From the "Who Cares" Department....
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Slashdot Turns 5
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Of course, it's big news when/. turns five, but When google turned four the other day did you see anything about it on slashdot? Probably not, because all of the stories submitted for Goggle's B-Day were mysteriously rejected. Now, be honest, who do you think has given more to the online and open source communities, slashdot.org(and banner ads) or google.com(and/linux)?
Oh well, maybe next year when they turn five they'll be worthy....
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Oh and just for the/. editors (what little karma I have be damned): HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY GOOGLE!!!!
The Memorex RF6000: found it here, here and here The KB and mouse both share the same receiver, and together they cost as much as the logitech mouse. I haven't bought one yet, but I did try one out at my local CompUSA and was very impressed. The charger is pretty cool too, you just roll the mouse right up into it like parking a car....
The KB also has a bunch of nice programmable internet and mulitmedia buttons. I'd say this thing blows the logitech away both with features and price (now I just need to save up so I can get one)
There's a report over at the NY Times (Free reg, blah blah) announcing that Attorney General John Ashcroft has declared possesion of Sharpie(TM) and Marks A'Lot(TM) permenant markers a felony crime in the United States under the latest anti-terrorism law. He also announced that pending a ruling expected sometime tomorrow Post It(TM) notes and certain colors of dry erase markers may soon be added to the list. When asked for comment Mr. Ashcroft said "All your I-Mac are belong to us!" and declined making any further statements.
The first personal computer sold by Apple was priced by Steve Jobs and his hippy friend Steve Wozniak at $666. Need we say more? [ADDENDUM (4/21/2002): Some readers have been asking for evidence of this. Here is an image of an ad showing the price from the October 1976 issue of Interface Age magazine.]
Funny how upon close examination of the image using The GIMP (another notoriously satanic application used by pagans and atheists both) You can clearly see that the area around the $666.66 price looks to be cut and pasted ala photoshop.
Now I'm not exactly a big fan of Apple or the Macintosh, (although I do have a Mac plus somewhere in the attic..) I think this is pure slander and that Satan^H^H^H^Hteve Jobs and Wozniak should sue these slanderous morons back to the dark ages of the inquisition where they belong.
This isn't as cool as a paint material that can be used as an antenna. The material is being developed by DARPA for use by the military. There's a story about it here.
That's complete horsesh!t. It's a requirment for all new systems to be IPV6 interoperble/compatible, but at least for the Army none of their systems are using it yet, even those built/developed since it became a requirment.
I'm not as old as you, but in my high school (early 90's)electronics class we did a similar project with a laser and a receiver diode, you could bounce the laser beam off a window 300 yards away and listen to what people were saying in the room because their voices caused vibrations in the glass that changed the modulation of the reflected laser beam. It was pretty neat to get it all working. IIRC the schematics for the electronics circuit necessary to decode the signal were out of popular electronics...or was that the cable tv descramblers we built...
My opinion of the nmap results are that they are inconclusive: 1. he was running the distro under vmware, which does who knows what to the tcp fingerprint. 2. as someone pointed out above, he was probably running a version of nmap that didn't have fingerprints for the newer kernels. 3. If he really wanted to know what had port 1030 open he could have done a simple netstat -ap and seen what process opened it. Which, by the way, I would have done BEFORE nmapping all those ports. Of course a backdoor could be hiding itself from netstat so the nmap wasn't a totally bad idea.
That all said: It does seem to be a VERY insecure distro what with no root password and telnet, shell, login, and all that other crap open right off the bat.
From Roblimo's review of Red Flag: Unlike a Red Hat install, I was never prompted to create a user or set a root password. I had visions of having to crack my own installation to even log in. I tentatively typed in root, and wondered if I could guess what a Chinese developer would set as a default password, when I was presented with a root prompt! That's right, they don't set a root password, and seem to expect users will be running as root right from the start.
Hopefully they have better security measures in place on their "other" distributions!
No, it's not just you, been trying to patch a system at work for a while. If you're looking for the IE 5.x-6 cumalitive patches released yesterday try here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/cr it ical/q316059/default.asp
Then:
A.) Sales of PDA's and E-Book readers would skyrocket, especially considering parents whould have to buy replacments every time their kid drops it on the playground.
Or
B.) The book wouldn't sell at all.
But bookstores, publishers, Amazon.com etc. going out of business, and the E-book industry thriving, as this article suggests, just because of one book? Highly unlikely.
Can anyone point me to where you can actually find some of their technology in use? From their press release page press release page all I see are things like:
Microvision demonstrates prototype X at unheard of conference.
Microvision scores $10B contract to develop M for the army.
Microvision reports N Quarter results.
Microvision ships (ok so they actually built something) prototype Z. (but does it work).
Just curious if they've actually built anything other than a prototype in the last 12 years.....
Re:Why am I not allowed to metamoderate.. (OT)
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Check your Karma... If it is below 1 you cannot metamoderate till you post something that gets modded up....
Really? hmmm:
Have you Meta Moderated Today?
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You (and anyone else that can't get there becasue they work somewhere that blocks it) can see the site at http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:2kDbVq5HgPQC: www.raisethefist.com/+&hl=en
Can you upgrade from windows 98 to Windows XP using windows update? Didn't think so. Can you update from office 2000 to office XP with office update? Didn't think so. So anyway, what exactly was your point?
Mandrake Update doesn't JUST provide patches/fixes, it lets you install newer versions of all packages as they come available.
So I (a goverment contractor) can make even more money of course! Seriously, I wasn't suggesting that the military begin selling advertisments for commercial companies, but was likening it to what it appears the postal service is doing with ads in the post office and on their vehicles. If my tax dollars and postage are paying for those buildings, vehicles, fuel, etc. I don't think it's right that I'm paying for a commercial corporations ad space. Next we'll be seeing commercials for WIN XP between takes of the Microsoft Hearings on CSPAN........
So what's next? Will we soon be seeing US soldiers wearing the XP logo on the back of their athletic uniforms instead of "ARMY" ? After all, it's just add space, hey the military could use the extra money they make in ad sales to develop newer more powerful weapons that hunt down hackersH^H^H^H^H^H^H terrorists. Another question I'd like to see answered is: Has anyone seen any ads at their post office for anything BESIDES MS? I mean, this is borderline humorous, except for the fact that my tax dollars are going to subsidize microsoft advertisments I'd be laughing my ass off right now. And why is it the Postal Service wants to raise stamp prices again when A.) They're already turning a profit and B.) They can sell ad space to MS?</VENT >
Reminds me of a user here, who built a powerpoint presentation (like 3 slides) and on one side had inserted about 50 1024x768 jpg's and resized them down to about 1" square each. He couldn't figure out why one little presentation would barely run on his laptop, and took over 25MB of damn disk space....
Saying that it's the code's fault is like saying that automobiles should be built to withstand a 150 mph impact, afterall, it's not the operators fault that they drove at 150 MPH into a brick wall, the car should have been built to withstand it.
"He ran several Microsoft Office applications on his IBM ThinkPad, though some functions of those programs still aren't working properly under Lindows. They'll come in time, he says."
This reminds me of about a year ago when I tried running MS Word under codeweavers WINE, I could open and edit, even print documents, there was only one drawback....I couldn't save them:P
Slashdot Mirror
Of course, it's big news when /. turns five, but When google turned four the other day did you see anything about it on slashdot? Probably not, because all of the stories submitted for Goggle's B-Day were mysteriously rejected. Now, be honest, who do you think has given more to the online and open source communities, slashdot.org(and banner ads) or google.com(and /linux)?
/. editors (what little karma I have be damned):
Oh well, maybe next year when they turn five they'll be worthy....
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Oh and just for the
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY GOOGLE!!!!
The Memorex RF6000:
found it here, here and here
The KB and mouse both share the same receiver, and together they cost as much as the logitech mouse. I haven't bought one yet, but I did try one out at my local CompUSA and was very impressed. The charger is pretty cool too, you just roll the mouse right up into it like parking a car....
The KB also has a bunch of nice programmable internet and mulitmedia buttons. I'd say this thing blows the logitech away both with features and price (now I just need to save up so I can get one)
There's a report over at the NY Times (Free reg, blah blah) announcing that Attorney General John Ashcroft has declared possesion of Sharpie(TM) and Marks A'Lot(TM) permenant markers a felony crime in the United States under the latest anti-terrorism law. He also announced that pending a ruling expected sometime tomorrow Post It(TM) notes and certain colors of dry erase markers may soon be added to the list. When asked for comment Mr. Ashcroft said "All your I-Mac are belong to us!" and declined making any further statements.
The first personal computer sold by Apple was priced by Steve Jobs and his hippy friend Steve Wozniak at $666. Need we say more? [ADDENDUM (4/21/2002): Some readers have been asking for evidence of this. Here is an image of an ad showing the price from the October 1976 issue of Interface Age magazine.]
Funny how upon close examination of the image using The GIMP (another notoriously satanic application used by pagans and atheists both) You can clearly see that the area around the $666.66 price looks to be cut and pasted ala photoshop.
Now I'm not exactly a big fan of Apple or the Macintosh, (although I do have a Mac plus somewhere in the attic..) I think this is pure slander and that Satan^H^H^H^Hteve Jobs and Wozniak should sue these slanderous morons back to the dark ages of the inquisition where they belong.
This isn't as cool as a paint material that can be used as an antenna. The material is being developed by DARPA for use by the military. There's a story about it here.
- U.S. military is completely on IP V6
That's complete horsesh!t. It's a requirment for all new systems to be IPV6 interoperble/compatible, but at least for the Army none of their systems are using it yet, even those built/developed since it became a requirment.
I'm not as old as you, but in my high school (early 90's)electronics class we did a similar project with a laser and a receiver diode, you could bounce the laser beam off a window 300 yards away and listen to what people were saying in the room because their voices caused vibrations in the glass that changed the modulation of the reflected laser beam. It was pretty neat to get it all working. IIRC the schematics for the electronics circuit necessary to decode the signal were out of popular electronics...or was that the cable tv descramblers we built...
My opinion of the nmap results are that they are inconclusive:
1. he was running the distro under vmware, which does who knows what to the tcp fingerprint.
2. as someone pointed out above, he was probably running a version of nmap that didn't have fingerprints for the newer kernels.
3. If he really wanted to know what had port 1030 open he could have done a simple netstat -ap and seen what process opened it. Which, by the way, I would have done BEFORE nmapping all those ports. Of course a backdoor could be hiding itself from netstat so the nmap wasn't a totally bad idea.
That all said: It does seem to be a VERY insecure distro what with no root password and telnet, shell, login, and all that other crap open right off the bat.
From the Red Flag Linux home page:
ControLinux finds application in lottery machine's operating system.
From Roblimo's review of Red Flag:
Unlike a Red Hat install, I was never prompted to create a user or set a root password. I had visions of having to crack my own installation to even log in. I tentatively typed in root, and wondered if I could guess what a Chinese developer would set as a default password, when I was presented with a root prompt!
That's right, they don't set a root password, and seem to expect users will be running as root right from the start.
Hopefully they have better security measures in place on their "other" distributions!
If I disconnect all the cables how am I going to download tinfoil hat?
No, it's not just you, been trying to patch a system at work for a while. If you're looking for the IE 5.x-6 cumalitive patches released yesterday try here:
r it ical/q316059/default.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/c
As of 10:30 PM EST it was accesible.
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Then:
A.) Sales of PDA's and E-Book readers would skyrocket, especially considering parents whould have to buy replacments every time their kid drops it on the playground.
Or
B.) The book wouldn't sell at all.
But bookstores, publishers, Amazon.com etc. going out of business, and the E-book industry thriving, as this article suggests, just because of one book? Highly unlikely.
Can anyone point me to where you can actually find some of their technology in use? From their press release page press release page all I see are things like:
Microvision demonstrates prototype X at unheard of conference.
Microvision scores $10B contract to develop M for the army.
Microvision reports N Quarter results.
Microvision ships (ok so they actually built something) prototype Z. (but does it work).
Just curious if they've actually built anything other than a prototype in the last 12 years.....
Check your Karma... If it is below 1 you cannot metamoderate till you post something that gets modded up....
Really? hmmm:
Have you Meta Moderated Today?
This page was generated by a Flock of Random Ninjas for quan74 (451034).
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Next time think before you type.
Thank you.
I'm also on a transitioned Comcast network (Eastern GA), it doesn't work here. Perhaps the transparent proxy was left by the old provider? :>
Are we sure this isn't one of those fake FTC propoganda stories like the ones talked about here.
You (and anyone else that can't get there becasue they work somewhere that blocks it) can see the site at http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:2kDbVq5HgPQC: www.raisethefist.com/+&hl=en
So in 60 years can we expect to see a book and investigation into Microsoft because the Taliban was running windows.....
Can you upgrade from windows 98 to Windows XP using windows update? Didn't think so. Can you update from office 2000 to office XP with office update? Didn't think so. So anyway, what exactly was your point?
Mandrake Update doesn't JUST provide patches/fixes, it lets you install newer versions of all packages as they come available.
So I (a goverment contractor) can make even more money of course! Seriously, I wasn't suggesting that the military begin selling advertisments for commercial companies, but was likening it to what it appears the postal service is doing with ads in the post office and on their vehicles. If my tax dollars and postage are paying for those buildings, vehicles, fuel, etc. I don't think it's right that I'm paying for a commercial corporations ad space. Next we'll be seeing commercials for WIN XP between takes of the Microsoft Hearings on CSPAN........
So what's next? Will we soon be seeing US soldiers wearing the XP logo on the back of their athletic uniforms instead of "ARMY" ? After all, it's just add space, hey the military could use the extra money they make in ad sales to develop newer more powerful weapons that hunt down hackersH^H^H^H^H^H^H terrorists. Another question I'd like to see answered is: Has anyone seen any ads at their post office for anything BESIDES MS? I mean, this is borderline humorous, except for the fact that my tax dollars are going to subsidize microsoft advertisments I'd be laughing my ass off right now. And why is it the Postal Service wants to raise stamp prices again when A.) They're already turning a profit and B.) They can sell ad space to MS?< /VENT >
Pardon me, but wasn't the Titanic built and sailed from the UK, on it's WAY to New York?
Reminds me of a user here, who built a powerpoint presentation (like 3 slides) and on one side had inserted about 50 1024x768 jpg's and resized them down to about 1" square each. He couldn't figure out why one little presentation would barely run on his laptop, and took over 25MB of damn disk space....
Saying that it's the code's fault is like saying that automobiles should be built to withstand a 150 mph impact, afterall, it's not the operators fault that they drove at 150 MPH into a brick wall, the car should have been built to withstand it.
"He ran several Microsoft Office applications on his IBM ThinkPad, though some functions of those programs still aren't working properly under Lindows. They'll come in time, he says."
:P
This reminds me of about a year ago when I tried running MS Word under codeweavers WINE, I could open and edit, even print documents, there was only one drawback....I couldn't save them