Agreed. What about collectors and people who try to preserve old works?
Let's look ahead 20 years in the future; DVDs are antiques, and are left obsolete by a new (but not backwards compatable) media format.
You have amassed a sizeable collection of your favrate DVD movies over the years, you've hung on the your old DVD player all this time and you still like to watch your collection from time to time.
One day, you decide to watch, let say, The Matrix on your original DVD. You pop your copy in your player, but instead of the viewing the Matrix, you find that your player just died.
DVD players are so rare now, that there's no way you can get a replacement without consierable difficulty and expense, if you can get one at all. You decide to try to repair it yourself, only to find that you can't, you can't even get the parts.
Bad news, your only DVD player is dead and irrepairable. Worse news, since you can't get another one, your DVD collection just became a set of paperweights. Unless you backed-up your DVD collection to whatever the future format is, you practialy lost a large part of your movie collection too. To add insult to injury, much of your collection is so old that it is no longer in production, you can't buy a new copy at any price.
Back in the present, people who have built collections of films and records are facing the same problems, the media is detorating, the player are wearing out, and replacements are becoming harder to find, much less obtain. Many people are copying their old records to tape or CD, and thier old films to videotape, to preserve them. In fact, there are contunuing efforts to preserve old flims and music, and a couple of thing that the people who do this have had to deal with are deteareating media and paying back the media without destroying it. Of course, you can't play it back without the player.
Decss might not seam (to some people) to be anything more than a tool for copying DVDs now, but it could become instrmental to preservation efforts in the future.
Last I heard, Troll tech changed the lincensing for the QT enviroment, and QT for X11 is now under a QPL/GLP lincense. You can even download it for free at thier download site. They did this less than 2 months ago (since QT 2.2), there was even an article about it on this site.
You only have to pay if you use it to develop commercial/proprietary software (they want you to use the professional/enterprise version for that, thier FAQ has more information on this), you don't have to pay (in fact, you can just use the free version) if you want to run KDE, and you don't have to pay to use it to develop open source software.
If there's something I misread, that feel free to clarify your post. Otherwise, please stop spreading FUD and incorrect/out-of-date infomation, it will make you look smarter at the very least.
Yeah, a breakout box type design would have been a better idea. The daughtercard looks to be nothing more than a connection block, since it doesn't plug into the bus, I don't see the point in it taking up a slot.
I couldn't tell if the daughtercard connects to the main card directly, or thru a cable (and the site didn't say, but likly it's thru a cable). We had an recent article about modifing computer cases, I wonder how hard it would be to drill a few holes in the case, and creativly mount the daughtercard so it doesn't waste a slot?
Now there's an idea, unless, of course, you care about your warrenty, but how many hardware geeks do?.;)
Unfortunately it's this 'holyer than thou' attitude that scares off new members of the community that we need.
It's also driving away current users (at least this current user) out of disgust.
I've been using Mandrake since 7.0(upgraded to 7.1, plan to upgrade to 7.2), nice OS, has a few bugs here and there, but that's to be expected. After all, linux is still a new OS, and many parts of it are a work in progress. But, from what I've seen, the community is awful. I had never before seen a community than was so riddled with self-serving eleetists, oversized egos, and with so much arrogence and political infighting as the current linux community (with the exception of a few pockets, but even those pockets are degenerating).
I know of no other tech community that is so eaten up with this garbage. I should know, I was active on the LNO help board until it got overrun with those same 'holyer than thou' attitudes and other bullshit, and stayed overrun.
I'm no longer active on that board, of anywhere else in the linux community because of this crap (this site doesn't count because it's suposed to be a nerd news site), hopefuly things have gotten better, but I'll be surprised if they have.
I like linux, despite it's disadvantages and problems it's a good OS, and I hope the community grows up (sooner, rather than latter) and leaves the 'holyer than thou'ing, the infighting, and other crap behind. Unfortunatly, it doesn't apper that that's going to happen anytime soon, and it may ultimatly end up being linux's downfall.
It's something to think about, same thing happend to the Amiga and OS/2. Granted, amiga and OS/2 had a little help, but it didn't take too much, the infighting and other garbage already did most of the work.
Sorry if this rant came off too strong, but it's something that really needs to be thought about, with no nice way to say it.
The first thing I found myself wondering when I loged in as root was, "Where's my CD supermount icon?" It wasn't there in root. Only users see it. Yes, you can do the usual command line mount/unmount, but isn't the point of Mandrake to be as close to 100% pointy-clicky adminable as possible?
Here's a workaround in case they don't have that fixed by the time the CD offically goes to press:
The easy way:
As root, go the your user's desktop directory (for example, mine is in/home/scott/Desktop), and copy the Cd-Rom file to root's desktop (located in/root/Desktop , or you could just drag 'n drop it anywhere on root's desktop (if you do, don't forget to right click and select copy first)). If that doesn't work, you'll have to do it the hard way...
The hard way:
* In root, right click anywhere on the desktop, select New -> Filesystem Device
* In the text box where it says Device.kdelink, change that to Cd-Rom.kdelink, and click OK
* Select the Device tab
* Under Device type/dev/cdrom, under Mount Point type/mnt/cdrom, and under filesystem type supermount * be sure to check Read Only, and to select the permissions tab and make sure that the User, Group, and Others can read from it, but only the user can write to it.
Click OK, and you're done.
A new Linux user trying to install (say) StarOffice on Mandrake 7.2 from a CD is going to be doing a fair amount of needless head-scratching. It was frustrating to pop in a StarOffice CD as a user and try to install it, only to get a "KPACKAGE has to run as ROOT" error message, then to log in as root and not find an obvious, E-Z method of reading files from a CD. Whether this is the fault of KDE or Mandrake I do not know, but it is a needless bit of hassle.
I fully agree. When you're dealing with the average computer user (newbies, people with little computer experance, and poeple who just want to use thier computers), things that an expert user might consider "little things" do matter alot, espcially useabulty issues. What many power users so easily fail to realize is that not everyone has the same experance level and level of expertise that they have. While the instructions that I just gave may seem easy to most people here, try following them from a newbie's perspective.
Oh, one more thing:
One trick I started using whin I got tired of logging into root to install an RPM was to open a filemanager in superuser mode (on my system (man 7.1, KDE), [main menu icon] -> Applications -> File Tools -> Filemanager (Mode Super User)), and then click on the RPM to install it for there. I haven't tried it, but you may be able to accoumplish the same thing by setting Kpackage as SUID root.
This trick works, but what I'd like to see is Kpackage (or whatever interface to RPM you use) ask you for your the root password when it's about to do someting that requires root access, or, even better, ACLs fully implimented in Linux.
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I vaugly recall hearing about an outfit that was archiving the internet, the whole internet. I believe this was 5 years ago, and that they had acrhived 2 TB of data at the time. Does anyone remember anything more about this? This was a long time ago, and I'm not sure if the're still doing this.
This is something that needs to be done, and not just with Usenet, but with all of the Internet. Our historic records, scientific and artistic works, in fact, all of our information is shifting from being stored on phyicall meada (ex. paper) to being stored on electronic meada (ex. bits and bytes on a hard drive somewhere), and it's become so importaint that there is an archive of this infomation that we'd be fools not to have one, least a mistake or equiptment failure causes vital works, records, and infomation to be lost forever.
The Apple world mourns the loss of Steve Jobs, who died in a hyperbaric chamber accident. Apparently, he drank too much soda while in the chamber, causing his lungs to explode.
His stommace would explode instaed, that's where soda goes when you drink it.
If your stommace exploded, you wouldn't have to worry about the blood loss and internal injuries, the shock would likely kill you first.
Still, he'd have to drink a lot so soda, and something would have to be seriously wrong with the hyperbaric chamber for that to happen.
I just hope that the install goes well here. I've tried to install Mandrake 7.1 on 6 systems multiple times -- it worked twice. It has major SCSI problems. The guys at mandrake were no help, they basically "bolfed" it. But I sure do love it when it installs well!
It also has problems with LS-120 drives on SCSI systems, some of them major.
The installer sees the LS-120 drive, but if you use an ext2 formated disk (such as from an old distro or system you no longer use), don't be surprised if you system doesn't boot afterwards.
What it should do to make the bootdisk is reformat the disk (after telling you what it going to do, and giving you the opertunity to back out, first) and after copying the bootloader and other nesscary files to the hard drive, copy those files that it installed to the HD to the bootdisk. What it did instead was to copy the boot files from the old bootdisk to the hard drive. Of course, the system wouldn't boot afterwards...
If you don't use an ext2 fromated disk, it will just say that an error occured, and mkbootdisk failed. Oh, BTW neigher disk was write protected.
If you're thinking "why not use the rescue mode on the install disk?", tried that, it didn't help...it will load the module for the SCSI card, but wouln't reconize the SCSI drives if you try to mount them. Try to load the module manully, same thing.
That's with a fresh install, which I had to do anyways because of another bug in the installer where, if you use the "upgrade" option, the installer upgrades the kernel, but doesn't upgrage the modules. When you tell it to load the old kernel, you'll find that the old kernel is no longer set up to load any modules. This is a real show stopper if you have SCSI drives.
What's annoying, but still a problem, is if you have an LS-120 drive in a SCSI system, even if the installer can see and use the LS-120 drive, it doesn't set it up so the system can, and the drive has to be set up manully.
MD 7.1 is a good distro, once you get it working, and if you can stand some of the annoying bugs in it, hopefuly 7.2 will be better, and wouln't have at least the more serious and more noticeable bugs that 7.1 has.
We've got DirecTV, Dish, Primestar, and a few others. They all sounded good (Dish has my local channels, DirecTV gets them at the end of this month, so my search focused on those two,) except that they require a POTS line to dial in to their server. Not only once on initial configuration, but also if I ever want to watch pay-per-view. Darn.
Actully, no. My parents have DSS through Echostar, and you don't have to connect it to the phone line unless you want to watch the pay per view channels. I know this because they never had thier recievers connected to the phone line, and have never had any problems caused by that.
I don't know if Primestar and Dircet TV require a phone connection at all, but if they do, you might look at Echostar, usaily you just pop in the smart card they give you and you're all set.
BTW you can also get your local channels through them, too, but you may want to keep your antenna. Usailly, DSS providers pick local stations that are local to them, but may not be local to you. For example, one provider that offers local stations might pick a local station (more likely a network affileate station nowadays) located someware in Gaorga. This is fine if you're in Gaorga, but a real PTA if you live elseware. Also, your antanna could come in handy if the satallite signal gets scrambled, which often happens during major storms and harsh weather.
I hate it when package management software bitches at you "PACKAGE X IS NOT INSTALLED" when in fact it is installed; you just compiled it by yourself instead...
Yea...That is annoying, but at least you can tell it to force the install when you get a dependentcy error. What I hate worse is when RPM bitches that a file in the package conflicts with a file allready on the system, and the only option is to abort.
Why?
That, IMO, is a really braindead way of handling file conflicts, what it should do instead is give you the choice of aborting the install, contunuing without replacing the file, and contunuing with replacing the file. Nice if it would also tell you which file is newer.
MS Win already handles file conflicts this way (which, IMO, is a much more intelagent way of handling file conflicts), I don't see why package management systems under linux couldn't be improved to also handle file conflicts this way.
BTW, I already know about telling RPM to replace files before starting an install, but, really, how many people do you know who have ESP? The improvment I descibed above certainly couldn't hurt, and, in fact, is quite benafical.
ps That was a pain in the ass to correctly enter all those html codes for the marks. I hope you all appreciate that.;) Shouldn't "Plain Old Text" _mean_ "Plain Old Text?"
FYI, there's a bug in slashdot where if you select "plain old text", it thinks you want "extrans" and vice versa.
Normaly, I'm not much of a complainer, but this bug has gone unrepaired for at least 3-4 months, maybe longer.
I'm surprised that any self-respecting programer would let a bug as glaringly noticable go unrepaired as long as this one has. We know that nothing's perfect and that these things take time, but fix it allready!;)
Proabily a troll (or, at least, someone who's greatly misinformed) but...
No, HTML mail will not do this, the exploit uses a specially written java applet to take advantage of a hole in netscape's java implemtation.
You should be running a firewall, anyways. Basicly, unless you're running servers that you want to be accessable over the internet, you should have your firewall set up to block inbound connections (that is, connections from the internet to your network) with the exception of connections that you need to be open for something to work.
If you're concerned about this exploit, you may want to turn off java in netscape untill they release a fix. Netscape's java implementation is quite buggy, anyways, if you want or need java in netscape, look at the java plugin aviabile at The Blackdown Project.
As a precaution, you may also want to turn off javascript in mail and news, but keep in mind that javascript is not the same thing as java, the two are entirly diffrent.
Did the free upgrade offer have an expration date? These offers usialy expire after a few months.
It sounds like the upgrade offer had already expired by the time you bought the modem. It sucks, but there's really no way they could keep the free upgrade offer going indefinately, for obvious reasons.
There is a bright side to this; if your modem is flash upgradeable (newer modems are), you don't need to trade it in to upgrade it. Just download the firmware update and flash utility, and flash upgrade your modem's firmware.
Yea, this sometimes happens to me, too, on some flash sites. I'm running Linux, so at least it only takes down my browser. Other wierdness, such as no audio on some flash movies, and flash animations flikering as if the moniter where being refreashed at a very low refreash rate are not uncommon.
Blame Macromeada...it appears that thay stalled developoment on the Linux version of thier flash plugin shortly after releasing it (thier linux plugin is as ver.4, while thier current win plugin is at ver.8, BTW), and it doesn't appear that they're even fixing bugs.
I honestly don't know which is worse; a company, despite requests and demands from it's customers, refuses to release versions of it's software for OSes other than MS Win and Mac OS, or a company that does release a linux version decides it no longer going to follow through, and discountinues devolopment and support of it's linux port soon after releasing the port.
Hopefuly, the GPL alturnetives to Macromeada's flash and shockwave plugins will solve that problem.
A neat fact is you can get your technician (first) license from the FCC by passing a simple test. This test consists of a pool of 348 questions.
I'm surprised that aTRaTiCa didn't mention this, but there are only 55 actual questions on the Technition class test.
The technician class licenseing test is actualy two tests: the novice test (with 30 actual questions) and the technician test (with 25 actual questions), or at least it was two tests when I got my tech license 4 years ago. I believe that the novice and tech tests were merged with the recent lincenseing restruchuring, but I'm not sure, and I can't look it up right now.
Even better, why not ask them to make a mirror immage of your hard drive, and take that instead?
It's not as diffacult as it sounds. It's the same thing that backup software does, so basicly you're asking them to make a backup copy of your hard drive and to take that copy instead.
Even if they don't have the equiptment on them, they should be able to get it quickly and easily enough to justify the wait.
This isn't anywhere near as diffacult a feat as it was a couple decades ago, and portable mass storage drives are readly and cheaply avabiale, so I don't see why they would have any problems doing that.
I second that. If your hardware is marginal or faulty, you will have problems, no matter what you're running.
Here's my horror story...
For those who are interested in my system specs:
Athlon 500 Processor Gigabyte GA-7IX mainboard 128M PC100 Ram (single DIMM) ATI All-in-Wonder 128 AGP 2 9.1 GB SCSI HDs LS120 IDE drive SB Live! Value PCI Linksys 10/100 Eathernet NIC PCI Adaptec 2940U2W SCSI PCI USR 56K Voice Faxmodem Pro Ext. Pioner 6X/32X SCSI DVD-ROM
OS is Mandrake Linux 7.0-2
Long story short...
First mainboard turned out to be DOA out of the box. Second mainboard appeared to be OK, but, after a couple of weeks in operation, the system started crashing...
Here's how bad it was; the crashes were the nasty ones where the system would completely lock-up, and could only be recovered by the L Alt-SysRq song-and-dance. Unfourtunitly, it doesn't always work...
Sometimes the crashes were random, but some of the crashes occoured after certian events (ex. loading a >1MB file to/from the LS120 drive, heavy disk/IO activaty under certian conditions). It even crashed, with a kernel panic, durning an fsck! Meraculessly, the system survived, I was able to repair it, and it's still working (for better or worse), I,m typing this post on it right now. And the crashes left no clues in the system logs (you know that you have a defianate hardware problem if that happens).
Hardware problems are the most diffacult to diagnose, especialy if you don't have hardware testing equiptment, and I know that through painful experance.
I latter determined that the problem was the mainboard, or, more spificly, the mainboard IO bridge. I didn't think it was phyicaly possable, but this sucks, blows, and bites all at the same time.
Rigth now I,m waiting until the replacement MB gets here. Believe me, it's not going to be gigabyte, two bad MBs in a row doesn't inspire confidince in the manufacture's quality control.
Anybody have any thoughts on Tyan's Athlon MB? I decieded to go with that MB because of thier reputation, and it doesn't have these awfull windows-only fetures (ex. AMR slot).
Plugger apparently has some problems handling.png files.
A fix that was sugested on Linuxnewbie was to nuke both PNG mimetypes (or, if you don't feel comfortable deleting the mimetpyes, reasssocate both mimetypes back to your browser), and restart netscape.
Make sure you have a recent version of libpng installed, or you you won't be able to do anything with.png files.
INAL, but assuming that Harvey Shapiro can't prove his allagations, and the allagations were made with the intent to do harm, one of two things can happen:
* If the Motion Picture Association (MPA) made the accusations, and Mr. Shapiro was simply sending out cese-and-desist letters, the MPA would be liable for slander or libel, but Mr. Shapiro wouldn't.
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* If Mr. Shapiro made the accusations, then he would be liable.
From the following passages on the site you mentioned;
3. On or about October 25, 1999, I began to receive information from the MPA that unauthorized DVD copies of its members' motion pictures, and instructions and computer applications to defeat DVD encryption, were available at specific web sites on the Internet. Beginning on or about November 4th, 1999, I (or employees of my firm acting at my direction) sent letters to Internet service providers, system administrators and others, informing the recipients that this unauthorized material was found at a specific web site address or addresses over which they exercised control. I asked them to provide me with the identity of the web site's content provider(s), and to take action to stop the infringing activity.
4. I sent out three types of form letters, depending on (i) the type of infringing activity and (ii) the action I requested the recipient take to stop the infringing activity. These letters are appended as Exhibit A. In the first type of form letter, I notified the recipient that the person responsible for the web site apparently was offering both pirated DVDs and unauthorized decryption technology. I requested that the recipient cease and desist from infringing MPA members' copyrights. In the second type of form letter, I notified the recipient that the person responsible for the web site was offering both pirated DVDs and unauthorized decryption technology. In this letter, I requested (i) that the individual's account be terminated; (ii) that further action be taken to stop the infringing activity; and (iii) that I be provided with the account operator's name and physical address. In the third type of letter, I notified the recipient that I believed the person responsible for the web site was offering CSS decryption technology, "links" to web sites which provided such technology, and/or CSS authorizing CVS code. I requested that (i) the individual's account be terminated, and (ii) that I be provided with the account operator's name and address.
It looks to me that Mr.Shapiro made a big mistake, one that could make him liable for slander, libal, or both.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that slander is spoken, libel is written, and the burden is on the accuser to prove that the accusations are true. I also think that it's the accusie's responcabilty to prove that the accusations were made with harmful intent.
I wonder how long it will be before ORBS probes somebody (without his consent, of course) who, as it turns out, has to take his site's security very seriously, and he gets ORBS kicked off it's ISP?
Seriously, if ORBS isn't careful, it could end up looking for a new ISP. I can see how they could easly get kicked-off for DOS attacks and attempted computer break-ins.
Aw, come on, don't insult me by twisting my words to more easily sute your purposes.
In case you really did misss my piont (and that would be diffacult, even for a layman to do), here it is in even simpler terms:
My point was: Its not the religion's fault it it's leaders arn't being responcable and respectful enough to follow thier own rules. If the religious leaders want us to follow them (and thier religion), they should at least try to set a better example.
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Agreed. What about collectors and people who try to preserve old works?
Let's look ahead 20 years in the future; DVDs are antiques, and are left obsolete by a new (but not backwards compatable) media format.
You have amassed a sizeable collection of your favrate DVD movies over the years, you've hung on the your old DVD player all this time and you still like to watch your collection from time to time.
One day, you decide to watch, let say, The Matrix on your original DVD. You pop your copy in your player, but instead of the viewing the Matrix, you find that your player just died.
DVD players are so rare now, that there's no way you can get a replacement without consierable difficulty and expense, if you can get one at all. You decide to try to repair it yourself, only to find that you can't, you can't even get the parts.
Bad news, your only DVD player is dead and irrepairable. Worse news, since you can't get another one, your DVD collection just became a set of paperweights. Unless you backed-up your DVD collection to whatever the future format is, you practialy lost a large part of your movie collection too. To add insult to injury, much of your collection is so old that it is no longer in production, you can't buy a new copy at any price.
Back in the present, people who have built collections of films and records are facing the same problems, the media is detorating, the player are wearing out, and replacements are becoming harder to find, much less obtain. Many people are copying their old records to tape or CD, and thier old films to videotape, to preserve them. In fact, there are contunuing efforts to preserve old flims and music, and a couple of thing that the people who do this have had to deal with are deteareating media and paying back the media without destroying it. Of course, you can't play it back without the player.
Decss might not seam (to some people) to be anything more than a tool for copying DVDs now, but it could become instrmental to preservation efforts in the future.
Last I heard, Troll tech changed the lincensing for the QT enviroment, and QT for X11 is now under a QPL/GLP lincense. You can even download it for free at thier download site. They did this less than 2 months ago (since QT 2.2), there was even an article about it on this site.
You only have to pay if you use it to develop commercial/proprietary software (they want you to use the professional/enterprise version for that, thier FAQ has more information on this), you don't have to pay (in fact, you can just use the free version) if you want to run KDE, and you don't have to pay to use it to develop open source software.
If there's something I misread, that feel free to clarify your post. Otherwise, please stop spreading FUD and incorrect/out-of-date infomation, it will make you look smarter at the very least.
Yeah, a breakout box type design would have been a better idea. The daughtercard looks to be nothing more than a connection block, since it doesn't plug into the bus, I don't see the point in it taking up a slot.
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I couldn't tell if the daughtercard connects to the main card directly, or thru a cable (and the site didn't say, but likly it's thru a cable). We had an recent article about modifing computer cases, I wonder how hard it would be to drill a few holes in the case, and creativly mount the daughtercard so it doesn't waste a slot?
Now there's an idea, unless, of course, you care about your warrenty, but how many hardware geeks do?.
It's also driving away current users (at least this current user) out of disgust.
I've been using Mandrake since 7.0(upgraded to 7.1, plan to upgrade to 7.2), nice OS, has a few bugs here and there, but that's to be expected. After all, linux is still a new OS, and many parts of it are a work in progress. But, from what I've seen, the community is awful. I had never before seen a community than was so riddled with self-serving eleetists, oversized egos, and with so much arrogence and political infighting as the current linux community (with the exception of a few pockets, but even those pockets are degenerating).
I know of no other tech community that is so eaten up with this garbage. I should know, I was active on the LNO help board until it got overrun with those same 'holyer than thou' attitudes and other bullshit, and stayed overrun.
I'm no longer active on that board, of anywhere else in the linux community because of this crap (this site doesn't count because it's suposed to be a nerd news site), hopefuly things have gotten better, but I'll be surprised if they have.
I like linux, despite it's disadvantages and problems it's a good OS, and I hope the community grows up (sooner, rather than latter) and leaves the 'holyer than thou'ing, the infighting, and other crap behind. Unfortunatly, it doesn't apper that that's going to happen anytime soon, and it may ultimatly end up being linux's downfall.
It's something to think about, same thing happend to the Amiga and OS/2. Granted, amiga and OS/2 had a little help, but it didn't take too much, the infighting and other garbage already did most of the work.
Sorry if this rant came off too strong, but it's something that really needs to be thought about, with no nice way to say it.
Here's a workaround in case they don't have that fixed by the time the CD offically goes to press:
The easy way:
As root, go the your user's desktop directory (for example, mine is in
The hard way:
* In root, right click anywhere on the desktop, select New -> Filesystem Device
* In the text box where it says Device.kdelink, change that to Cd-Rom.kdelink, and click OK
* Select the Device tab
* Under Device type
* be sure to check Read Only, and to select the permissions tab and make sure that the User, Group, and Others can read from it, but only the user can write to it.
Click OK, and you're done.
I fully agree. When you're dealing with the average computer user (newbies, people with little computer experance, and poeple who just want to use thier computers), things that an expert user might consider "little things" do matter alot, espcially useabulty issues. What many power users so easily fail to realize is that not everyone has the same experance level and level of expertise that they have. While the instructions that I just gave may seem easy to most people here, try following them from a newbie's perspective.
Oh, one more thing:
One trick I started using whin I got tired of logging into root to install an RPM was to open a filemanager in superuser mode (on my system (man 7.1, KDE), [main menu icon] -> Applications -> File Tools -> Filemanager (Mode Super User)), and then click on the RPM to install it for there. I haven't tried it, but you may be able to accoumplish the same thing by setting Kpackage as SUID root.
This trick works, but what I'd like to see is Kpackage (or whatever interface to RPM you use) ask you for your the root password when it's about to do someting that requires root access, or, even better, ACLs fully implimented in Linux.
I vaugly recall hearing about an outfit that was archiving the internet, the whole internet. I believe this was 5 years ago, and that they had acrhived 2 TB of data at the time. Does anyone remember anything more about this? This was a long time ago, and I'm not sure if the're still doing this.
This is something that needs to be done, and not just with Usenet, but with all of the Internet. Our historic records, scientific and artistic works, in fact, all of our information is shifting from being stored on phyicall meada (ex. paper) to being stored on electronic meada (ex. bits and bytes on a hard drive somewhere), and it's become so importaint that there is an archive of this infomation that we'd be fools not to have one, least a mistake or equiptment failure causes vital works, records, and infomation to be lost forever.
His stommace would explode instaed, that's where soda goes when you drink it.
If your stommace exploded, you wouldn't have to worry about the blood loss and internal injuries, the shock would likely kill you first.
Still, he'd have to drink a lot so soda, and something would have to be seriously wrong with the hyperbaric chamber for that to happen.
It also has problems with LS-120 drives on SCSI systems, some of them major.
The installer sees the LS-120 drive, but if you use an ext2 formated disk (such as from an old distro or system you no longer use), don't be surprised if you system doesn't boot afterwards.
What it should do to make the bootdisk is reformat the disk (after telling you what it going to do, and giving you the opertunity to back out, first) and after copying the bootloader and other nesscary files to the hard drive, copy those files that it installed to the HD to the bootdisk. What it did instead was to copy the boot files from the old bootdisk to the hard drive. Of course, the system wouldn't boot afterwards...
If you don't use an ext2 fromated disk, it will just say that an error occured, and mkbootdisk failed. Oh, BTW neigher disk was write protected.
If you're thinking "why not use the rescue mode on the install disk?", tried that, it didn't help...it will load the module for the SCSI card, but wouln't reconize the SCSI drives if you try to mount them. Try to load the module manully, same thing.
That's with a fresh install, which I had to do anyways because of another bug in the installer where, if you use the "upgrade" option, the installer upgrades the kernel, but doesn't upgrage the modules. When you tell it to load the old kernel, you'll find that the old kernel is no longer set up to load any modules. This is a real show stopper if you have SCSI drives.
What's annoying, but still a problem, is if you have an LS-120 drive in a SCSI system, even if the installer can see and use the LS-120 drive, it doesn't set it up so the system can, and the drive has to be set up manully.
MD 7.1 is a good distro, once you get it working, and if you can stand some of the annoying bugs in it, hopefuly 7.2 will be better, and wouln't have at least the more serious and more noticeable bugs that 7.1 has.
Actully, no. My parents have DSS through Echostar, and you don't have to connect it to the phone line unless you want to watch the pay per view channels. I know this because they never had thier recievers connected to the phone line, and have never had any problems caused by that.
I don't know if Primestar and Dircet TV require a phone connection at all, but if they do, you might look at Echostar, usaily you just pop in the smart card they give you and you're all set.
BTW you can also get your local channels through them, too, but you may want to keep your antenna. Usailly, DSS providers pick local stations that are local to them, but may not be local to you. For example, one provider that offers local stations might pick a local station (more likely a network affileate station nowadays) located someware in Gaorga. This is fine if you're in Gaorga, but a real PTA if you live elseware. Also, your antanna could come in handy if the satallite signal gets scrambled, which often happens during major storms and harsh weather.
Yea...That is annoying, but at least you can tell it to force the install when you get a dependentcy error. What I hate worse is when RPM bitches that a file in the package conflicts with a file allready on the system, and the only option is to abort.
Why?
That, IMO, is a really braindead way of handling file conflicts, what it should do instead is give you the choice of aborting the install, contunuing without replacing the file, and contunuing with replacing the file. Nice if it would also tell you which file is newer.
MS Win already handles file conflicts this way (which, IMO, is a much more intelagent way of handling file conflicts), I don't see why package management systems under linux couldn't be improved to also handle file conflicts this way.
BTW, I already know about telling RPM to replace files before starting an install, but, really, how many people do you know who have ESP? The improvment I descibed above certainly couldn't hurt, and, in fact, is quite benafical.
FYI, there's a bug in slashdot where if you select "plain old text", it thinks you want "extrans" and vice versa.
Normaly, I'm not much of a complainer, but this bug has gone unrepaired for at least 3-4 months, maybe longer.
I'm surprised that any self-respecting programer would let a bug as glaringly noticable go unrepaired as long as this one has. We know that nothing's perfect and that these things take time, but fix it allready!
Proabily a troll (or, at least, someone who's greatly misinformed) but...
No, HTML mail will not do this, the exploit uses a specially written java applet to take advantage of a hole in netscape's java implemtation.
You should be running a firewall, anyways. Basicly, unless you're running servers that you want to be accessable over the internet, you should have your firewall set up to block inbound connections (that is, connections from the internet to your network) with the exception of connections that you need to be open for something to work.
If you're concerned about this exploit, you may want to turn off java in netscape untill they release a fix. Netscape's java implementation is quite buggy, anyways, if you want or need java in netscape, look at the java plugin aviabile at The Blackdown Project.
As a precaution, you may also want to turn off javascript in mail and news, but keep in mind that javascript is not the same thing as java, the two are entirly diffrent.
Did the free upgrade offer have an expration date? These offers usialy expire after a few months.
It sounds like the upgrade offer had already expired by the time you bought the modem. It sucks, but there's really no way they could keep the free upgrade offer going indefinately, for obvious reasons.
There is a bright side to this; if your modem is flash upgradeable (newer modems are), you don't need to trade it in to upgrade it. Just download the firmware update and flash utility, and flash upgrade your modem's firmware.
Good luck trying to find something like that in a handheld, there's nothing like that avabialve, at least not comercialy.
Of course, you could roll your own, but it's not going to be easy or cheap.
Yea, this sometimes happens to me, too, on some flash sites. I'm running Linux, so at least it only takes down my browser. Other wierdness, such as no audio on some flash movies, and flash animations flikering as if the moniter where being refreashed at a very low refreash rate are not uncommon.
Blame Macromeada...it appears that thay stalled developoment on the Linux version of thier flash plugin shortly after releasing it (thier linux plugin is as ver.4, while thier current win plugin is at ver.8, BTW), and it doesn't appear that they're even fixing bugs.
I honestly don't know which is worse; a company, despite requests and demands from it's customers, refuses to release versions of it's software for OSes other than MS Win and Mac OS, or a company that does release a linux version decides it no longer going to follow through, and discountinues devolopment and support of it's linux port soon after releasing the port.
Hopefuly, the GPL alturnetives to Macromeada's flash and shockwave plugins will solve that problem.
No problem, just wanted to clear that up. :)
I believe the numbuer of examn questions in each section of the tests are structured like this:
section number of questonns
novice tech
Commission's rules 10 5
Operating procedures 2 3
Radio wave propagation 1 3
Amateur radio practices 4 4
Electrical principles 4 2
Circuit components 2 2
Practical circuits 2 1
Signals and emissions 2 2
Antennas and feed lines 3 3
Totals 30 25
At least, it was set up like that when I took my test.
BTW, i know theat table sucks, I don't have a whole lot to work with, here.
I'm surprised that aTRaTiCa didn't mention this, but there are only 55 actual questions on the Technition class test.
The technician class licenseing test is actualy two tests: the novice test (with 30 actual questions) and the technician test (with 25 actual questions), or at least it was two tests when I got my tech license 4 years ago. I believe that the novice and tech tests were merged with the recent lincenseing restruchuring, but I'm not sure, and I can't look it up right now.
Hit the wrong butten, and it turns out that the externs appearing as text bug still hasn't been fixed.
Here's the link again, only this time it's a link:
Robin Hood and Friar Tuck
For those of you who are interested, heres a ink to the story.
n ing-of-Hack.html>Robin Hood and Friar Tuck<A/>
<A href=http://www.eps.mcgill.ca/jargon/html/The-Mea
Scroll down to the bottem third of the page to see it, I don't know how to set-up the url to do this automaticly.
Even better, why not ask them to make a mirror immage of your hard drive, and take that instead?
It's not as diffacult as it sounds. It's the same thing that backup software does, so basicly you're asking them to make a backup copy of your hard drive and to take that copy instead.
Even if they don't have the equiptment on them, they should be able to get it quickly and easily enough to justify the wait.
This isn't anywhere near as diffacult a feat as it was a couple decades ago, and portable mass storage drives are readly and cheaply avabiale, so I don't see why they would have any problems doing that.
I second that. If your hardware is marginal or faulty, you will have problems, no matter what you're running.
Here's my horror story...
For those who are interested in my system specs:
Athlon 500 Processor
Gigabyte GA-7IX mainboard
128M PC100 Ram (single DIMM)
ATI All-in-Wonder 128 AGP
2 9.1 GB SCSI HDs
LS120 IDE drive
SB Live! Value PCI
Linksys 10/100 Eathernet NIC PCI
Adaptec 2940U2W SCSI PCI
USR 56K Voice Faxmodem Pro Ext.
Pioner 6X/32X SCSI DVD-ROM
OS is Mandrake Linux 7.0-2
Long story short...
First mainboard turned out to be DOA out of the box. Second mainboard appeared to be OK, but, after a couple of weeks in operation, the system started crashing...
Here's how bad it was; the crashes were the nasty ones where the system would completely lock-up, and could only be recovered by the L Alt-SysRq song-and-dance. Unfourtunitly, it doesn't always work...
Sometimes the crashes were random, but some of the crashes occoured after certian events (ex. loading a >1MB file to/from the LS120 drive, heavy disk/IO activaty under certian conditions). It even crashed, with a kernel panic, durning an fsck! Meraculessly, the system survived, I was able to repair it, and it's still working (for better or worse), I,m typing this post on it right now. And the crashes left no clues in the system logs (you know that you have a defianate hardware problem if that happens).
Hardware problems are the most diffacult to diagnose, especialy if you don't have hardware testing equiptment, and I know that through painful experance.
I latter determined that the problem was the mainboard, or, more spificly, the mainboard IO bridge. I didn't think it was phyicaly possable, but this sucks, blows, and bites all at the same time.
Rigth now I,m waiting until the replacement MB gets here. Believe me, it's not going to be gigabyte, two bad MBs in a row doesn't inspire confidince in the manufacture's quality control.
Anybody have any thoughts on Tyan's Athlon MB? I decieded to go with that MB because of thier reputation, and it doesn't have these awfull windows-only fetures (ex. AMR slot).
Plugger apparently has some problems handling .png files.
.png files.
A fix that was sugested on Linuxnewbie was to nuke both PNG mimetypes (or, if you don't feel comfortable deleting the mimetpyes, reasssocate both mimetypes back to your browser), and restart netscape.
Make sure you have a recent version of libpng installed, or you you won't be able to do anything with
INAL, but assuming that Harvey Shapiro can't prove his allagations, and the allagations were made with the intent to do harm, one of two things can happen:
* If the Motion Picture Association (MPA) made the accusations, and Mr. Shapiro was simply sending out cese-and-desist letters, the MPA would be liable for slander or libel, but Mr. Shapiro wouldn't.
-but-
* If Mr. Shapiro made the accusations, then he would be liable.
From the following passages on the site you mentioned;
3. On or about October 25, 1999, I began to receive information from the MPA that unauthorized DVD copies of its members' motion pictures, and instructions and computer applications to defeat DVD encryption, were available at specific web sites on the Internet. Beginning on or about November 4th, 1999, I (or employees of my firm acting at my direction) sent letters to Internet service providers, system administrators and others, informing the recipients that this unauthorized material was found at a specific web site address or addresses over which they exercised control. I asked them to provide me with the identity of the web site's content provider(s), and to take action to stop the infringing activity.
4. I sent out three types of form letters, depending on (i) the type of infringing activity and (ii) the action I requested the recipient take to stop the infringing activity. These letters are appended as Exhibit A. In the first type of form letter, I notified the recipient that the person responsible for the web site apparently was offering both pirated DVDs and unauthorized decryption technology. I requested that the recipient cease and desist from infringing MPA members' copyrights. In the second type of form letter, I notified the recipient that the person responsible for the web site was offering both pirated DVDs and unauthorized decryption technology. In this letter, I requested (i) that the individual's account be terminated; (ii) that further action be taken to stop the infringing activity; and (iii) that I be provided with the account operator's name and physical address. In the third type of letter, I notified the recipient that I believed the person responsible for the web site was offering CSS decryption technology, "links" to web sites which provided such technology, and/or CSS authorizing CVS code. I requested that (i) the individual's account be terminated, and (ii) that I be provided with the account operator's name and address.
It looks to me that Mr.Shapiro made a big mistake, one that could make him liable for slander, libal, or both.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that slander is spoken, libel is written, and the burden is on the accuser to prove that the accusations are true. I also think that it's the accusie's responcabilty to prove that the accusations were made with harmful intent.
My $0.02...Any lawyers out there?
I wonder how long it will be before ORBS probes somebody (without his consent, of course) who, as it turns out, has to take his site's security very seriously, and he gets ORBS kicked off it's ISP?
Seriously, if ORBS isn't careful, it could end up looking for a new ISP. I can see how they could easly get kicked-off for DOS attacks and attempted computer break-ins.
Aw, come on, don't insult me by twisting my words to more easily sute your purposes.
;)
In case you really did misss my piont (and that would be diffacult, even for a layman to do), here it is in even simpler terms:
My point was: Its not the religion's fault it it's leaders arn't being responcable and respectful enough to follow thier own rules. If the religious leaders want us to follow them (and thier religion), they should at least try to set a better example.
The same can easly be said about pollitions.