Just heard the count; The SlashDot effect on a Shoutcast Stream is (drumroll please)...85 users. C'Mon guys! If we can SlashDot a ShoutCast Server, that'd be worthy of a blurb in the IT section...
But that's the nature of the beast. Again, my apologies. I should stop posting to slashdot when I'm drunk...or I should stop reading my drunken posts when I'm sober....
Because Adobe Potsho^H^H^H^H^H PhotoShop runs $599 per retail copy. Because most people would like an Open Source Solution. Because there's an abundant amount of 15 year-old PERL writers out there that would like to learn an Industry-Standard application. Because there are people out there that would like to screw over Adobe, simply because Adobe didn't take the umpteen-million Pixar wanted to give them to make a Linux version of Photoshop. Because...
...kinda reminds me of that "Did you mean..." google feature. That thing is so handy when you're drunk. Maybe with this hack, I can spike the waterfountain at work, and just pocket the $599 instead of buying a copy of PhotoShop CS......maybe...
What I hate about all drives, even the Seagate's, is they every few minutes they go into some self check mode or something. I have no idea what the drive is doing, but it gets louder. This is not disk access, it's like when the drive has been mostly idle for several minutes it starts doing something (internal checks or something?). It's annoyingly loud though.
Sounds like the Sleep Time for IDE access is set too low. Hard drive access doesn't have to happen to wake up the drive, any IDE access could trigger it. Chech your BIOS.
Wtf is "up7t1m3"? Oh, where is the spelling nazi when he's needed most?:)
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This is exactly the kind of thing I love.
The RIAA/MPAA have worked so hard to master the art of "The Fad", now their cumulative work over the past 50-odd years is biting them in the ass.
Think about it; Anyone remember the BackStreet Boys? How about the posters, toys, clothes, and the rest of that flood of crap that swallowed every retail outlet? All RIAA's doing. Now, people have found a "Bigger, Better Deal" in P2P networks. "No more CD Exchange for me, it's all on P2P, and blank CD-Rs are less than a nickel a pop!"
The **IA cannot control the horde of consumers they've created, and all their billions cannot curb the tsunami-like tide.
When Lars of Metallica raised a shitfit over Napster, what happened? Napster died, others rose to fill its place. Some were born out of hate for Lars' hypocrisy, other for the hell of it.
The point is; It will not stop, it will not collapse. The **IA will either go broke fighting this, or they'll turn a SCO and use it as a business model (which I fear is what has already happened).
Good counter-point. Either way, Iraq was in pretty bad need of a beheading after Operation: Desert storm. My boss was in Op:DS, then when Op:Iraqi Freedom started, he felt horrible. His eldest son is in the Army. He kept kicking himself for "not taking care of things then".
I have to agree with you on your second point. Now, not to flame or anything but I'm curious about something; If Bush had lost to Gore in 2000, how would the WTC attacks been handeled? I'd like to think that Gore would have done better than shake his finger and say "Bad Jawas! Bad!", followed by a thumb-bite, but given the exposure to politics that Gore had, I have my doubts. The economy (esp. IT) was already in a downward spiral when Bush stepped in. The attacks on the WTC and the Petagon were probably ment to push everything down further. What were our options?
A) Ignore the possibility that more attacks were coming and bandage our wounds as best we could.
B) Do the above and scold any suspects.
C) Bomb the living shit out of the armpit of the world.
True, many good people have been injured and killed. I myself have many good friends over there now, and I pray to $DIETY that they come home safely. If Al Gore had won back in 2000, what would he have done? What alternative was there?
Funny, I googled for "remote linux root exploits" and I didn't get a single hit. That clearly points to the obvious; Google's Censoring Linux Vulnerabilites!! OMFG!! Now only if it.slashdot didnt have such a shitty color sheme, maybe I'd feel better about my IT-related job and stop posting mindless drivel like this. AC is for cowards!
Depends on the laptop. In my experience, the touchpad is usually riding the PS/2 (/dev/psaux). You might want to check-out LinuxLaptops.Org or the Slackware Linux Phorums over at UserLocal.Com.
I have to admit, I've been using Slackware since 7.1 as my desktop OS. I was a total n00b when it came to linux, and it took me a week or so to get my X display setup and lovable, but it was a head-first dive into linux anyway. Slackware had most of what I needed; Mozilla for mail and browsing, KDE for a desktop (even though Steven seems to lean towards GNOME), and Gimp for the pictures. I just had to add OpenOffice for the wordprocessing and rlpr to print to our OpenBSD print server. But the thing that saved me the most was the beloved documentation in/usr/doc. Almost every How-To was stuffed in there! I'd recommend it for any newbie that wants to go hard-core fast. I can't wait to try Slackware 10, but I'll probobly wipe out my boxen first (as I've been using the -current branch for so long).
True, but how many of those services that you mentioned even know what a network adaptor is? login doesn't have any sort of interaction with a NIC, (by default) neither does cron. I don't think I've even seen a way to configure login to do anything over the network. The only major thing in my experience with most Linux distros is that the X server keeps port 6000 open and waits for requests. However, that lil' nuance can be taken care of by changing a line in the appropriate config file. For Example; if you're running XFree86, find the file(s) "Xaccess" and change the "#*" and "#* CHOOSER BROADCAST" to "!*". This will reject any requests for a logon window (which is maybe where you get the assumption that the login service is exploitable via the network).
P.S: I know I'm feeding the Troll, but I just want to calm any worrried n00bs before they fall for this kind of FUD.
What is with Viviendi? For the longest time, it seemed like they had the gamer close to heart. Then they started throwing every kind of copy protection on their products. I quit giving them cash when they started picking on F/OSS projects. Last time I checked BnetD's website (a few weeks ago), it pulled up Blizzard's battle.net site. Thought I had a typo and found the real site. I've been giving them hell ever since. With any luck, Blizzard will be bought-up or crushed in a few years.
I may speak with my wallet, but a cable modem and a good FTP server speaks louder...
(Hm, I smell a troll...but I'll bite.) In regards to being a hypocrite; changing the ID of a browser to IE and surfing the web does not make one a hypocrite in this case. However, if someone complained to a humble Web Admin about a bug/feature while their bowser ID was set to something other than the original ID is a hypocrite.
That's really freaking harsh. If you're an American; I hope whoever is reading over your shoulder belts you one with your own stapler. If you're not an American; may you benefit *and* suffer at the hands of one. Either way, you have no respect for the dead. You have no honor.
(Note to Mods: I know, OT/Redundant/Flambait/Troll. But I will not hide behind AC for this one. This is Karma well-burned. Bring it on.)
Wanted: One Motivated Marine. Must provide Rifle. Other Expenses covered. Includes one-way ticket to Utah.
~~~~~ HARTMAN: Do any of you people know who Charles Whitman was? No response.
HARTMAN: None of you dumbasses knows?
COWBOY raises his hand.
HARTMAN: Private Cowboy?
COWBOY: Sir, he was that guy who shot all those people from that tower in Austin, Texas, sir!
HARTMAN: That's affirmative. Charles Whitman killed twenty people from a twenty-eight-story observation tower at the University of Texas from distances up to four hundred yards.
HARTMAN: looks around.
HARTMAN: Anybody know who Lee Harvey Oswald was? Almost everybody raises his hand.
HARTMAN: Private Snowball?
SNOWBALL: Sir, he shot Kennedy, sir!
HARTMAN: That's right, and do you know how far away he was?
SNOWBALL: Sir, it was pretty far! From that book suppository building, sir!
The recruits laugh at "suppository."
HARTMAN: All right, knock it off! Two hundred and fifty feet! He was two hundred and fifty feet away and shooting at a moving target. Oswald got off three rounds with an old Italian bolt action rifle in only six seconds and scored two hits, including a head shot! Do any of you people know where these individuals learned to shoot?
JOKER raises his hand.
HARTMAN: Private Joker?
JOKER: Sir, in the Marines, sir!
HARTMAN: In the Marines! Outstanding! Those individuals showed what one motivated marine and his rifle can do! And before you ladies leave my island, you will be able to do the same thing!
Something like this happens about every month or so where I work. There's a group of representatives from each department, they all bang-heads about what drives them nuts at work. Then they send reps. to meet with the Mid-Higher-Ups (Executives and such). Basically, the Dept. Managers and the Dept. Pres & VP are left out of the loop. It only took one person questioning our Dept. Pres' 60% pay raise to land the whole thing in hot water. Although it was quite entertaining when the Dept. Pres. (and avid book-thumping rules-lawyer) called in said inquirer and "politely requested" that from now on, he be informed of such issues prior to bringing them up to the Mid-Higher-Ups. Then the inquirer proceeded to show him the signed, set-in-stone policy regarding Dept. Managers and PHBs from interfering with this process. The only thing sweeter was the various shades of red and purple the Dept. Pres. kept turning during the conversation...
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Who the fsck marked me as "Redundant"? Do it again beyatch, you've got 3 points left at best...
Okay, he just hit 1005 total users. Cool.
Anyways, if anyone is a Hardcore/Dance/Techno fan, hit the site in the grandparent.
Just heard the count; The SlashDot effect on a Shoutcast Stream is (drumroll please)...85 users.
C'Mon guys! If we can SlashDot a ShoutCast Server, that'd be worthy of a blurb in the IT section...
Wow. I must have read the parent wrong...I could have swore he wanted to know why a 30MB source tarball, when compiled, shrunk to 14MB.
The opposite would be because of things like
#include linux/notifier.h
#include linux/cpu.h
#include asm/bitops.h
But that's the nature of the beast.
Again, my apologies. I should stop posting to slashdot when I'm drunk...or I should stop reading my drunken posts when I'm sober....
Because Adobe Potsho^H^H^H^H^H PhotoShop runs $599 per retail copy. Because most people would like an Open Source Solution. Because there's an abundant amount of 15 year-old PERL writers out there that would like to learn an Industry-Standard application. Because there are people out there that would like to screw over Adobe, simply because Adobe didn't take the umpteen-million Pixar wanted to give them to make a Linux version of Photoshop. Because...
They're called "Comments". Sometimes developers write them in. Compilers strip them out.
...kinda reminds me of that "Did you mean..." google feature. That thing is so handy when you're drunk. Maybe with this hack, I can spike the waterfountain at work, and just pocket the $599 instead of buying a copy of PhotoShop CS... ...maybe...
Sounds like the Sleep Time for IDE access is set too low. Hard drive access doesn't have to happen to wake up the drive, any IDE access could trigger it. Chech your BIOS.
Gawd, your sig is giving me flashbacks..
"This is my sig. There are many like it
but this one is mine. My sig is my best
friend. It is my life. I must master it as
I must master my life.
"Without my sig, I am useless. I must post
true. I must post faster than
my enemy who is trying to FP me. I must
FP him before he FPs me. I will."
Wtf is "up7t1m3"? Oh, where is the spelling nazi when he's needed most?
This is exactly the kind of thing I love.
The RIAA/MPAA have worked so hard to master the art of "The Fad", now their cumulative work over the past 50-odd years is biting them in the ass.
Think about it; Anyone remember the BackStreet Boys? How about the posters, toys, clothes, and the rest of that flood of crap that swallowed every retail outlet? All RIAA's doing.
Now, people have found a "Bigger, Better Deal" in P2P networks. "No more CD Exchange for me, it's all on P2P, and blank CD-Rs are less than a nickel a pop!"
The **IA cannot control the horde of consumers they've created, and all their billions cannot curb the tsunami-like tide.
When Lars of Metallica raised a shitfit over Napster, what happened? Napster died, others rose to fill its place. Some were born out of hate for Lars' hypocrisy, other for the hell of it.
The point is; It will not stop, it will not collapse. The **IA will either go broke fighting this, or they'll turn a SCO and use it as a business model (which I fear is what has already happened).
Good counter-point. Either way, Iraq was in pretty bad need of a beheading after Operation: Desert storm. My boss was in Op:DS, then when Op:Iraqi Freedom started, he felt horrible. His eldest son is in the Army. He kept kicking himself for "not taking care of things then".
I have to agree with you on your second point.
Now, not to flame or anything but I'm curious about something; If Bush had lost to Gore in 2000, how would the WTC attacks been handeled? I'd like to think that Gore would have done better than shake his finger and say "Bad Jawas! Bad!", followed by a thumb-bite, but given the exposure to politics that Gore had, I have my doubts.
The economy (esp. IT) was already in a downward spiral when Bush stepped in. The attacks on the WTC and the Petagon were probably ment to push everything down further. What were our options?
A) Ignore the possibility that more attacks were coming and bandage our wounds as best we could.
B) Do the above and scold any suspects.
C) Bomb the living shit out of the armpit of the world.
True, many good people have been injured and killed. I myself have many good friends over there now, and I pray to $DIETY that they come home safely. If Al Gore had won back in 2000, what would he have done? What alternative was there?
Funny, I googled for "remote linux root exploits" and I didn't get a single hit. That clearly points to the obvious; Google's Censoring Linux Vulnerabilites!! OMFG!! Now only if it.slashdot didnt have such a shitty color sheme, maybe I'd feel better about my IT-related job and stop posting mindless drivel like this.
AC is for cowards!
Depends on the laptop. In my experience, the touchpad is usually riding the PS/2 (/dev/psaux).
You might want to check-out LinuxLaptops.Org or the Slackware Linux Phorums over at UserLocal.Com.
I have to admit, I've been using Slackware since 7.1 as my desktop OS. I was a total n00b when it came to linux, and it took me a week or so to get my X display setup and lovable, but it was a head-first dive into linux anyway. Slackware had most of what I needed; Mozilla for mail and browsing, KDE for a desktop (even though Steven seems to lean towards GNOME), and Gimp for the pictures. I just had to add OpenOffice for the wordprocessing and rlpr to print to our OpenBSD print server. But the thing that saved me the most was the beloved documentation in /usr/doc. Almost every How-To was stuffed in there! I'd recommend it for any newbie that wants to go hard-core fast. I can't wait to try Slackware 10, but I'll probobly wipe out my boxen first (as I've been using the -current branch for so long).
True, but how many of those services that you mentioned even know what a network adaptor is? login doesn't have any sort of interaction with a NIC, (by default) neither does cron. I don't think I've even seen a way to configure login to do anything over the network. The only major thing in my experience with most Linux distros is that the X server keeps port 6000 open and waits for requests. However, that lil' nuance can be taken care of by changing a line in the appropriate config file. For Example; if you're running XFree86, find the file(s) "Xaccess" and change the "#*" and "#* CHOOSER BROADCAST" to "!*". This will reject any requests for a logon window (which is maybe where you get the assumption that the login service is exploitable via the network).
P.S: I know I'm feeding the Troll, but I just want to calm any worrried n00bs before they fall for this kind of FUD.
What is with Viviendi? For the longest time, it seemed like they had the gamer close to heart. Then they started throwing every kind of copy protection on their products. I quit giving them cash when they started picking on F/OSS projects. Last time I checked BnetD's website (a few weeks ago), it pulled up Blizzard's battle.net site. Thought I had a typo and found the real site. I've been giving them hell ever since. With any luck, Blizzard will be bought-up or crushed in a few years.
I may speak with my wallet, but a cable modem and a good FTP server speaks louder...
(Hm, I smell a troll...but I'll bite.)
In regards to being a hypocrite; changing the ID of a browser to IE and surfing the web does not make one a hypocrite in this case. However, if someone complained to a humble Web Admin about a bug/feature while their bowser ID was set to something other than the original ID is a hypocrite.
just so long as his next words weren't going to be "license, registration and proof of insurance"
No, especially if it's "...license, registration, and proof of insurance."
Those identity theives are real clever.
That's really freaking harsh. If you're an American; I hope whoever is reading over your shoulder belts you one with your own stapler. If you're not an American; may you benefit *and* suffer at the hands of one. Either way, you have no respect for the dead. You have no honor.
(Note to Mods: I know, OT/Redundant/Flambait/Troll. But I will not hide behind AC for this one. This is Karma well-burned. Bring it on.)
Mod Up!
Wanted: One Motivated Marine. Must provide Rifle. Other Expenses covered. Includes one-way ticket to Utah.
~~~~~
HARTMAN: Do any of you people know who Charles Whitman was? No response.
HARTMAN: None of you dumbasses knows?
COWBOY raises his hand.
HARTMAN: Private Cowboy?
COWBOY: Sir, he was that guy who shot all those people from that tower in Austin, Texas, sir!
HARTMAN: That's affirmative. Charles Whitman killed twenty people from a twenty-eight-story observation tower at the University of Texas from distances up to four hundred yards.
HARTMAN: looks around.
HARTMAN: Anybody know who Lee Harvey Oswald was? Almost everybody raises his hand.
HARTMAN: Private Snowball?
SNOWBALL: Sir, he shot Kennedy, sir!
HARTMAN: That's right, and do you know how far away he was?
SNOWBALL: Sir, it was pretty far! From that book suppository building, sir!
The recruits laugh at "suppository."
HARTMAN: All right, knock it off! Two hundred and fifty feet! He was two hundred and fifty feet away and shooting at a moving target. Oswald got off three rounds with an old Italian bolt action rifle in only six seconds and scored two hits, including a head shot! Do any of you people know where these individuals learned to shoot?
JOKER raises his hand.
HARTMAN: Private Joker?
JOKER: Sir, in the Marines, sir!
HARTMAN: In the Marines! Outstanding! Those individuals showed what one motivated marine and his rifle can do! And before you ladies leave my island, you will be able to do the same thing!
~~~~~
http://www.short-timers.com/fmj.html
Something like this happens about every month or so where I work. There's a group of representatives from each department, they all bang-heads about what drives them nuts at work. Then they send reps. to meet with the Mid-Higher-Ups (Executives and such). Basically, the Dept. Managers and the Dept. Pres & VP are left out of the loop. It only took one person questioning our Dept. Pres' 60% pay raise to land the whole thing in hot water. Although it was quite entertaining when the Dept. Pres. (and avid book-thumping rules-lawyer) called in said inquirer and "politely requested" that from now on, he be informed of such issues prior to bringing them up to the Mid-Higher-Ups. Then the inquirer proceeded to show him the signed, set-in-stone policy regarding Dept. Managers and PHBs from interfering with this process. The only thing sweeter was the various shades of red and purple the Dept. Pres. kept turning during the conversation...
Someone Mod this guy up! I'm outta points and he's damned funny! (Good Point, too)