In Vernor Vinge's near-future novel Rainbows End, an anarchist group gets fed up with trying to sort out what information about people is correct or not.
Their solution is to flood the net with false information about everyone, making the net a useless resource for gossip.
Available free and legal online: http://vrinimi.org/rainbowsend.html
It was the first piece of spam I'd ever seen and I was so livid I called them and gave them a piece of my mind. Yes, they had a real phone number in the posting.
I had a shell account with Netcom at the time and the users were so ticked off we started a private Usenet group on the Netcom servers so we could moan and bitch about Canter & Siegel.
West coast IPA's from the US typically have even more hops than your average IPA and are sometimes called "double" IPA's. For maximum hop-age try Stone's Ruination IPA from the San Diego area.
This stout has coffee added to it and it is fantastic. Its rated #14 in the top 100 beers of the world at Beer Advocate
If you live in Southern California its fairly easy to find in high-end grocery stores and better liquor stores.
Using SQLObject is very popular with CherryPy users. CherryPy works with just about any templating system out there. This also makes it very easy to port from other Python web frameworks because you can use your existing templates. Subway was created to use CherryPy, SQLObject and Cheetah templates in a very Ruby on Rails-like way, so you don't have to go through the 10 zillion decisions of what to use with CherryPy and tells you "what to do and where to put it".
Its more between Fluxbox and Gnome and KDE. More bells and whistles than Fluxbox, but much less bloat than either KDE or Gnome. It compiles in a fraction of the time of KDE or Gnome too.
I've noticed a few comments advising people not to try Gentoo if you don't have a high speed internet connection.
If you already have an existing Linux distribution installed, you'll have no problem installing Gentoo on another partition, even with a modem.
I was running Red Hat and downloaded the stage tarball, did a chroot on an empty partition and had my system downloading and compiling in the background.
Yeah, it took a long time but it was worth it. I started with Slackware then switched to Red Hat and now I'm very pleased with Gentoo. The portage system is incredible.
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In Vernor Vinge's near-future novel Rainbows End, an anarchist group gets fed up with trying to sort out what information about people is correct or not.
Their solution is to flood the net with false information about everyone, making the net a useless resource for gossip.
Available free and legal online:
http://vrinimi.org/rainbowsend.html
I remember this well.
It was the first piece of spam I'd ever seen and I was so livid I called them and gave them a piece of my mind. Yes, they had a real phone number in the posting.
I had a shell account with Netcom at the time and the users were so ticked off we started a private Usenet group on the Netcom servers so we could moan and bitch about Canter & Siegel.
Well, you're pretty wrong.
/usr/portage/licenses/ |wc -l
Gentoo has 865 licenses covering the packages in their tree as of today:
$ ls -l
865
West coast IPA's from the US typically have even more hops than your average IPA and are sometimes called "double" IPA's. For maximum hop-age try Stone's Ruination IPA from the San Diego area.
This stout has coffee added to it and it is fantastic. Its rated #14 in the top 100 beers of the world at Beer Advocate If you live in Southern California its fairly easy to find in high-end grocery stores and better liquor stores.
Using SQLObject is very popular with CherryPy users. CherryPy works with just about any templating system out there. This also makes it very easy to port from other Python web frameworks because you can use your existing templates.
Subway was created to use CherryPy, SQLObject and Cheetah templates in a very Ruby on Rails-like way, so you don't have to go through the 10 zillion decisions of what to use with CherryPy and tells you "what to do and where to put it".
I stand corrected. I read the whole GWN issue and didn't find a mention of it. Then read the next blurb.
"Seemingly there's no scandals as Robbins managed to finalize the transfer of all Gentoo's IP to the Gentoo Foundation, Inc."
This isn't true. He has agreed to, if his lawyer approves the deal, but we are still waiting for him to transfer all IP and the domain name gentoo.org
Here is the Gentoo Not-for-profit mailing list archive and you'll see there is no mention of it yet.
http://archives.gentoo.org/ml/gentoo-trustees/
The default optimizations are CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
Here's a Python script for generating passwords from pseudo-words that sound like real words plus random digits.
Fairly easy to remember and not vulnerable to dictionary cracks.
Its more between Fluxbox and Gnome and KDE. More bells and whistles than Fluxbox, but much less bloat than either KDE or Gnome. It compiles in a fraction of the time of KDE or Gnome too.
I committed an ebuild to portage about an hour ago
net-p2p/kenosis
This HOWTO will have you browsing the web anonymously in a few minutes. (No jokes about "Not unless you have to emerge X and Firefox first!")
It also explains how to get Gaim and other SOCKS enabled network clients to use tor.
You can simply bookmark the "toggle" bookmarklet at this site and put it on your toolbar. Voila: on/off
It doesn't actually shut off tor, it just tells privoxy to go in passthrough mode, so you don't have to reconfigure Firefox.
...hiring a cracker to put down Whitey?
He wrote about it long before then in a book called The Fountains of Paradise.
Yes, the default theme is based on Thinice 2.0.2.
I tried it with wxPython. Doesn't work for me. Either does gftp. Actually nothing I've tried works right yet, except the examples it came with.
the other 97%
> You need to emerge rsync quite a few times during a new install to ensure you are using the latest version of portage.
This isn't true. You run it once and it actually runs rsync, giving you the latest version of portage.
>The FreeBSD ports system on the other hand are just simple tcsh scripts.
Gentoo's ebuilds are simple Bash scripts.
If Victor's Secret were selling lingerie it would be similar to the FreeCraft case.
I've noticed a few comments advising people not to try Gentoo if you don't have a high speed internet connection.
If you already have an existing Linux distribution
installed, you'll have no problem installing Gentoo on another partition, even with a modem.
I was running Red Hat and downloaded the stage tarball, did a chroot on an empty partition and had my system downloading and compiling in the background.
Yeah, it took a long time but it was worth it. I started with Slackware then switched to Red Hat and now I'm very pleased with Gentoo. The portage system is incredible.
That was written by Frederik Pohl.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/21/208200 &mode=thread
Greg Bear's 'Blood Music', a short story and later a novel, is about computers made from DNA.