"only because your government hasn't come after you like ours goes after minorities, or Abbie Hoffman, etc.... And that is because you are all one race, and no other reason."
Wrong. England is no longer one great white nation. There are a *lot* of africans, muslims, chinese, indians, pakistanis - every single nation that was ruled by the old Commonwealth was given British Citizenship, and therefore there was a lot of immigration (and there still is). Britain is just as multi-cultural as any other country.
So, Britain is not "all one race".
In regards to the subject at hand, I can only offer one reason why Brits are "okay with this". The British have this strange "put up with it" attitude. If a train is late, they might mumble and complain to each other on the platform, but actually complain to the train company? Oh! That would be too much fuss over such a small thing.
Oh, look, there are cameras everywhere, well, I don't have to worry about that - they're not for me, right??
I don't claim to understand it - I just live here. I find it amusing however how often the anti-british americans all come crawling out of the woodwork from postings like this. In a minute, you'll be telling all the Brits how the Americans "Won" the 2nd world war! hahaha.
There is quite a lot of loss in transmitting electrical power across power lines. I think the whole "solar panel on the roof of the garage" idea probably has a lot of merit for most people, and they can ship the hydrogen to gas stations for people going on a longer trip.
So, I don't think the centralised power plant powering all those vehicles is very practicle. By the time the electricity got to your car (to either power it or crack hyrdrogen, for example) it would be about 5% efficient.
Ouch.
There isn't an easy solution for this, but I'm sure by the time we start running out of fossil fuels the so-called "energy" companies will have some way to make money out of us.
We just got an SSD for our Sun mailserver. The OS won't go on the disk, though, we'll either use it for the pop lock files or for a mailqueue - either way we expect the load on the machine to fall dramatically.
I don't use TWM myself, but I can understand why people find it aesthetically pleasing. I tend to go back to WindowMaker time after time though, simply because I can get it do compile on almost anything. (Solaris, BSD, Digital UNIX, whatever).
This might change, however, if Enlightenment ever gets that filemanager thing that Rasterman's been promising for the past eon;)
I work for an ISP in the UK. We're pretty high profile here, so I can't exactly name the company. I can make some observations here though, as this topic really hits quite close to home for me.
Since December last year, we were on the wrong end of some SERIOUSLY large DoS attacks. Some of them were your run-of-the-mill smurf, but the most common has lately been a little SYN flooder which I won't mention here, lest the wannabies all go download it and try and take down Yahoo with their 56k modems. (Not that you could, you'd need more that that).
We use BTnet as our uplink provider, and initially we got very poor response from them. One attack which crippled us for 12 hours, however, managed to get their attention. Apart from the fact it wiped us from the face of the planet, stopping millions of users from dialling up or accessing their web-pages, they also managed to take out a huge chunk of BTnet's core infrastructure. BT are not happy, and neither are their customers. Strangely enough, BT has transformed into the most impressive anti-packetkiddie juggernaut I have ever seen.
Sure, it's hard to track them down, but we're learning a lot. I guess the packetkiddies think this is a one-way process. They attack and sites go down, and they think they can just keep doing it without anything happening.
Everything is in their favour, for the moment, but every single attack the packetkiddies do teaches us something. It won't be long until we have both the technology and the knowledge to actually track them down and arrest them.
And we've had some success in that arena, too.
I think the main thing here, is this:
You have everything to lose by attacking a company on the internet. The bigger the company you attack, the bigger the thing you are risking.
A large company has NOTHING to lose by tracking you down. Sure, it might cost it money, but they have plenty of that.
You might think it's a great laugh right now, but when you're arrested and taken to court, and suddenly a lot more is on the line than your reputation amongst the other kiddies on IRC, I think maybe then you will regret even getting involved.
It's not cool, it's not elite, and we will catch you.
Come on, I mean, if I buy a game, I've bought the *game* - I should be able to run it under Windows or Linux or MacOS - whatever operating system takes my fancy at the time.
Why would anyone lock themselves into only playing the game under Linux when they could buy the Windows version, download the shareware Linux version and hack it so it ran the retail CD.
Working for an ISP in the UK, if whois info was confidential, this would seriously impact our ability to handle abuse.
Suddenly, we'd have to ask some "third party" to handle abuse queries for us, as we wouldn't be able to contact the registrants of particular domains directly.
Whats the bet that this third party would a) charge for this service and b) only operate in US time??
This situation would be untenable, and if anyone seriously proposes that this be done, I don't think any ISP would actually back it.
They want as many win98 boxes they can get so they can install DDOS floodnet trojans such as Sub7.
1 windows box on a rogers@home link isn't much, but times that by fivehundred, and you have a network of machines that is able to generate an *astounding* amount of traffic.
This is not FUD. This is fact. I see it every day.
... and the amount of compromised machines using @home' service is ridiculous. Most of the DDOS servers out there join IRC to allow the 'master' to find the compromised machines easily, and dalnet is quite popular because services can control your channels for you.
I work for a pretty high-profile ISP in the UK and I have tried to contact @home on many occasions regarding DDOS attacks launched from their networks, and all you get is a long message on their answerphone saying "Don't bother trying to contact us, we're dealing with any thing that's wrong, so sod off."
I'm at wits end and are almost ready to lauch a formal complaint to any and all industry complaints boards that there might be.
The company is incredibly unprofessional, and rude. I doubt their technical ability.
If there is one thing that has been proved over the past 5 years in the 'encryption era' of the internet, it's that there is no such thing as unbreakable encryption.
Someone with enough time on their hands, and enough CPU could crack any code in existance. The goalposts keep moving, so no matter what technology they come up with to protect your 'electronic signature', *someone* will work out a way to steal it, spoof it, whatever.
Still, the old method wasn't foolproof either - forging signatures has been a skill most kids pick up when their about 10 and dont want to go to school...
Look at a piece of software by ThinkingMedia called ActiveTrack. Basically, this software is a really nice way of making banners (or other forms of media) more interactive. It's becoming quite popular by New Media companies lately because you can do things like make an animated banner that contains a form.
It's nice stuff.
But go and look through some of the other things it can do. You can see where this is headed.
"In contrast to server-side methods, ActiveTrack's Client-Side Tracking method places a tiny Java applet (about 1/2 kilobyte) into an ad or page, which acts like a "radio transmitter." As soon as the ad or page loads into a browser, this transmitter starts sending real-time data on where the ad is running and how surfers are interacting with it back to the ActiveTrack database, bypassing server-based reporting entirely."
"This alleviates virtually all the drawbacks of server-side tracking, and gives ActiveTrack powerful new capabilities."
I have nothing against software of this type, but only if it is used for it's intention - gathering marketing information on banner ad clickthroughs etc. As soon as it starts 'monitoring my habits' i'll be looking for it's.class file thankyou very much...
Well, it was the First Post thing that mattered. If I had something intelligent to offer, I would have spent more time writing my posting, and I wouldn't have gotten the first post. So erm well *cough*
This news is excellent! Psion's are great, and some kind of interoperability between the Palm and the Psion will mean a lot in fighting Windows CE's advances on the market.
I'm seriously looking at all the Radio Ethernet trancievers on the market. There are some out there that will do 2-10mbit/sec at up to 20 miles. If I could just see my office from my apartment, I reckon I could do that... an E1 all to myself at night would be nice:)
Sorry Corel, you lose bigtime with that little play.
If Corel insist on trying to license 'Corel' Linux under their terms, I suggest someone start up a GPL enforcement office, and we pay a Lawyer to take these things to court.
I'll give 50 quid to the organisation that impliments THAT.
Tell them that they would need to hire another 4 sys-admin's to read every single mail and view every single website that is used just to track the users - don't use a technology solution at all, and make it very, very, expensive to snoop on the users.
Our current theories of nuclear fusion and QM are completely up the creek. These theories have correctly predicted just about every phenomena observed in High Energy Physics over the last 50 years, from the atomic bomb to the transistor. Never mind, its all wrong
Of course, if we think back to when Newton formulated his laws, they were accepted by the scientific community, and correctly predicted just about every phenomena observed in the motion of moving objects.
Of course, there were things that didn't fit in. That's where General Relativity comes in. It fixes the flaws in Newtonian math. Perhaps there are flaws in the current theories of Quantum Mechanics and Nuclear Fusion?
I am a sysadmin for global company, and we have taken to using HP products quite a lot. The HP machines that I have set Linux to run on work -brilliantly- and totally flawlessly. HP hardware is some of the best of the best and this move by them is the best thing they could have done for their business.
HP hardware has always been solid, stable and professionally built.
I'm gonna be buying a LOT of their kit for my server room now:)
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"only because your government hasn't come after you like ours goes after minorities, or Abbie Hoffman, etc.... And that is because you are all one race, and no other reason."
Wrong. England is no longer one great white nation. There are a *lot* of africans, muslims, chinese, indians, pakistanis - every single nation that was ruled by the old Commonwealth was given British Citizenship, and therefore there was a lot of immigration (and there still is). Britain is just as multi-cultural as any other country.
So, Britain is not "all one race".
In regards to the subject at hand, I can only offer one reason why Brits are "okay with this". The British have this strange "put up with it" attitude. If a train is late, they might mumble and complain to each other on the platform, but actually complain to the train company? Oh! That would be too much fuss over such a small thing.
Oh, look, there are cameras everywhere, well, I don't have to worry about that - they're not for me, right??
I don't claim to understand it - I just live here. I find it amusing however how often the anti-british americans all come crawling out of the woodwork from postings like this. In a minute, you'll be telling all the Brits how the Americans "Won" the 2nd world war! hahaha.
There is quite a lot of loss in transmitting electrical power across power lines. I think the whole "solar panel on the roof of the garage" idea probably has a lot of merit for most people, and they can ship the hydrogen to gas stations for people going on a longer trip.
So, I don't think the centralised power plant powering all those vehicles is very practicle. By the time the electricity got to your car (to either power it or crack hyrdrogen, for example) it would be about 5% efficient.
Ouch.
There isn't an easy solution for this, but I'm sure by the time we start running out of fossil fuels the so-called "energy" companies will have some way to make money out of us.
Hydro-electricity is a good example. I believe Australias' Hydro-electric power scheme still powers a substantial part of NSW.
You use APOP.
Its been around for years, and most clients support it.
It encrypts the password with a hash then sends it to the server, from memory.
We just got an SSD for our Sun mailserver. The OS won't go on the disk, though, we'll either use it for the pop lock files or for a mailqueue - either way we expect the load on the machine to fall dramatically.
Exactly.
:)
;)
Try running Enlightenment on an old 486/100.
I don't use TWM myself, but I can understand why people find it aesthetically pleasing. I tend to go back to WindowMaker time after time though, simply because I can get it do compile on almost anything. (Solaris, BSD, Digital UNIX, whatever).
This might change, however, if Enlightenment ever gets that filemanager thing that Rasterman's been promising for the past eon
I work for an ISP in the UK. We're pretty high profile here, so I can't exactly name the company. I can make some observations here though, as this topic really hits quite close to home for me.
Since December last year, we were on the wrong end of some SERIOUSLY large DoS attacks. Some of them were your run-of-the-mill smurf, but the most common has lately been a little SYN flooder which I won't mention here, lest the wannabies all go download it and try and take down Yahoo with their 56k modems. (Not that you could, you'd need more that that).
We use BTnet as our uplink provider, and initially we got very poor response from them. One attack which crippled us for 12 hours, however, managed to get their attention. Apart from the fact it wiped us from the face of the planet, stopping millions of users from dialling up or accessing their web-pages, they also managed to take out a huge chunk of BTnet's core infrastructure. BT are not happy, and neither are their customers. Strangely enough, BT has transformed into the most impressive anti-packetkiddie juggernaut I have ever seen.
Sure, it's hard to track them down, but we're learning a lot. I guess the packetkiddies think this is a one-way process. They attack and sites go down, and they think they can just keep doing it without anything happening.
Everything is in their favour, for the moment, but every single attack the packetkiddies do teaches us something. It won't be long until we have both the technology and the knowledge to actually track them down and arrest them.
And we've had some success in that arena, too.
I think the main thing here, is this:
You have everything to lose by attacking a company on the internet. The bigger the company you attack, the bigger the thing you are risking.
A large company has NOTHING to lose by tracking you down. Sure, it might cost it money, but they have plenty of that.
You might think it's a great laugh right now, but when you're arrested and taken to court, and suddenly a lot more is on the line than your reputation amongst the other kiddies on IRC, I think maybe then you will regret even getting involved.
It's not cool, it's not elite, and we will catch you.
Come on, I mean, if I buy a game, I've bought the *game* - I should be able to run it under Windows or Linux or MacOS - whatever operating system takes my fancy at the time.
Why would anyone lock themselves into only playing the game under Linux when they could buy the Windows version, download the shareware Linux version and hack it so it ran the retail CD.
Puhlease.
Working for an ISP in the UK, if whois info was confidential, this would seriously impact our ability to handle abuse.
Suddenly, we'd have to ask some "third party" to handle abuse queries for us, as we wouldn't be able to contact the registrants of particular domains directly.
Whats the bet that this third party would a) charge for this service and b) only operate in US time??
This situation would be untenable, and if anyone seriously proposes that this be done, I don't think any ISP would actually back it.
chrome.
Wrong.
They want as many win98 boxes they can get so they can install DDOS floodnet trojans such as Sub7.
1 windows box on a rogers@home link isn't much, but times that by fivehundred, and you have a network of machines that is able to generate an *astounding* amount of traffic.
This is not FUD. This is fact. I see it every day.
chrome.
... and the amount of compromised machines using @home' service is ridiculous. Most of the DDOS servers out there join IRC to allow the 'master' to find the compromised machines easily, and dalnet is quite popular because services can control your channels for you.
I work for a pretty high-profile ISP in the UK and I have tried to contact @home on many occasions regarding DDOS attacks launched from their networks, and all you get is a long message on their answerphone saying "Don't bother trying to contact us, we're dealing with any thing that's wrong, so sod off."
I'm at wits end and are almost ready to lauch a formal complaint to any and all industry complaints boards that there might be.
The company is incredibly unprofessional, and rude. I doubt their technical ability.
chrome.
Yeah.
How about, when you get a DSL link, they restrict inbound connects heavily by default.
Then, if you play a game like Quake 3 and want to host a game, you just call them up or go to a support page and get them to open up that port.
In my experience most users just want to be able to browse the web, ftp, chat on IRC and not much else. That only requires the ident port to be open.
Feh, its asking too much isnt it?
Nah, too much effort. Just blow the atmosphere away with a few nukes. A lot easier.
...
In fact, I think the old SimEarth let you do that
I read the Red/Green/Blue Mars books by KSR many years ago. They were positively some of the best Science Fiction I have ever read (and I read a lot).
He covers new technologies, political aspects, the whole gamut of what it would mean for humanity to go to Mars.
Read them.
If there is one thing that has been proved over the past 5 years in the 'encryption era' of the internet, it's that there is no such thing as unbreakable encryption.
...
Someone with enough time on their hands, and enough CPU could crack any code in existance. The goalposts keep moving, so no matter what technology they come up with to protect your 'electronic signature', *someone* will work out a way to steal it, spoof it, whatever.
Still, the old method wasn't foolproof either - forging signatures has been a skill most kids pick up when their about 10 and dont want to go to school
Yup, and this is only the beginning.
Look at a piece of software by ThinkingMedia called ActiveTrack. Basically, this software is a really nice way of making banners (or other forms of media) more interactive. It's becoming quite popular by New Media companies lately because you can do things like make an animated banner that contains a form.
It's nice stuff.
But go and look through some of the other things it can do. You can see where this is headed.
"In contrast to server-side methods, ActiveTrack's Client-Side Tracking method places a tiny Java applet (about 1/2 kilobyte) into an ad or page, which acts like a "radio transmitter." As soon as the ad or page loads into a browser, this transmitter starts sending real-time data on where the ad is running and how surfers are interacting with it back to the ActiveTrack database, bypassing server-based reporting entirely."
"This alleviates virtually all the drawbacks of server-side tracking, and gives ActiveTrack powerful new capabilities."I have nothing against software of this type, but only if it is used for it's intention - gathering marketing information on banner ad clickthroughs etc. As soon as it starts 'monitoring my habits' i'll be looking for it's .class file thankyou very much ...
Well, it was the First Post thing that mattered. If I had something intelligent to offer, I would have spent more time writing my posting, and I wouldn't have gotten the first post. So erm well *cough*
*grin*
This news is excellent! Psion's are great, and some kind of interoperability between the Palm and the Psion will mean a lot in fighting Windows CE's advances on the market.
:) (first post hehehe)
Cant wait!
I'm seriously looking at all the Radio Ethernet trancievers on the market. There are some out there that will do 2-10mbit/sec at up to 20 miles. If I could just see my office from my apartment, I reckon I could do that ... an E1 all to myself at night would be nice :)
Sorry Corel, you lose bigtime with that little play.
If Corel insist on trying to license 'Corel' Linux under their terms, I suggest someone start up a GPL enforcement office, and we pay a Lawyer to take these things to court.
I'll give 50 quid to the organisation that impliments THAT.
*shakes head*
Come on Corel, don't lose our confidence.
Tell them that they would need to hire another 4 sys-admin's to read every single mail and view every single website that is used just to track the users - don't use a technology solution at all, and make it very, very, expensive to snoop on the users.
Our current theories of nuclear fusion and QM are completely up the creek. These theories have correctly predicted just about every phenomena observed in High Energy Physics over the last 50 years, from the atomic bomb to the transistor. Never mind, its all wrong
Of course, if we think back to when Newton formulated his laws, they were accepted by the scientific community, and correctly predicted just about every phenomena observed in the motion of moving objects.
Of course, there were things that didn't fit in. That's where General Relativity comes in. It fixes the flaws in Newtonian math. Perhaps there are flaws in the current theories of Quantum Mechanics and Nuclear Fusion?
No! Never! Of course not.
Maybe he meant lamer?
... what a lamer.
Bah
Use the ad1816 module. Works perfectly. Cant get midi to work though :)
/sbin/modprobe ad1816 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=3 ad1816_clockfreq=33000
Works for me. I have a HP-XAs PII450.
Mail me if you have any problems. Take out the nospam/spamsucks in my email address to get the right one.
chrome.
Well done HP!
:)
:) :) :)
You listen to your customers!
I am a sysadmin for global company, and we have taken to using HP products quite a lot. The HP machines that I have set Linux to run on work -brilliantly- and totally flawlessly. HP hardware is some of the best of the best and this move by them is the best thing they could have done for their business.
HP hardware has always been solid, stable and professionally built.
I'm gonna be buying a LOT of their kit for my server room now
/me goes nuts
YEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!