the UN will call for first ever hacker peace talks! And I, the king of my communist country, will make history on live TV by throwing pies at all the UN officials and making fun of everyone.
... welcome to the future of politics (future? this what goes on at UN today!)
I work with IBM hardware, and we get a lot of ThinkPads. If you've ever entriley taken apart a ThinkPad, you'll know that the actual LCD panel is about 0.4 cm thick, regardless of height or width. Then why is the entire LCD unit (case included) so thick? Well, the LCD sits on top of some beams in the case. Underneath the LCD panel run a few ribbon cables from the bottom of the case to the right hand side, where they plug into the LCD panel. Aside from that, there's nothing under the LCD. It's all empty space. THis is just to keep the LCD panel safe, because it is extremly delecate. So it's not making the LCD thinner that we have to worry about. It's about making it stronger. Once it's stronge enough, it won't even need casing.
Is there anyway to migrate from Oracle 7 to 8 without shutting the system down? We're running Oracle 8 on AIX and NT and need to migrate without going offline (this is a hospital; servers must not go down). Engineers report that the migration will take 8 days. That's just not possible. Does anyone know if a migration is possible while keeping the system live? I need info on any platform (AIX, NT, Linux, whatever).
If you have any insider knowledge of IBM, you know that IBM is rapidly trying to restructure itself to adapt to the changing industries. The Old IBM was too slow and uncreative; in 1994 IBM suffered the greatest corporate loss in history.
Whatever decisions IBM makes at this crucial time are going to be for long term interests. Recently, IBM has announced a lot of support for Linux, has really pushed its RS/6000 archetecture and AIX operating system and has now merged with Sequent, a company whose products compliment the RS/6000. And a little off topic, an IBM executive recently made a testimony against Microsoft regarding OS/2 and Windows, in court.
In the past couple years IBM has partnered with Sun Microsystems and Netscape to try to destroy the Microsoft monoply. The three companies allied not only in technical inovation but also in court.
There is an obvious pattern here. IBM is trying to push away from the industry's dependance on Intel and Microsoft systems. And although it's going to take a long time for this to really happen, any attempts made by IBM will definetly have an impact on the industry, consumers and even Linux.
DEC still exsists. It's just a part of Compaq now. But the archetecture still technically belongs to Digital.
Why must Compaq disolve all the corporations it merges with? First it was Tandem. Nobody even knows who or what Tandem is anymore. Then DEC. Slowly Compaq has started to erase the Digital name from its websites, products and manuals. They suck. DEC is a historic corporation... Compaq shouldn't be allowed to disolve it.
You can't do this! You have to indicate that this IS NOT news, it's advertising! You could get sued for this, you know. Stop it. The first time I saw this article, I actually thought it was legit news. And i even shared it with my friends. Now I find out that Slashdot was payed to make the post. NOT ALLOWED! It's decepsion.
Millville, NJ Cape May, NJ Fulshear, TX and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia all lost power today (that's all I know of). And SETI@Home was hacked by aliens.
PLease tell me if you know of any other power failures. And be sure before you say.
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The penguin logo sucks. I MUST GO! Linux 3.0 better have a totally different logo. No animals allowed in logos for cutting edge unix operating systems. I think we should use the old SGI logo.. the cube.. that they stopped using because they all became retarted and decided to rename Silicon Graphics to SGI when it already was SGI.
I live in a country with net cencorship. No, they CANNOT stop you from DCCing pics or downloading stuff from your friend's FTPd box. It's not possible. They will probably just block URLs through a proxy. Here, there are two proxies. One is on the ISP and the other is a national firewall (see www.isu.net.sa). I'm not sure what the local, ISP proxy does (other than caching). The national firewall is the one that does the cencorship. You have to use your ISP's proxy, and your ISP uses the national proxy. This is probably a bottleneck. But it seems to do the job, in most cases. It's amazing how they can find the most remote websites and shitlist them. But they can shitlist everything because the web is almost infinite, as it is growing constantly.
But I seriously doubt that they can stop you from doing whatever you want on IRC and such. And it will probably be possible to simply use a foriegn proxy (as long as it's listening on a really weird port) and thus bypass any cencorship at all.
But don't get me wrong. This is still going to be glaring in your face almost everyday. The bigest downfall to this is when they start blocking stuff that shouldn't even be blocked. Like somtimes you'll click on a download at Freshmeat and you'll find that the particular address is blocked.
Just hope they don't block any major hosts like GeoCities. That would mean you can't access thousands and thousands of websites.
"I am confident that it will be nigh impossible to impose such restriction"
I don't think so. Web Access is cencored all over the world. For example, in Saudi Arabia the authorities allowed Internet access in mid-1998, as long as it was cencored. And within 12 months, not only was the cencorship system put into place... remember, this is a country that has never had Net access before. On Jan 1, 1998 there were ZERO ISPs in Saudi Arabia. And one year later, there are 250 ISPs which were hand selected by the government, and deployed within 6 to 9 months. Don't forget that huge portions of the telephone network had to be upgraded as well. This was a project far greater than the Australian one. And it was done.
It costs money, but I'm sure that Australia has enough of it. Technically, it is very possible. The only problem is finding all URLs that should be blocked. At first, only the big sites will be blocked. You know, sex.com and stuff. Then slowly smaller sites will start showing up on the shitlist. And one day you'll click to download something from Freshmeat, and the file will be on Geocities and you'll get a glaring message about the address being forbidden. And you'll wonder why the hell some little Linux app would be blocked. geocities.com won't be blocked. But for some reason that exact address will be blocked.
Ugh.. i've been trying to get help for months now. Nobody has the answer or the time to find look into this problem I've been having with the SETI@Home Client.
Now, I have this machine:
Pentium II 400MHz 128MB RAM 6GB UltraATA/66 HD 4GB UltraATA/33 HD OS: Windows 98
That's a fast box. Don't say it's slow just because it has Windows running... it's still relativly fast.
Now, I've been running SETI@Home in screen saver mode. And not much goes on with this box since it's not on any network and all together boring computer (what with windows running on it and all). This means that when the client runs, it has a lot of resources. Furthermore, the screen saver is set to blank after 10min.. which means it doesn't even have to do the graphics proccessing for very long.
USER INFO
Name: freefall Data units completed: 3 Total computer time: 257hr 01min 56.9sec
WHAT?!?! 260 hours to process THREE data units?? Something is VERY wrong with this picture. How can this be? The average for a computer of these specifications is 20hours / data unit. That means this box has spent 200 hours sitting around doing what?
IF anyone can help, please do. This is starting to annoy me. And the SETI@Home people are too busy to respond.
Have you ever seen a harddrive from 1970? I have one. It's has a silver, aluminum case, which is rather odly shaped. It's 6"x5"x"6. And it weighs quite a lot. It has three plastic screwes with heads that are about 3/4" in diamter. The data cable looks like those brown unsheilded, translucent cables that can be found in inkjet printers (the thing connected to the place where you put the ink). It has a capacity of 100MB. It was taken out of an IBM cluster controller (if you know what that is [was]).
Hard Drives have come a long was since 1970. Now CARS. CARS have gone nowhere since 1970.
Damn lies. It's a concpiracy I tell you! Bill Gates agreed to take Ziff-Davis's mom out for a week if ZDNet made NT look faster.
How could Linux be sloweR? We have the Holy Pengiun on our side! And the Holy Book of man pages! Pope Pengiun II will be making a holy statment on the Holy Linux Channel at 4:30AM today regarding the sins of Bill Gates. I'm sure this incident will be included.
I have recieved word that the Penguin has declared Jihad (Holy War) against Bill Gates and his evil parterns in sin. Watch out, Henry Baltazar and Pankaj Chowdhry (the guys who wrote performed this unholy deed)... you'll be getting a whole ton of spam directly from the Church of the Penguin.
In related news, Bill Clinton has recently declared that all Microsoft Employees will recieve free admitance to mental institutes, nation-wide, under the new MediCare reforms.
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In any given group of humans, there will be a few smart people, a lot of average people and some incredibly stupid people.
... we're still not taking into account that only WINDOWS users could vote. The average Windows user is dumber tha, say, average UNIX use. So we're talking about MOSTLY incredibly stupid people!
.. obviously.
Now, smartness is of course relative. And here we are talking about chess. SO, there would actually be VERY FEW smart people, a LOT of low-end-average people and a LOT of incredibly stupid chess players.
BUT
When you get all these people together and ask them to vote on a chess move, what do you get? An incredibly stupid move, or an average move
AMOK is the spokeperson for IRC BOTS worldwide. He works at the EFNet Intergalatic Head Quarters and is an OP in #linuxwarez. We interviewed AMOK and asked him if androids, like himself, had feelings ...
... that proves it. Thank you amok
lets see how many flames this article got
(fr**f*ll) does amok have feelings?
freefall: um, no
(fr**f*ll) there
ùíù [mode/#linuxwarez(+b *!*oway@*.telia.com)] by Amok
i just nearly spit coke all over my screen trying not to laugh at katz
(NOTE: THIS INTERVIEW HAS BEEN EDITED TO THE PROTECT THE IDENITIES OF ALL INVOLVED INDIVIDUALS. WE DON'T WANT THE KATZ MAFIA TRYING TO WINUKE OUR LINUX BOXES.)
Cisco and IBM are also concidering to merge. Read about it somewhere on investor.com
The owner of AntiOnline pays people to crack servers in exchange for full coverage of the crack. It's a brilliant idea for making money.
But then he later gives information about the hackers to the government. Whatever his incentive is, this guy is a total idiot and potentially dangerous.
I bet he's letting some government acency have full access to this LinuxPPC box's logs. The person who cracks the box will probably get noticed by the government.
And even if that's not true, why support an idiot like this?
Make Alan sing too! And bring is wife along for the ride.
I'de ask you to put Richard Stallman on MTV as well, but I'm afriad that he'll kill someone (or himself) as soon as he hears the word "Linux". And then the show would never air.
Long ago, Microsoft thought they knew how to write a Unix Operating System. They made something called Xenix. It sucked, and this made Microsoft sad. Then Bell Labs released the code to Unix. This made microsoft mad. So they branched of their Xenix division. Thus SCO was formed. Microsoft still owns a large part of SCO, if I'm not mistaken.
assuming mitnick HAD elite hacker skills.
but i wonder if he's been reading about all the stuff that's happened while he was busy waiting for his trial in jail. maybe he's seen the horrors of windows 98 in PC Magazine.
Many years ago a bunch of farmers and merchants sent a letter to England in which they made fun of their tea and said that the Britsh sucked. And so it was, that the United States of America was formed.
Now, these farmers and merchants were very smart. They understood that power (any form of power) cannot rest dominantly in the hands of a single party. If the Government has power, so must the people. This prevents the system's decline into tyranny. The government has guns, so must the people. The government has strong encryption, so must the people. Obviously this does not apply to military power because that would be insane.
If power is left unbalanced then corruption comes into play. All parties must be left in check with eachother so that no one can beat the shit out of anyone else.
Chances are, a good majority of the American people understand this. So if you're lucky, crypto laws will be forced to respect this basic axiom of political science.
Hmm. Perhaps the Internet is the one place where communism will actually work. Yes ... yes it's perfect. If OpenSource and GNU (which is essentially communist thinking) works on the Net, so will my communist government.
.. our only online competator in the cybernetic nation business. We'll kick their asses.
I shall form my own communist government. I will entertain the ideas of all those guys who got their assess kicked in real life, like Nazis and the Soviets.
And one day we too will register ourselves in the United Nations. And we'll capture 40 square miles of washington DC and declare it as our own.
Then we'll have a war against CY
And then the UN will call for first ever hacker peace talks! And I, the king of my communist country, will make history on live TV by throwing pies at all the UN officials and making fun of everyone.
... welcome to the future of politics (future? this what goes on at UN today!)
I work with IBM hardware, and we get a lot of ThinkPads. If you've ever entriley taken apart a ThinkPad, you'll know that the actual LCD panel is about 0.4 cm thick, regardless of height or width. Then why is the entire LCD unit (case included) so thick? Well, the LCD sits on top of some beams in the case. Underneath the LCD panel run a few ribbon cables from the bottom of the case to the right hand side, where they plug into the LCD panel. Aside from that, there's nothing under the LCD. It's all empty space. THis is just to keep the LCD panel safe, because it is extremly delecate. So it's not making the LCD thinner that we have to worry about. It's about making it stronger. Once it's stronge enough, it won't even need casing.
Is there anyway to migrate from Oracle 7 to 8 without shutting the system down? We're running Oracle 8 on AIX and NT and need to migrate without going offline (this is a hospital; servers must not go down). Engineers report that the migration will take 8 days. That's just not possible. Does anyone know if a migration is possible while keeping the system live? I need info on any platform (AIX, NT, Linux, whatever).
The government has purchased sheilded electronic equpment for years, as protection against tempest.
o nitoring.article
A quick search of IBM's patent server service revealed several interesting patents:
The best source of tempest info is this: http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/tempest.html
And for protecting yourself from EMP interference or doing it yourself, http://www.eff.org/pub/Privacy/Security/tempest_m
and
http://jya.com/emp.htm
HERE is a really interesting company: http://www.codexdatasystems.com/
If you have any insider knowledge of IBM, you know that IBM is rapidly trying to restructure itself to adapt to the changing industries. The Old IBM was too slow and uncreative; in 1994 IBM suffered the greatest corporate loss in history.
Whatever decisions IBM makes at this crucial time are going to be for long term interests. Recently, IBM has announced a lot of support for Linux, has really pushed its RS/6000 archetecture and AIX operating system and has now merged with Sequent, a company whose products compliment the RS/6000. And a little off topic, an IBM executive recently made a testimony against Microsoft regarding OS/2 and Windows, in court.
In the past couple years IBM has partnered with Sun Microsystems and Netscape to try to destroy the Microsoft monoply. The three companies allied not only in technical inovation but also in court.
There is an obvious pattern here. IBM is trying to push away from the industry's dependance on Intel and Microsoft systems. And although it's going to take a long time for this to really happen, any attempts made by IBM will definetly have an impact on the industry, consumers and even Linux.
DEC still exsists. It's just a part of Compaq now. But the archetecture still technically belongs to Digital.
... Compaq shouldn't be allowed to disolve it.
Why must Compaq disolve all the corporations it merges with? First it was Tandem. Nobody even knows who or what Tandem is anymore. Then DEC. Slowly Compaq has started to erase the Digital name from its websites, products and manuals. They suck. DEC is a historic corporation
You can't do this! You have to indicate that this IS NOT news, it's advertising! You could get sued for this, you know. Stop it. The first time I saw this article, I actually thought it was legit news. And i even shared it with my friends. Now I find out that Slashdot was payed to make the post. NOT ALLOWED! It's decepsion.
Millville, NJ Cape May, NJ Fulshear, TX and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia all lost power today (that's all I know of). And SETI@Home was hacked by aliens.
PLease tell me if you know of any other power failures. And be sure before you say.
Millville, NJ Cape May, NJ Fulshear, TX and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia all lost power today (that's all I know of). And SETI@Home was hacked by aliens.
PLease tell me if you know of any other power failures. And be sure before you say.
Millville, NJ Cape May, NJ Fulshear, TX and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia all lost power today (that's all I know of). And SETI@Home was hacked by aliens.
PLease tell me if you know of any other power failures. And be sure before you say.
The penguin logo sucks. I MUST GO! Linux 3.0 better have a totally different logo. No animals allowed in logos for cutting edge unix operating systems. I think we should use the old SGI logo .. the cube .. that they stopped using because they all became retarted and decided to rename Silicon Graphics to SGI when it already was SGI.
I live in a country with net cencorship. No, they CANNOT stop you from DCCing pics or downloading stuff from your friend's FTPd box. It's not possible. They will probably just block URLs through a proxy. Here, there are two proxies. One is on the ISP and the other is a national firewall (see www.isu.net.sa). I'm not sure what the local, ISP proxy does (other than caching). The national firewall is the one that does the cencorship. You have to use your ISP's proxy, and your ISP uses the national proxy. This is probably a bottleneck. But it seems to do the job, in most cases. It's amazing how they can find the most remote websites and shitlist them. But they can shitlist everything because the web is almost infinite, as it is growing constantly.
But I seriously doubt that they can stop you from doing whatever you want on IRC and such. And it will probably be possible to simply use a foriegn proxy (as long as it's listening on a really weird port) and thus bypass any cencorship at all.
But don't get me wrong. This is still going to be glaring in your face almost everyday. The bigest downfall to this is when they start blocking stuff that shouldn't even be blocked. Like somtimes you'll click on a download at Freshmeat and you'll find that the particular address is blocked.
Just hope they don't block any major hosts like GeoCities. That would mean you can't access thousands and thousands of websites.
"I am confident that it will be nigh impossible to impose such restriction"
... remember, this is a country that has never had Net access before. On Jan 1, 1998 there were ZERO ISPs in Saudi Arabia. And one year later, there are 250 ISPs which were hand selected by the government, and deployed within 6 to 9 months. Don't forget that huge portions of the telephone network had to be upgraded as well. This was a project far greater than the Australian one. And it was done.
I don't think so. Web Access is cencored all over the world. For example, in Saudi Arabia the authorities allowed Internet access in mid-1998, as long as it was cencored. And within 12 months, not only was the cencorship system put into place
It costs money, but I'm sure that Australia has enough of it. Technically, it is very possible. The only problem is finding all URLs that should be blocked. At first, only the big sites will be blocked. You know, sex.com and stuff. Then slowly smaller sites will start showing up on the shitlist. And one day you'll click to download something from Freshmeat, and the file will be on Geocities and you'll get a glaring message about the address being forbidden. And you'll wonder why the hell some little Linux app would be blocked. geocities.com won't be blocked. But for some reason that exact address will be blocked.
Vive l'AIX!! The single most weirdest, scariest flavour of Unix! Has anyone seen those 21" RS/6000 monitors that are perfect squares? Even weirder.
Ugh .. i've been trying to get help for months now. Nobody has the answer or the time to find look into this problem I've been having with the SETI@Home Client.
... it's still relativly fast.
.. which means it doesn't even have to do the graphics proccessing for very long.
Now, I have this machine:
Pentium II 400MHz
128MB RAM
6GB UltraATA/66 HD
4GB UltraATA/33 HD
OS: Windows 98
That's a fast box. Don't say it's slow just because it has Windows running
Now, I've been running SETI@Home in screen saver mode. And not much goes on with this box since it's not on any network and all together boring computer (what with windows running on it and all). This means that when the client runs, it has a lot of resources. Furthermore, the screen saver is set to blank after 10min
USER INFO
Name: freefall
Data units completed: 3
Total computer time: 257hr 01min 56.9sec
WHAT?!?! 260 hours to process THREE data units?? Something is VERY wrong with this picture. How can this be? The average for a computer of these specifications is 20hours / data unit. That means this box has spent 200 hours sitting around doing what?
IF anyone can help, please do. This is starting to annoy me. And the SETI@Home people are too busy to respond.
Have you ever seen a harddrive from 1970? I have one. It's has a silver, aluminum case, which is rather odly shaped. It's 6"x5"x"6. And it weighs quite a lot. It has three plastic screwes with heads that are about 3/4" in diamter. The data cable looks like those brown unsheilded, translucent cables that can be found in inkjet printers (the thing connected to the place where you put the ink). It has a capacity of 100MB. It was taken out of an IBM cluster controller (if you know what that is [was]).
Hard Drives have come a long was since 1970. Now CARS. CARS have gone nowhere since 1970.
Damn lies. It's a concpiracy I tell you! Bill Gates agreed to take Ziff-Davis's mom out for a week if ZDNet made NT look faster.
... you'll be getting a whole ton of spam directly from the Church of the Penguin.
How could Linux be sloweR? We have the Holy Pengiun on our side! And the Holy Book of man pages! Pope Pengiun II will be making a holy statment on the Holy Linux Channel at 4:30AM today regarding the sins of Bill Gates. I'm sure this incident will be included.
I have recieved word that the Penguin has declared Jihad (Holy War) against Bill Gates and his evil parterns in sin. Watch out, Henry Baltazar and Pankaj Chowdhry (the guys who wrote performed this unholy deed)
In related news, Bill Clinton has recently declared that all Microsoft Employees will recieve free admitance to mental institutes, nation-wide, under the new MediCare reforms.