Dell shipped with Red Hat 7.0... sound worked fine... 2 hours later, I formatted and installed Red Hat 7.2 with no flaws... Detected everything perfectly... XMMS works nicely... video works using GTV... If yours wasn't auto-detected, and you're using a Latitude series, try the ESS Technology Maestro-3i PCI Audio Accelerator... Hope that helps:-)
I just bought a Dell Latitude C600 (Laptop) with Linux pre-loaded... I also know they push a lot of their PowerEdge servers out the door, and their support is top notch. The hardware is designed with Linux in mind, they provide drivers for everything (even if they didn't write 'em themself), and their hardware replacement services (should you need them, as well) are really fast. Their Linux software support probably is the best around, just short of Cisco's router support team... and that's "DreamLand" for people like me... I've never had a problem with anything of theirs... IBM is also a good friend, and they might better global support than Dell.. I've never used IBM due to compatability issues... I'm willing to bet their server lines don't have the same issues as their desktop/laptops though...
I transfered some 10 domains away from them, with in the past few months, and haven' thad a single glitch. Perhaps, what they're complaining about, are all the requests to transfer TO them they get:-P
Seriously, though, netsol is just trying to hold on to what little they have left. Somehow, I see M$ in this boat in the next decade, as well...
I've noticed (both professionally and personally) that using GPG religiously usually responds to the other party going "huh"? If there are so many keys, who's using 'em all? Working for an ISP, I can tell you that most of our userbase, even the technicallty savvy ones, haven't even heard of it... Personally, I think it's great... But why isn't the rest of the world up to par? Most people seem to only use plain-text instead, which scares me... Any ideas?
Yea, I'm up in Rocklin (near Sacramento) and we had rolling blackouts up here too. Thankfully, our LAN room (for lack of a better term) is wired up fully with 8 UPS units, which we haven't had to put to the test yet. Basically, the power reserves hit 1.5% and they were scrambling because they shut down the majority of the plants for maitnence at the same time. Power reserves are on the rise again however, and the threat is supposedly over.
Sounds very impressive, definatly. Compared to the Hubble, it's completly next-generation. Learning the secrets to black holes may in fact lead us to faster than light travel. After all, black holes are so strong, they trap light too.
You'd have to wonder, though, if MAXIM is being planned, what's up with Chandra? Did it not live up to expectations? Has me wondering if MAXIM will too...
It brings up some very interesting possabilities, too, though... If anything, we'll at least find out where all those socks go that you swear go into the dryer, but never come out:-)
Can you please post those identifying factors? I, too, run an IRC server that I wish to ban those bots from... Maybe we could build something into the IRCd daemon itself to refuse to authenticate anybody using one of those clients? The average X-chat user (or mirc even) would know enough to read the motd and see what's up, what's allowed and stuff, but the chat client they set up won't even display it by default, and I'm sure that more then half their users won't know what an MOTD is, let alone how to display it... -PhaseBurn
I read it earlier today, and I have to admit they have some really great ideas. Sounds to me they're as good with business practices as they are with processor design. Kudos to them for all they've accomplished and to all they hope to... -PhaseBurn
Ok, so now I'm a "Computer Security Consultant" at work... What do I call myself at home, when I get into other company's systems to see if I can't find certain info I'm looking for just cuz I'm curious? I don't work for them, and don't even know who they are. But you'll never catch me defacing anything unless it's mine, a good friend's (as a joke), or is owned by the company I work for (so as to possibly prove my point). So, what definition does that go by? Don't even try to tell me I'm a "non-payed, underground computer security consultant";-)
Exactly. But my biggest "itch" about this whole this is tha tI'm a very proud hacker. I am paid to test systems, find security holes, and then plug them up before others expliot them. It's all written in my contract. Does that mean I'm a cracker?
HELL no. A "cracker" to me, means somebody who does exactly what I do, only where he/she/it is not wanted, authorised, AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY, LEAVES A TRAIL TO BE FOLLOWED AND DEFACES SOMETHING OR BREAKS SOMETHING.
If cracker = hacker then hell, I'm screwed because it means I just defaces every one of my company's servers every time they upgrade to the next release! Why would they keep me there? But no, my jobis prety clear. Find my way in, get access to something I shouldn't have access to (as a normal user), and then inform them, and patch the hole. Crackers certainly don't do that. Hackers certainly don't perform DDoS attacks on bloated, over-featured web-sites.... I'm just pissed that people are assuming I'm something I'm not, and that "crackers" are something THEY'RE not...
Personally, I think the movie "Hackers" had alot to do with it too... Maybe should have been called "Crackers"? </RANT>
Companies like this just make my blood boil. The only reason I can think of they're doing this is because they're greedy. Do any of you know logical reasons why they might start this NOW, as opposed to when they got the patent?
To me, this seems like they're just out to cripple the internet...
As for PNG, the problem now is that I can't find two browsers that support it the same way so it's impossible to do layouts properly using them.
What are we supposed to do, honestly? Pay their fee? Go JPEG?
The question was "when you guys can't?" was kinda retorical, in a way, if you get my drift... just saying, maybe it wouldn't hurt to get legal like and actually just bite the bullet on this one unless there is a LEGAL way around it... I think the DVD jerks may have this one won... it's their technology, their patent... they, likewise, can control who uses it... and well, if people have to pay to use it, that's their right to say... we may not agree with it, but it's their call... just my 2 cents
You can't ship a DVD player as long as DeCSS is illegal? Why, may I ask? What makes Xing Technologies and all the others immune from the "illegal clause" to ship their products, when you guys can't? Doesn't sound like fair competition to me, and it sounds like it's actually a government-regulated/contolled monopoly here... Damn DMCA.... grrrrrrr...
Through out history, every time there's been a law pasted, it's been open to interpretation. Everybody who interprets it, may see something different. The result, is it meansdifferent things to different people. And people will exploit whatever they can of it to prove they're correct, and to make money.
The DMCA was very poorly written, in the first place. The wording itself, I'm not talking about the ideas... yet... And any time you take something like this, history has shown that people will take very different views on it, depending on which side of the matter they're on. Look at the US Constitution if you want another example. How many people say it has "implied" powers, has this, that, and the other thing? Anybody who runs the government. And who says it doesn't, that you can't do what isn't explicitly written? Anybody who WANTS to run the government... And of course, they switch views once elected... That way, they have more power...
The same thing's going on with the DMCA... It's a paranoia measure, passed by a bunch of congressmen who have no idea what life is really like on the net, signed by a president who I won't even get into the problems with, and supported by a bunch of people who are out to make money.
You could really think of the RIAA and the MPAA as Microsoft... trying to control everything, causing problems, and eliminating choices... The only difference that I can really see is that Microsoft at least knows the industry, and TRIES to provide for it...
That being said, why is the government allowing this to happen? You have a monopoly on this, that, and the other thing, and yet all they seem to care about is Microsoft. Not that I dont' think it's important, but there ARE other issues going on here. I personally liked watching iCrave once in a while, and, I most definatly support MP3 files because I've lost so many CDs that I bought when "friends" borrowed 'em for a day or 2 to see if they liked them, or that I accidentally rolled over with my computer chair or spilled iced tea on.... Movies are another thing, yet one and the same... I won't buy a DVD unless I can watch it where I want to, be it on my laptop, home PC, where ever I feel like it... with out buying some $200 player that hooks up to my TV only... I'm sorry, but as a consumer, I disagree... If big name companies are allowed to make software to view those things, and SELL it, why can't I (or anybody else) do the world a favor and write it for free? Last time I checked, it's called "competition" to companies like that, and "community service" to everybody else who uses it...
We should tell the companies what WE want to buy, they shouldn't tell us what they WANT us to buy...
Point taken, but then again, we are all human. I'm proud of my work, yes, as you should be, or anybody else should be, but there's nothing a group of white people can do that a group of black people can't do, and there's nothing that a group of black people can do that a group of white people can't do. So is that not pride, but racism instead? Pride means "A sense of one's own proper dignity or value; self-respect." But when that falls under a group that as a whole is no better or worse then another group of people (lets not forget, we ARE all human beings) then it becomes racism, and if taken further then that, malice...
I did = I'm proud of this
We did (even though one member did and the rest jump on the bandwaggon) = a member of my race did so we're better then your race...
Reciently reading a story about blackvoices.com somewhere, I remember finding myself writing a letter to the site creator. Don't get me wrong, but, pride is not the same as racism. I am glad that black people have pride in their soceity, much the same as white people, American Indians, Spanish, or any other ethnic group should. But, where should we be drawing the line? I personally feel that any group, be they white, black, or green for that matter, tha can publish a line of clothing called "Fo Us By Us (fubu)" and not get sued for racism is just plain wrong. Some of these web sites are also more then just pride. They go into mud slinging, name calling, and other vulgarities that are more tearing the world apart rather then bring it closer together, which ultimatly was the goal of the internet, right?
Amiga is definatly alive... my school uses Amiga boxes as a "Video Toaster", or in layman's terms, it is what pops up all the cool graphics onto the TV programs such as names and captions for news shows. I've reprogrammed them a few times, actually, and they're good little machines!
Shaven Ferret Productions (shavenferret.com) something like the smell of a wet dog would most likely be appropriate... or a wet cat if anybody's ever smelled one:-):-) -PhaseBurn
I just did call them. They claimed to have only a skeleton crew on board and they currently have no idea if supporting Linux is going to happen or not. If everybody calls, they might see the error of their ways and draft support into their site soon.Either that or we all could call up and ask for free copies of Windows:-) -PhaseBurn
I personally think that Microsoft is attacking BO2k so much because cDc is not exactly a so called company like Netscape or Sun... They have no choice in the matter with eithe rof them as both companies have public support as well as an established business... cDc however is a small group of internet hackers who threw together a remote admin tool which challenges one made by Microsoft. It's not that they believe it's a hacker tool, it's that they're trying to knock out competition before it even starts, reguardless of how it's done.
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Dell shipped with Red Hat 7.0... sound worked fine... 2 hours later, I formatted and installed Red Hat 7.2 with no flaws... Detected everything perfectly... XMMS works nicely... video works using GTV... If yours wasn't auto-detected, and you're using a Latitude series, try the ESS Technology Maestro-3i PCI Audio Accelerator... Hope that helps
I just bought a Dell Latitude C600 (Laptop) with Linux pre-loaded... I also know they push a lot of their PowerEdge servers out the door, and their support is top notch. The hardware is designed with Linux in mind, they provide drivers for everything (even if they didn't write 'em themself), and their hardware replacement services (should you need them, as well) are really fast. Their Linux software support probably is the best around, just short of Cisco's router support team... and that's "DreamLand" for people like me... I've never had a problem with anything of theirs... IBM is also a good friend, and they might better global support than Dell.. I've never used IBM due to compatability issues... I'm willing to bet their server lines don't have the same issues as their desktop/laptops though...
I transfered some 10 domains away from them, with in the past few months, and haven' thad a single glitch. Perhaps, what they're complaining about, are all the requests to transfer TO them they get :-P
Seriously, though, netsol is just trying to hold on to what little they have left. Somehow, I see M$ in this boat in the next decade, as well...
Heh
-PhaseBurn
I've noticed (both professionally and personally) that using GPG religiously usually responds to the other party going "huh"? If there are so many keys, who's using 'em all? Working for an ISP, I can tell you that most of our userbase, even the technicallty savvy ones, haven't even heard of it... Personally, I think it's great... But why isn't the rest of the world up to par? Most people seem to only use plain-text instead, which scares me... Any ideas?
Yea, I'm up in Rocklin (near Sacramento) and we had rolling blackouts up here too. Thankfully, our LAN room (for lack of a better term) is wired up fully with 8 UPS units, which we haven't had to put to the test yet. Basically, the power reserves hit 1.5% and they were scrambling because they shut down the majority of the plants for maitnence at the same time. Power reserves are on the rise again however, and the threat is supposedly over.
Sounds very impressive, definatly. Compared to the Hubble, it's completly next-generation. Learning the secrets to black holes may in fact lead us to faster than light travel. After all, black holes are so strong, they trap light too.
:-)
You'd have to wonder, though, if MAXIM is being planned, what's up with Chandra? Did it not live up to expectations? Has me wondering if MAXIM will too...
It brings up some very interesting possabilities, too, though... If anything, we'll at least find out where all those socks go that you swear go into the dryer, but never come out
Can you please post those identifying factors? I, too, run an IRC server that I wish to ban those bots from... Maybe we could build something into the IRCd daemon itself to refuse to authenticate anybody using one of those clients? The average X-chat user (or mirc even) would know enough to read the motd and see what's up, what's allowed and stuff, but the chat client they set up won't even display it by default, and I'm sure that more then half their users won't know what an MOTD is, let alone how to display it... -PhaseBurn
I read it earlier today, and I have to admit they have some really great ideas. Sounds to me they're as good with business practices as they are with processor design. Kudos to them for all they've accomplished and to all they hope to... -PhaseBurn
Weird... Borland always told me MFC = Microsoft Fried Chicken...
:-)
I wonder why
Ok, so now I'm a "Computer Security Consultant" at work... What do I call myself at home, when I get into other company's systems to see if I can't find certain info I'm looking for just cuz I'm curious? I don't work for them, and don't even know who they are. But you'll never catch me defacing anything unless it's mine, a good friend's (as a joke), or is owned by the company I work for (so as to possibly prove my point). So, what definition does that go by? Don't even try to tell me I'm a "non-payed, underground computer security consultant" ;-)
Exactly. But my biggest "itch" about this whole this is tha tI'm a very proud hacker. I am paid to test systems, find security holes, and then plug them up before others expliot them. It's all written in my contract. Does that mean I'm a cracker?
HELL no. A "cracker" to me, means somebody who does exactly what I do, only where he/she/it is not wanted, authorised, AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY, LEAVES A TRAIL TO BE FOLLOWED AND DEFACES SOMETHING OR BREAKS SOMETHING.
If cracker = hacker then hell, I'm screwed because it means I just defaces every one of my company's servers every time they upgrade to the next release! Why would they keep me there? But no, my jobis prety clear. Find my way in, get access to something I shouldn't have access to (as a normal user), and then inform them, and patch the hole. Crackers certainly don't do that. Hackers certainly don't perform DDoS attacks on bloated, over-featured web-sites.... I'm just pissed that people are assuming I'm something I'm not, and that "crackers" are something THEY'RE not...
Personally, I think the movie "Hackers" had alot to do with it too... Maybe should have been called "Crackers"?
</RANT>
Companies like this just make my blood boil. The only reason I can think of they're doing this is because they're greedy. Do any of you know logical reasons why they might start this NOW, as opposed to when they got the patent?
To me, this seems like they're just out to cripple the internet...
As for PNG, the problem now is that I can't find two browsers that support it the same way so it's impossible to do layouts properly using them.
What are we supposed to do, honestly? Pay their fee? Go JPEG?
The question was "when you guys can't?" was kinda retorical, in a way, if you get my drift... just saying, maybe it wouldn't hurt to get legal like and actually just bite the bullet on this one unless there is a LEGAL way around it... I think the DVD jerks may have this one won... it's their technology, their patent... they, likewise, can control who uses it... and well, if people have to pay to use it, that's their right to say... we may not agree with it, but it's their call... just my 2 cents
You can't ship a DVD player as long as DeCSS is illegal? Why, may I ask? What makes Xing Technologies and all the others immune from the "illegal clause" to ship their products, when you guys can't? Doesn't sound like fair competition to me, and it sounds like it's actually a government-regulated/contolled monopoly here... Damn DMCA.... grrrrrrr...
Through out history, every time there's been a law pasted, it's been open to interpretation. Everybody who interprets it, may see something different. The result, is it meansdifferent things to different people. And people will exploit whatever they can of it to prove they're correct, and to make money.
The DMCA was very poorly written, in the first place. The wording itself, I'm not talking about the ideas... yet... And any time you take something like this, history has shown that people will take very different views on it, depending on which side of the matter they're on. Look at the US Constitution if you want another example. How many people say it has "implied" powers, has this, that, and the other thing? Anybody who runs the government. And who says it doesn't, that you can't do what isn't explicitly written? Anybody who WANTS to run the government... And of course, they switch views once elected... That way, they have more power...
The same thing's going on with the DMCA... It's a paranoia measure, passed by a bunch of congressmen who have no idea what life is really like on the net, signed by a president who I won't even get into the problems with, and supported by a bunch of people who are out to make money.
You could really think of the RIAA and the MPAA as Microsoft... trying to control everything, causing problems, and eliminating choices... The only difference that I can really see is that Microsoft at least knows the industry, and TRIES to provide for it...
That being said, why is the government allowing this to happen? You have a monopoly on this, that, and the other thing, and yet all they seem to care about is Microsoft. Not that I dont' think it's important, but there ARE other issues going on here. I personally liked watching iCrave once in a while, and, I most definatly support MP3 files because I've lost so many CDs that I bought when "friends" borrowed 'em for a day or 2 to see if they liked them, or that I accidentally rolled over with my computer chair or spilled iced tea on.... Movies are another thing, yet one and the same... I won't buy a DVD unless I can watch it where I want to, be it on my laptop, home PC, where ever I feel like it... with out buying some $200 player that hooks up to my TV only... I'm sorry, but as a consumer, I disagree... If big name companies are allowed to make software to view those things, and SELL it, why can't I (or anybody else) do the world a favor and write it for free? Last time I checked, it's called "competition" to companies like that, and "community service" to everybody else who uses it...
We should tell the companies what WE want to buy, they shouldn't tell us what they WANT us to buy...
Point taken, but then again, we are all human. I'm proud of my work, yes, as you should be, or anybody else should be, but there's nothing a group of white people can do that a group of black people can't do, and there's nothing that a group of black people can do that a group of white people can't do. So is that not pride, but racism instead? Pride means "A sense of one's own proper dignity or value; self-respect." But when that falls under a group that as a whole is no better or worse then another group of people (lets not forget, we ARE all human beings) then it becomes racism, and if taken further then that, malice...
I did = I'm proud of this
We did (even though one member did and the rest jump on the bandwaggon) = a member of my race did so we're better then your race...
Reciently reading a story about blackvoices.com somewhere, I remember finding myself writing a letter to the site creator. Don't get me wrong, but, pride is not the same as racism. I am glad that black people have pride in their soceity, much the same as white people, American Indians, Spanish, or any other ethnic group should. But, where should we be drawing the line? I personally feel that any group, be they white, black, or green for that matter, tha can publish a line of clothing called "Fo Us By Us (fubu)" and not get sued for racism is just plain wrong. Some of these web sites are also more then just pride. They go into mud slinging, name calling, and other vulgarities that are more tearing the world apart rather then bring it closer together, which ultimatly was the goal of the internet, right?
Amiga is definatly alive... my school uses Amiga boxes as a "Video Toaster", or in layman's terms, it is what pops up all the cool graphics onto the TV programs such as names and captions for news shows. I've reprogrammed them a few times, actually, and they're good little machines!
Shaven Ferret Productions (shavenferret.com) something like the smell of a wet dog would most likely be appropriate... or a wet cat if anybody's ever smelled one :-) :-) -PhaseBurn
I just did call them. They claimed to have only a skeleton crew on board and they currently have no idea if supporting Linux is going to happen or not. If everybody calls, they might see the error of their ways and draft support into their site soon.Either that or we all could call up and ask for free copies of Windows :-) -PhaseBurn
I personally think that Microsoft is attacking BO2k so much because cDc is not exactly a so called company like Netscape or Sun... They have no choice in the matter with eithe rof them as both companies have public support as well as an established business... cDc however is a small group of internet hackers who threw together a remote admin tool which challenges one made by Microsoft. It's not that they believe it's a hacker tool, it's that they're trying to knock out competition before it even starts, reguardless of how it's done.