My understanding is that this is at the request of the TiVo people - They've been very favourable to hacking, under the general condition that said hackers don't screw with their revenue stream. Once their revenue stream gets affected, you can bet that they'll lock this beast down tighter than a drum, and then there will be no joy in Mudville for anyone.
And the only information they'd get from UUNet is the fact that, yes, your phone DID dial the UUNet POP and log into the TiVo service last night. Big deal. That's not much use to anyone. Maybe telemarketers who already have your phone number anyway.
I would imagine much of TiVo was designed with this capability ultimately in mind. I wouldn't mind getting the service for a discount if I consented to my viewing habits being sold, or for free if they actually attached my name to it.
Military = They pay you, get 4 valuable years of experience with cool toys. Spend 4 years drinking. They assume you know nothing at the start, give you responsibility at the end.
College = You pay them. Spend 4 years drinking. Employers assume you know nothing at the end.
My 4 years were quite valuable. Air Force and Navy are best for techie-type jobs.
That's true for any system. All you have to do is hang any multisync monitor off of the SB100 and you're up and running. All the new stuff from sun uses a DB15HD connector that's identical to PCs.
USB is used for the keyboard/mouse interface for all new Sun machines since the SunRay - So far, that's the sunrays and the sunblades. I believe logitech makes the actual keyboards.
Solaris 8 also supports various other USB devices, which would presumably be listed in the HCL.
The upside to this, of course, is if you work on a Sun layout keyboard, you can hang a USB sun keyboard off your linux or windows desktop and not have to mentally switch to that annoying PC layout all the time. Plus, the mouse has 3 buttons:) The keyboard is P/N 320-1273 (US Unix) and the mouse is P/N 370-3632.
For it not being allowed, there's an awful lot of it going on - the divorce rate among christians is actually higher(by 5-6%) than it is in the US population as a whole.
Neat, but hardly new...
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The ASCII Cam
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There have been camera systems that output to teletypes as far back as the early 1970s, when ASCII was all you could get.
I bought this when it was released several months ago, and it's been a very useful tool. I also got a chance to meet the author at LISA 2000 where he was giving a tutorial on the same topic, as well as speaking at O'Reilly's booth.
Gopher was an absolutely wonderful tool for gathering information, without the encumbrances of graphics, MIDI, Flash., etc.
If google could host an Archie/Veronica search engine in addition to their web index, we'd have a wonderful infrastructure again that is data-centric, instead of so much emphasis on eye candy over content.
Simply run ipchains with a set of rules that firewall that individual machine. There is a script at http://firewall.langistix.com that I wrote which will do precisely that if only given one interface. Combined with intrusion detection, it can be a very powerful tool.
Looks like they'll be losing anybody who uses it to telecommute, if this actually goes into force. Wonderful example of tripping over a dollar bill to pick up the shiny nickel on the ground.
The author needs to learn some logic. GNOME != Linux.
"As the name might imply, their efforts will center around the Gnome desktop manager, with Sun moving to adopt Gnome as the GUI for Solaris. Looks like some big names are getting interested in putting Linux on the desktop."
Just because GNOME is on the desktop means squat to Linux. Linux is only one of several platforms that supports/uses GNOME. This is simply an announcement that several vendors are ditching CDE in favor of something that works across a multitude of platforms. Step out of the bubble once in a while, people, there's a whole Unix world out there.
Yes, it appears that the D1 is Mandrake's. Of course it doesn't help that pretty much all of these pictures suck. Focus, and hold the damn thing steady. It helps if you point it at something good, too.
Seems to apply to society at large...
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The Leased Life?
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Just today, there was an article on cnn.com about a study showing that long-term commited romatic relationships are out, casual short-term sex is in. I expect the general societal trend away from anything long-term is a result of the compressed time scale that we experience in the 'net age. In this scale, a single year feels like 5 to 7 years, because new experiences and technologies are getting thrown at us at an alarming rate. Why think about something a decade from now? that seems like a lifetime away.
Not a gnutella weakness, but rather a user weaknes
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Gnutella VBS Worm
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This thing doesn't actually exploit anything in gnutella proper, but rather the dumbshit user and the weak OS he's running. For this thing to actually propagate, the user has to :
a) Manually select the file for download, with its VBS extension glaring in their face
b) Manually go into the Gnutella download directory and execute it.
In other words, if you get "infected" by this thing, it's your own damned fault.
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My understanding is that this is at the request of the TiVo people - They've been very favourable to hacking, under the general condition that said hackers don't screw with their revenue stream. Once their revenue stream gets affected, you can bet that they'll lock this beast down tighter than a drum, and then there will be no joy in Mudville for anyone.
Um, have you ever watched TV? The ads are inserted during the programming. Except for PBS, of course.
Extra phone calls? I've had TiVo service for 6 months, and never ONCE been called. By anyone.
And the only information they'd get from UUNet is the fact that, yes, your phone DID dial the UUNet POP and log into the TiVo service last night. Big deal. That's not much use to anyone. Maybe telemarketers who already have your phone number anyway.
I would imagine much of TiVo was designed with this capability ultimately in mind. I wouldn't mind getting the service for a discount if I consented to my viewing habits being sold, or for free if they actually attached my name to it.
Military = They pay you, get 4 valuable years of experience with cool toys. Spend 4 years drinking. They assume you know nothing at the start, give you responsibility at the end.
College = You pay them. Spend 4 years drinking. Employers assume you know nothing at the end.
My 4 years were quite valuable. Air Force and Navy are best for techie-type jobs.
30GB maximum, I expect, is not a function of the hardware, but rather of the OS - Solaris still doesn't support >32GB IDE drives, that I know of.
That's true for any system. All you have to do is hang any multisync monitor off of the SB100 and you're up and running. All the new stuff from sun uses a DB15HD connector that's identical to PCs.
Current incarnations use a Celeron-600.
USB is used for the keyboard/mouse interface for all new Sun machines since the SunRay - So far, that's the sunrays and the sunblades. I believe logitech makes the actual keyboards.
Solaris 8 also supports various other USB devices, which would presumably be listed in the HCL.
The upside to this, of course, is if you work on a Sun layout keyboard, you can hang a USB sun keyboard off your linux or windows desktop and not have to mentally switch to that annoying PC layout all the time. Plus, the mouse has 3 buttons :) The keyboard is P/N 320-1273 (US Unix) and the mouse is P/N 370-3632.
divorce between Christians is not allowed
For it not being allowed, there's an awful lot of it going on - the divorce rate among christians is actually higher(by 5-6%) than it is in the US population as a whole.
There have been camera systems that output to teletypes as far back as the early 1970s, when ASCII was all you could get.
I bought this when it was released several months ago, and it's been a very useful tool. I also got a chance to meet the author at LISA 2000 where he was giving a tutorial on the same topic, as well as speaking at O'Reilly's booth.
Gopher was an absolutely wonderful tool for gathering information, without the encumbrances of graphics, MIDI, Flash., etc.
If google could host an Archie/Veronica search engine in addition to their web index, we'd have a wonderful infrastructure again that is data-centric, instead of so much emphasis on eye candy over content.
Bring Back Gopher!
SGI makes a nice 16:9 digital flat panel.
I've never used carets (^) in web work. only < and >
Heh. One of these days when I get some time to play with it. Life's been a little hectic lately.
Simply run ipchains with a set of rules that firewall that individual machine. There is a script at http://firewall.langistix.com that I wrote which will do precisely that if only given one interface. Combined with intrusion detection, it can be a very powerful tool.
Looks like they'll be losing anybody who uses it to telecommute, if this actually goes into force. Wonderful example of tripping over a dollar bill to pick up the shiny nickel on the ground.
The author needs to learn some logic. GNOME != Linux.
"As the name might imply, their efforts will center around the Gnome desktop manager, with Sun moving to adopt Gnome as the GUI for Solaris. Looks like some big names are getting interested in putting Linux on the desktop."
Just because GNOME is on the desktop means squat to Linux. Linux is only one of several platforms that supports/uses GNOME. This is simply an announcement that several vendors are ditching CDE in favor of something that works across a multitude of platforms. Step out of the bubble once in a while, people, there's a whole Unix world out there.
Yep, they're already doing a great job of emulating Microsoft by choosing a name that is already trademarked.
OpenWindows is a trademark of Sun Microsystems.
Yes, it appears that the D1 is Mandrake's. Of course it doesn't help that pretty much all of these pictures suck. Focus, and hold the damn thing steady. It helps if you point it at something good, too.
Just today, there was an article on cnn.com about a study showing that long-term commited romatic relationships are out, casual short-term sex is in. I expect the general societal trend away from anything long-term is a result of the compressed time scale that we experience in the 'net age. In this scale, a single year feels like 5 to 7 years, because new experiences and technologies are getting thrown at us at an alarming rate. Why think about something a decade from now? that seems like a lifetime away.
a) Manually select the file for download, with its VBS extension glaring in their face
b) Manually go into the Gnutella download directory and execute it.
In other words, if you get "infected" by this thing, it's your own damned fault.
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