Re:But *programmers* should be licensed...
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Think - if musicians had to be licnenced [sic.] then we'd never have to listen to the spice girls!
I'm afraid we'd not get rid of them (and their ilk) that easily. Licenses can be bought, and `media companies' have a lot of cash to `grease the wheels'. Or they would get their license on the Cayman Islands or something like that.
By the way, you're not supposed to *listen* to the Spice Girls, they are purely a visual experience as far as I know.
For the Affirmative: Do you really believe that China will honour the GPL? Do you think that Chinese
programmers, payed by the Chinese government, will release all that they develop, along with source code, and will give credit to developers of code they used to build their programs? Can you see the Chinese Intelligence Agency (what ever they might be called) releasing the code to the programs they have written to crack encoded messages, because the GPL says they should, after they used other people's code to assist them in their efforts?
GPL 101
They are only obliged to distribute (or provide easy access to) the source when they distribute the binaries to a third party. Given that the intelligence service will probably NOT distribute their eavesdropping tools outside their own organization, they are under no obligation to release the source.
% rpm -qi `rpm -qf/bin/grep` Name : grep Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 2.3 Vendor: Red Hat Software Release : 2 Build Date: Sun Mar 21 18:06:18 1999Install date: Thu Oct 14 01:56:04 1999 Build Host: porky.devel.redhat.com Group : Applications/Text Source RPM: grep-2.3-2.src.rpm Size : 294290 License: GPL Packager : Red Hat Software Summary : The GNU versions of grep pattern matching utilities. Description : The GNU versions of commonly used grep utilities. Grep searches one or more input files for lines which contain a match to a specified pattern and then prints the matching lines. GNU's grep utilities include grep, egrep and fgrep.
Add -l to the first rpm, and you get all files in this package. Might want to pipe the results through $PAGER though, these lists can get lengthy...
If you don't know where grep (or any other command) lives, but want to see the package info nontheless, or if you are just to lazy to type pathnames, try rpm -qi `rpm -qf \`which grep\``
I hope/. does not eat the quotes and slashes in this message...
Oh, but even if I were to view that article, that would mean $zilch,- in the pockets of CNN, courtesy of Junkbuster and a finely tuned blocklist. I haven't viewed it yet, and may never, but generating ad impressions is the least of my worries.
Law is a good thing. To uphold the law, knowledge and experience is needed on both sides. This knowledge and experience lies with those who make and enforce the law (government) and those who call on the law on behalf of people who have less knowledge of the workings of it (lawyers). So far, a good thing.
The bad things only start when money comes in to play. If `justice' is to be one of the basic values in society, and if it is a basic human right, then how can it be that your chances of getting it are often directly coupled to the amount of money you are able to spend?
The amount of money which flows into the coffers of law firms is ever increasing, while the amount of justice seems to be on the decline. If there were a way in which this connection (money == `justice') could be broken, I'd like to know it.
On the patent issues, yes it is true that many of these frivolous patents can be overthrown in court. Of course, to get the wheels of justice in motion, you need to lubricate them with enough money. Money which may not be available to each and everyone. Often it is cheaper to `give in' and pay some license fee or enter into a cross-licensing agreement. But to do the latter, you need your own patents, and they need to be as worthless as the counterpart(s) or you stand to loose much more in the end. And since getting these patents in the first place is a rather costly proposition... There goes justice.
A request to the KDE architects...
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Hey Folks,
I understand that the performance hit and increase in complexity you get when using CORBA is a royal PITA, but IMNSHO there are better ways of dealing with this than ditching it in favour of Yet Another Proprietary Solution. Even if that solution is 100% free software.
While a `local' component model will probably be the fastest possible solution, you throw away a LOT of flexibility by going that way. Why not attack the performance hit at the core and implement a faster ORB? Maybe hitch a ride with ORBit, and put some energy in improving the C++ bindings? Or create an ORB with some sort of internal `short-circuit' for local communications, so that you can gain the benefits of the local model while remaining CORBA compliant for communications to other (non-KDE) applications? Use whatever you want (shared memory, AF_UNIX based pipes, whatnot) on the local side to get all the speed you want, but leave in the plumbing for full CORBA compliance.
This would increase the complexity of the `ORB', but that complexity would be hidden for the applications (and users).
No, not the Swedes. The Dutch is whom you're talking about, and that show (dubbed a `live-soap', and about as intellectually challenging) is still running. It started about three weeks ago, and is set to end around Christmas. The `winner' will get $125.000,-. The show has its own website (probably www.big-brother.nl, Windows Only as far as I have heard, they seem to use Windows st(r)eaming media).
The people in the house are under 24x7 camera surveillance, a compilation of which is broadcast each night. In reality, all most people are waiting for is to see them fight, have sex, or otherwise do those things which you normally would not want others to see.
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Hm that piece about that sticker which he supposedly taped under his monitor (...Now, under his computer screen he has taped a warning: Do you want to see this on MSNBC?...) sure does sound a lot like the message on WWII German communications equipment. They used microphones with the message "Feind Hört Mit" (the enemy is listening!) written on them. So now the ubiquitous message archives on the 'Net have become virtual playgrounds for potential enemies.
Hmm, I'd say `as long as you are nothing but yourself, on- or off-line, who is going to hurt you' but then I am an incorrigble optimist...
Name: D.C. Sessions Location: Tempe, AZ Occupation: Engineer
So what's the problem? If anyone wants to round up most of the world's hackers, all they need to do is grab the participants on Slashdot and the various open-source developers' lists.
Hey, if that sounds expensive I'll bet that at least one corporation would be willing to pony up a billion or so for the Cause.
Sure, cvsup is nice and all, but that central distribution philosophy can just as well be implemented using rpm or any other packaging system. And if you're using RedHat, it IS implemented. Instead of (cvsup ; make world) you use the appropriate rpm-magic which has been spelled out too many times already in this discussion, and ready you are. And if you'd rather compile your own stuff, just get the.src.rpm's, rpm --rebuild them and rpm --Uvh * the resulting binary packages.
So, while different from BSD, most Linux (or GNU/Linux) distributions are just as likely to `win' here. And by the way, I did not remember that we started a contest on ease of installation, so how can BSD win? Winning is for Marketroids and wimps...
Hey, did AMD not recently proclaim something 'bout Transmeta's interest in using their Dresden fab for their whiz-bang-gizmo-processor? Why not connect these together and create a Transhammer-Sladgemeta-whatever. I mean, that rumour mill want to be fed, right? And you have to forge the Itanium^Wiron when it is hot, not?
Just look up any `hacked page' archive which keeps track of the OS for the original website, and start counting. Keep in mind that Microsoft operating systems are actually less popular as a webserver platform than Linux, and Apache is far more popular than any MS offering (see The Internet Operating System Counter and netcraft). To make it easy on you, I did a count on some of the recent attrition archives and came up with these results (I only listed Linux, NT, Solaris, FreeBSD and OpenBSD, so the totals will NOT match the sum of the individual OS's):
(apologies for the funky formatting, it used to be a nice table but/. does not like tables, and does not support the tag...)
According to this logic, Linux is cleary more secure than Windows NT, especially when you `weigh' the numbers with the popularity (or lack thereof) for the individual operating systems. Of course, the really interesting number is the 0 for OpenBSD. Pity though I have no idea how many OpenBSD sites there are out there...
You might also have a system that automatically checks these critical updates and alerts the sysadmin, offering to automatically install the update.
You mean autorpm? It does all this if you want it to. I'm running it on some of our `Corporate' workstations in `scan and report' mode. I do NOT use the `autoupdate' feature, since I like to keep a tab on what gets installed/updated. It has given me warning within a (/etc/cron.daily) moment of updated packages ever since.
In these cases, that serial number is stamped physically on the case of the item. AFAIK, your average HD isn't able to report its SN. Or can it? Maybe I've missed some advancement in the hardware industry here....
Well, it depends on what you call `reporting', but modern drives CAN produce their serial numbers on request:
[r00t@yourbox]# hdparm -i/dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Model=Maxtor 90840D6, FwRev=WAS8283C, SerialNo=K60AV2XA ---serial number [stuff deleted...]
Nah, won't work if the system works the way it does in my country (the Netherlands). Businesses actually pay a special leavy for each CD-ROM player installed in computers on their premises, because a CD-ROM player is capable of playing audio CD's. Not because they are actually used to play audio CD's, but because they could be used as such. Another `shoot first, then forget about the questions' law...
Teledesic can only succeed if they get approval from NSA and FBI. And they will only get that approval once they make sure all communications can be intercepted by `the authorities' to facilitate criminal investigation and whatnot. I wonder, will Teledesic need groundstations in any other countries besides the United States of America? If so, it will be very hard for them to guarantee 100% interceptability, since communcations interception requests on foreign soil are handled by local authorities, which may handle such things in a different (more or less restrictive) manner.
They may use a central communications hub situated somewhere in the US to facilitate eavesdropping, but that would introduce a bottleneck in the network as well as introduce extra points of failure. Anyone got any info on how they plan to solve this problem?
So evolution can not be taught at schools because it is ony a theory, one which can not be proven.
"It's deception," Willis said prior to the vote. "You can't go into the laboratory or the field and make the first fish. When you tell students that science has determined (evolution to be true), you're deceiving them."
But exactly the same things can be said about religion. More than that, there is more `factual' evidence to `prove' the evolution theory than there is evidence of the existence of God (or Jaweh or Allah or Mithras or Iupiter). So why do we not hear these board members plan the banishment of religion (no matter what denomination) from classrooms?
> And why does queso identify it as Cisco/HP/Baystack switch?
Older versions of Queso mistook some Windows flavours for Cisco equipment. The tcp/ip stack in W-NT 2000 beta whatnot is probably another `victim' of this Queso misstep. Look for a newer version of Queso to correct these problems...
Cheers//Frank
Re:Can't wait for those exploits
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- Not to support script kiddiez or anything, but - I'll be laughing my ass off when everyone's - (including business and government) software is - remotely disabled after the shutdown codes are - posted all over the Internet! - - Fortunately I'll still be able to laugh at them online thanks to free(dom) software.
No you won't if your ISP uses commercial, UCITA-`protected' software. If the kidz get their dirty fingers on the data needed to kill say the Radius-software your ISP uses to authenticate you, there'll be no more on-line laughing...
Polarization by LCD's and glasses is not as accurate as you seem to imply. A small change in angle will only change the image slightly, not make it disappear. For that, you need a rather large change in angle (probably > 10 degrees).
So, anyone with polarizing glasses and a flexible neck, or anyone with an adjustable polarization filter (as used on camera's) will be able to read the display.
Also, this is not really `new'. It has been around for at least a year by now...
OK, since people are able to patent any `coming technology' or so it seems, I'm going to patent a portable, solid-state or harddisk-based sigital video player which replaces the current tape fed variety. It will be able to download video from the public network, it will operate in several distinct modes, etc blah blah fill in the missing features which are sure to be there.
Now all I have to do is wait a couple of years for this stuff to appear on the market, and then I'll cash in on my `idea'.
Oh, and while I'm at it I'll patent a portable direct brain stimulator as well, which does away with all the messy screens and speakers. It'll appear, one day, and my lawyers will be ready...
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I'm afraid we'd not get rid of them (and their ilk) that easily. Licenses can be bought, and `media companies' have a lot of cash to `grease the wheels'. Or they would get their license on the Cayman Islands or something like that.
By the way, you're not supposed to *listen* to the Spice Girls, they are purely a visual experience as far as I know.
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Hmmm, taken.... No relation to Intel, I presume...
GPL 101
They are only obliged to distribute (or provide easy access to) the source when they distribute the binaries to a third party. Given that the intelligence service will probably NOT distribute their eavesdropping tools outside their own organization, they are under no obligation to release the source.
% rpm -qi `rpm -qf /bin/grep`
/. does not eat the quotes and slashes in this message...
Name : grep Relocations: (not relocateable)
Version : 2.3 Vendor: Red Hat Software
Release : 2 Build Date: Sun Mar 21 18:06:18 1999Install date: Thu Oct 14 01:56:04 1999 Build Host: porky.devel.redhat.com
Group : Applications/Text Source RPM: grep-2.3-2.src.rpm
Size : 294290 License: GPL
Packager : Red Hat Software
Summary : The GNU versions of grep pattern matching utilities.
Description :
The GNU versions of commonly used grep utilities. Grep searches one or
more input files for lines which contain a match to a specified pattern
and then prints the matching lines. GNU's grep utilities include grep,
egrep and fgrep.
Add -l to the first rpm, and you get all files in this package. Might want to pipe the results through $PAGER though, these lists can get lengthy...
If you don't know where grep (or any other command) lives, but want to see the package info nontheless, or if you are just to lazy to type pathnames, try rpm -qi `rpm -qf \`which grep\``
I hope
Oh, but even if I were to view that article, that would mean $zilch,- in the pockets of CNN, courtesy of Junkbuster and a finely tuned blocklist. I haven't viewed it yet, and may never, but generating ad impressions is the least of my worries.
Law is a good thing. To uphold the law, knowledge and experience is needed on both sides. This knowledge and experience lies with those who make and enforce the law (government) and those who call on the law on behalf of people who have less knowledge of the workings of it (lawyers). So far, a good thing.
The bad things only start when money comes in to play. If `justice' is to be one of the basic values in society, and if it is a basic human right, then how can it be that your chances of getting it are often directly coupled to the amount of money you are able to spend?
The amount of money which flows into the coffers of law firms is ever increasing, while the amount of justice seems to be on the decline. If there were a way in which this connection (money == `justice') could be broken, I'd like to know it.
On the patent issues, yes it is true that many of these frivolous patents can be overthrown in court. Of course, to get the wheels of justice in motion, you need to lubricate them with enough money. Money which may not be available to each and everyone. Often it is cheaper to `give in' and pay some license fee or enter into a cross-licensing agreement. But to do the latter, you need your own patents, and they need to be as worthless as the counterpart(s) or you stand to loose much more in the end. And since getting these patents in the first place is a rather costly proposition... There goes justice.
Hey Folks,
I understand that the performance hit and increase in complexity you get when using CORBA is a royal PITA, but IMNSHO there are better ways of dealing with this than ditching it in favour of Yet Another Proprietary Solution. Even if that solution is 100% free software.
While a `local' component model will probably be the fastest possible solution, you throw away a LOT of flexibility by going that way. Why not attack the performance hit at the core and implement a faster ORB? Maybe hitch a ride with ORBit, and put some energy in improving the C++ bindings? Or create an ORB with some sort of internal `short-circuit' for local communications, so that you can gain the benefits of the local model while remaining CORBA compliant for communications to other (non-KDE) applications? Use whatever you want (shared memory, AF_UNIX based pipes, whatnot) on the local side to get all the speed you want, but leave in the plumbing for full CORBA compliance.
This would increase the complexity of the `ORB', but that complexity would be hidden for the applications (and users).
No, not the Swedes. The Dutch is whom you're talking about, and that show (dubbed a `live-soap', and about as intellectually challenging) is still running. It started about three weeks ago, and is set to end around Christmas. The `winner' will get $125.000,-. The show has its own website (probably www.big-brother.nl, Windows Only as far as I have heard, they seem to use Windows st(r)eaming media).
The people in the house are under 24x7 camera surveillance, a compilation of which is broadcast each night. In reality, all most people are waiting for is to see them fight, have sex, or otherwise do those things which you normally would not want others to see.
Cheers//Frank
> XXXXXXX XXXX XXXXXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXX
> XXXXXXXXX XXXXX X XX XXXXXX.
>
> At least, that's what I was told.
Hey, you ar the lucky winner of out monthly XXXXX contest. Go to XXXXX to collect your prize!
Hm that piece about that sticker which he supposedly taped under his monitor (...Now, under his computer screen he has taped a warning: Do you want to see this on MSNBC?...) sure does sound a lot like the message on WWII German communications equipment. They used microphones with the message "Feind Hört Mit" (the enemy is listening!) written on them. So now the ubiquitous message archives on the 'Net have become virtual playgrounds for potential enemies.
Hmm, I'd say `as long as you are nothing but yourself, on- or off-line, who is going to hurt you' but then I am an incorrigble optimist...
phear us?
Sure, cvsup is nice and all, but that central distribution philosophy can just as well be implemented using rpm or any other packaging system. And if you're using RedHat, it IS implemented. Instead of (cvsup ; make world) you use the appropriate rpm-magic which has been spelled out too many times already in this discussion, and ready you are. And if you'd rather compile your own stuff, just get the .src.rpm's, rpm --rebuild them and rpm --Uvh * the resulting binary packages.
So, while different from BSD, most Linux (or GNU/Linux) distributions are just as likely to `win' here. And by the way, I did not remember that we started a contest on ease of installation, so how can BSD win? Winning is for Marketroids and wimps...
Cheers//Frank
Hey, did AMD not recently proclaim something 'bout Transmeta's interest in using their Dresden fab for their whiz-bang-gizmo-processor? Why not connect these together and create a Transhammer-Sladgemeta-whatever. I mean, that rumour mill want to be fed, right? And you have to forge the Itanium^Wiron when it is hot, not?
CC/F
(apologies for the funky formatting, it used to be a nice table but
According to this logic, Linux is cleary more secure than Windows NT, especially when you `weigh' the numbers with the popularity (or lack thereof) for the individual operating systems.
Of course, the really interesting number is the 0 for OpenBSD. Pity though I have no idea how many OpenBSD sites there are out there...
You mean autorpm? It does all this if you want it to. I'm running it on some of our `Corporate' workstations in `scan and report' mode. I do NOT use the `autoupdate' feature, since I like to keep a tab on what gets installed/updated. It has given me warning within a (/etc/cron.daily) moment of updated packages ever since.
Well, it depends on what you call `reporting', but modern drives CAN produce their serial numbers on request:
[r00t@yourbox]# hdparm -i /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Model=Maxtor 90840D6, FwRev=WAS8283C, SerialNo=K60AV2XA ---serial number
[stuff deleted...]
A comment in the /default.asp page suggests so:
go to http://securent.hackpcweek.com/default.asp, view source and scroll all the way down. There's a comment there stating the following:
!--second column--!--This site runs on Windows 2000!--
Fact or fiction? Maybe they just copied this from the www.windows2000test.com site...
If you're the lazy type, here's what the link points at:
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information will be available soon.
If you are interested in advertising on Google, please check back with us or send email to
bizdev@google.com.
Thank you for your interest in Google.
Nah, won't work if the system works the way it does in my country (the Netherlands). Businesses actually pay a special leavy for each CD-ROM player installed in computers on their premises, because a CD-ROM player is capable of playing audio CD's. Not because they are actually used to play audio CD's, but because they could be used as such. Another `shoot first, then forget about the questions' law...
Teledesic can only succeed if they get approval from NSA and FBI. And they will only get that approval once they make sure all communications can be intercepted by `the authorities' to facilitate criminal investigation and whatnot. I wonder, will Teledesic need groundstations in any other countries besides the United States of America? If so, it will be very hard for them to guarantee 100% interceptability, since communcations interception requests on foreign soil are handled by local authorities, which may handle such things in a different (more or less restrictive) manner.
They may use a central communications hub situated somewhere in the US to facilitate eavesdropping, but that would introduce a bottleneck in the network as well as introduce extra points of failure. Anyone got any info on how they plan to solve this problem?
Cheers//Frank
"It's deception," Willis said prior to the vote. "You can't go into the laboratory or the field and make the first fish. When you tell students that science has determined (evolution to be true), you're deceiving them."
But exactly the same things can be said about religion. More than that, there is more `factual' evidence to `prove' the evolution theory than there is evidence of the existence of God (or Jaweh or Allah or Mithras or Iupiter). So why do we not hear these board members plan the banishment of religion (no matter what denomination) from classrooms?
Frank
> And why does queso identify it as Cisco/HP/Baystack switch?
Older versions of Queso mistook some Windows flavours for Cisco equipment. The tcp/ip stack in W-NT 2000 beta whatnot is probably another `victim' of this Queso misstep. Look for a newer version of Queso to correct these problems...
Cheers//Frank
- I'll be laughing my ass off when everyone's
- (including business and government) software is
- remotely disabled after the shutdown codes are
- posted all over the Internet!
-
- Fortunately I'll still be able to laugh at them online thanks to free(dom) software.
No you won't if your ISP uses commercial, UCITA-`protected' software. If the kidz get their dirty fingers on the data needed to kill say the Radius-software your ISP uses to authenticate you, there'll be no more on-line laughing...
Hmmmm....
Polarization by LCD's and glasses is not as accurate as you seem to imply. A small change in angle will only change the image slightly, not make it disappear. For that, you need a rather large change in angle (probably > 10 degrees).
So, anyone with polarizing glasses and a flexible neck, or anyone with an adjustable polarization filter (as used on camera's) will be able to read the display.
Also, this is not really `new'. It has been around for at least a year by now...
Cheers//Frank
OK, since people are able to patent any `coming technology' or so it seems, I'm going to patent a portable, solid-state or harddisk-based sigital video player which replaces the current tape fed variety. It will be able to download video from the public network, it will operate in several distinct modes, etc blah blah fill in the missing features which are sure to be there.
Now all I have to do is wait a couple of years for this stuff to appear on the market, and then I'll cash in on my `idea'.
Oh, and while I'm at it I'll patent a portable direct brain stimulator as well, which does away with all the messy screens and speakers. It'll appear, one day, and my lawyers will be ready...
Cheers//Frank