"Today a joint operation of the automated robotic forces of the Canadian Mounted Police arrested the whole of Quebec.
A detailled analysis of the voice/langage-patterns found them using a mix af french and english (also known as frenglich) that hit the 94% threshold in the Terror-Analysis-Network AI TANIA) from the CIA-NSA, automatically launching the preventive attack of the robotic tanks on the Northen Province.
Our King George W the First declared today "these few early bugs in the software got easily fixed - and we already see the wonderfull results of"....
[...]
As you can remember most of Los Angeles got arrested last month when the new system in place catalogued hispano-americans of the city under the Immediate Terror Repression Act, with more than 5000 deaths of the MegaWatt Tasers(tm) shot from the Los Angeles Automated Drone SurVeillance Force.
Most death were caused by explosion of the surgically implanted ID/Phone/PDA/Ipod sytems we all enjoy nowadays. The Nokia-Apple Corporation blames second rates power packs..."
Also one should note that in most cases, when someones steals a laptop, it is for the laptop itself, and they couldn't care less for the data on it...as long as they can download the corresponding drivers later on...
One the laptop get sold, it'll suffer a quick reinstall. and the security dongle will become a nice high tech keychain 8)
+ This system assumes I have a physical access to the machine...
If I have physical access to the machine (usually you find them plugged into the network, and no screensaver password...) all I have to do is either install a quick soft from the net or from the cd/usb key I have with me...
Keylogger/bot/zombie/spyware/remote desktop... I can do whatever I want...and your security is breached...
Yes, this is one weakness in the peer review process... when you come with a discovery or method that goes in the face of most of what is believed you will face some HUGE inertia, and your work might never get public in this sort of review.
Which forces you to be precise, concise, bring proofs and a methodology that can be reproduced by someone else...
Otherwise, you get Microsoft'like reviews saying "We are the Best, don't even look at alternatives", ie I say whatever the marketing dept thinks will sell the best.
ALL review systems have flaws. But systems WITHOUT review possibly have them all.
Being a non-native english speaker make my slashdot browsing quite interesting, as I find myself in contact with US/UK/Aussie slang...so I took the dictionary in.
also, yes firefox still effs up slashdot rendering...usually a simple reload solves it...
Being on Linux make me a firefox user, as it is a very good browser andd I absolutly refuse to even try to wine-install IE on my linux box => user agent switcher makes for most of IE only webpages (hellomoto.com ,...etc...)
"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 "
and you are right, some extensions don't work anymore (I had "browsertime" not working), but all the others I use seem fine (download manager tweak, translation panel, user agent switcher, dictionnary search)
On the other hand, so many things that were working only so and so are now working again..(search the web is one, opening an url you highlighted in a new tab is another...)
So if you are not THAT dependant on ALL your extensions give it a try... also that way you can mail your extension wrtiter and get them/help them to fix that compatibility problem...
ok, that means that to build a bomb you need laboratory equipment with gas control (think big glass box) and a tight seal allowing you access to the INSIDE of the bomb container.
you then have to find a way to seal the container air-tight (low-tech:generous grease application for example) then flush air, introduce clean container cap, close container...
ok.. we just upped the ante and non-professionnal bomb makers won't be able to make the technological jump...=>more security
but it's nothing that someone with some organisation couldn't do...but we have to assume anyone with that sort of hardware is checked and easier to find out.
Alas, after going through this procedure (or any other they think of) they (terrorists-bomber-mad(wo)men now only have to get said night visions googles and green laser and test it themselves...
just another check in in the seemingly already complicated art of making bombs (I wouldn't know, as IANAB -I Am Not A Bomber - 8p )
I think they should have kept it a secret longer, even if they precised it was already one year old...
I've been using SME first as a Firewall / Web / File / Mail / FTP Server, then later on a DMZ behind a dedicated Firewall (Astaro), as I wasn't comfortable runing my servers in direct contact with the net (LDAP, for instance, has nothing to do on a front-line firewall...)
the SME server is basically a Red-hat 7.2 with a very simple Web_Interface...
My system has been running fine for the last 3+ years. They recently added an auto-update feature (yum) as well as some nice scripts to auto-install a full Linux virus checker (bitdefender and AVG I think) for the mail/file server+SpamAssasin...
If no script, you usually find a very proper how-to where all you really have to know is how to copy and paste to the console... CMS, LDAP, Customer Web_site delegated management, Ecommerce, network jukebox have been adapted to SME.
It being based on red-hat also allow you to install anything Linux that has ever been compiled for rh7.2, and you can install gcc and all necessary packages to compile as you wish...only you won't have web controls, except if you write the interface into the RPM specifically for SME...
So it's a perfect server for anyone with a shallow knowledge of Linux configuration or the wish to implement a complete server within one hour... You can do most of the configuration with the web interface and it's all really trivial and fast when you already have some networking knowledge.
Right now I'm hosting a French Rock group fan page (not so big, maybe 100 000 hits a month), along with a starting genealogy site - gift to my father, have to keep him occupied 8) - and a webmail system that also is my pop/smtp server...
runs on PII450 + 320 Mo Ram and a 10 Gig hdd, average CPU usage is 4% and I have never had a single problem with it...
The only reproach I had was that it can barely be seen as a bleeding edge (kernel 2.2, etc), but then it just works...
Recently there has been a project going on porting SME to Centos (RH Enterprise full GPL edition) you can find the details here.
SME had a specific web Interface system, and the red hat RPMs where modified to add web-interface and specifics... Maybe Lycoris can work out some adaptation to the Webmin portofolio and add/modify to everything that already exists there, facilitating roll-over (for example SME samba configuration is much simpler that Webmin's) in a pure web-controlled Debian distro...
If Lycoris keeps the broad simplicity concept and integrates it with their debian update/install system, you have the perfect all in one linux server with recent Apache/PHP/ Whatever you need, you maybe have what we all need, a simple, user friendly andf possibly ultra-powerfull all purpose "Linux Server for The Masses"(TM)
SME is the distribution that made me start Linux as I was looking for a dead cheap firewall and decided to use that old P200 I had in a closet... I used SCO and Smoothwall before using SME for the added web/mail/ftp server possibilities.
"id Software's Robert Duffy updated his.plan file tonight to announce an open beta test for the Win32 DOOM 3 patch at Shacknews, an update in which he also commented on the status of the Linux dedicated server:
We have released the first update for DOOM 3 as a beta and on a limited scale ( it is only available on the File Shack at www.shacknews.com ). We don't anticipate any issues with it but felt it best to get it into the hands of a few thousand people rather than the entire customer base in case we missed something. We will release the update through our update server for wide release once we have verified there are no problems with it.
We will be releasing another update in the near future that will include Punk Busters cheat protection functionality for DOOM III.
The SDK is also ready to go and as soon as the update is out in non beta form the SDK will be made available for download.
The Linux Dedicated server is also ready to go and will also be available as soon as the update is non beta.
Presumably, this indicates the Linux client isn't all that far away either."
I found here all the I could on doom 3 and Id software in Fileshack...
So, almighty Slashcrowd, who can help mefind the precious , working Doom 3 for Linux ?
Slashdot Mirror
"Today a joint operation of the automated robotic forces of the Canadian Mounted Police arrested the whole of Quebec.
A detailled analysis of the voice/langage-patterns found them using a mix af french and english (also known as frenglich) that hit the 94% threshold in the Terror-Analysis-Network AI TANIA) from the CIA-NSA, automatically launching the preventive attack of the robotic tanks on the Northen Province.
Our King George W the First declared today "these few early bugs in the software got easily fixed - and we already see the wonderfull results of"....
[...]
As you can remember most of Los Angeles got arrested last month when the new system in place catalogued hispano-americans of the city under the Immediate Terror Repression Act, with more than 5000 deaths of the MegaWatt Tasers(tm) shot from the Los Angeles Automated Drone SurVeillance Force.
Most death were caused by explosion of the surgically implanted ID/Phone/PDA/Ipod sytems we all enjoy nowadays. The Nokia-Apple Corporation blames second rates power packs..."
Oops, sorry...was daydreaming again
This goes under :
Reading the instructions...only when everything else has failed... 8p
Azureus, the open source, cross platform, java bittorrent client, supports connection through a socks or http proxy...
of course passing all your data through an anonymizer proxy can slow down some of your downloads, but this might be the solution...
No direct contact with the tracker/seeder, all identifiable traffic stopping at some proxy, the proxy resending it to you on an know port...
easier than recreating a fully encrypted, non tracable p2p network from scratch, and only uses existing tech...
Now where can I find a nice, free, fast, anonymous proxy in the EU that can support a 2Mb broadband connection speed ?
Really ?
And you are happy of your AOL Broadband account ?
the oldest I know involving a 9v battery and 5 minutes identifying the proper pins on the chip...
...
No soldering involved either
True, very true...
Also one should note that in most cases, when someones steals a laptop, it is for the laptop itself, and they couldn't care less for the data on it...as long as they can download the corresponding drivers later on...
One the laptop get sold, it'll suffer a quick reinstall. and the security dongle will become a nice high tech keychain 8)
+ This system assumes I have a physical access to the machine...
If I have physical access to the machine (usually you find them plugged into the network, and no screensaver password...) all I have to do is either install a quick soft from the net or from the cd/usb key I have with me...
Keylogger/bot/zombie/spyware/remote desktop... I can do whatever I want...and your security is breached...
If you have a wee bit more money, there is the upgraded Xbox...
Celeron 1.4 ghz instead of the 700 Mhz, 128 Mo Ram instead of 64...
Available as a reboxed set @ 399 US $.
For the more adventurous, you can have just the modded xbox mobo for 260 US $...
So you still have a microsoft box (which you don't want), but now with extra juice to run all apps...
No ultra-compressed video stream should pose problem anymore, and you have better perf on all Original Xbox Games (tm)...
+ Having access to just the mobo should give you the opportunity to mod your own media center, if you're into that...
As parent said, no video capture.
But you have everything else now possible 8)
The picture made me think of 3 evil magical ones in Charmed preparing a really noxious potion ...
Look closely, one of them is even clearly hunched 8)
They seem to be much more advanced than you think...
:
...
from the Gizmodo article
"including [...] the pommels of swords and stuff."
See...
They can make an electronic system that stops me from using my +5 against orcs broadsword, turning it into a -2 agains cops, unsharpened steel stick !
If they can unsharpen my broadsword in mid strike, they must have solved the puny details already 8)
And they said I should stop playing AD&D
ah, no trivial ?
...
sorry
"...if all the reviewers think the same"
Yes, this is one weakness in the peer review process... when you come with a discovery or method that goes in the face of most of what is believed you will face some HUGE inertia, and your work might never get public in this sort of review.
Which forces you to be precise, concise, bring proofs and a methodology that can be reproduced by someone else...
Otherwise, you get Microsoft'like reviews saying "We are the Best, don't even look at alternatives", ie I say whatever the marketing dept thinks will sell the best.
ALL review systems have flaws. But systems WITHOUT review possibly have them all.
I didn't even know there was an easy to install dictionary with firefox/mozilla...
I'll test it right away 8)
What I would really need is a spellchecker...
...etc...)
Being a non-native english speaker make my slashdot browsing quite interesting, as I find myself in contact with US/UK/Aussie slang...so I took the dictionary in.
also, yes firefox still effs up slashdot rendering...usually a simple reload solves it...
Being on Linux make me a firefox user, as it is a very good browser andd I absolutly refuse to even try to wine-install IE on my linux box => user agent switcher makes for most of IE only webpages (hellomoto.com ,
I'll try it on slashdot next time 8)
well bizarrely I am really running it from unstable... 0.10.1+1.0PR-4(unstable)
/. lameness filter will play havoc on it...
and, to poke some fun on debian, experimental only provides 0.10.1+1.0PR-3(experimental)...
I can put my source list if you want, even if I think
"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 "
..(search the web is one, opening an url you highlighted in a new tab is another...)
and you are right, some extensions don't work anymore (I had "browsertime" not working), but all the others I use seem fine (download manager tweak, translation panel, user agent switcher, dictionnary search)
On the other hand, so many things that were working only so and so are now working again
So if you are not THAT dependant on ALL your extensions give it a try... also that way you can mail your extension wrtiter and get them/help them to fix that compatibility problem...
ok, that means that to build a bomb you need laboratory equipment with gas control (think big glass box) and a tight seal allowing you access to the INSIDE of the bomb container.
:generous grease application for example) then flush air, introduce clean container cap, close container...
you then have to find a way to seal the container air-tight (low-tech
ok.. we just upped the ante and non-professionnal bomb makers won't be able to make the technological jump...=>more security
but it's nothing that someone with some organisation couldn't do...but we have to assume anyone with that sort of hardware is checked and easier to find out.
Alas, after going through this procedure (or any other they think of) they (terrorists-bomber-mad(wo)men now only have to get said night visions googles and green laser and test it themselves...
just another check in in the seemingly already complicated art of making bombs (I wouldn't know, as IANAB -I Am Not A Bomber - 8p )
I think they should have kept it a secret longer, even if they precised it was already one year old...
am for MORE ads in Tony Hawks Underground...
As long as I can GRIND ON THEM...
"This addition is basically what XBMC already does"BETTER "and has done for"EVER...
See, you have to add some bias on your comment... we're on Slashdot, mate, have no shame 8p
what did he say ? Ahh.. Mee, too...
and give me the Joystick - I'll give it a try...
Well, there has been this article about the future of the darwin platform...
I just didn't know their next PDA would be Xbox sized 8)
I've been using SME first as a Firewall / Web / File / Mail / FTP Server, then later on a DMZ behind a dedicated Firewall (Astaro), as I wasn't comfortable runing my servers in direct contact with the net (LDAP, for instance, has nothing to do on a front-line firewall...)
the SME server is basically a Red-hat 7.2 with a very simple Web_Interface...
My system has been running fine for the last 3+ years.
They recently added an auto-update feature (yum) as well as some nice scripts to auto-install a full Linux virus checker (bitdefender and AVG I think) for the mail/file server+SpamAssasin...
If no script, you usually find a very proper how-to where all you really have to know is how to copy and paste to the console... CMS, LDAP, Customer Web_site delegated management, Ecommerce, network jukebox have been adapted to SME.
It being based on red-hat also allow you to install anything Linux that has ever been compiled for rh7.2, and you can install gcc and all necessary packages to compile as you wish...only you won't have web controls, except if you write the interface into the RPM specifically for SME...
So it's a perfect server for anyone with a shallow knowledge of Linux configuration or the wish to implement a complete server within one hour...
You can do most of the configuration with the web interface and it's all really trivial and fast when you already have some networking knowledge.
Right now I'm hosting a French Rock group fan page (not so big, maybe 100 000 hits a month), along with a starting genealogy site - gift to my father, have to keep him occupied 8) - and a webmail system that also is my pop/smtp server...
runs on PII450 + 320 Mo Ram and a 10 Gig hdd, average CPU usage is 4% and I have never had a single problem with it...
The only reproach I had was that it can barely be seen as a bleeding edge (kernel 2.2, etc), but then it just works...
Recently there has been a project going on porting SME to Centos (RH Enterprise full GPL edition)
you can find the details here.
SME had a specific web Interface system, and the red hat RPMs where modified to add web-interface and specifics...
Maybe Lycoris can work out some adaptation to the Webmin portofolio and add/modify to everything that already exists there, facilitating roll-over (for example SME samba configuration is much simpler that Webmin's) in a pure web-controlled Debian distro...
If Lycoris keeps the broad simplicity concept and integrates it with their debian update/install system, you have the perfect all in one linux server with recent Apache/PHP/ Whatever you need, you maybe have what we all need, a simple, user friendly andf possibly ultra-powerfull all purpose "Linux Server for The Masses"(TM)
SME is the distribution that made me start Linux as I was looking for a dead cheap firewall and decided to use that old P200 I had in a closet...
I used SCO and Smoothwall before using SME for the added web/mail/ftp server possibilities.
I'm a Linux user and all I learned from my 1+ year full Debian Desktop is mainly configuring Linux and getting the UI working the way I wanted...
Now I'm looking at some old Windows app and asking myself how hard it can be to build a GUI for some command-line only tools I now have to use...
So, is it ok as a beginner langage ? I mean all experience I have is with HTML and one have to start somewhere...
only the win32 server for now...
Still not the linux one, which will be released...
Here they announce the beta is available on Shacknews but I cannot find it, which is a bit frustrating... full text here under :
.plan file tonight to announce an open beta test for the Win32 DOOM 3 patch at Shacknews, an update in which he also commented on the status of the Linux dedicated server:
"id Software's Robert Duffy updated his
We have released the first update for DOOM 3 as a beta and on a limited scale ( it is only available on the File Shack at www.shacknews.com ). We don't anticipate any issues with it but felt it best to get it into the hands of a few thousand people rather than the entire customer base in case we missed something. We will release the update through our update server for wide release once we have verified there are no problems with it.
We will be releasing another update in the near future that will include Punk Busters cheat protection functionality for DOOM III.
The SDK is also ready to go and as soon as the update is out in non beta form the SDK will be made available for download.
The Linux Dedicated server is also ready to go and will also be available as soon as the update is non beta.
Presumably, this indicates the Linux client isn't all that far away either."
I found here all the I could on doom 3 and Id software in Fileshack...
So, almighty Slashcrowd, who can help mefind the precious , working Doom 3 for Linux ?