If you have short deadlines, you end up with issues similar to the bugs Ubuntu needs to smooth out every release. If you go with "It'll be finished when it is finished", Your stable releases can become ridiculously out of date between versions. Debian did a good thing by abandoning the open-ended release cycle in favor of the extremely long but predictable two-year deadlines.
It sounds really weird and funny when a 2-year release cycle for an OPERATING SYSTEM is considered extremely long.
The article talks about the victims actually intending to sue their banks to get their money back. WTF? Since when it the bank responcible for the lax security on the customer's side?
I think the collapse of the US middle class is in large part the fault of the middle class itself. In a world of increasing sophistication, most people ignored it and didn't adapt to it, and they didn't instill into their children the importance of education. The idea that one can live very comfortably simply being unskilled labor was a foolish one that idea only worked for a generation or two.
I will openly admit I don't understand that much about the crysis the US is going through, however I do understand the problems of the country where I live, Finland. Ironically, our problems seem to be the exact oppposite. We don't have anywhere near the amount of "raw" labor we need. The higher education system has been over-advertised and overhyped for over a decade and when suddenly big business realised that the wage levels are absurd and started shipping these jobs out to China, India and the western bloc, we ended up with problems. These people raise their nose high up when offered a manual labor job and would rather sit on their asses taking unemployment benefits instead.
Meanwhile, the amount of available manual labor jobs continues to grow and so does the salary level provided by these jobs. If you have some experience doing wall painting, working in the LVI (warmth, water, air) area, laying and fixing pipes, etc etc, you have absolutely no problem getting a job that pays 3000 euro/month or more, which provides for a very nice quality of living in Finland.
So if sell someone a box with a linux distribution installed on it do I need to print out all of that distribution's source code and ship it with the computer as well?
No, you don't have to print it all out. Including a download link to the source code somewhere in the documentation is definately good enough.
If I make software that runs on a linux distribution and set linux to run that software at boot-up does that mean I'm really altering linux itself?
It doesn't matter. Does your software link against any GPL'ed software? If yes, you need to make the source to your changes available.
There are plenty of Asian MMOs that have plenty of players in the Asian market that just can't compete in the West. Oh, and WoW kicks ass for player numbers over there as well as here, but no Asian MMORPG has yet to achieve the same kind of crossover success.
Since The9 and Blizzard became entangled in a web of legal disputes, China doesn't even HAVE official WoW servers anymore. Some chinese have flocked to the Taiwanese servers, but judging by the amount of players chinese Aion has managed to gather all out of nowhere, a lot of them didn't.
Aion will have a couple hundred thousand subscribers if it's lucky, and those will churn out in a few months, the numbers will stabilize somewhere around 80K, and NCsoft will still be scratching their heads wondering why they can't publish a GOOD MMO.
You do realise that the game has been out since November 2008 and has millions of active subscribers in Asia?
Is the reason I actually stuck with Windows 2008 Server when evaluating my choices for a home NAS solution with easy-to-use partition encryption that doesn't get in my way and yes, I had tried out different Linux and *BSD-based solutions, but in the end, Win2008+Truecrypt was simply too powerful and too convenient to not pick as the clear winner. I might look at FreeBSD and OpenSolaris again when ZFS crypto finally gets implemented to see how it fares on the usability side of things.
I am sure some old hardware does exist that still doesn't have 64bit drivers for Vista/2008, but you really really need to try to actually find such hardware.
Well, you don't need to try too hard if you have older Dell or HP equipment. See what I mean?
You do realise that your own link contains download links for the 64bit Vista and Win2008 drivers?
Unfortunately, Windows has been kind of lagging on the 64-bit front. By treating it as sort of a bastard child (like they treated all their non-i386 NT versions), Microsoft managed to ensure that hardware manufacturers wouldn't make an effort to support 64-bit windows in a non-server environment. Which is frustrating as I've started bumping up against that once-awesome 4GB barrier.
Please, stop spewing bullshit. Just stop.
For almost 2 years now, it has been a requirement to provide both 64 and 32 bit Vista drivers if a manufacturer wanted to get the WHQL stamp of approval. And these same Vista drivers install and work just fine on 64bit Windows 2008 Server as well, I know, because I actually run 64bit Win2008 on a rather obscure combination of hardware and haven't had any issues. I am sure some old hardware does exist that still doesn't have 64bit drivers for Vista/2008, but you really really need to try to actually find such hardware.
Full-disk truecrypt AES encryption is absolutely above acceptable on an Atom 330, the CPU is a hyperthreaded dualcore one, so the OS sees 4 CPUs and truecrypt operates on all 4. I get ~55 MB/s in the AES truecrypt benchmark and I am using it to fully encrypt several partitions. It works just fine.
Being interested in "helping the cause", I used to run a TOR relay on my primary system with a fair share of bandwidth. My exit policy was to allow only http/https/irc traffic out. Within 3 days, I found myself unable to browse several websites/forums that I normally frequent. Apparently, a lot of websites use proxies to filter connections from spam and abuse and some of these proxies identify, track and mark IPs running TOR exit relays as abuse relays. I have talked to a maintainer of one such "blacklist" and this is apparently a feature, not a bug as he considers complete anonymity on the internet to cause more harm than good. So, I cannot change the opinion of a blacklist maintainer and I cannot make the websites I visit stop using such blacklists. Essentially I was being blackmailed in a "either you stop running a TOR exit node or you can't browse this and this and this website" fashion. Eventually I had to cave in and had to stop running TOR on my system before the maintainers of these lists agreed to take me off them.
Obviously I want to support the cause of having anonymity on the internet, but I am not really sure that this price of not being able to use internet properly myself is a price I am willing to pay. What can be done about this?
The second problem comes from another point of view. What can I do, as a TOR relay operator, to protect myself from potentially getting harassed by law enforcement non-stop?
P.S: Sorry for crossposting, I initially intended to reply to the parent post, but managed to post my reply into the wrong part of the discussion.
Being interested in "helping the cause", I used to run a TOR relay on my primary system with a fair share of bandwidth. My exit policy was to allow only http/https/irc traffic out. Within 3 days, I found myself unable to browse several websites/forums that I normally frequent. Apparently, a lot of websites use proxies to filter connections from spam and abuse and some of these proxies identify, track and mark IPs running TOR exit relays as abuse relays. I have talked to a maintainer of one such "blacklist" and this is apparently a feature, not a bug as he considers complete anonymity on the internet to cause more harm than good. So, I cannot change the opinion of a blacklist maintainer and I cannot make the websites I visit stop using such blacklists. Essentially I was being blackmailed in a "either you stop running a TOR exit node or you can't browse this and this and this website" fashion. Eventually I had to cave in and had to stop running TOR on my system before the maintainers of these lists agreed to take me off them.
Obviously I want to support the cause of having anonymity on the internet, but I am not really sure that this price of not being able to use internet properly myself is a price I am willing to pay. What can be done about this?
The second problem comes from another point of view. What can I do, as a TOR relay operator, to protect myself from potentially getting harassed by law enforcement non-stop?
Microsoft actually wants me to leech this off of BitTorrent. There's no other explanation.
I am confused. Where does this feeling of entitlement to someones product come from? If you don't agree with their pricing for Windows 7, you are free to use the older version if you have it or switch to any of the many different free operating systems available.
I'm genuinely puzzled by the people who can't figure out what a DOS-compatible OS is good for. Don't you people ever need to apply BIOS updates? Or run hard drive diagnostic software?
Yes and? Most motherboard vendors provide either executable files you can run from within Windows or floppy/cdrom images you just burn and then boot from. Same for hard drive diagnostic software. Making my own dos bootable disk hasn't come into equation for 5+ years.
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Oh the irony,
And then they wonder why noone is taking the FSF seriously. Thankfully, they are not representative of the open source movement.
If you have short deadlines, you end up with issues similar to the bugs Ubuntu needs to smooth out every release. If you go with "It'll be finished when it is finished", Your stable releases can become ridiculously out of date between versions. Debian did a good thing by abandoning the open-ended release cycle in favor of the extremely long but predictable two-year deadlines.
It sounds really weird and funny when a 2-year release cycle for an OPERATING SYSTEM is considered extremely long.
The article talks about the victims actually intending to sue their banks to get their money back. WTF? Since when it the bank responcible for the lax security on the customer's side?
i would really hate to have my privacy intruded upon while walking around in public ;p
That's an oxymoron you are describing. You don't have any privacy in public, they are exact opposites of each other.
If I buy a DSL 6000 line with a flat-rate, I expect to get it. Period.
Sure you can get that, but expect to pay anywhere from 3 to 10 times the price of a regular consumer connection.
No, I don't care for any "up to" clauses
You should, it's in the contract you signed.
I think the collapse of the US middle class is in large part the fault of the middle class itself. In a world of increasing sophistication, most people ignored it and didn't adapt to it, and they didn't instill into their children the importance of education. The idea that one can live very comfortably simply being unskilled labor was a foolish one that idea only worked for a generation or two.
I will openly admit I don't understand that much about the crysis the US is going through, however I do understand the problems of the country where I live, Finland. Ironically, our problems seem to be the exact oppposite. We don't have anywhere near the amount of "raw" labor we need. The higher education system has been over-advertised and overhyped for over a decade and when suddenly big business realised that the wage levels are absurd and started shipping these jobs out to China, India and the western bloc, we ended up with problems. These people raise their nose high up when offered a manual labor job and would rather sit on their asses taking unemployment benefits instead.
Meanwhile, the amount of available manual labor jobs continues to grow and so does the salary level provided by these jobs. If you have some experience doing wall painting, working in the LVI (warmth, water, air) area, laying and fixing pipes, etc etc, you have absolutely no problem getting a job that pays 3000 euro/month or more, which provides for a very nice quality of living in Finland.
So if sell someone a box with a linux distribution installed on it do I need to print out all of that distribution's source code and ship it with the computer as well?
No, you don't have to print it all out. Including a download link to the source code somewhere in the documentation is definately good enough.
If I make software that runs on a linux distribution and set linux to run that software at boot-up does that mean I'm really altering linux itself?
It doesn't matter. Does your software link against any GPL'ed software? If yes, you need to make the source to your changes available.
Because QuakeLive is not Quake 3.
If a MMORPG can't be soloed it will fail
What part of MM (Massively Multiplayer) from MMORPG is so hard for people to grasp?
There are plenty of Asian MMOs that have plenty of players in the Asian market that just can't compete in the West. Oh, and WoW kicks ass for player numbers over there as well as here, but no Asian MMORPG has yet to achieve the same kind of crossover success.
Since The9 and Blizzard became entangled in a web of legal disputes, China doesn't even HAVE official WoW servers anymore. Some chinese have flocked to the Taiwanese servers, but judging by the amount of players chinese Aion has managed to gather all out of nowhere, a lot of them didn't.
Aion will have a couple hundred thousand subscribers if it's lucky, and those will churn out in a few months, the numbers will stabilize somewhere around 80K, and NCsoft will still be scratching their heads wondering why they can't publish a GOOD MMO.
You do realise that the game has been out since November 2008 and has millions of active subscribers in Asia?
You are confused. Not reaching the userbase of WOW does not make an MMO a flop. EVE has been thriving for years with just ~250,000 users.
How do you justify the $800 price tag on Win 2008?
There are plenty of ways to obtain Win2008 in a legal way without paying 800$: Technet, MSDN through work, an EDU account, etc, etc
Is the reason I actually stuck with Windows 2008 Server when evaluating my choices for a home NAS solution with easy-to-use partition encryption that doesn't get in my way and yes, I had tried out different Linux and *BSD-based solutions, but in the end, Win2008+Truecrypt was simply too powerful and too convenient to not pick as the clear winner. I might look at FreeBSD and OpenSolaris again when ZFS crypto finally gets implemented to see how it fares on the usability side of things.
Bowing to pressure, Sony has now removed the ads from Wipeout.
If someone can gain physical access to your machine then it's effectively game over.
If that was the case, what would be the point of disk/partition encryption in the first place?
Well, you don't need to try too hard if you have older Dell or HP equipment. See what I mean?
You do realise that your own link contains download links for the 64bit Vista and Win2008 drivers?
Unfortunately, Windows has been kind of lagging on the 64-bit front. By treating it as sort of a bastard child (like they treated all their non-i386 NT versions), Microsoft managed to ensure that hardware manufacturers wouldn't make an effort to support 64-bit windows in a non-server environment. Which is frustrating as I've started bumping up against that once-awesome 4GB barrier.
Please, stop spewing bullshit. Just stop. For almost 2 years now, it has been a requirement to provide both 64 and 32 bit Vista drivers if a manufacturer wanted to get the WHQL stamp of approval. And these same Vista drivers install and work just fine on 64bit Windows 2008 Server as well, I know, because I actually run 64bit Win2008 on a rather obscure combination of hardware and haven't had any issues. I am sure some old hardware does exist that still doesn't have 64bit drivers for Vista/2008, but you really really need to try to actually find such hardware.
Full-disk truecrypt AES encryption is absolutely above acceptable on an Atom 330, the CPU is a hyperthreaded dualcore one, so the OS sees 4 CPUs and truecrypt operates on all 4. I get ~55 MB/s in the AES truecrypt benchmark and I am using it to fully encrypt several partitions. It works just fine.
Being interested in "helping the cause", I used to run a TOR relay on my primary system with a fair share of bandwidth. My exit policy was to allow only http/https/irc traffic out. Within 3 days, I found myself unable to browse several websites/forums that I normally frequent. Apparently, a lot of websites use proxies to filter connections from spam and abuse and some of these proxies identify, track and mark IPs running TOR exit relays as abuse relays. I have talked to a maintainer of one such "blacklist" and this is apparently a feature, not a bug as he considers complete anonymity on the internet to cause more harm than good. So, I cannot change the opinion of a blacklist maintainer and I cannot make the websites I visit stop using such blacklists. Essentially I was being blackmailed in a "either you stop running a TOR exit node or you can't browse this and this and this website" fashion. Eventually I had to cave in and had to stop running TOR on my system before the maintainers of these lists agreed to take me off them.
Obviously I want to support the cause of having anonymity on the internet, but I am not really sure that this price of not being able to use internet properly myself is a price I am willing to pay. What can be done about this?
The second problem comes from another point of view. What can I do, as a TOR relay operator, to protect myself from potentially getting harassed by law enforcement non-stop?
P.S: Sorry for crossposting, I initially intended to reply to the parent post, but managed to post my reply into the wrong part of the discussion.
Being interested in "helping the cause", I used to run a TOR relay on my primary system with a fair share of bandwidth. My exit policy was to allow only http/https/irc traffic out. Within 3 days, I found myself unable to browse several websites/forums that I normally frequent. Apparently, a lot of websites use proxies to filter connections from spam and abuse and some of these proxies identify, track and mark IPs running TOR exit relays as abuse relays. I have talked to a maintainer of one such "blacklist" and this is apparently a feature, not a bug as he considers complete anonymity on the internet to cause more harm than good. So, I cannot change the opinion of a blacklist maintainer and I cannot make the websites I visit stop using such blacklists. Essentially I was being blackmailed in a "either you stop running a TOR exit node or you can't browse this and this and this website" fashion. Eventually I had to cave in and had to stop running TOR on my system before the maintainers of these lists agreed to take me off them.
Obviously I want to support the cause of having anonymity on the internet, but I am not really sure that this price of not being able to use internet properly myself is a price I am willing to pay. What can be done about this?
The second problem comes from another point of view. What can I do, as a TOR relay operator, to protect myself from potentially getting harassed by law enforcement non-stop?
Microsoft actually wants me to leech this off of BitTorrent. There's no other explanation.
I am confused. Where does this feeling of entitlement to someones product come from? If you don't agree with their pricing for Windows 7, you are free to use the older version if you have it or switch to any of the many different free operating systems available.
I'm genuinely puzzled by the people who can't figure out what a DOS-compatible OS is good for. Don't you people ever need to apply BIOS updates? Or run hard drive diagnostic software?
Yes and? Most motherboard vendors provide either executable files you can run from within Windows or floppy/cdrom images you just burn and then boot from. Same for hard drive diagnostic software. Making my own dos bootable disk hasn't come into equation for 5+ years.
or better yet:
/dev/ad12s1a 17G 849M 14G 6% / /dev /DATA /home /home/jago /usr/local /usr/obj /usr/ports /var/log
[root@atom ~]# uname -a
FreeBSD atom.localdomain 7.2-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p1 #0: Tue Jun 9 18:02:21 UTC 2009 root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
[root@atom ~]# df -H
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
devfs 1.0k 1.0k 0B 100%
tank/DATA 1.9T 292G 1.7T 15%
tank/home 1.7T 0B 1.7T 0%
tank/home/jago 1.7T 0B 1.7T 0%
tank/usr/local 1.7T 365M 1.7T 0%
tank/usr/obj 1.7T 0B 1.7T 0%
tank/usr/ports 1.7T 549M 1.7T 0%
tank/var/log 1.7T 262k 1.7T 0%