I always thought `OS' meant a program used to run other programs. If we define it that way, who wrote the first program loader?
Think of old 8-bits that came with basic and some routines built into the ROMS; the TI 99/4A and Atari 800s come to mind as somewhat modern examples. The Atari for instance, had routines to display characters and even to fill shapes in the OS but had no DOS unless it bootstrapped one in. Just how primitive can you make this sort of thing and still have the computer "boot" itself to a semi-usable state?
I am also ashamed to remember this but I seem to recall that Micheal had to take KITT to the 76 station now and again. KITT was supposed to use some kind of super turbine engine but he still ran on gasoline.
If MY car started talking to me, I would get out my trusty needlenose pliers and a pair of sidecutters so I could lombotomize the stuffy little creep.
If they strap my wife into a chair or onto a gurney and kill her and it later comes out that she was innocent am I then entitled to hunt me up
the judge and prosecutor? Perhaps THIS is the best way to put paid to the death penalty debate. If they fuck up and kill somebody they shouldn't then the following people are to be executed:
Judge
Proscutor
Executioner
Jury
Incompentent or Corrupt Lab personnel.
A decent case could probably be made for the governor of the state as well. I'm sure justifications to execute a few more government officials could be found as well. By your logic, I am thoroughly entitled to revenge if some government "shits" kill one of my loved ones. Under such a regime, I don't think there would even BE a death penalty, not when those who deal death have to face it themselves if this power is misused. Come to think of it, most people who are for the death penalty are against abortion as well. At least this scheme would get rid of a whole lot of people who think they have the right to decide who is fit to live and who should die.
So don't use RIAA boogerfucked hardware. Just how hard is it to get a microcontroller to talk to a DAC? To decode mp3? For that matter, general purpose computers are getting smaller all the time. We'll just listen to our mp3s with our Journada 2005 with the "Homebrew DAC" attachment. They can't win. They're probably deluding themselves that they can harass every hardware hacker on the planet.
At worst, the RIAA and their cronies might boogerfuck ALL audio hardware to the point that only `approved' content can be used. So fricken what?? Get some high quality resistors and caps, a microcontroller and a little bit of firmware to run it....Oh yeah, and it can be built small and easy to use. Duh!! If they press hard enough, I'm sure decent recipes for fabricating good old fashioned speakers will turn up too. Everybody who has to skills to at least follow the instructions for such a kit raise your hands.
Gee, what these RIAA guys have for brains and what comes out of my asshole have an interesting resemblance to each other.
I wouldn't worry too much about it. How many people do you know that would play it? I and most people I know would barf rather than play something like that. Arcade operators aren't stupid. They wouldn't even buy/rent it in the first place. There IS a threshold of acceptibility and the government is NOT what sets it.
That rules it out for me. I'm ripping my personal CD collection at 256 bps with VBR. Yes, I have to use that bit rate. I intend to rip my entire collection to a 60 gig drive on a server I built for that purpose and hardly ever touch my source material. 128 bps just sorta wears me out after awhile. I don't know exactly why I don't like it much but I definitely prefer the way my high bitrate tracks sound. When I want to take some of my server music on the road with me, the player has to be able to handle any mp3 I throw at it. 196 bps is not going to get it. These files are hugh enough as it is. I'm not going to be satisfied with lower bitrate rips to make some cheap consumer electronics happy and I'm not keeping multiple bitrate versions around. I'll check these out again when they can handle my stuff.
I'll cheerfully fire the sucker at close range if all three of my opponents are in the same room. Hell, if the game allowed it, I'd even blow MY own head off. It's like Dr. Strangelove's Doomsday Machine or what I prefer to call a backyard bomb. A backyard bomb needs no delivery system; if you set it off in your backyard, you can still get your enemies. Maybe they should have called the Redeemer the Kamikaze.
When I was going to tech school there was another David Maxwell and I was getting apprehensive. I was EXTREMELY relieved when we finally got into the same class and I was able to see that he was black. I told him that I kept expecting to bump into my long lost Evil Twin. He didn't look anything at all like me!! As I say, I was most relieved.
For those who don't know what they are, a stenographic filesystem is a partition full of apparently random noise. In reality, the partition contains one or more encrypted filesystems SCATTERED throughout the noise. However, if the partition is mounted using the correct passphrase then the corresponding steno filesystem can be accessed. What makes this super frustrating for the nice Federal agent is that there is no known way to tell how many or even if a filesystem exists in all of that noise.
The way to handle those annoying court orders is to have a honeypot full of crap that you don't care if the cops know about or not. Having the passphrase to the honeypot is of no help in accessing any other filesystem that MAY exist in the partition.
I saw that during the install with NO explanation whatsover about what it does. I simply didn't check it and told it to do a "developer install". Now I'm no coder but I like to be able to compile at least SOME packages without playing a game of let's find the missing header file. It works great on my K6 200, ATI All-In-Wonder, IDE drive setup.
I once saw a news segment on the smoking habits of the French. They are very aggressively pro-smoking. For instance, no non-smokers area in restaurants. One of the reasons cited by an interviewee for almost everyone smoking like a chimney is that Americans are against smoking so this yet another way to show how not American they are. I think what we need to do next is obvious. Free cartons of Players for France. I think every French household should find a pallet of Players on their doorsteps.....every morning!! Maybe we can find a way to make ultra concentrated super smokes with 300% extra tar and nicotine. If we're lucky they'll all "not American" themselves into emphysema and lung cancer in couple of years or so. At worst, maybe they'll find a slightly less stupid way to be "not American".
And what is to stop me from tapping the voice coil on the speakers? OH!! Special no tamper circuitry? I had best use super high impedance probes now shouldn't I? Sheesh but the RIAA is really stupid!
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I've been an Apple certified tech for a couple of years now and I can give you the dope on this. Parts for anything that Apple has put on the market within the last year are controlled by Apple. For instance, you can get a logic board for a beige G3 from a third party vendor or possibly (by now) a Blue And White logic board. You will NOT be able to obtain say, a Black and Translucent G4 board for several more months unless you happen to work for an Apple Authorized shop.
Even if you work for an authorized shop it still wouldn't be economically viable to do. Like most vendors Apple imposes a core charge. That means 2 or 3 hundred bucks MORE for that logic board if you don't send Apple back a bad part (since you are supposed to be repairing them NOT building them). Also, repair parts are not commodity priced. The logic board for last year's beige G3 Server will cost you at least $600 BEFORE the core charge. A third party vendor MIGHT let you have it for $450 or so.
If you want to make Apple based servers it would be more feasible to check out the used and discount markets. Since most Apple parts are made by Apple it isn't as easy to build them as PCs or even Alphas for that matter.
Junkbuster is not a service on an external website. It is a filtering proxy you install on your own machine. It may have security issues but they would be more of the possible buffer overrun remote exploit type of thing. I don't know if SSL will go through a Junkbuster proxy or not. I use ipchains to stop banner ads and the like.
You might be able to use Junkbuster to spoof your browser string. If it's just boneheaded web administration rather than something truly proprietary like an ActiveX control then spoofing may work. Basically you can make the bank server think you are using any combination of OS and browser you want them to think you are using.
To download binaries or proceed into this site, you have to give up your rights under the GPL. Specifically the rights regarding access to the source code. And while we are obligated to offer you the source code, for up to 3 years until we stop releasing this. To gain access to this site, you are obligated not to ask.
Doesn't the GPL have clauses stipulating that one cannot add certain kind of additional restrictions? Isn't that the basis of most license incompatibilities? If I can't say, link MPLed code with GPLed code because of the additional restrictions imposed by the MPL then I certainly can't impose the restriction of waiving the license entirely. Slade was bound by the GPL with the first public release of modified GPLed code. He has no legal right to insist that you give up your rights under the GPL. It's just as untenable as making custody loss of one's firstborn child a consequence of contract violation. There is no doubt that such an interpretation of license was never intended. If this is allowed to stand then ANYONE can thumb his nose at the GPL. Mr. Carmack should have this guy's guts for garters.
Perhaps it can be forced to run as user "nobody". If you've done a decent job of locking down the box's file permissions that should keep it under wraps. Just be sure the real packages don't set the suid bit on any of those files! Another way would be to run the Windows version under vmware using a highly deprecated virtual partition. Okay, so you'll need an 800Mhz Athlon to do it...at least it could be done. For that matter, a more active approach could be taken. Run a packet sniffer while Real does it's things and look for naughty stuff on all of the ports. Once we know what port they're using, direct that crap straight to/dev/null.
Many of the users at the LUG I attend from time to time use different OSen to accomplish different things. Many of us gathered around to help somebody out with a FreeBSD install! And there was no flamage of any kind either........
Most of the people there are pragmatists who would agree with you: use the right tool for the right job. Maybe your local group lacks zealots as well.
Your code mess idea has merit but they can make it nastier still. After massaging the code to your specs, they could run it through a compiler pre-processor like a certain "open source" video card manufacturer. I like the idea of all the variable names being replaced by hex pointers....hell the FUNCTION names could also be replaced by hex pointers.
They would be making an insufficiently peer-reviewed codebase public. They have been developing this stuff in private for years. That's years and years of shoving pure ugliness under the rug. If they open source it, several gazillion security holes are going to become immediately apparent. Over Linux and xBSD development lifetime, I will agree (for argument's sake if nothing else) that a comparable number of security problems were created. However, those problems tended to be patched not too long after coming to somebody's attention. Microsoft on the other hand very likely has only been fixing holes for which exploits have been propagated. I'll even give them the benefit of the doubt and assume their code audits have nipped SOME potential nasties in the bud. Nonetheless, the resulting open codebase will bear more than a passing resemblance to the Communicator source that the Mozilla team chucked in the ashcan. It will be good for projects like Wine but I'm going to feel genuinely sorry for all the harried sysadmins this could create.
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I always thought `OS' meant a program used to run other programs. If we define it that way, who wrote the first program loader?
Think of old 8-bits that came with basic and some routines built into the ROMS; the TI 99/4A and Atari 800s come to mind as somewhat modern examples. The Atari for instance, had routines to display characters and even to fill shapes in the OS but had no DOS unless it bootstrapped one in. Just how primitive can you make this sort of thing and still have the computer "boot" itself to a semi-usable state?
I am also ashamed to remember this but I seem to recall that Micheal had to take KITT to the 76 station now and again. KITT was supposed to use some kind of super turbine engine but he still ran on gasoline.
If MY car started talking to me, I would get out my trusty needlenose pliers and a pair of sidecutters so I could lombotomize the stuffy little creep.
If they strap my wife into a chair or onto a gurney and kill her and it later comes out that she was innocent am I then entitled to hunt me up
the judge and prosecutor? Perhaps THIS is the best way to put paid to the death penalty debate. If they fuck up and kill somebody they shouldn't then the following people are to be executed:
Judge
Proscutor
Executioner
Jury
Incompentent or Corrupt Lab personnel.
A decent case could probably be made for the governor of the state as well. I'm sure justifications to execute a few more government officials could be found as well. By your logic, I am thoroughly entitled to revenge if some government "shits" kill one of my loved ones. Under such a regime, I don't think there would even BE a death penalty, not when those who deal death have to face it themselves if this power is misused. Come to think of it, most people who are for the death penalty are against abortion as well. At least this scheme would get rid of a whole lot of people who think they have the right to decide who is fit to live and who should die.
So don't use RIAA boogerfucked hardware. Just how hard is it to get a microcontroller to talk to a DAC? To decode mp3? For that matter, general purpose computers are getting smaller all the time. We'll just listen to our mp3s with our Journada 2005 with the "Homebrew DAC" attachment. They can't win. They're probably deluding themselves that they can harass every hardware hacker on the planet.
At worst, the RIAA and their cronies might boogerfuck ALL audio hardware to the point that only `approved' content can be used. So fricken what?? Get some high quality resistors and caps, a microcontroller and a little bit of firmware to run it....Oh yeah, and it can be built small and easy to use. Duh!! If they press hard enough, I'm sure decent recipes for fabricating good old fashioned speakers will turn up too. Everybody who has to skills to at least follow the instructions for such a kit raise your hands.
Gee, what these RIAA guys have for brains and what comes out of my asshole have an interesting resemblance to each other.
I wouldn't worry too much about it. How many people do you know that would play it? I and most people I know would barf rather than play something like that. Arcade operators aren't stupid. They wouldn't even buy/rent it in the first place. There IS a threshold of acceptibility and the government is NOT what sets it.
That rules it out for me. I'm ripping my personal CD collection at 256 bps with VBR. Yes, I have to use that bit rate. I intend to rip my entire collection to a 60 gig drive on a server I built for that purpose and hardly ever touch my source material. 128 bps just sorta wears me out after awhile. I don't know exactly why I don't like it much but I definitely prefer the way my high bitrate tracks sound. When I want to take some of my server music on the road with me, the player has to be able to handle any mp3 I throw at it. 196 bps is not going to get it. These files are hugh enough as it is. I'm not going to be satisfied with lower bitrate rips to make some cheap consumer electronics happy and I'm not keeping multiple bitrate versions around. I'll check these out again when they can handle my stuff.
There wasn't any Ensign Wussley either.....so it couldn't have been ALL bad!
I'll cheerfully fire the sucker at close range if all three of my opponents are in the same room. Hell, if the game allowed it, I'd even blow MY own head off. It's like Dr. Strangelove's Doomsday Machine or what I prefer to call a backyard bomb. A backyard bomb needs no delivery system; if you set it off in your backyard, you can still get your enemies. Maybe they should have called the Redeemer the Kamikaze.
When I was going to tech school there was another David Maxwell and I was getting apprehensive. I was EXTREMELY relieved when we finally got into the same class and I was able to see that he was black. I told him that I kept expecting to bump into my long lost Evil Twin. He didn't look anything at all like me!! As I say, I was most relieved.
For those who don't know what they are, a stenographic filesystem is a partition full of apparently random noise. In reality, the partition contains one or more encrypted filesystems SCATTERED throughout the noise. However, if the partition is mounted using the correct passphrase then the corresponding steno filesystem can be accessed. What makes this super frustrating for the nice Federal agent is that there is no known way to tell how many or even if a filesystem exists in all of that noise.
The way to handle those annoying court orders is to have a honeypot full of crap that you don't care if the cops know about or not. Having the passphrase to the honeypot is of no help in accessing any other filesystem that MAY exist in the partition.
A steno filesystem for Linux can be found here:
http://www.linux-security.org/sfs/
Run XFdrake as root in console mode and select the type of monitor you intend to run X on. It's a nonglamorous text menu but it's simple to use.
I saw that during the install with NO explanation whatsover about what it does. I simply didn't check it and told it to do a "developer install". Now I'm no coder but I like to be able to compile at least SOME packages without playing a game of let's find the missing header file. It works great on my K6 200, ATI All-In-Wonder, IDE drive setup.
I once saw a news segment on the smoking habits of the French. They are very aggressively pro-smoking. For instance, no non-smokers area in restaurants. One of the reasons cited by an interviewee for almost everyone smoking like a chimney is that Americans are against smoking so this yet another way to show how not American they are. I think what we need to do next is obvious. Free cartons of Players for France. I think every French household should find a pallet of Players on their doorsteps.....every morning!! Maybe we can find a way to make ultra concentrated super smokes with 300% extra tar and nicotine. If we're lucky they'll all "not American" themselves into emphysema and lung cancer in couple of years or so. At worst, maybe they'll find a slightly less stupid way to be "not American".
And what is to stop me from tapping the voice coil on the speakers? OH!! Special no tamper circuitry? I had best use super high impedance probes now shouldn't I? Sheesh but the RIAA is really stupid!
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I've been an Apple certified tech for a couple of years now and I can give you the dope on this. Parts for anything that Apple has put on the market within the last year are controlled by Apple. For instance, you can get a logic board for a beige G3 from a third party vendor or possibly (by now) a Blue And White logic board. You will NOT be able to obtain say, a Black and Translucent G4 board for several more months unless you happen to work for an Apple Authorized shop.
Even if you work for an authorized shop it still wouldn't be economically viable to do. Like most vendors Apple imposes a core charge. That means 2 or 3 hundred bucks MORE for that logic board if you don't send Apple back a bad part (since you are supposed to be repairing them NOT building them). Also, repair parts are not commodity priced. The logic board for last year's beige G3 Server will cost you at least $600 BEFORE the core charge. A third party vendor MIGHT let you have it for $450 or so.
If you want to make Apple based servers it would be more feasible to check out the used and discount markets. Since most Apple parts are made by Apple it isn't as easy to build them as PCs or even Alphas for that matter.
Junkbuster is not a service on an external website. It is a filtering proxy you install on your own machine. It may have security issues but they would be more of the possible buffer overrun remote exploit type of thing. I don't know if SSL will go through a Junkbuster proxy or not. I use ipchains to stop banner ads and the like.
You might be able to use Junkbuster to spoof your browser string. If it's just boneheaded web administration rather than something truly proprietary like an ActiveX control then spoofing may work. Basically you can make the bank server think you are using any combination of OS and browser you want them to think you are using.
To download binaries or proceed into this site, you have to give up your rights under the GPL. Specifically the rights regarding access to the source code. And while we are obligated to offer you the source code, for up to 3 years until we stop releasing this. To gain access to this site, you are obligated not to ask.
Doesn't the GPL have clauses stipulating that one
cannot add certain kind of additional restrictions? Isn't that the basis of most license incompatibilities? If I can't say, link MPLed code with GPLed code because of the additional restrictions imposed by the MPL then I certainly can't impose the restriction of waiving the license entirely. Slade was bound by the GPL with the first public release of modified GPLed code. He has no legal right to insist that you give up your rights under the GPL. It's just as untenable as making custody loss of one's firstborn child a consequence of contract violation. There is no doubt that such an interpretation of license was never intended. If this is allowed to stand then ANYONE can thumb his nose at the GPL. Mr. Carmack should have this guy's guts for garters.
Perhaps it can be forced to run as user "nobody". If you've done a decent job of locking down the box's file permissions that should keep it under wraps. Just be sure the real packages don't set the suid bit on any of those files! Another way would be to run the Windows version under vmware using a highly deprecated virtual partition. Okay, so you'll need an 800Mhz Athlon to do it...at least it could be done. For that matter, a more active approach could be taken. Run a packet sniffer while Real does it's things and look for naughty stuff on all of the ports. Once we know what port they're using, direct that crap straight to /dev/null.
...or a highly sick individual.
Many of the users at the LUG I attend from time to time use different OSen to accomplish different things. Many of us gathered around to help somebody out with a FreeBSD install! And there was no flamage of any kind either........
Most of the people there are pragmatists who would agree with you: use the right tool for the right job. Maybe your local group lacks zealots as well.
Your code mess idea has merit but they can make it nastier still. After massaging the code to your specs, they could run it through a compiler pre-processor like a certain "open source" video card manufacturer. I like the idea of all the variable names being replaced by hex pointers....hell the FUNCTION names could also be replaced by hex pointers.
They would be making an insufficiently peer-reviewed codebase public. They have been developing this stuff in private for years. That's years and years of shoving pure ugliness under the rug. If they open source it, several gazillion security holes are going to become immediately apparent. Over Linux and xBSD development lifetime, I will agree (for argument's sake if nothing else) that a comparable number of security problems were created. However, those problems tended to be patched not too long after coming to somebody's attention. Microsoft on the other hand very likely has only been fixing holes for which exploits have been propagated. I'll even give them the benefit of the doubt and assume their code audits have nipped SOME potential nasties in the bud. Nonetheless, the resulting open codebase will bear more than a passing resemblance to the Communicator source that the Mozilla team chucked in the ashcan. It will be good for projects like Wine but I'm going to feel genuinely sorry for all the harried sysadmins this could create.