I hope none of the 1 million Governement Snoops I read about via Drudge don't turn you y4nk33 haxxors in.
(What happened to fighting the good fight with 'Hacker' vs 'Cracker', anyway?)
Actually, its probably reasonable, if someone deliberately set out to kill people by screwing with Air Traffic Control or somethings. But there's a cold wind blowing from the hill.
Installing Ximian is sticky in the same way that Installing an updated IE on a Windows system reached in and changed operating system components.
I had Ximian on Redhat 7.3, then when I upgraded to the Limbo beta the installation notes warned of dire conflicts between unnamed ximian RPMs and recommended removing Ximian from the machine.
There is no option I could find to roll back Ximian, the same way that there was no option to roll back an IE upgrade on Windows.
In the end I used GnoRPM to nuke eavery rpm with.ximian in the name and was able to successfully update to Limbo. But it ate a couple of days threshing around.
Worth bearing in mind that Ximian is a major brain transplant for your OS and that may have impacts later. But on the positive side, it was very slick and the red carpet thing was nice.
But I am happier with the stuff in Limbo, it rocks!
There is going to come a moment when the people who get rich off restricting availability of readily copyable content go after Usenet.
If it becomes impossible to post arbitrary content to Usenet, I believe a line will be crossed.
It is already the case that the law, especially in the US, is tilted too far away from the consumer and into the hands of copyright holders who figure that by so perverting the system, they can take shortcuts to profit like DVD region coding that spit in the face of their customers.
As the parasitical feeding frenzy between media owners and our representatives - who fear the disapproval of those media - goes on, at some point there will be a flashover where we realize just how screwed we are.
Remember these prophetic utterances: Usenet is the tiber, the last stand of liberty.
My site is the milksop one, there are no adverts on it at all, unless you count the link to my CV.
SiliconIce runs XBOXHACKER I believe. Why should he pay for all the bandwidth for use to use for the communal good out of his own pocket? Because some anonymous person - who presumably has contributed nothing to this effort except this complaint - is offended by the ads?
Now say ten hail marys and go contribute to the EFF.
That is the idea behind the second part of this prize thing. However, folks with X-Box development kit are no doubt legally obliged NOT to release code that MS do not approve, and its obviously problematic (cf mame) if a warez dev kit is used to create such an executable.
SiliconIce over on XBOXHACKER has just started a sourceforge project (OpenXDK) to make a clean dev system for XBEs, and admirable step but not as truly radical as eradicating the MS software in the box.
The BIOS hacking forums there is a focus of efforts to reverse-engineer the X-Box for the purpose of allowing Linux to run on it.
In the last few weeks we have successfully recovered the RC4 key used to encrypt the second bootloader in the BIOS, this has led to discoveries about the PIC chip that have allowed a minimal clean BIOS to run for the first time.
I also run a site at http://warmcat.com/milksop which has a variety of GPL hardware designs that are of use in getting the X-Box to run Linux (although they have many other applications).
On the prize, I worry it will change the ethos of people working towards this goal, which until now has shown the best side of people with a common, righteous purpose working together.
I have given the same thing some thought myself. I think the thing is that in their lives, these people feel powerless, that their repeated experience is one of feeling that they 'lost' or 'failed' somehow.
So when the opportunity comes where they can artificially get to feel that they 'won' or 'succeeded' against others then they enter a zombie state where they spectate on themselves repeatedly masturbating this otherwise unused node in their brain.
I wonder how many of these people had older siblings, and because of this always felt that they were behind?
Here is another news.com story about x-box hacking and the new generation of x-box modchips. The author actually interviewed me by email and lifted some choice quotes at the end of the article.
... is that my Father had better choice in his friends, so that I would not be the target of this attempt at being turned into a Dark Angel ripoff by someone old enough to know better than to use younger folks for their vicarious thrills.
To back up their demands, the media groups claim that counterfeiting and piracy of copyrighted works "feeds a growing black economy in which criminal networks use piracy to fund other activities such as drug dealing, arms trading, money laundering and terrorism."
Yes, that is why all those movies are out on Usenet and IRC, to fund terrorism.
When I read last Friday's story about watermarking on all ADCs, I went and joined the EFF. People have a lot of inertia with these stories, they disapprove but find it hard to get worked up. At some point it will become so anti-libertarian, all in the name of protecting the exploitation of artists by a giant parasitic maggotlike managerial structure, that you will feel the cold restrictive hand on your shoulder day by day.
Consider joining the EFF or a similar organization today, to help them keep our freedoms on our behalf.
I am on the side of the original poster, Do Androids... is an excellent book filled with great ideas.
Dick turned down big bucks when the studio wanted to suppress the original work and put of a piece-of-shit 'book of the movie' based on the script instead. That took guts and integrity on his part.
However, I'm not surprised that if you came to the book through the glitzy movie which homogenized the ideas in the original, you were disappointed. IMHO it doesn't reflect well on you that you would have been happy with a rehash of the script in the book (what would be the point? You already saw the film) and not the challenging and valuable document you got instead.:-(
Hm. 99% of your 'support' is going in the pockets of the media companies which market the product you are interested in, not the artists.
Ultimately people resort to unauthorized copying because of arbitrary restrictions made in the interest of the copyright owner (for movies, in availability in the different media over time) or pricing (eg, music, tickets & food with cinemas) which they perceive as unfair. Many people are willing to trade off media quality against beating these restrictions. It will never go away.
I find it hard to get worked up about ''there not being enough money for an episode 3'' when the SW franchise has brought in billions of dollars and my kids are being continually marketed to by companies that are not satisfied with making their money through the films alone, but want to sell fecal-burgers and toys on the back of kid-friendly characters.
Anyhow, best of luck pouring your money into these huge corporate beasts so your conscience doesn't make you feel bad.
Dell laptops are very good and reasonably priced - this is being written on one.
But have you noticed just how much advertisting dell do in print and online media? Often they have the inside front cover and two or three pages inside a magazine. This makes it almost impossible for the publication to say anything bad about their products.
As I say, they are generally nice machines, but perhaps this has something to do with the lack of comparative reviews.
The sad truth is that the PHB has an even Pointier-headed boss and so on up until we reach the Splendid Majesty of Satan who Owns The Souls Of The Workers.
As a manager of geeks you will come under ugly, ugly pressure from the next layer of idiots forcing you to make choices against your inclination, your will, it will be like an old 1950s horror film where your right hand is moving without your volition while the Demonic Forces Of Management snicker.
I forecast it will be under three months before you find yourself saying to the Unwashed Geeks in your charge that your Agree with their Point Of View and if it was In Your Power you would Do this Thing, But....
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hahaha - too bad I don't have mod points today :-)
I hope none of the 1 million Governement Snoops I read about via Drudge don't turn you y4nk33 haxxors in. (What happened to fighting the good fight with 'Hacker' vs 'Cracker', anyway?) Actually, its probably reasonable, if someone deliberately set out to kill people by screwing with Air Traffic Control or somethings. But there's a cold wind blowing from the hill.
Installing Ximian is sticky in the same way that Installing an updated IE on a Windows system reached in and changed operating system components.
.ximian in the name and was able to successfully update to Limbo. But it ate a couple of days threshing around.
I had Ximian on Redhat 7.3, then when I upgraded to the Limbo beta the installation notes warned of dire conflicts between unnamed ximian RPMs and recommended removing Ximian from the machine.
There is no option I could find to roll back Ximian, the same way that there was no option to roll back an IE upgrade on Windows.
In the end I used GnoRPM to nuke eavery rpm with
Worth bearing in mind that Ximian is a major brain transplant for your OS and that may have impacts later. But on the positive side, it was very slick and the red carpet thing was nice.
But I am happier with the stuff in Limbo, it rocks!
Yeah, then the recipient can destroy it.
There is going to come a moment when the people who get rich off restricting availability of readily copyable content go after Usenet.
If it becomes impossible to post arbitrary content to Usenet, I believe a line will be crossed.
It is already the case that the law, especially in the US, is tilted too far away from the consumer and into the hands of copyright holders who figure that by so perverting the system, they can take shortcuts to profit like DVD region coding that spit in the face of their customers.
As the parasitical feeding frenzy between media owners and our representatives - who fear the disapproval of those media - goes on, at some point there will be a flashover where we realize just how screwed we are.
Remember these prophetic utterances: Usenet is the tiber, the last stand of liberty.
Actually the goatsex guy would probably give it a go.
Hello AC -
My site is the milksop one, there are no adverts on it at all, unless you count the link to my CV.
SiliconIce runs XBOXHACKER I believe. Why should he pay for all the bandwidth for use to use for the communal good out of his own pocket? Because some anonymous person - who presumably has contributed nothing to this effort except this complaint - is offended by the ads?
Now say ten hail marys and go contribute to the EFF.
That is the idea behind the second part of this prize thing. However, folks with X-Box development kit are no doubt legally obliged NOT to release code that MS do not approve, and its obviously problematic (cf mame) if a warez dev kit is used to create such an executable.
SiliconIce over on XBOXHACKER has just started a sourceforge project (OpenXDK) to make a clean dev system for XBEs, and admirable step but not as truly radical as eradicating the MS software in the box.
http://www.xboxhacker.net/
The BIOS hacking forums there is a focus of efforts to reverse-engineer the X-Box for the purpose of allowing Linux to run on it.
In the last few weeks we have successfully recovered the RC4 key used to encrypt the second bootloader in the BIOS, this has led to discoveries about the PIC chip that have allowed a minimal clean BIOS to run for the first time.
I also run a site at http://warmcat.com/milksop which has a variety of GPL hardware designs that are of use in getting the X-Box to run Linux (although they have many other applications).
On the prize, I worry it will change the ethos of people working towards this goal, which until now has shown the best side of people with a common, righteous purpose working together.
I have given the same thing some thought myself. I think the thing is that in their lives, these people feel powerless, that their repeated experience is one of feeling that they 'lost' or 'failed' somehow.
So when the opportunity comes where they can artificially get to feel that they 'won' or 'succeeded' against others then they enter a zombie state where they spectate on themselves repeatedly masturbating this otherwise unused node in their brain.
I wonder how many of these people had older siblings, and because of this always felt that they were behind?
Here is another news.com story about x-box hacking and the new generation of x-box modchips. The author actually interviewed me by email and lifted some choice quotes at the end of the article.
ask it allready if it could spell?
... is that my Father had better choice in his friends, so that I would not be the target of this attempt at being turned into a Dark Angel ripoff by someone old enough to know better than to use younger folks for their vicarious thrills.
Yes, that is why all those movies are out on Usenet and IRC, to fund terrorism.
When I read last Friday's story about watermarking on all ADCs, I went and joined the EFF. People have a lot of inertia with these stories, they disapprove but find it hard to get worked up. At some point it will become so anti-libertarian, all in the name of protecting the exploitation of artists by a giant parasitic maggotlike managerial structure, that you will feel the cold restrictive hand on your shoulder day by day.
Consider joining the EFF or a similar organization today, to help them keep our freedoms on our behalf.
I am on the side of the original poster, Do Androids... is an excellent book filled with great ideas.
:-(
Dick turned down big bucks when the studio wanted to suppress the original work and put of a piece-of-shit 'book of the movie' based on the script instead. That took guts and integrity on his part.
However, I'm not surprised that if you came to the book through the glitzy movie which homogenized the ideas in the original, you were disappointed. IMHO it doesn't reflect well on you that you would have been happy with a rehash of the script in the book (what would be the point? You already saw the film) and not the challenging and valuable document you got instead.
No problem, send in that guy from the Welsh tourism advert to redeposit some of the hills using his shoe.
You will have course undone your moderation by posting on the same topic.
My ISP's Usenet Server (NTL in the UK) is set up to add NNTP-Posting-Host: with your IP to every post. So much for Usenet being an anonymous media.
Hm. 99% of your 'support' is going in the pockets of the media companies which market the product you are interested in, not the artists.
Ultimately people resort to unauthorized copying because of arbitrary restrictions made in the interest of the copyright owner (for movies, in availability in the different media over time) or pricing (eg, music, tickets & food with cinemas) which they perceive as unfair. Many people are willing to trade off media quality against beating these restrictions. It will never go away.
I find it hard to get worked up about ''there not being enough money for an episode 3'' when the SW franchise has brought in billions of dollars and my kids are being continually marketed to by companies that are not satisfied with making their money through the films alone, but want to sell fecal-burgers and toys on the back of kid-friendly characters.
Anyhow, best of luck pouring your money into these huge corporate beasts so your conscience doesn't make you feel bad.
I read on alt.binaries.vcd that FTF already has a telesync, so you may indeed not have to wait for the DVD.
Accuracy and precision are different animals :-)
Dell laptops are very good and reasonably priced - this is being written on one.
But have you noticed just how much advertisting dell do in print and online media? Often they have the inside front cover and two or three pages inside a magazine. This makes it almost impossible for the publication to say anything bad about their products.
As I say, they are generally nice machines, but perhaps this has something to do with the lack of comparative reviews.
Yes, but Big Pussy Sleeps With The Fishes... er...
The sad truth is that the PHB has an even Pointier-headed boss and so on up until we reach the Splendid Majesty of Satan who Owns The Souls Of The Workers.
As a manager of geeks you will come under ugly, ugly pressure from the next layer of idiots forcing you to make choices against your inclination, your will, it will be like an old 1950s horror film where your right hand is moving without your volition while the Demonic Forces Of Management snicker.
I forecast it will be under three months before you find yourself saying to the Unwashed Geeks in your charge that your Agree with their Point Of View and if it was In Your Power you would Do this Thing, But....