Well, I assume this will not be read by many because there are allready 2000 posts on that subject but here is a quick script I wrote to satisfy my porn needs under linux. It uses perl and is not multipart yet (Hey I've spent less than 30 minutes developing this) If you save the code below as nntprtrv.pl and want to get all the pics from al.binaries.pictures.erotica.slashdot.geek, you would do:./nntprtrv al.binaries.pictures.erotica.slashdot.geek You then have an almost unlimited source of porn. Here is the code (sorry for the format but the lameness filter stopped me;)): #!/usr/bin/perl use News::NNTPClient; use Convert::UU qw(uudecode uuencode); use IO::File; print "$ARGV[0] ********\n"; print "$#ARGV\n"; if (@ARGV == 0){ die "Provide a news group name"; } $NG=$ARGV[0]; $NNTPRTRVHOME="/what/eve r/you/like"; $ROOTDATA="/where/you/want/your/porn /pics"; $NNTPSERVER="news.domain.tld" $c = new News::NNTPClient("$NNTPSERVER") or die "failed to connect"; print "on est branché\n"; $lastproc=0; do "last.$NG"; ($first, $last)=($c->group("$NG")) or die "could not get info on this group. check if it exists"; if( $first body($first); if($#body > 40) { ($uustring, $uufile, $uumode)= uudecode(\@body); $fuufile=new IO::File; opendir(TOTO,"$ROOTDATA/$NG") or (mkdir "$ROOTDATA/$NG", 0700) or die ("cannot open or create $ROOTDATA/$NG "); closedir TOTO; $fuufile->open(">$ROOTDATA$NG/$uufile"); $fuuf ile->print($uustring); $fuufile->close;} else {print "article $first does not seem to contain an attachment\n";} $lastprocessed=new IO::File; $lastprocessed->open(">$NNTPRTRVHOME/la st.$NG"); $lastprocessed->print('$lastproc'," = $first;"); $lastprocessed->close;}
And the Morons who Agree to these license just deserve all the spam they will get by agreeing. But what difference does it make? They probably already have tons of spyware running on their machine such as the one included with kazaa.
The company, permissioned Media, is only taking advantage of the fact that people are dumb which is pretty much what every business does anyways. So what difference does it make. We can only applause this company and laugh when you hear that such a thing can happen.
I appologize to her. I juged her too fast. I went to her personnal web site and she does seem like an intelligent woman. Only she seems to have, from her review, a completely different view from the one I have.
What I personnaly want in a distribution is to go from the way the distribution delivered to me to the way I want my computer in the end. This includes the way I(captalized again and again) decide to operate it. For instance Red Hat. I just can't stand RPM's which I find annoying. I prefer by far using the configure-make-[make test]-make install way of doing things and install everything the way I(capitalized) like where I like. RPMS does not provide me that simple flexibility in such an easy way.
So we are just looking a different things and I often forget that not every linux user want to have his linux box as near as possible as a windows box.
The looks might be different but at the end, they're all the same to me. Since I switched to Gentoo, I can have all my binaries compiled with -march=athlon-xp -O3 and other optimizations. This is how GNU/Linux should be IMHO.
But obviously, the reviewer is a troll that doesn't know much about what should be under the hood of a distribution and she only reviews the clothes...
I must agree with you. Physics don't stop at the edge. As physics may not stop at the beginning nor the end of time. We don't even agree on how many dimension we have. Are we even sure we know what is infinitly small or infinitly large? We will never know, our (grand)^129837children might if they survive.
I'm currently reading Greene's book (The elegant Universe). It's a really nice book. Not everyone cant get trough without a good understanding of maths and physics. But I can tell you that half of the people can get to page 200 without problems. It gets tougher when they start talking about Calabi-Yau space or manifolds. Because of this I have to review my analytic and Algebraic gemotry, after many many years out of University.
The book gives you a completely different perspective on the Universe and also gives you brain food for the rest of your life for $15.;)
But don't think you can bring the subject up in a familly meeting. I tried and they trew me out of the party when I started talking about the M-Theory and its 11 dimensions.
Fortunatly my wife knows me and she did not file fore divorce... yet!
I went very briefly through these patents and all I found was a way of using computer tools that already exist. - Digital image - Bar code - Database - Internet - etc. - etc.
Am I missing something or the guy did not invent something but only used tools put at his disposition to reproduce things that have been around for thousands of years: Retail and auction?
What about a patent on writing a story on a computer using a word processor? Could this be patented??? Like with the ebay case, you are assembling tools that exist (the computer and the word processor) to reproduce an activity (writing) that has been done through other means (paper and pen) for ages (thousands of years).
If we have to install a Linux production server, we are foten asked by our managers to use RedHat because they provide support. Not too long ago the same manager would not let us use linux at all because of that support issue. So in the corporate world, if you want support, you pretty much need to go with redhat.
Corporations want to pay for an OS. They don't want anything free, it makes them insucure. They also need a corporation behind the distribution and this corporation is RedHat. So, instead of using Gentoo like I use at home and on my laptop at work, I use redhat on the servers. I don't complain too much because at least we're more and more linux.
On the other side, sysadmins should always try to have their managers to BUY their distributions. It injects money in the opensource community, no matter which distro. Note that donations are often better but it's harder to convince your boss to donate 150$ than to buy a 150$ distro. I think that Redhat contributed a lot to the Linux community and, in that way, cannot possibly be compared to MS. They pay people to develop opensource code. They contributed in making linux easier to install for people who, for some reason, would never install linux if they had to go through the gentoo way of installing it.
And a web server is the exact opposite of the central computer as intended by BT. The web server doesn't care that much about the content as far as hypertext and hyperlinks are concerned. The web browser takes care of them and a web browser could never be defined as a central computer... The judge seemed to have a good understanding of what was put in front of him..
Governments usually have the "large end of the bat" in dictating whatever they want from whoever they want besides maybe other governments.
WHen I read that a governments allows the use of linux as long as the employees don't exchange microsoft proprietary format documents on a regular basis, it just makes me laugh. They could say something like: we only accept documents in pdf format, xml format, html format, rtf format or whatever format there is with open format specs. On top ov being portable from one platform to an other, standard formats are usually less prone to viruses than the microsoft formats. I have yet to receive a macro virus in a pdf file.
kill two birs with one stone and get rid of microsoft formats in governments and corporate communications.
At work, I have taken the habit of returning documents in non standard formats, educating the sender that it is very rude to send a proprietary format document especially one that can transmit viruses. I usually get a good response and more people are using other formats. I would never send a staroffice document to someone and I expect the same courtesy from others.
I bet they are going to patent the any key and claim that no one else can use it.
But maybe only dumb people will be able to use the any key on other platforms without royalty, after all the prior art is from them, these people that were truly looking for it.
Howabout putting this a different way: A growing house in country Z, produces plant X and that happens to be not allowed in United-States. If someone from country USA bought the plant X in country Z and took it home with him would it be "right and proper" for the courts in america to tell the growing organization to stop exports of this plants or to burn all the plants because that kind of plant is illegal?
No Why? Because it is unreasonable. It is the job of government of country USA to prevent import by whatever means they deem fit as THEY have made it illegal. But still the american government keeps putting pressure on other government to stop the groing of a plant as harmless as pot. They make criminal out of free american citizens that smoke a joint once in a while. They even bypass bills voted in different states to legalize or decriminalize it. They track growers from other countries. Why? Because some great thinkers of america believed refeer madness. Well, it seems that in some way, the French government is acting just like the american government. They think they are master of the world and that it is their right to dictate their view to other countries and cultures.
Well I did some fast calculations, I took my current PNG database in it's uncompressed format. It amounts to 1511738 games in an uncompressed format. In uncompressed format the size is 945950820 bytes, which gives me 625 bytes per game. 10Gigagames would amount to aroud 7TB wich is much less then my disk array can hold (XP512).
But then you need to evaluate all the possible positions. I once read that it was something like 10^128 possible positions (not possible game). There is a big distinction betwee the 2 because games are analysed by position by position and do not depend on a particular sequence. i.e. the analysis after:
1.e4,e5
2.NF3,Nc6
3.d4,exd4
would be the same as:
1.d4, e5
2.NF3,Nc6
3.e5, exd4
but it's still 10^128 positions. and requires a LOT LOT of storage. You have 64 squares, and 12 different pieces (black:pawn, bishop, knight, rook, King, Queen. Same for white)
If you number the squares like this:
a1=1
a2=2
a3=3...
b1=9
b2=10...
h7=63
h8=64.
and pieces like this:
wpawn=1
wbishop=2
wkight=3...
bqueen=11
bking=12
You could the use 2 bytes for the state of any occupied square.
The maximum number of pieces on a board is 32. THis position requires 64 bytes.
The minimum position requires 4 bytes and is a draw.
All the othe positions amount between these limits
But just for the exercise let's say that one finds a way to represent all positions in 4 bytes then it's still 10^128 * 4bytes of data and it is in fact a HUGE amount.
Now the game of GO is estimated to have 10^170 possible positions. So the human kind is still safe from the supremacy of computers for game playing.!!!
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Oh and you can use rdesktop for the remote terminal thing of windows.
TO VPN into work, go to www.netlock.com, they even have the Nortel COntivity access client that supports deflate.
Well, I assume this will not be read by many because there are allready 2000 posts on that subject but here is a quick script I wrote to satisfy my porn needs under linux. It uses perl and is not multipart yet (Hey I've spent less than 30 minutes developing this) If you save the code below as nntprtrv.pl and want to get all the pics from al.binaries.pictures.erotica.slashdot.geek, you would do: ./nntprtrv al.binaries.pictures.erotica.slashdot.geek You then have an almost unlimited source of porn. ;)):e r/you/like";n /pics"; ;f ile->print($uustring);a st.$NG") ;
Here is the code (sorry for the format but the lameness filter stopped me
#!/usr/bin/perl
use News::NNTPClient;
use Convert::UU qw(uudecode uuencode);
use IO::File;
print "$ARGV[0] ********\n";
print "$#ARGV\n";
if (@ARGV == 0){
die "Provide a news group name";
}
$NG=$ARGV[0];
$NNTPRTRVHOME="/what/ev
$ROOTDATA="/where/you/want/your/por
$NNTPSERVER="news.domain.tld"
$c = new News::NNTPClient("$NNTPSERVER") or die "failed to connect";
print "on est branché\n";
$lastproc=0;
do "last.$NG";
($first, $last)=($c->group("$NG")) or die "could not get info on this group. check if it exists";
if( $first body($first);
if($#body > 40) {
($uustring, $uufile, $uumode)= uudecode(\@body);
$fuufile=new IO::File;
opendir(TOTO,"$ROOTDATA/$NG") or (mkdir "$ROOTDATA/$NG", 0700) or die ("cannot open or create $ROOTDATA/$NG ");
closedir TOTO
$fuufile->open(">$ROOTDATA$NG/$uufile");
$fuu
$fuufile->close;}
else {print "article $first does not seem to contain an attachment\n";}
$lastprocessed=new IO::File;
$lastprocessed->open(">$NNTPRTRVHOME/l
$lastprocessed->print('$lastproc'," = $first;");
$lastprocessed->close;}
And the Morons who Agree to these license just deserve all the spam they will get by agreeing. But what difference does it make? They probably already have tons of spyware running on their machine such as the one included with kazaa.
The company, permissioned Media, is only taking advantage of the fact that people are dumb which is pretty much what every business does anyways. So what difference does it make. We can only applause this company and laugh when you hear that such a thing can happen.
I appologize to her. I juged her too fast. I went to her personnal web site and she does seem like an intelligent woman. Only she seems to have, from her review, a completely different view from the one I have.
What I personnaly want in a distribution is to go from the way the distribution delivered to me to the way I want my computer in the end. This includes the way I(captalized again and again) decide to operate it. For instance Red Hat. I just can't stand RPM's which I find annoying. I prefer by far using the configure-make-[make test]-make install way of doing things and install everything the way I(capitalized) like where I like. RPMS does not provide me that simple flexibility in such an easy way.
So we are just looking a different things and I often forget that not every linux user want to have his linux box as near as possible as a windows box.
The looks might be different but at the end, they're all the same to me. Since I switched to Gentoo, I can have all my binaries compiled with -march=athlon-xp -O3 and other optimizations. This is how GNU/Linux should be IMHO.
But obviously, the reviewer is a troll that doesn't know much about what should be under the hood of a distribution and she only reviews the clothes...
I must agree with you. Physics don't stop at the edge. As physics may not stop at the beginning nor the end of time. We don't even agree on how many dimension we have. Are we even sure we know what is infinitly small or infinitly large? We will never know, our (grand)^129837children might if they survive.
:)
But it's still a fun subject
Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, (now clapping hands in rythm) developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developes...
WOOOOOOHHOOOOOOOOOO! I have 4 words for you "I, LOVE, THIS, COMPANY" Woooooooohooooooooooooooooo!
This link gives a highlevel but nice intro to timetravel and how it might be possible or not.
i me trav.htm
http://www.biols.susx.ac.uk/home/John_Gribbin/t
I'm currently reading Greene's book (The elegant Universe).
;)
It's a really nice book. Not everyone cant get trough without a good understanding of maths and physics. But I can tell you that half of the people can get to page 200 without problems. It gets tougher when they start talking about Calabi-Yau space or manifolds. Because of this I have to review my analytic and Algebraic gemotry, after many many years out of University.
The book gives you a completely different perspective on the Universe and also gives you brain food for the rest of your life for $15.
But don't think you can bring the subject up in a familly meeting. I tried and they trew me out of the party when I started talking about the M-Theory and its 11 dimensions.
Fortunatly my wife knows me and she did not file fore divorce... yet!
I went very briefly through these patents and all I found was a way of using computer tools that already exist.
- Digital image
- Bar code
- Database
- Internet
- etc.
- etc.
Am I missing something or the guy did not invent something but only used tools put at his disposition to reproduce things that have been around for thousands of years: Retail and auction?
What about a patent on writing a story on a computer using a word processor? Could this be patented??? Like with the ebay case, you are assembling tools that exist (the computer and the word processor) to reproduce an activity (writing) that has been done through other means (paper and pen) for ages (thousands of years).
Really, I don't get it...
I must be dumb.
If we have to install a Linux production server, we are foten asked by our managers to use RedHat because they provide support. Not too long ago the same manager would not let us use linux at all because of that support issue. So in the corporate world, if you want support, you pretty much need to go with redhat.
Corporations want to pay for an OS. They don't want anything free, it makes them insucure. They also need a corporation behind the distribution and this corporation is RedHat. So, instead of using Gentoo like I use at home and on my laptop at work, I use redhat on the servers. I don't complain too much because at least we're more and more linux.
On the other side, sysadmins should always try to have their managers to BUY their distributions. It injects money in the opensource community, no matter which distro. Note that donations are often better but it's harder to convince your boss to donate 150$ than to buy a 150$ distro.
I think that Redhat contributed a lot to the Linux community and, in that way, cannot possibly be compared to MS. They pay people to develop opensource code. They contributed in making linux easier to install for people who, for some reason, would never install linux if they had to go through the gentoo way of installing it.
And a web server is the exact opposite of the central computer as intended by BT. The web server doesn't care that much about the content as far as hypertext and hyperlinks are concerned. The web browser takes care of them and a web browser could never be defined as a central computer... The judge seemed to have a good understanding of what was put in front of him..
Governments usually have the "large end of the bat" in dictating whatever they want from whoever they want besides maybe other governments.
WHen I read that a governments allows the use of linux as long as the employees don't exchange microsoft proprietary format documents on a regular basis, it just makes me laugh. They could say something like: we only accept documents in pdf format, xml format, html format, rtf format or whatever format there is with open format specs. On top ov being portable from one platform to an other, standard formats are usually less prone to viruses than the microsoft formats. I have yet to receive a macro virus in a pdf file.
kill two birs with one stone and get rid of microsoft formats in governments and corporate communications.
At work, I have taken the habit of returning documents in non standard formats, educating the sender that it is very rude to send a proprietary format document especially one that can transmit viruses. I usually get a good response and more people are using other formats. I would never send a staroffice document to someone and I expect the same courtesy from others.
I bet they are going to patent the any key and claim that no one else can use it. But maybe only dumb people will be able to use the any key on other platforms without royalty, after all the prior art is from them, these people that were truly looking for it.
Since the site seems to be slashdoted and I can't see the specs, I'll ask you this:
Do you hook it up to the infinite cable or does it come with a "hat dish"?
Thanks, because it my make a difference for me.
The way I use opt is: for instance foobar-1.2.3:
/opt/foobar /opt/foobar-1.2.3
/opt/foobar-1.2.3 /opt/foobar
./configure --prefix=/opt/foobar
make
make test
make install
mv
ln -s
this way if I ever need to downgrade, it's as easy as replacing a symlink
...When Linux can support hot plug-and-play...
;)
Don't know what to use it for but I won't argue on this one even if I naver had any needs for it.
...multiple networks...
I've been using multiple networks for years, reconfiguring routes, ip's, using ip aliases... What are you talking about here?
... Decent powersaving...
I have decent powersaving on my laptop. ???
NOw I bet you can fully convert
Don't you think dos 3.3 is dead? Has the code become less functional? hmm.. ;)
Howabout putting this a different way: A growing house in country Z, produces plant X and that happens to be not allowed in United-States. If someone from country USA bought the plant X in country Z and took it home with him would it be "right and proper" for the courts in america to tell the growing organization to stop exports of this plants or to burn all the plants because that kind of plant is illegal? No Why? Because it is unreasonable. It is the job of government of country USA to prevent import by whatever means they deem fit as THEY have made it illegal. But still the american government keeps putting pressure on other government to stop the groing of a plant as harmless as pot. They make criminal out of free american citizens that smoke a joint once in a while. They even bypass bills voted in different states to legalize or decriminalize it. They track growers from other countries. Why? Because some great thinkers of america believed refeer madness. Well, it seems that in some way, the French government is acting just like the american government. They think they are master of the world and that it is their right to dictate their view to other countries and cultures.
Well I did some fast calculations, I took my current PNG database in it's uncompressed format. It amounts to 1511738 games in an uncompressed format. In uncompressed format the size is 945950820 bytes, which gives me 625 bytes per game. 10Gigagames would amount to aroud 7TB wich is much less then my disk array can hold (XP512). But then you need to evaluate all the possible positions. I once read that it was something like 10^128 possible positions (not possible game). There is a big distinction betwee the 2 because games are analysed by position by position and do not depend on a particular sequence. i.e. the analysis after: 1.e4,e5 2.NF3,Nc6 3.d4,exd4 would be the same as: 1.d4, e5 2.NF3,Nc6 3.e5, exd4 but it's still 10^128 positions. and requires a LOT LOT of storage. You have 64 squares, and 12 different pieces (black:pawn, bishop, knight, rook, King, Queen. Same for white) If you number the squares like this: a1=1 a2=2 a3=3... b1=9 b2=10... h7=63 h8=64. and pieces like this: wpawn=1 wbishop=2 wkight=3... bqueen=11 bking=12 You could the use 2 bytes for the state of any occupied square. The maximum number of pieces on a board is 32. THis position requires 64 bytes. The minimum position requires 4 bytes and is a draw. All the othe positions amount between these limits But just for the exercise let's say that one finds a way to represent all positions in 4 bytes then it's still 10^128 * 4bytes of data and it is in fact a HUGE amount. Now the game of GO is estimated to have 10^170 possible positions. So the human kind is still safe from the supremacy of computers for game playing.!!!