You can run dhcp on ipv6. Your isp can choose how they set up things, just like with ipv4.
Autoconfiguration with MAC addresses might not be the answer for ISP networks, since an ISP might not have enough control about people's NICs or how they will use MAC numbers. I suspect they will offer two solutions: one DHCP-like with 1 ip for cheaper accounts, and one with/64 subnetting for more expensive accounts.
In 2000, I had an ISP that had native ipv6 support, and I was assigned one random ipv6 address through dhcp.
As I understand it, one of the main selling points of the whole ipv6 setup was that end-users would be alotted a/64 to enable them to connect more smart appliances without the hack of NATed networks (although I wish ignorant end-users would be forced to put their windows disasters behind a NAT firewall)... So personally, I would like to have a fixed/64 and use the internet as it was meant to be, with direct access to my machines at home.
Criminals have the right to choose: either they do their jailtime, or they wear such a device. That's more choice than they have now, so it gives them more freedom. On top of that, if they are locked in jail, the police knows where they are too...
Besides, I guess many people would prefer to be free, even if that means wearing GPS devices.
Depends on who you send it to, ofcourse. But make sure in any case it has THE cardgames, not the ones from Gnome, but really, exactly the SAME ones as in Windows. Otherwise it won't do, because they'll be DIFFERENT and therefore BAD. For the rest, have lots of dumb backgrounds with kittens or other cute animals, scarcely dressed women - actresses maybe, some action sport pictures, a car or two and a holiday location that they could never afford, perhaps very cheesy cherubs with corny christmas wishes, that kind of stuff. Don't forget some really heavy mouse cursors, and perhaps a very bomastic start-up sound, followed by santa's voice (linux originated in Finland after all).
That's how people judge an OS, you know.
They'll think it's cool. In fact, they'll think it's so cool they will show it to anyone who comes to visit them. And that's when we'll unexpectedly pull them in on superior security, stability, standards compliance and ofcourse the preemptible kernel...
OK, maybe not, but they'll still think it's a cool demo cd, ho ho.
Although something like this system will probably be the future, I think they are greatly exaggerating the benefits... probably because they are selling the idea. At least they are honest enough to say that they came up with their own numbers to prove their own point.
For one, it's unlikely to be faster than taxis or busses. It would be dangerous for the lives and even belly contents of the passangers... Think of one of those wild-ride attractions in a theme park. And I simply wouldn't like to be merged by computer going 100km/h at a point where every track comes together... what if they run windows.
I don't believe having 75 people in 75/3 = 25 cars is more cost effective than having them in one bus or metro. It simply isn't more effective, ever, to have too small amounts of people considering the energy required to reach high speeds... pretty similar to car-pooling being a better solution to traffic problems, efficient use of resources and fuel, and having the least amount of waste and thus damage done to nature. And it's very unlikely that this system can handle more people per minute than a full metro car (think about having safe distances between cars).
I also can't believe that the installation cost would be so much lower than for "light rail"... as it is, effectively, some form of light rail. And it would have to be everywhere, since you can't go anywhere where there's no rail. It has, like all rail-based transport, a limited range for the traveler to move freely. One of the biggest problems with public transport, is that many people still have to walk a considerable distance before they reach their final destination. You simply can't have stations every couple of meters. I doubt this will be a great improvement in that regard... Unless you put it literally everywhere in the city, and have stations every couple of meters, in which case it definitely wouldn't be cheaper than ordinary public transport by rail.
No, it might be an idea for the future, but they need to be realistic about it. I live in the biggest city of the country with probably the most traffic and thus the worse traffic problems in the world. I'm highly critical of personalised public transport having the solution for the eternal traffic problem. There are just too many fuckin' people, and if they all want to have their own little car, it's not going make things better. It's just saturated. Perhaps this could work for smaller cities with less traffic problems, but I don't see this solving anything in the busiest areas.
Clearly, you don't play guitar, or you would know that the raw, warm sound of a guitar crying through a tube amp close to meltdown is as sweet a sound as a woman close to orgasm.
But please, PLEASE, do tell us about those other undoubtedly equally interesting applications you had in mind.;)
So, you are saying that current US policies are providing me with safety now that half of the muslims in the world are feeling cornered and you can find home-made terrorists on the corner of every hyperbolic street? I beg to disagree, and many with me. As you seem to like making assertions for the rest of us, let's have a global vote about this, shall we?
It's so typical: "Well, that entire religion has hated us, many people in this world hate us, but we have more and better weapons, and kick their ass any day. Bring it on!"
Surely that attitude makes me have faith in America. With the current administration being what it is, every new weapon is bad news. Every time America should say something wise, they bring on a new weapon. Bush is a toddler with a gun. And it has been proven that invasions^H^H^Hpre-emptive strikes are no problem to this administration, and lies are good enough to serve as motivation. Just tell me, what reason do I have to I trust you and consider America as an enlightened nation and not as one of those fundamentalistic blind countries with governments that like to play with weapons bigger than their brains?
If you're trying to get people interested in your product, the first rule is don't offend people. Like it or not, there are folks out there who don't understand the difference between daemon and demon. [...]
The question that raises, is if we must always please the weakest chain, the most prude, the fundamentalists. The old logo needed a bit of a makeover; but please don't let a handul of offended fundamentalists be the reason. They already sicken this world enough as it is.
The logo really isn't bad, if it would have been for a project less personal, fun and volunteer-driven. It's a great logo for the suits, but I would understand if many people of the NetBSD community would find it a bit lacking in personality and charm.
Linux isn't made by stiff suits, and this is what the logo reflects. It doesn't try to be cool, sleek, fast, super, ultra, faceless or generic. It's just a fat penguin. Same for the BSD daemon logo - now only used by FreeBSD I guess - and the OpenBSD fish. Tux, in by his uncoolness, is cool. And memorable. And a bit of a subtle middlefinger.
Why would 'serious literature' need anything better, serious or bland-marketing-friendly than the system itself?
Ofcourse, distro's have their own logo's, and some of those logo's might speak more to management suits.
Another sad day for the wise, another happy one for extremists, religious nuts and other blind fucks all over the planet.
Kerry, Bush, Nader, left, right, I don't care. But just look at the lack of critical thinking, the utter emptiness and lack of reason, and cry. Incomprehensible to almost anybody living in the real world outside the US. What a bleak view for the future. Most people don't deserve the democracy they live in.
Please, no more interviews with "the average American on the street", and no more documentaries of Fox 'News'. It started out funny, but it quickly became the stuff nightmares are made off.
Why does everybody around me feel so jaded about this whole election and its outcome...
That's exactly where I stood a few years ago, bored with computer science, fed up with haughty professors who talk alot about nothing and many students that really don't know that much at all except the day before their examinations - full of hot air; realizing I was spending too much time online, not doing much useful. And I didn't want to become a programmer and/or spend hours every day on the internet. I mean, is that all there is?
People don't know what mediocrity is, because they don't know what's important; they are too stuck in their pretty average lives with pretty average wages and pretty average whatever (and they still think digital watches are a good idea). Quite meaningless, really. And most of us are too afraid to wake up and see the abyss.
The problem is, once you start being critical, and really try to think about things in life and what would be meaningful to you, it's pretty damn hard to find something.
(And sadly enough, there ain't no guy distributing red and blue pills that open magical, free worlds.)
(Well, actually there was, but the DEA arrested him.)
Internet, just like stories for people who read too many books (yes, one can read too much), is a place where you can run to not having to deal with real life, your emotions or frustrations. Especially the Internet makes you feel as if you're actually doing something - not just in front of the TV, no, you *sent* an *email*. You *talked* to someone. You had a *conversation* on IM/IRC. You *reported* a bug. You *looked up* some information. Hell, you even *have friends* outthere.
Hence, we keep on deceiving ourselves.
I don't know if it's better to break with everything. Maybe doing lots of nothing stops us from doing something bigger, something meaningful. We could realize so much more with all that wasted time behind computers and TV screens.
Last week I had to return 3 webcams from 2 manufacturers. No support for linux at all; or even worse, a flat out refusal to release any form of specifics. I think it's outrageous.
We need this list. Maybe not for the most common hardware, but there is a lot of stuff out there that has no driver support for Linux (and other opensource OSes) at all. I rather know in advance there is no way of getting it to work, or when there is only an incomplete 'experimental driver' made from sniffing usb devices.
And then we could also reward companies that do make opensource-friendly products and drivers by buying their products, which hopefully has an impact on the other, windows-oriented companies.
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I know it doesn't look like a viable alternative for a nice, sharp 2d image, at least for now... But when the 3d part can be done in hardware, and people think out nice interfaces, we might finally get some GUI like in that ridiculous part from Jurassic Park "I know this! This is an UNIX system!". For some applications it might be handy, because you can get a more nicely structured image. A 3d filemanager would be cool, I think, if it has redesigned navigation tools that allow you to zoom in and out fast. You'd have a much more clear overview, as the third dimension could be used to show file/directory size, or creation date, or however you want it to be.
Text editors and office applications however won't really be fun to look at in 3d, for pretty much the same reason paper is flat, too. It would be quite annoying having to write code on a cube...
Last year I had to track down some carders operating from the US, who were trying to buy products here in Europe with stolen and/or generated credit card numbers. It makes sense to pull that stunt with people (read: jurisdiction) far from your own home...
You know how difficult (and expensive) it is to both track down the people and get a conviction? Laws are made on a national level, institutions such as police and justice departements are also pretty much bound to their specific country (unless you just act as if you own the world), hence international crime has little or no resistance. I mean, why would you care if the crime has been committed elsewhere?...
Same with spam, really. Most spam I receive comes from scumbags on US soil, and it's pretty hard to harm them from here. As opposed to local spammers: a friend of mine once made a real-life visit when he received a spam email from a company not far from where he lives. He didn't get any spam anymore from that company.
That might be a viable solution to the spam problem anyway: just a global team-up of people willing to visit spammers living close to their own home. I'm not implying a violent posse here. Even a criminal would get a clue when there's suddenly a bunch of very pissed off people in front of his/her door.
hunt (sniffer, spoofer,... perhaps more handy in blackhat situations or to sniff ascii services)
tcpdump (simple packet dumper)
netwatch (console tool to monitor connections etc)
ethereal (graphical traffic analyser - pretty easy to use)
snort (IDS, probably better for aimed searching)
... and whatever firewall-software you use - it probably has LOG'ing targets, which might be handy if you know what you are looking for.
These are the programs I have used in the past (and some others like netcat and netgrep, but these probably don't come in handy for what you want to do). Be careful that whatever daemon you run, doesn't get you into trouble - although these are security-programs, they occasionally have security bugs themselves. It would feel stupid to be compromised because of the very program that's supposed to aid in fighting hackers.
Also remember some of these tools can fill up your drives in seconds, if you're not careful. I once had that problem, due to a typo, and it took a few days before I realised. Ofcourse, you miss anything you would want to have logged during that time...
I don't really know any commercial tools. And I don't think I'll ever need one... Unix/Linux systems have lots of net tools, it's probably one of the best represented categories.
SCO ain't gonna sue nobody. SCO is over, done, finished. They proved it when they moved from a more or less respectable software company to some management-and-lawyer cock-up. I think we shouldn't give them so much attention, I'm getting quite tired of this news-flashes without the... well, news. Or flashes.
Let's stop the SCO articles until there is something worth to tell, ok... We're just helping them with all that free publicity, and they sure as hell don't deserve that attention. People that don't even know what a computer is, are asking me about "that SCO company".
Hahaha... nope. Freedom? Cohesion? Not anywhere near my mind. American culture (and Western culture in general) is diverting to something many despise as much as your 'cattle towards the butcher' countries. Once great, but now going over the top. Pop and extreme capitalism breads emptiness, lack of inquiry, apathy. We are creating a nation of apathic followers. What we see after 9/11, is nothing but a temporary mask, a meaning for people's otherwise meaningless lives. It's cattle for the big machine of economy. It's cattle for every shady government, nationalist fuck or religious leader. It's freedom for the one with most money; living in a strongly capitalistic society, justice is always on the side of the one who can afford the money or time to litigate. In fact, there isn't a nation in this world so strongly based on blind faith (be it religion, nationalistic superiority, extreme capitalism, etc) as the US. It's scary.
Expressions such as 'superior attitudes of super-commerce', aka G.R.E.E.D., show where the problem arises: you seem to think that America is benevolent because it doesn't "attack" other countries (well, that's already been proven wrong, but let's not divert). America doesn't need to attack other countries, because it's the most powerful nation, both in terms of military, and economical. Waging war would not be wise for many reasons, mostly because it already has the power. America uses economy pretty much like strong armies were used in the past centuries: the weapons changed, but don't give me any of the pseudo-humanistic crap that this is now a time of peace in the world now America's on top. We're not killing them, We're starving and polluting them to death. Wow, big humanistic progress...
People are people, it's just the way their primary feelings are expressed that's different.
Trust me, your culture ain't more complex than any other. Everybody for his own good; shallow, hedonistic delight. In fact, it surprises me you even have to mention that people bothered to give blood in an emergency. That is pretty common in ANY part of the world. Without nationalist shows, that is. Frankly, I find the lack of inquisitive thought in your post rather scary and even a bit disgusting. Coca-cola (and big, monopolistic businesses in general) the battle flag of America's children? I hope you have some better morals hidden away somewhere than shown in your "profit" mantra.
Where American and Western core concepts of extreme capitalism are headed, there is no place for "family values, community support, acceptance of differences", only hail the holy buck and naive, populistic masses.
Try to do projects with friends, or at least some kind of colleagues. Do one day at their place, on day at yours. Only working at home, constantly, although it seems like a dream initially, will really get you down and depressed, even before you notice it yourself. I love being able to work from home a lot of the time, but always sitting home really gets under your skin after a while.
Even when you are quite social and know many people, you won't meet new people easily if you sit at home most of the time, and although that also means you don't have to see people you rather dislike, or get stuck in traffic or whatever, you miss the kind of small 'adventures' like fights, near-accidents on the road, hot women wandering by, dissing the boss and mocking management at work, etc, anything that could give you some laughs or adrenaline.
I predict that when telecommuting gets even more popular, you will see local telecommuting offices where people get together to work, even though they work at different companies. In fact, there are already business spaces and some companies have 'satellite offices' where their employees can work during the traffic peak hours.
Why donate computers to a university, as opposed to the poor in other continents or even in own country? Just so they could have a bigger cluster for animations? In my eyes, that doesn't make sense.
You'd be surprised. Debian is one of the most popular and well-known distributions, even with managers, IT companies and ISPs around. It's not necessary to start being paranoid about anti-US feelings, although those feelings are real (against the fascist government at least; and we all know these feelings are not completely biased or unfair either); these decisions are based on economic facts. MicroSoft makes crappy software: they care more about a new layout and selling, than really improving the security of their product.
The spirit of a company should be making a as good as possible product. If the goal deteriorates to just selling and ripping off to secure profits, and an utter disrespect for its customers, it's only wise to drop any support for such a company.
Extreme kapitalism will kill itself, when the consumers of the free market start seeing that companies only care about profits, rip off their customers in any way possible, and screw over their workers by moving away jobs to countries with lower pay.
What you see, is quite possibly an anti-movement against "big business" of the kind of MicroSoft. Remember, Europe has always been more socialist (humanist?) than capitalist... but I predict this movement will show itself in the US too, likely aided by healthy anti-Bu$h sentiment, upsetting RIAA, DMCA and patent lawsuits, and financial fraud such as citibank/enron/worldcom/...
People will just get fed up with that little group of ethically disabled people and companies that keep manipulating (making?) the laws and screw over the rest of us.
There has been a slumbering anti-MicroSoft sentiment for a long time, but less technically people never had the will or knowledge to look for alternatives (people are basically apathic). But rest assured that when the alternatives come knocking on their door, you will see a nice domino effect when people realise things can be different and don't have to take it up the ass all the time.
I'm at this very moment deleting over 30 new emails with virusses (although I'm using linux). I'm so frustrated and fed up with MicroSoft and co, I just wish it would fucin' die and go away forever. And I don't believe I'm the only one... I keep hoping for the Internet vs. MicroSoft. I'd donate my kidneys for that...
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Sounds great... I'd love to break into a house like that!
Maybe his wife is a florist?
Brilliant setup. Make people buy your goods and then have them donate those goods back to you. Double profit... :-O
You can run dhcp on ipv6. Your isp can choose how they set up things, just like with ipv4.
Autoconfiguration with MAC addresses might not be the answer for ISP networks, since an ISP might not have enough control about people's NICs or how they will use MAC numbers. I suspect they will offer two solutions: one DHCP-like with 1 ip for cheaper accounts, and one with
In 2000, I had an ISP that had native ipv6 support, and I was assigned one random ipv6 address through dhcp.
As I understand it, one of the main selling points of the whole ipv6 setup was that end-users would be alotted a
Criminals have the right to choose: either they do their jailtime, or they wear such a device. That's more choice than they have now, so it gives them more freedom. On top of that, if they are locked in jail, the police knows where they are too...
Besides, I guess many people would prefer to be free, even if that means wearing GPS devices.
Depends on who you send it to, ofcourse. But make sure in any case it has THE cardgames, not the ones from Gnome, but really, exactly the SAME ones as in Windows. Otherwise it won't do, because they'll be DIFFERENT and therefore BAD. For the rest, have lots of dumb backgrounds with kittens or other cute animals, scarcely dressed women - actresses maybe, some action sport pictures, a car or two and a holiday location that they could never afford, perhaps very cheesy cherubs with corny christmas wishes, that kind of stuff. Don't forget some really heavy mouse cursors, and perhaps a very bomastic start-up sound, followed by santa's voice (linux originated in Finland after all).
That's how people judge an OS, you know.
They'll think it's cool. In fact, they'll think it's so cool they will show it to anyone who comes to visit them. And that's when we'll unexpectedly pull them in on superior security, stability, standards compliance and ofcourse the preemptible kernel...
OK, maybe not, but they'll still think it's a cool demo cd, ho ho.
Although something like this system will probably be the future, I think they are greatly exaggerating the benefits... probably because they are selling the idea. At least they are honest enough to say that they came up with their own numbers to prove their own point.
For one, it's unlikely to be faster than taxis or busses. It would be dangerous for the lives and even belly contents of the passangers... Think of one of those wild-ride attractions in a theme park. And I simply wouldn't like to be merged by computer going 100km/h at a point where every track comes together... what if they run windows.
I don't believe having 75 people in 75/3 = 25 cars is more cost effective than having them in one bus or metro. It simply isn't more effective, ever, to have too small amounts of people considering the energy required to reach high speeds... pretty similar to car-pooling being a better solution to traffic problems, efficient use of resources and fuel, and having the least amount of waste and thus damage done to nature. And it's very unlikely that this system can handle more people per minute than a full metro car (think about having safe distances between cars).
I also can't believe that the installation cost would be so much lower than for "light rail"... as it is, effectively, some form of light rail. And it would have to be everywhere, since you can't go anywhere where there's no rail. It has, like all rail-based transport, a limited range for the traveler to move freely. One of the biggest problems with public transport, is that many people still have to walk a considerable distance before they reach their final destination. You simply can't have stations every couple of meters. I doubt this will be a great improvement in that regard... Unless you put it literally everywhere in the city, and have stations every couple of meters, in which case it definitely wouldn't be cheaper than ordinary public transport by rail.
No, it might be an idea for the future, but they need to be realistic about it. I live in the biggest city of the country with probably the most traffic and thus the worse traffic problems in the world. I'm highly critical of personalised public transport having the solution for the eternal traffic problem. There are just too many fuckin' people, and if they all want to have their own little car, it's not going make things better. It's just saturated. Perhaps this could work for smaller cities with less traffic problems, but I don't see this solving anything in the busiest areas.
Privacy surely would be a nice thing though.
Clearly, you don't play guitar, or you would know that the raw, warm sound of a guitar crying through a tube amp close to meltdown is as sweet a sound as a woman close to orgasm.
;)
But please, PLEASE, do tell us about those other undoubtedly equally interesting applications you had in mind.
#1- avoid too much 'clip art'. Anyone with an eye for art usually thinks it looks like ass.
I'd say that largely depends on who's ass we're talking about.
Clip-art porn. Kinky.
So, you are saying that current US policies are providing me with safety now that half of the muslims in the world are feeling cornered and you can find home-made terrorists on the corner of every hyperbolic street? I beg to disagree, and many with me. As you seem to like making assertions for the rest of us, let's have a global vote about this, shall we?
It's so typical: "Well, that entire religion has hated us, many people in this world hate us, but we have more and better weapons, and kick their ass any day. Bring it on!"
Surely that attitude makes me have faith in America. With the current administration being what it is, every new weapon is bad news. Every time America should say something wise, they bring on a new weapon. Bush is a toddler with a gun. And it has been proven that invasions^H^H^Hpre-emptive strikes are no problem to this administration, and lies are good enough to serve as motivation. Just tell me, what reason do I have to I trust you and consider America as an enlightened nation and not as one of those fundamentalistic blind countries with governments that like to play with weapons bigger than their brains?
If you're trying to get people interested in your product, the first rule is don't offend people. Like it or not, there are folks out there who don't understand the difference between daemon and demon. [...]
The question that raises, is if we must always please the weakest chain, the most prude, the fundamentalists. The old logo needed a bit of a makeover; but please don't let a handul of offended fundamentalists be the reason. They already sicken this world enough as it is.
The logo really isn't bad, if it would have been for a project less personal, fun and volunteer-driven. It's a great logo for the suits, but I would understand if many people of the NetBSD community would find it a bit lacking in personality and charm.
Linux isn't made by stiff suits, and this is what the logo reflects. It doesn't try to be cool, sleek, fast, super, ultra, faceless or generic. It's just a fat penguin. Same for the BSD daemon logo - now only used by FreeBSD I guess - and the OpenBSD fish. Tux, in by his uncoolness, is cool. And memorable. And a bit of a subtle middlefinger.
Why would 'serious literature' need anything better, serious or bland-marketing-friendly than the system itself?
Ofcourse, distro's have their own logo's, and some of those logo's might speak more to management suits.
Another sad day for the wise, another happy one for extremists, religious nuts and other blind fucks all over the planet.
Kerry, Bush, Nader, left, right, I don't care. But just look at the lack of critical thinking, the utter emptiness and lack of reason, and cry. Incomprehensible to almost anybody living in the real world outside the US. What a bleak view for the future. Most people don't deserve the democracy they live in.
Please, no more interviews with "the average American on the street", and no more documentaries of Fox 'News'. It started out funny, but it quickly became the stuff nightmares are made off.
Why does everybody around me feel so jaded about this whole election and its outcome...
You might be depressed.
That's exactly where I stood a few years ago, bored with computer science, fed up with haughty professors who talk alot about nothing and many students that really don't know that much at all except the day before their examinations - full of hot air; realizing I was spending too much time online, not doing much useful. And I didn't want to become a programmer and/or spend hours every day on the internet. I mean, is that all there is?
People don't know what mediocrity is, because they don't know what's important; they are too stuck in their pretty average lives with pretty average wages and pretty average whatever (and they still think digital watches are a good idea). Quite meaningless, really. And most of us are too afraid to wake up and see the abyss.
The problem is, once you start being critical, and really try to think about things in life and what would be meaningful to you, it's pretty damn hard to find something.
(And sadly enough, there ain't no guy distributing red and blue pills that open magical, free worlds.)
(Well, actually there was, but the DEA arrested him.)
Internet, just like stories for people who read too many books (yes, one can read too much), is a place where you can run to not having to deal with real life, your emotions or frustrations. Especially the Internet makes you feel as if you're actually doing something - not just in front of the TV, no, you *sent* an *email*. You *talked* to someone. You had a *conversation* on IM/IRC. You *reported* a bug. You *looked up* some information. Hell, you even *have friends* outthere.
Hence, we keep on deceiving ourselves.
I don't know if it's better to break with everything. Maybe doing lots of nothing stops us from doing something bigger, something meaningful. We could realize so much more with all that wasted time behind computers and TV screens.
Last week I had to return 3 webcams from 2 manufacturers. No support for linux at all; or even worse, a flat out refusal to release any form of specifics. I think it's outrageous.
We need this list. Maybe not for the most common hardware, but there is a lot of stuff out there that has no driver support for Linux (and other opensource OSes) at all. I rather know in advance there is no way of getting it to work, or when there is only an incomplete 'experimental driver' made from sniffing usb devices.
And then we could also reward companies that do make opensource-friendly products and drivers by buying their products, which hopefully has an impact on the other, windows-oriented companies.
That's not new.
http://www.fresco.org/ (formerly known as Berlin)
http://www.3dwm.org/
I know it doesn't look like a viable alternative for a nice, sharp 2d
image, at least for now... But when the 3d part can be done in hardware,
and people think out nice interfaces, we might finally get some GUI like
in that ridiculous part from Jurassic Park "I know this! This is an UNIX
system!". For some applications it might be handy, because you can get a
more nicely structured image. A 3d filemanager would be cool, I think,
if it has redesigned navigation tools that allow you to zoom in and out
fast. You'd have a much more clear overview, as the third dimension
could be used to show file/directory size, or creation date, or however
you want it to be.
Text editors and office applications however won't really be fun to look
at in 3d, for pretty much the same reason paper is flat, too. It would
be quite annoying having to write code on a cube...
Last year I had to track down some carders operating from the US, who were trying to buy products here in Europe with stolen and/or generated credit card numbers. It makes sense to pull that stunt with people (read: jurisdiction) far from your own home...
You know how difficult (and expensive) it is to both track down the people and get a conviction? Laws are made on a national level, institutions such as police and justice departements are also pretty much bound to their specific country (unless you just act as if you own the world), hence international crime has little or no resistance. I mean, why would you care if the crime has been committed elsewhere?...
Same with spam, really. Most spam I receive comes from scumbags on US soil, and it's pretty hard to harm them from here. As opposed to local spammers: a friend of mine once made a real-life visit when he received a spam email from a company not far from where he lives. He didn't get any spam anymore from that company.
That might be a viable solution to the spam problem anyway: just a global team-up of people willing to visit spammers living close to their own home. I'm not implying a violent posse here. Even a criminal would get a clue when there's suddenly a bunch of very pissed off people in front of his/her door.
It's also logical. Do you steal a lolly pop from a kid, or from a big-ass professional boxer?
I mean, you can't really expect thieves to have a superior sense of morality, do you...
hunt (sniffer, spoofer, ... perhaps more handy in blackhat situations or to sniff ascii services)
tcpdump (simple packet dumper)
netwatch (console tool to monitor connections etc)
ethereal (graphical traffic analyser - pretty easy to use)
snort (IDS, probably better for aimed searching)
These are the programs I have used in the past (and some others like netcat and netgrep, but these probably don't come in handy for what you want to do). Be careful that whatever daemon you run, doesn't get you into trouble - although these are security-programs, they occasionally have security bugs themselves. It would feel stupid to be compromised because of the very program that's supposed to aid in fighting hackers.
Also remember some of these tools can fill up your drives in seconds, if you're not careful. I once had that problem, due to a typo, and it took a few days before I realised. Ofcourse, you miss anything you would want to have logged during that time...
I don't really know any commercial tools. And I don't think I'll ever need one... Unix/Linux systems have lots of net tools, it's probably one of the best represented categories.
SCO ain't gonna sue nobody. SCO is over, done, finished. They proved it when they moved from a more or less respectable software company to some management-and-lawyer cock-up. I think we shouldn't give them so much attention, I'm getting quite tired of this news-flashes without the... well, news. Or flashes.
Let's stop the SCO articles until there is something worth to tell, ok... We're just helping them with all that free publicity, and they sure as hell don't deserve that attention. People that don't even know what a computer is, are asking me about "that SCO company".
Let SCO rot in silence.
Hahaha... nope. Freedom? Cohesion? Not anywhere near my mind. American culture (and Western culture in general) is diverting to something many despise as much as your 'cattle towards the butcher' countries. Once great, but now going over the top. Pop and extreme capitalism breads emptiness, lack of inquiry, apathy. We are creating a nation of apathic followers. What we see after 9/11, is nothing but a temporary mask, a meaning for people's otherwise meaningless lives. It's cattle for the big machine of economy. It's cattle for every shady government, nationalist fuck or religious leader. It's freedom for the one with most money; living in a strongly capitalistic society, justice is always on the side of the one who can afford the money or time to litigate. In fact, there isn't a nation in this world so strongly based on blind faith (be it religion, nationalistic superiority, extreme capitalism, etc) as the US. It's scary.
Expressions such as 'superior attitudes of super-commerce', aka G.R.E.E.D., show where the problem arises: you seem to think that America is benevolent because it doesn't "attack" other countries (well, that's already been proven wrong, but let's not divert). America doesn't need to attack other countries, because it's the most powerful nation, both in terms of military, and economical. Waging war would not be wise for many reasons, mostly because it already has the power. America uses economy pretty much like strong armies were used in the past centuries: the weapons changed, but don't give me any of the pseudo-humanistic crap that this is now a time of peace in the world now America's on top. We're not killing them, We're starving and polluting them to death. Wow, big humanistic progress...
People are people, it's just the way their primary feelings are expressed that's different.
Trust me, your culture ain't more complex than any other. Everybody for his own good; shallow, hedonistic delight. In fact, it surprises me you even have to mention that people bothered to give blood in an emergency. That is pretty common in ANY part of the world. Without nationalist shows, that is. Frankly, I find the lack of inquisitive thought in your post rather scary and even a bit disgusting. Coca-cola (and big, monopolistic businesses in general) the battle flag of America's children? I hope you have some better morals hidden away somewhere than shown in your "profit" mantra.
Where American and Western core concepts of extreme capitalism are headed, there is no place for "family values, community support, acceptance of differences", only hail the holy buck and naive, populistic masses.
Try to do projects with friends, or at least some kind of colleagues. Do one day at their place, on day at yours. Only working at home, constantly, although it seems like a dream initially, will really get you down and depressed, even before you notice it yourself. I love being able to work from home a lot of the time, but always sitting home really gets under your skin after a while.
Even when you are quite social and know many people, you won't meet new people easily if you sit at home most of the time, and although that also means you don't have to see people you rather dislike, or get stuck in traffic or whatever, you miss the kind of small 'adventures' like fights, near-accidents on the road, hot women wandering by, dissing the boss and mocking management at work, etc, anything that could give you some laughs or adrenaline.
I predict that when telecommuting gets even more popular, you will see local telecommuting offices where people get together to work, even though they work at different companies. In fact, there are already business spaces and some companies have 'satellite offices' where their employees can work during the traffic peak hours.
Why donate computers to a university, as opposed to the poor in other continents or even in own country? Just so they could have a bigger cluster for animations? In my eyes, that doesn't make sense.
What's in it for Sun?
There are some mirrors who do carry the iso images though.
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That's all I say here until my download is finished.
You'd be surprised. Debian is one of the most popular and well-known distributions, even with managers, IT companies and ISPs around. It's not necessary to start being paranoid about anti-US feelings, although those feelings are real (against the fascist government at least; and we all know these feelings are not completely biased or unfair either); these decisions are based on economic facts. MicroSoft makes crappy software: they care more about a new layout and selling, than really improving the security of their product.
The spirit of a company should be making a as good as possible product. If the goal deteriorates to just selling and ripping off to secure profits, and an utter disrespect for its customers, it's only wise to drop any support for such a company.
Extreme kapitalism will kill itself, when the consumers of the free market start seeing that companies only care about profits, rip off their customers in any way possible, and screw over their workers by moving away jobs to countries with lower pay.
What you see, is quite possibly an anti-movement against "big business" of the kind of MicroSoft. Remember, Europe has always been more socialist (humanist?) than capitalist... but I predict this movement will show itself in the US too, likely aided by healthy anti-Bu$h sentiment, upsetting RIAA, DMCA and patent lawsuits, and financial fraud such as citibank/enron/worldcom/...
People will just get fed up with that little group of ethically disabled people and companies that keep manipulating (making?) the laws and screw over the rest of us.
There has been a slumbering anti-MicroSoft sentiment for a long time, but less technically people never had the will or knowledge to look for alternatives (people are basically apathic). But rest assured that when the alternatives come knocking on their door, you will see a nice domino effect when people realise things can be different and don't have to take it up the ass all the time.
I'm at this very moment deleting over 30 new emails with virusses (although I'm using linux). I'm so frustrated and fed up with MicroSoft and co, I just wish it would fucin' die and go away forever. And I don't believe I'm the only one... I keep hoping for the Internet vs. MicroSoft. I'd donate my kidneys for that...
Hungry nations?
The verb isn't "facing". The verb is "making".