If they get linux from redhat the money is going to an US firm.
Ummm, no. If they buy a copy of RedHat Linux from RedHat itself (nevermind cheapbytes), then they're out the $70 or whatever it actually costs.
If you're arguing that they buy the RedHat support contract for each of their installations, that's one thing. However, if I were them, I would hire a couple of dozen techies, get them familiar with RedHat, and call them the support center.
I know what the general opinion on striking back on scans and such are but:
What would be everyone's take on a strike back box? That is a machine which is set up for the sole purpose of detecting infected servers, and "inoculating" them against this virus? Of course, these computers are already known to be susceptible to the kind of attack Code Red uses. I know that this could get a person in some pretty deep trouble with the law, but what if these strike back machines were the only way to stop this virus? Not that I think that Code Red can't be stopped any other way, just what if the fact that it is being changed with a purpose means that we can't just take a passive "you should always patch your computer" stance? That is, it could use a completely different exploit next month.
Exactly why doesn't the RIAA just distribute
encrypted files? If the player doesn't have the
right key, it can't play.
Of course, this will
lead to increases in file size, and will pretty
much have the same problem as the watermark: If
one person can do it, another can
reverse-engineer it, so the keys will be extracted
and used to decode the file almost immediately.
I would love for there to be no breaks in tv shows, instead broadcasting a little strip across the bottom/top/side/whatver that flashed images for companies.
But, the reason I would love it is because a standard place for the commercial would mean that some bright boy out there would write some software that just removed that chunk of the video, leaving only the show.
Funny how this post was almost exactly copied from a post by carlhirsch as seen on This previous slashdot article. I was wondering what was going on. Are you the same person, and if so, do you always type the exact same thing? If not, are you a bot:) That would be cool.
Please explain, in a private email to hunter@ava.obu.edu
Now I've got a question. It shows all the distros as seperate OSs right? I have no problem there. However, if a single exploit (ftpd anyone?) affects several distros, is that included more than once in the overall list? It kinda looked like it did, but I'm too lazy to look.
Hey wait a minute, I remember now, that's what we've already got. WindowsNT and Windows98 and Windows3.1 and Windows95 and Windows2k. What's the difference? It's my opinion, unbacked as it may be, that by opening the source, you will see a standard for Windows binaries surface. This is a much greater good than what's going on now, with the vague incompatibilities between the current versions.
William Gibson is, to me, the father of "Cyberpunk" and all of its offshoots. The story he did this with is called "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep," and is a very interesting, if dated, venture into Gibson's depressing vision of the future, which is and was very revolutionary stuff.
You know, I've always thought of what I do as a sort of magic. Taking the computer (reality) and bending it to my will with incantations (code). It's a really obvious metaphor, so I guess I wouldn't mind being called a Wizard.
Would an NT hacker be called a Warlock? A newbie an apprentice? There are a lot of cool things that could go on with that line of reasoning
But don't call me a magician. What I do is so much deeper than slight of hand and fool the eye. I actually mold the computer to my will, instead of working within the confines of it.
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Does fragmentation of distributions really improve the OS?
Of course! Seriously though, if you had always used Linux (Just go with it), and you saw some Windows 3.11 floppies sitting around, wouldn't you install it? Once you had, wouldn't you be complaining about how hard it was to use, how slow it was, and how ugly it looked? How would you know that there was a better and faster version out there? How would you know that the reason it was hard to use and didn't have drivers for your hardware was because the hardware hadn't been made?
The same thing holds true here. How was he to know that there were better versions? How was he to know that the video card he was using would have been autoprobed by current distros? He just had bad luck, that's all.
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even a clueless newbie canb usually get it installed.
Really? A clueless newbie you say? Strange that many of the Math and Computer Science majors at my college can't install Windows 95 on their machines, and call me instead.
Time after time I've said (not on here, but in RL) that if you have not done something before, it will be hard. It won't be hard after doing it a couple of times. Operating System installation, sky diving, you name it.
I find Operating System installation easy, be it Windows or Linux. I don't know the first thing about automobiles, and have never changed the oil in my truck, so if I tried it now, would that be a fault of the vehicle? No!
You can't make everything so simple that Joe Schmoe can do it easily and quickly on the first try. Heck, my mom didn't learn how to change channels with a remote control until about a year ago. She is of above normal intelligence, she'd just never done it before, and always had someone else there to do it for her.
Just remember Pig Latin. Really hard until you got the jist of it, and then it suddenly became second nature. The same thing holds true for Computers. If you've never formatted a hard disk before, it will seem impossible to you.
Two different (sort of) ways of doing things.
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Basically, it's about what you want out of a Windowing environment. I've never extensively used either of them, so please don't flame me. Instead, email me to tell me how I'm wrong at hunter@ava.obu.edu.
Gnome - more feature filled and robust. However, it feels slow, kind of like Windows. It seems to have more programs started for it, but not all of them are ready yet (a mail client, for god's sake). Too many task bars.
KDE - slicker, streamlined. Fewer end user programs, but more technical. Still has too many task bars. (In case you can't tell, I don't like task bars)
Of course, I've picked my window manager, and nothing else really piques my interest.
Begin plug: Window Maker is really cool, I love its speed and minimalist(sp) view of the desk top. End plug.
That's not what he's saying (badly). What he means is that, in the BCIS, (MIS at my school) department, you won't learn how to think up cool answers to neat problems, which is the reason I got into computer science. Instead, the BCIS degree will show that you can do VB programming, maybe a little C++, but not that you can program.
What's the difference? Well, a real programmer, one who has been trained to think, can take any language, or even no language at all, and churn out exactly what he wants.
A BCIS major will be able to write front ends to databases, and maybe a few really simple, boring, apps.
Well, I could defend him by saying that, when refering to someone of unknown sex, it is considered correct to use the pronoun "he", "his", or "him".
However, I would say that the writer probably was thinking of a male, because most sexual offenders are male, as you pointed out. This is a blinder type vision, and could turn around and bite some of us in the butt.
I think it's good that you pointed this out to people, because just because your neighbor is a lady, doesn't mean that she doesn't want to do things to your children.
Please, enlighten me as to what I should use instead? Not Windows, surely. I don't hate Windows because it is succesful, and I don't have a deep need to be elite. I hate Windows, because it hampers my ability to do anything.
I like Linux because of the plethora of modifications I can make to it, and the amount of customization I can make to the UI. I also really appreciate the online documentation, which is in a sane and easy to use format. Once I figured out how to use it, I fell in love.
So, what computing paradigm to you love? I probably haven't tried it, but if you would help me get it installed, I'll be happy to give it a try.
1. They are keeping up with their students, and just keeping a record of what MAC addresses are whose, that way if you do anything illegal, they can say "It was this guy".
2. They are giving you a static IP (good thing) which is the way to go. That way, you get the benifits of DHCP, and the benifits of a static IP. So, is your IP the same all the time? Or does it change?
"Why are you people so nervous? What, please tell, has you so afraid of this?"
I'm not afraid of anything I say over the phone or internet being intercepted and used against me, I don't say those things over the phone or internet. However, I'm scared sh*tless by any law that takes freedom out of the hands of the American populace, and places it into our caretakers.
Perhaps it would be better explained in the hypothetical. Let's say that I'm of a certain religious denomination that says that it is immoral to use any form of birth control. Then, lets say that the government mandated that all males should have some form of subcutaneous(sp) birth control implanted in them, because of population pressures. What is the result of this? Either my religious beliefs are swayed, or I break the law. Let's say that I break the law, but have no more children, obeying the spirit of the law, if not the letter.
How does this relate? How is enforced birth control similar to federal wiretapping? Because they both take the rights out of my hands, and put them into the hands of the government. In both cases, I would be forced to break the law. I will not stand for wire tapping without a search warrant, and I will(would) not stand for enforced birth control.
"I doubt you could claim with a straight face that the primary purpose of a DIMM is storing music."
No, but I could claim, with all honesty, that I am thinking about buying a hard drive to move my existing MP3 collection onto. I would want this drive to hold 2G, seeing as how my current holdings are about 1G. That would be quite a little tax, seeing as how 1M holds 1Min of music (roughly).
Since when does having money make someone interesting? I have a lot more money now that I'm working two jobs, but I'd venture to say that I'm much less interesting.
Money doesn't make you more attractive or more interesting. This is something that so many people have a problem understanding.
Here's a question for Bill Gates himself: Don't you get tired of having so many people curse your name every time their machine crashes? I would feel very sorry if my Operating System hurt other people when I could fix it with virtually no trouble.
But then again, maybe that's why I'm a computer scientist instead of a businessman. That way, I can concentrate on quality and how my program is going to help people out, instead of the bottom line, and how much money can be made if we ship a week early, and don't bother on Quality Assurance.
But then again, maybe I'm a computer scientist because I'm an anti-social geek. One or the other.
Anyway, Bill Gates, if you're out there reading this, please feel free to drop me a line answering my question. I promise not to spread the address around.
Well, I as a geek may not be more tolerant than others, but I am certainly better than the rest of the population At What I Do. I also have an above average IQ, which of course means nothing, and do better in school than the average student.
However, I would try not to make such a sweeping statement as "I am better than everyone else," just because there's bound to be someone out there that's better than me at anything I try to do.
But this doesn't stop me from thinking that I'm better than everyone else, (I do) or looking down on other people (regrettably(sp), I do).
I do, on the other hand, try to treat everyone else equally, and with the same respect that I want from them. This is one of the traits I share with all of my geek friends, this tolerance.
I don't have any real point to all of this, except to say that it is possible for a geek (me) to think himself to be better than the average person (I do) and still treat them with respect and tolerance (I do).
"the all nighters, the lack of social life, the sparse showering, the male egotism and chauvanism"
I doubt if you'll ever get rid of these things entirely. I know I pull all nighters quite a bit, and my social life is lacking. I am very egotistical, but not really chauvanistic. I think I'm better than anyone else, male or female.
Saying that, I'd also like to say that at my university, there are only two seniors, both female. In my class, which is junior, there is only one girl, and about 6 guys. The sophomore class has about 4 girls and 10 guys. The numbers, (~7 to ~16) show about a 2:1 ratio. I would say that this shows that the girls who enjoy the programming, and are able to tough it out can and will become Computer Scientists. I also think that this shows that many guys go into Computer Science with the same attitude that I see in so many people when I tell them I'm Computer Science: "That's where the money is, huh?" Every time they say that, I tell them that I'm in it for the love of the Science, not for the money, and that money doesn't mean that much to me. So, I'd say that more guys get into CSCI to make money, while the women do it for the love of it.
Anyway, I shower twice a day, and I expect everyone else to too.
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If they get linux from redhat the money is going to an US firm.
Ummm, no. If they buy a copy of RedHat Linux from RedHat itself (nevermind cheapbytes), then they're out the $70 or whatever it actually costs.
If you're arguing that they buy the RedHat support contract for each of their installations, that's one thing. However, if I were them, I would hire a couple of dozen techies, get them familiar with RedHat, and call them the support center.
What would be everyone's take on a strike back box? That is a machine which is set up for the sole purpose of detecting infected servers, and "inoculating" them against this virus? Of course, these computers are already known to be susceptible to the kind of attack Code Red uses. I know that this could get a person in some pretty deep trouble with the law, but what if these strike back machines were the only way to stop this virus? Not that I think that Code Red can't be stopped any other way, just what if the fact that it is being changed with a purpose means that we can't just take a passive "you should always patch your computer" stance? That is, it could use a completely different exploit next month.
Exactly why doesn't the RIAA just distribute encrypted files? If the player doesn't have the right key, it can't play.
Of course, this will lead to increases in file size, and will pretty much have the same problem as the watermark: If one person can do it, another can reverse-engineer it, so the keys will be extracted and used to decode the file almost immediately.
But, the reason I would love it is because a standard place for the commercial would mean that some bright boy out there would write some software that just removed that chunk of the video, leaving only the show.
Then, no more commercials for me :)
Please explain, in a private email to hunter@ava.obu.edu
Now I've got a question. It shows all the distros as seperate OSs right? I have no problem there. However, if a single exploit (ftpd anyone?) affects several distros, is that included more than once in the overall list? It kinda looked like it did, but I'm too lazy to look.
Hey wait a minute, I remember now, that's what we've already got. WindowsNT and Windows98 and Windows3.1 and Windows95 and Windows2k. What's the difference? It's my opinion, unbacked as it may be, that by opening the source, you will see a standard for Windows binaries surface. This is a much greater good than what's going on now, with the vague incompatibilities between the current versions.
Well, I knew that someone did that. I guess I should do a little checking up before I go blurting off about who did what :)
Thanks guys.
William Gibson is, to me, the father of "Cyberpunk" and all of its offshoots. The story he did this with is called "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep," and is a very interesting, if dated, venture into Gibson's depressing vision of the future, which is and was very revolutionary stuff.
Would an NT hacker be called a Warlock? A newbie an apprentice? There are a lot of cool things that could go on with that line of reasoning
But don't call me a magician. What I do is so much deeper than slight of hand and fool the eye. I actually mold the computer to my will, instead of working within the confines of it.
Of course! Seriously though, if you had always used Linux (Just go with it), and you saw some Windows 3.11 floppies sitting around, wouldn't you install it? Once you had, wouldn't you be complaining about how hard it was to use, how slow it was, and how ugly it looked? How would you know that there was a better and faster version out there? How would you know that the reason it was hard to use and didn't have drivers for your hardware was because the hardware hadn't been made?
The same thing holds true here. How was he to know that there were better versions? How was he to know that the video card he was using would have been autoprobed by current distros? He just had bad luck, that's all.
Really? A clueless newbie you say? Strange that many of the Math and Computer Science majors at my college can't install Windows 95 on their machines, and call me instead.
Time after time I've said (not on here, but in RL) that if you have not done something before, it will be hard. It won't be hard after doing it a couple of times. Operating System installation, sky diving, you name it.
I find Operating System installation easy, be it Windows or Linux. I don't know the first thing about automobiles, and have never changed the oil in my truck, so if I tried it now, would that be a fault of the vehicle? No!
You can't make everything so simple that Joe Schmoe can do it easily and quickly on the first try. Heck, my mom didn't learn how to change channels with a remote control until about a year ago. She is of above normal intelligence, she'd just never done it before, and always had someone else there to do it for her.
Just remember Pig Latin. Really hard until you got the jist of it, and then it suddenly became second nature. The same thing holds true for Computers. If you've never formatted a hard disk before, it will seem impossible to you.
Gnome - more feature filled and robust. However, it feels slow, kind of like Windows. It seems to have more programs started for it, but not all of them are ready yet (a mail client, for god's sake). Too many task bars.
KDE - slicker, streamlined. Fewer end user programs, but more technical. Still has too many task bars. (In case you can't tell, I don't like task bars)
Of course, I've picked my window manager, and nothing else really piques my interest.
Begin plug:
Window Maker is really cool, I love its speed and minimalist(sp) view of the desk top.
End plug.
That way, AC trolling will have to be moved to valid accounts, which can then have their karma lowered.
That's not what he's saying (badly). What he means is that, in the BCIS, (MIS at my school) department, you won't learn how to think up cool answers to neat problems, which is the reason I got into computer science. Instead, the BCIS degree will show that you can do VB programming, maybe a little C++, but not that you can program.
What's the difference? Well, a real programmer, one who has been trained to think, can take any language, or even no language at all, and churn out exactly what he wants.
A BCIS major will be able to write front ends to databases, and maybe a few really simple, boring, apps.
However, I would say that the writer probably was thinking of a male, because most sexual offenders are male, as you pointed out. This is a blinder type vision, and could turn around and bite some of us in the butt.
I think it's good that you pointed this out to people, because just because your neighbor is a lady, doesn't mean that she doesn't want to do things to your children.
I like Linux because of the plethora of modifications I can make to it, and the amount of customization I can make to the UI. I also really appreciate the online documentation, which is in a sane and easy to use format. Once I figured out how to use it, I fell in love.
So, what computing paradigm to you love? I probably haven't tried it, but if you would help me get it installed, I'll be happy to give it a try.
1. They are keeping up with their students, and just keeping a record of what MAC addresses are whose, that way if you do anything illegal, they can say "It was this guy".
2. They are giving you a static IP (good thing) which is the way to go. That way, you get the benifits of DHCP, and the benifits of a static IP. So, is your IP the same all the time? Or does it change?
I'm not afraid of anything I say over the phone or internet being intercepted and used against me, I don't say those things over the phone or internet. However, I'm scared sh*tless by any law that takes freedom out of the hands of the American populace, and places it into our caretakers.
Perhaps it would be better explained in the hypothetical. Let's say that I'm of a certain religious denomination that says that it is immoral to use any form of birth control. Then, lets say that the government mandated that all males should have some form of subcutaneous(sp) birth control implanted in them, because of population pressures. What is the result of this? Either my religious beliefs are swayed, or I break the law. Let's say that I break the law, but have no more children, obeying the spirit of the law, if not the letter.
How does this relate? How is enforced birth control similar to federal wiretapping? Because they both take the rights out of my hands, and put them into the hands of the government. In both cases, I would be forced to break the law. I will not stand for wire tapping without a search warrant, and I will(would) not stand for enforced birth control.
No, but I could claim, with all honesty, that I am thinking about buying a hard drive to move my existing MP3 collection onto. I would want this drive to hold 2G, seeing as how my current holdings are about 1G. That would be quite a little tax, seeing as how 1M holds 1Min of music (roughly).
Money doesn't make you more attractive or more interesting. This is something that so many people have a problem understanding.
Here's a question for Bill Gates himself: Don't you get tired of having so many people curse your name every time their machine crashes? I would feel very sorry if my Operating System hurt other people when I could fix it with virtually no trouble.
But then again, maybe that's why I'm a computer scientist instead of a businessman. That way, I can concentrate on quality and how my program is going to help people out, instead of the bottom line, and how much money can be made if we ship a week early, and don't bother on Quality Assurance.
But then again, maybe I'm a computer scientist because I'm an anti-social geek. One or the other.
Anyway, Bill Gates, if you're out there reading this, please feel free to drop me a line answering my question. I promise not to spread the address around.
Surge? Absolutely not. Mountain Dew is the one true hacker drink. There can be no other.
However, I would try not to make such a sweeping statement as "I am better than everyone else," just because there's bound to be someone out there that's better than me at anything I try to do.
But this doesn't stop me from thinking that I'm better than everyone else, (I do) or looking down on other people (regrettably(sp), I do).
I do, on the other hand, try to treat everyone else equally, and with the same respect that I want from them. This is one of the traits I share with all of my geek friends, this tolerance.
I don't have any real point to all of this, except to say that it is possible for a geek (me) to think himself to be better than the average person (I do) and still treat them with respect and tolerance (I do).
I'm much more addicted to oxygen though. If I go for more than 30 seconds without it, it becomes all I think of.
I doubt if you'll ever get rid of these things entirely. I know I pull all nighters quite a bit, and my social life is lacking. I am very egotistical, but not really chauvanistic. I think I'm better than anyone else, male or female.
Saying that, I'd also like to say that at my university, there are only two seniors, both female. In my class, which is junior, there is only one girl, and about 6 guys. The sophomore class has about 4 girls and 10 guys. The numbers, (~7 to ~16) show about a 2:1 ratio. I would say that this shows that the girls who enjoy the programming, and are able to tough it out can and will become Computer Scientists. I also think that this shows that many guys go into Computer Science with the same attitude that I see in so many people when I tell them I'm Computer Science: "That's where the money is, huh?" Every time they say that, I tell them that I'm in it for the love of the Science, not for the money, and that money doesn't mean that much to me. So, I'd say that more guys get into CSCI to make money, while the women do it for the love of it.
Anyway, I shower twice a day, and I expect everyone else to too.