Well, we've tried virtually every approach. Pretty much, if the content is viewable, it can be stored.
Using Java to display every image on a site isn't exactly ideal. That'll bog down a lot of users, and some even don't support Java for whatever reason.
We used a java applet for a video feed at one site. It was a few days after we put that up, that someone was already posting captures from it. They dug up a program that would capture a pre-defined space on the screen at an interval. So they'd simply mark where the feed was to be, and then leave it running for a while.
Really, anyone can copy anything that's on the Internet, just like anywhere else. The Internet just makes it easier to make copies.
They're implying Google is facilitating the action. Because Google is a good search engine, if you search for '"some porn site" passwordz', you may actually find it. And if you search for "some porn site" in their images search, you may find their images.
It's really stupid. Google isn't in the business of filtering what they find (generally), they're in the business of showing an index of what's available on the Internet.
Oh, I definately agree. But it makes the news to sue Google. It doesn't make the news to sue some schmuch in a third world country who is trying to make it big by putting up some stolen pictures on a web site.
They'll lose in court. But they've already gotten big press out of this. I knew the company existed, but I'd bet most people reading here didn't.
It may be legal to print it, but it's illegal to pass it as real money, regardless if it's a vending machine or a real human.
There was a news story not too long ago about a lady trying to pass novelty $200 bills. Here is the arrest report. If I remember the full story correctly, she had actually passed a few of them, and got real change from them.:)
It's all in what you present something to be. You can go to jail for armed robbery, if you had a hotdog in your hand during the commission of a robbery, as long as someone believed it was really a gun. Just the idea of the gun is enough in most states.
Well, they did admit that it was technology from 1984. I'd say it's a slow news day. Bush didn't declare war on anyone new. The elections are over. They're just searching for something to fill the space.:)
I would guess it's the serial number of your printer. I've never bothered to actually look at that.
As for the feel of paper, people really don't pay attention to it. I've received fake bills from convinence stores before, but there's no way in hell I'd turn it in. The person that reports it loses the money.
I did a test one day to see how well people pay attention. I actually printed one side of a $10 bill. I wrote "fake" on the other side, just to make it clear that it wasn't a real bill. I crumpled it up, and flattened it out a few times, and put it with my other money. It looked pretty good, except for the fact that one side was white.
I then laid it on my desk, and let people examine it in passing conversation. Stuff like "You wanna make $10?" "Sure", and they'd grab the bill and stuff it in their pocket. Then I'd have to tell them, "Look at the back of that bill", and then they realized it wasn't real.
When I was done playing, I tore it up, and threw it away. I'm not a counterfitter, I'm just a little bit of a prankster.:)
They have the pens to check the paper, but people don't use them on anything smaller than a $20. Is it worth pennies to print up a sheet of $10 bills? Sure, especially in the fact that $10 bills won't get a second look. If you try to pass $100 bills, they usually make like you're trying to rob them. I sometimes get $100's from the bank, and even then, knowing it just came from the bank, it's sometimes hard to spend.
Well, there are two things that they're complaining about. I may have a bit more understanding of this, since I do quite a bit of work with the adult industry.
Joe user wants into some-porn-site.com, he goes to google and types in "some-porn-site.com passwordz", and probably gets 1000 responses with sites that are listing their 'hacked' passwords.
They get the majority of these passwords with programs like Access Diver (I think that's the name), and a very few where the hackers actually find an exploit in the billing companies password submission script, to insert their own passwords. These passwords are almost never gathered from the password itself. Hell, the format for an Apache password file is [user]:[crypted password], so the password file really doesn't do you much good, other than giving you a list of usernames to plug into Access Diver.
A few sites I deal with show up regularly on about 1000 of these sites. Honest. It's a pretty serious problem for a lot of adult webmasters. We have routines in place to take care of the problem before it becomes a problem, but 10,000 extra users in an hour can be enough to knock a server off the Internet (the slashdot effect is nothing compared to these sites), and if undetected quickly can effectively shut down a site simply because of the bandwidth bill.
Our passwords die after about 3 minutes of being abused, but back in the day, we'd see over 100k users come in from one 'stolen' password. We still see the users coming in, but they're all being rejected, which is fine by me. Hell, the biggest site they hit is only $25/year. Who can't afford $2/month for porn?
It only takes a half way decent programmer a little bit of time to fix this. Hell, I wrote the first version of a protection script years ago, in about an hour.
But, this was only half of their complaint. What they're trying to pitch a fit about is the fact that Google links their copyrighted images on a site that has them illegally posted.
We get a lot of this too. People steal the images from our big sites, even though they have a watermark on them, in them, etc, etc. These people don't even bother to rename the pictures most of the time, so they still have our serialized filename on them. Brilliant. Anyways, a lot of these people are hard to take down. We can complain to ISP's, but sometimes that's close to impossible. I don't speak Russian, Chineses, etc, etc, so how do I call to complain at a foreign ISP? We keep a small staff fairly busy tracking down these sites, and trying to get our content removed.
But the real truth is, he hopes to make some money off of Google, which he'll probably never see. The bigger truth is that eWeek carried the story, and it was picked up by AP, which means it'll show up in publications all over the world. It'll mostly be carried as either a novelty story, or something of how evil porn is to attack Google. Regardless, his site name has been thrown up in front of millions of people. He's charging $25.50/month. If he gets even a small percentage of those people to buy, that's mad money. Well, the really mad money is in the number of people who will buy a subscription, forget they have it and let it recur for years. Or the ones too embarassed to call to cancel, and just live with it til their wife finds out.:)
So Slashdot just helped him make a fortune. How many horny girlfriend-less guys are there on here, who would pay for a bit of porn.:) Lucky for me, I have a girlfriend, and I have all the free porn a guy could ever want. It's really tough doing work for so many diverse companies, I get just about anything that's Internet based for free.:)
There have been news stories about serial numbers being embedded in printing for years. The first I read of it, at least 7 or 8 years ago was the same yellow microprint from color inkjet printers, which was mandated by the U.S. Gov't, to prevent counterfit bills from being printed.
All I've ever done myself is scan in bills at the highest resolution, to show people the microprint (note the double lines around the portrait, one is really text).
It actually doesn't stop anything, people still print them. I remember back in high school there was a story in the local paper about some kids getting dragged away by the Secret Service for photocopying $1 bills and putting them in soda machines. They only had to do one side, and it didn't care about the color, so easy drinks. Our school had a better 'hack'. If you took a water pistol and sprayed water into the bill slot, it'd short out the electronics of it, and you could push buttons all day to get free drinks. I saw it done a few times.:)
But hey, just assume that anything you print is being tracked. Chances are pretty good that nothing you print is going to be all that interesting.
Extremely paranoid? Pay cash for your printer, and get someone else to actually purchase it. Or don't leave home, because 'they' may be watching. Ha!
Well, it was an arbitrary number filling our arbitrary example. I didn't install each distro to count how many processes were running to reply to a/. message.
But as you say, you have 142 processes. Now carefully go through those and figure out what doesn't really need ot be there, and kill them. You'll find your machine runs faster now.
Well, I just replied to another pots, but I'll say it here so you'll see it.
You're on a system with 512Mb RAM and 128Mb Swap.
10 extra tasks running, each one using 1Mb RAM, not a big deal.
1000 extra tasks running, each one using 1Mb RAM, you've run out of memory.
I've been on Apache boxes that were pretty much in that state. They've been configured to allow too many Apache processes to run. Now even though all the tasks are sleeping, the machine is effectively unusable.
You can reach this fine line of usability without 1000 of the same task.
On my home machine right now (AMD64 3200+, 1Gb RAM, Gentoo), it's using 256Mb RAM, with 113 processes running. Of course X is a large part of that, but if I start killing off processes that I'm not really using (like Evolution, a few of these xterms, and GAIM), I could be using a bit less CPU time, and a lot less memory.
Start up something that'll spawn 1000 idle tasks. Each task uses up 1Mb RAM, and you only have 512Mb RAM and 128Mb swap.
It's overkill, but hopefully it will illustrate my point a little bit. Just because you're thinking "The process is idle, it doesn't hurt anything", sure, it's idle, and hopefully not hurting anything, but if you have enough of them, it can cause a problem you weren't thinking about.
Some processes don't just sit there completely idle. They aren't just waiting... waiting... waiting... Sometimes they wait, then do some cleanup routine, then log something, then stat files (or whatever). That takes time. Enough of them, and you have a problem.
The majority of machines that I work on are high-load machines. I'm sorry that most readers on here are Windows users, and the extend of the rest of your experience is installing Linux on your home machine in a dual-boot setup, so you can still play your Windows video games.
But, I really don't need to defend myself. My paycheck is proof that I know what I'm talking about. If I didn't, the company would fail or I'd lose my job, and then I wouldn't have my paycheck. This paycheck has been coming in every week for many years now.
Last time I went through installing all the distros I could was about 6 months ago.
And yes, you've been able to install Slackware onto any software raid setup you'd like for many years. Not GUI friendly, but it doesn't need to be. I can be very specific about what I wanted, and not have to wonder, "Did the GUI figure out what I was telling it?"
I used to run a P-75 as my home firewall for years. It did NAT and had an obnoxious set of firewall rules to protect itself from the outside. Besides that, it had absolutely no services that you could connect to from outside. It was very nice.
My ex-girlfriend had a Slackware firewall on a 486/25 for a long time, til the motherboard finally went. The only painful part of that was compiling kernels on like 16Mb RAM.;)
> Sorry, I'm a Slackware user (since '96) and you are the one who is wrong here.
I think we're just splitting hairs here, and actually agreeing. The finer points can be argued ad nauseum, and are probably less than constructive.
I do like your idea of the USB drive. Ahh, more ideas for future playing. I've been carrying my SSH keys (and a few other things) around on a usb thumb drive for a few months now. It's been very useful. I sitll haven't managed to fill it up yet.
Oh and yes, I've been a Slackware user for years. So long that I actually am not exactly sure what year I started. It was when edition 1 of "Linux Unleased" first hit the shelves and had an ancient version of Slackware bundled with it. Well, ancient now. It was modern then. I usually joke and say it was Slack 1, even though I know I'm wrong. I can't seem to find 1st edition online, but second edition came out in 1996.
A hint to which sound card you had would be helpful.
# lspci -v # cd/usr/src/linux # make menuconfig
Device Drivers -->
Sound -->
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture -->
PCI devices -->
[Click your card here, use Help if your confused]
# make # make modules_install # cd arch/i386/boot # cp bzImage/boot/vmlinuz (if you use LILO) # lilo # shutdown -r now
And don't complain about the fact that you have to type a couple keystrokes. If your card is that obscure, you probably have to spend quite a while trying to find the drivers online, and then clicking more [Continue] [Next] [Yes] and [I agree] buttons than you could remember.
I like my music too. I listen to my CD's, I listen to MP3's (of CD's I own), I listen to Shoutcast (my favorite)
Take a warm fuzzy distro and install it. do a 'ps -auwwx' and look at all the crap running.
Take Slackware, install it like I would (install everything, don't let anything but SSH start as services). Then recompile the kernel specifically for your platform. Compile everything you *NEED* into the kernel, and don't make anything as modules. Now boot. It'll boot faster, run faster, and be far more enjoyable.
Why start and use things that you don't need? No printer, why CUPS or lpd? No SMB network, why samba? Do you really need/want Apache, MySQL, pcmcia services (on a desktop), etc, etc, etc, if you just want a fast running machine? Nope.
Most distros have fallen into the Microsoft way of thinking. Go ahead, start up as much crap as you can. They use might use it someday (or probably won't). If it's slow, they'll buy a bigger, faster computer.
The biggest reason for me to upgrade my home machines:
1) to support more drive space for things I work on. 2) to compile things faster and very occasionally 3) Better video support for the games I occasionally play.
Again, that's Linux. I'm not part of that Windows gaming world, where you're almost expected to be running the latest/greatest hardware (and overclocking it at that) to play your games.
I've been told I am, and the girls that I've known that use Slackware sure were. I guess once your talents are so high, you just excel in everything.:)
Funny, I saw the story, wanted to whine about Slack not showing up, and the first post is for Slack!
Maybe it's a bit too.... hardcore?
Every time I read a list like this, Slackware is marked as the oldest, hardest, and favorite among real administrators, hackers, and geeks who know what they're doing. No sissy graphic installer. No warm fuzzy configuration tools. You want to configure something, you just do it and know it's done right, rather than pointing and clicking, and wondering if what you just pointed & clicked did what you thought it would do.
Slackware comes with most everything, and what it doesn't have isn't a problem. Slackware users know how to compile their own stuff, beyond trying to 'emerge', 'apt-get', or whatever to let some warm-fuzzy installer script attempt it.
I use Slackware on just about everything, and those that know me know that's a *LOT* of machines. The only real exception are my AMD64 machines, that I'm still waiting for Slack to have a 64bit version. I know it'll be coming soon enough, I just can't wait. Until then, they're Gentoo. No offense to the Gentoo guys, but I feel warmer and fuzzier knowing I can get my OS installed in minutes. We have a hacked-up version of Slackware that we install on our servers that is done in 5 minutes. That's pretty hard to beat.
There was a thing, I believe in Popular Science, about someone who was doing exactly that. I guess the idea didn't fly back then. Basically, they replaced regular windows (the glass product, not the OS) with large LCD's.
There was another one that did something with using an electromagnetic field, and a special material. The material, when not charged was opaque. Apply a charge, and it's completely transparent. Heck if I remember what it was. Unfortunately, it was a translucent white, not a black like youre hoping for.
My cheaper solution than all of this was to use poster board from Target (like kids would use in a class project), and taped it over the windows with packing tape (I had it from the last move). It was white on the outside, so it didn't look too bad. Then I covered the window inside with dark color, and then closed the blinds over that.
It wasn't that I can't handle sunlight. The vampirism hasn't set in quite that bad yet. But, the wall of my bedroom with large single pane windows was facing east southeast. It made for a very uncomfortable morning. Very bright (like, you couldn't tell if you turned on the bedroom lights or not), and the temp would raise by at least 15 degrees. It wasn't a well built apartment, by any stretch of the imagination. I just didn't like waking up with it being hot and bright first thing in the morning, especially when I usually don't go to sleep until about 4am or so most days.
MCSE's will always have more work to do than Linux people.
Imagine 5 guys doing windows updates on 1000 WinNT/Win2k machines. (point, click, reboot, repeat)
Add 100 domains to IIS, and fix the problems. That'll keep 'em busy for a while.
A single Linux guy would write a scripted solution, and take the rest of the week to read Slashdot and visit the local pub.:)
Of course, bosses see this, and get upset. Why do the Windows guys work more? They usually don't comprehend it's because us Linux guys can make our lives easier on ourselves. If it takes longer to do something that to write a script to do it automatically, we'll script it, and not worry about it again.:)
I quote: "Rather, it is intended to allay the piracy and business concerns that prevent the studios from releasing films to cable pay-per-view services on the same day they appear on DVD. Such issues also have made premium cable networks reluctant to offer on-demand services that would allow subscribers to watch any episode of, say, ``Six Feet Under'' they choose, at any time."
I'm talking about watching something a few days later, not 6 years later. They're claiming that it's a piracy concern, but what's the ratio of pirates vs. normal users? Shouldn't the address the concern a bit better, rather than screwing the normal users?
How about if the cable and digital satellite companies upgraded the receivers to put a digital fingerprint on anything viewed, with say a company id and the account number of the user? Wouldn't that be a more ideal way to track pirates? When the movie hits the black market, they can identify "010101 998877665544" = "Bumbstick Cable Company - Joe User, Bumbstick Nebraska". The only person in the world who should have a copy of that movie in any form is Joe User. Now Joe User is liable for their losses. Putting a 7 day hold-time on TiVo isn't a solution. Hell, if I wanted to pirate a movie, I'd just get a DVD recorder, record it live, and start burning off my copies on the spot.
Myself, as a DirecTV user, I have a DirecTiVo. I save shows on it. I watch them at my leasure. I don't make copies for anyone. I pay the fee (as part of my DirecTV bill) for the ability to do this. I paid extra money for the DirecTiVo receiver. I paid for the right to watch at my leasure, if it's today, tommorrow, or two weeks from now.
Generally I don't wait a long time to watch something, but I *CAN*. The only example in recent history I can think of is watching the movie "Ghost Ship". I paid for it, watched the first 5 minutes of it, and got an emergency call that had to be delt with immediately. I didn't get back to watching the movie for a month. I paid for it, why can't I watch the whole movie? Because they want to put a time limit on the license? I'd be just as fond of buying a movie with a 2 year license on it. After 2 years, the DVD doesn't work? Wasn't one of the distribution companies trying the two day DVD, where after two days, the media became corrupt? That worked out really well, didn't it?
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Well, we've tried virtually every approach. Pretty much, if the content is viewable, it can be stored.
Using Java to display every image on a site isn't exactly ideal. That'll bog down a lot of users, and some even don't support Java for whatever reason.
We used a java applet for a video feed at one site. It was a few days after we put that up, that someone was already posting captures from it. They dug up a program that would capture a pre-defined space on the screen at an interval. So they'd simply mark where the feed was to be, and then leave it running for a while.
Really, anyone can copy anything that's on the Internet, just like anywhere else. The Internet just makes it easier to make copies.
They're implying Google is facilitating the action. Because Google is a good search engine, if you search for '"some porn site" passwordz', you may actually find it. And if you search for "some porn site" in their images search, you may find their images.
It's really stupid. Google isn't in the business of filtering what they find (generally), they're in the business of showing an index of what's available on the Internet.
Oh, I definately agree. But it makes the news to sue Google. It doesn't make the news to sue some schmuch in a third world country who is trying to make it big by putting up some stolen pictures on a web site.
They'll lose in court. But they've already gotten big press out of this. I knew the company existed, but I'd bet most people reading here didn't.
It may be legal to print it, but it's illegal to pass it as real money, regardless if it's a vending machine or a real human.
There was a news story not too long ago about a lady trying to pass novelty $200 bills. Here is the arrest report. If I remember the full story correctly, she had actually passed a few of them, and got real change from them.
It's all in what you present something to be. You can go to jail for armed robbery, if you had a hotdog in your hand during the commission of a robbery, as long as someone believed it was really a gun. Just the idea of the gun is enough in most states.
Well, they did admit that it was technology from 1984. I'd say it's a slow news day. Bush didn't declare war on anyone new. The elections are over. They're just searching for something to fill the space. :)
I would guess it's the serial number of your printer. I've never bothered to actually look at that.
As for the feel of paper, people really don't pay attention to it. I've received fake bills from convinence stores before, but there's no way in hell I'd turn it in. The person that reports it loses the money.
I did a test one day to see how well people pay attention. I actually printed one side of a $10 bill. I wrote "fake" on the other side, just to make it clear that it wasn't a real bill. I crumpled it up, and flattened it out a few times, and put it with my other money. It looked pretty good, except for the fact that one side was white.
I then laid it on my desk, and let people examine it in passing conversation. Stuff like "You wanna make $10?" "Sure", and they'd grab the bill and stuff it in their pocket. Then I'd have to tell them, "Look at the back of that bill", and then they realized it wasn't real.
When I was done playing, I tore it up, and threw it away. I'm not a counterfitter, I'm just a little bit of a prankster.
They have the pens to check the paper, but people don't use them on anything smaller than a $20. Is it worth pennies to print up a sheet of $10 bills? Sure, especially in the fact that $10 bills won't get a second look. If you try to pass $100 bills, they usually make like you're trying to rob them. I sometimes get $100's from the bank, and even then, knowing it just came from the bank, it's sometimes hard to spend.
Well, there are two things that they're complaining about. I may have a bit more understanding of this, since I do quite a bit of work with the adult industry.
:)
:) Lucky for me, I have a girlfriend, and I have all the free porn a guy could ever want. It's really tough doing work for so many diverse companies, I get just about anything that's Internet based for free. :)
Joe user wants into some-porn-site.com, he goes to google and types in "some-porn-site.com passwordz", and probably gets 1000 responses with sites that are listing their 'hacked' passwords.
They get the majority of these passwords with programs like Access Diver (I think that's the name), and a very few where the hackers actually find an exploit in the billing companies password submission script, to insert their own passwords. These passwords are almost never gathered from the password itself. Hell, the format for an Apache password file is [user]:[crypted password], so the password file really doesn't do you much good, other than giving you a list of usernames to plug into Access Diver.
A few sites I deal with show up regularly on about 1000 of these sites. Honest. It's a pretty serious problem for a lot of adult webmasters. We have routines in place to take care of the problem before it becomes a problem, but 10,000 extra users in an hour can be enough to knock a server off the Internet (the slashdot effect is nothing compared to these sites), and if undetected quickly can effectively shut down a site simply because of the bandwidth bill.
Our passwords die after about 3 minutes of being abused, but back in the day, we'd see over 100k users come in from one 'stolen' password. We still see the users coming in, but they're all being rejected, which is fine by me. Hell, the biggest site they hit is only $25/year. Who can't afford $2/month for porn?
It only takes a half way decent programmer a little bit of time to fix this. Hell, I wrote the first version of a protection script years ago, in about an hour.
But, this was only half of their complaint. What they're trying to pitch a fit about is the fact that Google links their copyrighted images on a site that has them illegally posted.
We get a lot of this too. People steal the images from our big sites, even though they have a watermark on them, in them, etc, etc. These people don't even bother to rename the pictures most of the time, so they still have our serialized filename on them. Brilliant. Anyways, a lot of these people are hard to take down. We can complain to ISP's, but sometimes that's close to impossible. I don't speak Russian, Chineses, etc, etc, so how do I call to complain at a foreign ISP? We keep a small staff fairly busy tracking down these sites, and trying to get our content removed.
But the real truth is, he hopes to make some money off of Google, which he'll probably never see. The bigger truth is that eWeek carried the story, and it was picked up by AP, which means it'll show up in publications all over the world. It'll mostly be carried as either a novelty story, or something of how evil porn is to attack Google. Regardless, his site name has been thrown up in front of millions of people. He's charging $25.50/month. If he gets even a small percentage of those people to buy, that's mad money. Well, the really mad money is in the number of people who will buy a subscription, forget they have it and let it recur for years. Or the ones too embarassed to call to cancel, and just live with it til their wife finds out.
So Slashdot just helped him make a fortune. How many horny girlfriend-less guys are there on here, who would pay for a bit of porn.
This is old news.
There have been news stories about serial numbers being embedded in printing for years. The first I read of it, at least 7 or 8 years ago was the same yellow microprint from color inkjet printers, which was mandated by the U.S. Gov't, to prevent counterfit bills from being printed.
All I've ever done myself is scan in bills at the highest resolution, to show people the microprint (note the double lines around the portrait, one is really text).
It actually doesn't stop anything, people still print them. I remember back in high school there was a story in the local paper about some kids getting dragged away by the Secret Service for photocopying $1 bills and putting them in soda machines. They only had to do one side, and it didn't care about the color, so easy drinks. Our school had a better 'hack'. If you took a water pistol and sprayed water into the bill slot, it'd short out the electronics of it, and you could push buttons all day to get free drinks. I saw it done a few times.
But hey, just assume that anything you print is being tracked. Chances are pretty good that nothing you print is going to be all that interesting.
Extremely paranoid? Pay cash for your printer, and get someone else to actually purchase it. Or don't leave home, because 'they' may be watching. Ha!
No, but if you're not careful, it could accelerate the particles of your bacon to the speed of light, and blast 'em through your neighbors wall.
Ok, maybe I'm not clear on what one of these things does either. I looked around on the net, and am still like, "ummm".
Well, it was an arbitrary number filling our arbitrary example. I didn't install each distro to count how many processes were running to reply to a /. message.
But as you say, you have 142 processes. Now carefully go through those and figure out what doesn't really need ot be there, and kill them. You'll find your machine runs faster now.
Great comeback. Very creative. You're still in 3rd grade, right?
Well, I just replied to another pots, but I'll say it here so you'll see it.
You're on a system with 512Mb RAM and 128Mb Swap.
10 extra tasks running, each one using 1Mb RAM, not a big deal.
1000 extra tasks running, each one using 1Mb RAM, you've run out of memory.
I've been on Apache boxes that were pretty much in that state. They've been configured to allow too many Apache processes to run. Now even though all the tasks are sleeping, the machine is effectively unusable.
You can reach this fine line of usability without 1000 of the same task.
On my home machine right now (AMD64 3200+, 1Gb RAM, Gentoo), it's using 256Mb RAM, with 113 processes running. Of course X is a large part of that, but if I start killing off processes that I'm not really using (like Evolution, a few of these xterms, and GAIM), I could be using a bit less CPU time, and a lot less memory.
Ok, try this.
Start up something that'll spawn 1000 idle tasks. Each task uses up 1Mb RAM, and you only have 512Mb RAM and 128Mb swap.
It's overkill, but hopefully it will illustrate my point a little bit. Just because you're thinking "The process is idle, it doesn't hurt anything", sure, it's idle, and hopefully not hurting anything, but if you have enough of them, it can cause a problem you weren't thinking about.
Some processes don't just sit there completely idle. They aren't just waiting
The majority of machines that I work on are high-load machines. I'm sorry that most readers on here are Windows users, and the extend of the rest of your experience is installing Linux on your home machine in a dual-boot setup, so you can still play your Windows video games.
But, I really don't need to defend myself. My paycheck is proof that I know what I'm talking about. If I didn't, the company would fail or I'd lose my job, and then I wouldn't have my paycheck. This paycheck has been coming in every week for many years now.
Last time I went through installing all the distros I could was about 6 months ago.
And yes, you've been able to install Slackware onto any software raid setup you'd like for many years. Not GUI friendly, but it doesn't need to be. I can be very specific about what I wanted, and not have to wonder, "Did the GUI figure out what I was telling it?"
Well, security is another topic.
I used to run a P-75 as my home firewall for years. It did NAT and had an obnoxious set of firewall rules to protect itself from the outside. Besides that, it had absolutely no services that you could connect to from outside. It was very nice.
My ex-girlfriend had a Slackware firewall on a 486/25 for a long time, til the motherboard finally went. The only painful part of that was compiling kernels on like 16Mb RAM.
> Sorry, I'm a Slackware user (since '96) and you are the one who is wrong here.
I think we're just splitting hairs here, and actually agreeing. The finer points can be argued ad nauseum, and are probably less than constructive.
I do like your idea of the USB drive. Ahh, more ideas for future playing. I've been carrying my SSH keys (and a few other things) around on a usb thumb drive for a few months now. It's been very useful. I sitll haven't managed to fill it up yet.
# df -h | grep key
Oh and yes, I've been a Slackware user for years. So long that I actually am not exactly sure what year I started. It was when edition 1 of "Linux Unleased" first hit the shelves and had an ancient version of Slackware bundled with it. Well, ancient now. It was modern then. I usually joke and say it was Slack 1, even though I know I'm wrong. I can't seem to find 1st edition online, but second edition came out in 1996.
A hint to which sound card you had would be helpful.
# lspci -v
# cd
# make menuconfig
Device Drivers -->
Sound -->
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture -->
PCI devices -->
[Click your card here, use Help if your confused]
# make
# make modules_install
# cd arch/i386/boot
# cp bzImage
(if you use LILO)
# lilo
# shutdown -r now
And don't complain about the fact that you have to type a couple keystrokes. If your card is that obscure, you probably have to spend quite a while trying to find the drivers online, and then clicking more [Continue] [Next] [Yes] and [I agree] buttons than you could remember.
I like my music too. I listen to my CD's, I listen to MP3's (of CD's I own), I listen to Shoutcast (my favorite)
Well, you're wrong. No offense intended.
Take a warm fuzzy distro and install it. do a 'ps -auwwx' and look at all the crap running.
Take Slackware, install it like I would (install everything, don't let anything but SSH start as services). Then recompile the kernel specifically for your platform. Compile everything you *NEED* into the kernel, and don't make anything as modules. Now boot. It'll boot faster, run faster, and be far more enjoyable.
Why start and use things that you don't need? No printer, why CUPS or lpd? No SMB network, why samba? Do you really need/want Apache, MySQL, pcmcia services (on a desktop), etc, etc, etc, if you just want a fast running machine? Nope.
Most distros have fallen into the Microsoft way of thinking. Go ahead, start up as much crap as you can. They use might use it someday (or probably won't). If it's slow, they'll buy a bigger, faster computer.
The biggest reason for me to upgrade my home machines:
1) to support more drive space for things I work on.
2) to compile things faster
and very occasionally
3) Better video support for the games I occasionally play.
Again, that's Linux. I'm not part of that Windows gaming world, where you're almost expected to be running the latest/greatest hardware (and overclocking it at that) to play your games.
I've been told I am, and the girls that I've known that use Slackware sure were. I guess once your talents are so high, you just excel in everything.
Funny, I saw the story, wanted to whine about Slack not showing up, and the first post is for Slack!
.... hardcore?
Maybe it's a bit too
Every time I read a list like this, Slackware is marked as the oldest, hardest, and favorite among real administrators, hackers, and geeks who know what they're doing. No sissy graphic installer. No warm fuzzy configuration tools. You want to configure something, you just do it and know it's done right, rather than pointing and clicking, and wondering if what you just pointed & clicked did what you thought it would do.
Slackware comes with most everything, and what it doesn't have isn't a problem. Slackware users know how to compile their own stuff, beyond trying to 'emerge', 'apt-get', or whatever to let some warm-fuzzy installer script attempt it.
I use Slackware on just about everything, and those that know me know that's a *LOT* of machines. The only real exception are my AMD64 machines, that I'm still waiting for Slack to have a 64bit version. I know it'll be coming soon enough, I just can't wait. Until then, they're Gentoo. No offense to the Gentoo guys, but I feel warmer and fuzzier knowing I can get my OS installed in minutes. We have a hacked-up version of Slackware that we install on our servers that is done in 5 minutes. That's pretty hard to beat.
It's more fun to say I'd qualify for Mensa, but am not interested in being in a group of elitest "thinkers".
There are those that do,
and there are those that think about doing.
I'm happier doing.
There was a thing, I believe in Popular Science, about someone who was doing exactly that. I guess the idea didn't fly back then. Basically, they replaced regular windows (the glass product, not the OS) with large LCD's.
There was another one that did something with using an electromagnetic field, and a special material. The material, when not charged was opaque. Apply a charge, and it's completely transparent. Heck if I remember what it was. Unfortunately, it was a translucent white, not a black like youre hoping for.
Oh, a little research finds the answer here.
My cheaper solution than all of this was to use poster board from Target (like kids would use in a class project), and taped it over the windows with packing tape (I had it from the last move). It was white on the outside, so it didn't look too bad. Then I covered the window inside with dark color, and then closed the blinds over that.
It wasn't that I can't handle sunlight. The vampirism hasn't set in quite that bad yet. But, the wall of my bedroom with large single pane windows was facing east southeast. It made for a very uncomfortable morning. Very bright (like, you couldn't tell if you turned on the bedroom lights or not), and the temp would raise by at least 15 degrees. It wasn't a well built apartment, by any stretch of the imagination. I just didn't like waking up with it being hot and bright first thing in the morning, especially when I usually don't go to sleep until about 4am or so most days.
MCSE's will always have more work to do than Linux people.
:)
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Imagine 5 guys doing windows updates on 1000 WinNT/Win2k machines. (point, click, reboot, repeat)
Add 100 domains to IIS, and fix the problems. That'll keep 'em busy for a while.
A single Linux guy would write a scripted solution, and take the rest of the week to read Slashdot and visit the local pub.
Of course, bosses see this, and get upset. Why do the Windows guys work more? They usually don't comprehend it's because us Linux guys can make our lives easier on ourselves. If it takes longer to do something that to write a script to do it automatically, we'll script it, and not worry about it again.
With your liquid cooling comment, I'm picturing a pool full of liquid nitrogen. That may not be a very comfortable place to take a swim.
Could you even be bothered to read the ARTICLE?
I quote: "Rather, it is intended to allay the piracy and business concerns that prevent the studios from releasing films to cable pay-per-view services on the same day they appear on DVD. Such issues also have made premium cable networks reluctant to offer on-demand services that would allow subscribers to watch any episode of, say, ``Six Feet Under'' they choose, at any time."
I'm talking about watching something a few days later, not 6 years later. They're claiming that it's a piracy concern, but what's the ratio of pirates vs. normal users? Shouldn't the address the concern a bit better, rather than screwing the normal users?
How about if the cable and digital satellite companies upgraded the receivers to put a digital fingerprint on anything viewed, with say a company id and the account number of the user? Wouldn't that be a more ideal way to track pirates? When the movie hits the black market, they can identify "010101 998877665544" = "Bumbstick Cable Company - Joe User, Bumbstick Nebraska". The only person in the world who should have a copy of that movie in any form is Joe User. Now Joe User is liable for their losses. Putting a 7 day hold-time on TiVo isn't a solution. Hell, if I wanted to pirate a movie, I'd just get a DVD recorder, record it live, and start burning off my copies on the spot.
Myself, as a DirecTV user, I have a DirecTiVo. I save shows on it. I watch them at my leasure. I don't make copies for anyone. I pay the fee (as part of my DirecTV bill) for the ability to do this. I paid extra money for the DirecTiVo receiver. I paid for the right to watch at my leasure, if it's today, tommorrow, or two weeks from now.
Generally I don't wait a long time to watch something, but I *CAN*. The only example in recent history I can think of is watching the movie "Ghost Ship". I paid for it, watched the first 5 minutes of it, and got an emergency call that had to be delt with immediately. I didn't get back to watching the movie for a month. I paid for it, why can't I watch the whole movie? Because they want to put a time limit on the license? I'd be just as fond of buying a movie with a 2 year license on it. After 2 years, the DVD doesn't work? Wasn't one of the distribution companies trying the two day DVD, where after two days, the media became corrupt? That worked out really well, didn't it?