People making fakes of UFOs and breasts on the Olsen twins will discover new techniques to overcome the detection. It will always continue in a spammer/spam-filter fashion. I'm sure that we'll soon see tools to automatically take the mathematical principles into account and automatically correct fakes that can be detected. But hey, I'm pretty sure this one pic of the Olsen twins I got from Kazaa is real anyway.
No, the web is port 80, which is what apple's updater uses to connect to the apple update servers. Just because you can't type a URL into the update app, doesn't mean it's not a web browser.
OK, but we're talking about opening-up Software source code. Microsoft is a Software company. IBM does write plenty of software, mind you; but they are selling metal. If OS/2 had become the de facto standard and IBM was making $50 for every PC that shipped, you could bet that they'd be in Microsoft's shoes right now. I also believe that this is the real reason for the Xbox as Microsoft needs to become a hardware/OS platform. The first couple generations will be game consoles; but I believe the hope is to turn it into a closed platform for content delivery and everything else. Once Microsoft entrenches itself as the "digital hub," holy grail, et all, then it doesn't have to worry about it's operating systems market. Unfortunately for them, IBM's been at this business thing for quite some time; and even when it looks like they're on the road to destruction, they have the wherewithal to stay focused. As it turns out, the turtle may win this race after all.
I agree with what you have said; but you forgot something: these can't run windows! Windows can't (currently, anyway) run this type of quad-user setup. It has no way to control the hardware. If the schools/gov'mint purchase these, they will always be running linux. They will most likely never purchase software for these boxes as GCompris and a plethora of kids/edu software now exists for linux. A couple years back, when i was the sole administrator and technical advisor for a school district here in the states, I setup a couple new computer labs with old hardware and LTSP. I was trying to set it up as dual-headed boxes, but ran into too many problems to roll it out. Can you imagine doing a quad-headed LTSP roll-out with this type of setup?
Something that can premiscuously detail a LAN. It should use netcat, nmap, ethereal and the other standards to map, in real time, you LAN traffic. It should also have the ability to intercept and decode any stream on your network.
So, let's say Billy is reading Slashdot when he's supposed to be doing data entry. You see a red (for example) line leading from Billy's box to the firewall with the line labelled "slashdot.org" and the IP address. Click on Billy's box and "zoom" to focus the GUI to Billy and right click menu to "intercept and decode" to pop-up a konqueror window that follows Billy's URL jumps and shows you what he's reading. The same would be true of mpegs he's watching or mp3s he's downloading.
Other functions would be to show all nodes in the LAN as well as OS versions, all traffic in and out of each node, and any services running per node. Servers running things like ntlogon, apache or SMB would be marked as such. A "bookmarking" type feature could also be implemented as well as a sticky-note feature for notation and easy navigation. You could call it knetsec, but I actually like a bastardization of that... Knutsac.
Re:My experiences with Gmail invitations
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I just openned my account a few minutes ago. Thanks for the "creepy" link, but they make it painstakingly clear about how they sort the data to target adds and the search capabilities. As I see it, they've basically added some rich features and changed everything to the point where it really doesn't feel like email anymore. Gmail may really spark some interesting new concepts in GUI email clients. Adding some of these abilities into Thunderbird or KMail might really end up benefiting users; and give'm a jump on MS, who will obviously be "borrowing" concepts for Longhorn. Anyway, I digress; but I'm really excited about getting to use what looks like a really cool system.
um, you've just proven that you're not thinking right. First off, of course you don't know what your "friends" or anyone else does with the email you send them. Secondly, you don't know what they're doing with that letter you sent them in a stamped envelope. Thirdly, you don't know who has read/filed/indexed/jerked-off-to your emails in transit. The only way to stop that from happenning is using a pretty good encryption scheme (I'd suggest PGP or GNUpg) on your email, which would also stop google from indexing it.
If we can protect ourselves against third party disclosure of our private data, we should. I agree... see above. Legislation is unneeded.
OK, tomorrow I have an interview, my third, for a "new home seller" in the area (N.W. Chicago). I'm happy as a pig in shot that I'm turning my back on IT before it's proverbially "too late." I was the sole administrator and "Technology Advisor" for a school district up until I left to start my own consulting firm. I made $32k/yr to work a 5-building WAN (NT, bah) with 10 servers plus two OS/2 voicemail servers and 750+ nodes with 3,200 users by myself (sorry to end on a preposition:). I made more doing side jobs for small/medium enterprises, so decided to ditch the cash-poor school systems to go out on my own. I had two very good years, followed by two and a half of being out-bid on just about everything by the mass of 500,000 or so out of work IT guys that would bid peanuts on jobs just to be working. Nothing since has been but a measley 10 hours or so PER MONTH to my remaining clients (I don't use windows anymore, so my maintenance is minimal, at best). So, fair well, this past five years; may I never look back. I do think it's funny that now that IBM is pumping countless millions into my main product line's marketting, that I'm getting out of the game. Fairwell, I'll be remiss in the knowledge that I'm typing out my contracts on an inferior product and keep playing NeverBall at home.
It's being spearheaded by IBM and Sun. I don't think anyone will have issues about poor corporate backing. Not an issue, not even for the most retarded PHBs.
I agree with you on most of your post, but let me point out the irony of something you said. I have recommended to my current employer that all developers working on our software should either have the programmer certificate or be working towards it. You're talking about levying a requisite that you happen to meet, while ripping on a PhD for preferring college grads. Kinda funny.
I'm sitting here getting teary-eyed. I believe you just reminded me that God is with us. Thank you. I know this sounds stupid, but I'd given-up my faith for "scientific thought." I've tended to ridicule (in my mind) those that believe, brushing them off as morons, or low-brow. In fact, I grew up savagely religious, and by all means, God fearing. When I was 16 (I'm 31 now) I wanted, more than anything, to be a member of this completely hokey christian singing group after seeing them at one of our Lutheran youth conferences, which I travelled to Minneapolis from Chicago to attend. I don't even remember there name now, LOL the only thing I really remember about them is that one of the girls was fantastically hot, and that one of the guys was named Rusty Dick (just try growing-up with that one)! In summation: Thank you for reminding me why I loved God so much to begin with. I'm seriously crying. Thank you for posting such an altruistic and sincere thought here. Slashdot can be a harsh place for such honest emotion. Science and God do not have to be mutually-exclusive, I feel like I can have faith again. BTW, my sig is from The Simpsons, in the We Love You Marge episode, Homer sends Flanders a note to keep him away from Marge's party.
We all got hooked on Divx. The Divx people know it. It will take at least a year for the effects of this to reverse itself and for the Divx encoders/users to switch to another format. Let's hope the Ogg folks come up with a viable alternative, or hey... why not just stick with what we have now until we can reverse engineer it into a OSS clone?
OK, OK... now I know I'm getting out of hand; but what if Microsoft is really looking to "buy" Linux? What I mean is, if during this lawsuit period, Microsoft bought "the rights" to linux from SCO (and let's tag another double-quotes) "in good faith?" Could MS then claim that they are immuned from liability to the GPL? They bought exclusive rights from SCO, right? Could they then turn around and say "Well, we'd sue SCO over this and get the answer striaght, but they've been out of business for over a year now"? Then they take off with the kernel, never having to give source back in the process. Seems like they could bury just about anyone who tries to take them to court over it. Deep, deep pockets, ya know?
Does anyone else think it's ironic or somehow telling that the Moz team chose a dinosaur as their logo to begin with? Hopefully Moz/Firebird will have a nice Phoenix logo, birthing from a million tons of incinerated AOL CDs, animated of course.
Yeah, c'mon dumb-dumb, do somethin' unintelligent there- Moe Syzlak
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Why give up on it? Surely the outlandish pricing will come down, as that is set for early adopters to offset the research costs. 3G has had this crowd drooling for 1.5yrs (at least), someone will cash in on that cow.
As noted by another poster, the main point of this type of thing is to be able to access your remote shell accounts from home. Not necessarily the other way around. However, I'd like to note that I've been working on a version of Knoppix that includes the LUFS lkm and userland deamons, the next step is to get LUFS to automatically setup key-exchange when knoppix boots (set the remote server as boot options), then use the remote server as your/home/dir in Knoppix. I haven't gotten it working perfectly yet, but when it's done I should have a secure environment available on any PC.
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What's Wil Wheaton's take on all this? Wil? You out there?
He's prolly busy seeing if he still fits into that Crusher costume for next season.
People making fakes of UFOs and breasts on the Olsen twins will discover new techniques to overcome the detection. It will always continue in a spammer/spam-filter fashion. I'm sure that we'll soon see tools to automatically take the mathematical principles into account and automatically correct fakes that can be detected.
But hey, I'm pretty sure this one pic of the Olsen twins I got from Kazaa is real anyway.
I had a lovely sig... went something like
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DUDE,
MEET ME IN
MONTANA.
XXOO,
JESUS (H. CHRIST)
it's the note that Homer sent Flander's to keep him away from Marge's party. It rocked.
But alas, CocaWarner McMicroSonySoft is brilliant. Ce la vi.
No, the web is port 80, which is what apple's updater uses to connect to the apple update servers. Just because you can't type a URL into the update app, doesn't mean it's not a web browser.
OK, but we're talking about opening-up Software source code. Microsoft is a Software company. IBM does write plenty of software, mind you; but they are selling metal. If OS/2 had become the de facto standard and IBM was making $50 for every PC that shipped, you could bet that they'd be in Microsoft's shoes right now. I also believe that this is the real reason for the Xbox as Microsoft needs to become a hardware/OS platform. The first couple generations will be game consoles; but I believe the hope is to turn it into a closed platform for content delivery and everything else. Once Microsoft entrenches itself as the "digital hub," holy grail, et all, then it doesn't have to worry about it's operating systems market. Unfortunately for them, IBM's been at this business thing for quite some time; and even when it looks like they're on the road to destruction, they have the wherewithal to stay focused.
As it turns out, the turtle may win this race after all.
"The FCC chairman is going to ignore this particular problem until it swims up and bites you on the ass!"
Thank you, thank you.
I agree with what you have said; but you forgot something: these can't run windows!
Windows can't (currently, anyway) run this type of quad-user setup. It has no way to control the hardware. If the schools/gov'mint purchase these, they will always be running linux. They will most likely never purchase software for these boxes as GCompris and a plethora of kids/edu software now exists for linux.
A couple years back, when i was the sole administrator and technical advisor for a school district here in the states, I setup a couple new computer labs with old hardware and LTSP. I was trying to set it up as dual-headed boxes, but ran into too many problems to roll it out. Can you imagine doing a quad-headed LTSP roll-out with this type of setup?
DEYTOOKOURJOBS!!!!
/.er, but I couldn't find it to site)
(blatantly ripped-off of another
Something that can premiscuously detail a LAN. It should use netcat, nmap, ethereal and the other standards to map, in real time, you LAN traffic. It should also have the ability to intercept and decode any stream on your network.
So, let's say Billy is reading Slashdot when he's supposed to be doing data entry. You see a red (for example) line leading from Billy's box to the firewall with the line labelled "slashdot.org" and the IP address. Click on Billy's box and "zoom" to focus the GUI to Billy and right click menu to "intercept and decode" to pop-up a konqueror window that follows Billy's URL jumps and shows you what he's reading. The same would be true of mpegs he's watching or mp3s he's downloading.
Other functions would be to show all nodes in the LAN as well as OS versions, all traffic in and out of each node, and any services running per node. Servers running things like ntlogon, apache or SMB would be marked as such. A "bookmarking" type feature could also be implemented as well as a sticky-note feature for notation and easy navigation.
You could call it knetsec, but I actually like a bastardization of that... Knutsac.
I just openned my account a few minutes ago. Thanks for the "creepy" link, but they make it painstakingly clear about how they sort the data to target adds and the search capabilities. As I see it, they've basically added some rich features and changed everything to the point where it really doesn't feel like email anymore. Gmail may really spark some interesting new concepts in GUI email clients. Adding some of these abilities into Thunderbird or KMail might really end up benefiting users; and give'm a jump on MS, who will obviously be "borrowing" concepts for Longhorn.
Anyway, I digress; but I'm really excited about getting to use what looks like a really cool system.
um, you've just proven that you're not thinking right.
First off, of course you don't know what your "friends" or anyone else does with the email you send them. Secondly, you don't know what they're doing with that letter you sent them in a stamped envelope. Thirdly, you don't know who has read/filed/indexed/jerked-off-to your emails in transit. The only way to stop that from happenning is using a pretty good encryption scheme (I'd suggest PGP or GNUpg) on your email, which would also stop google from indexing it.
If we can protect ourselves against third party disclosure of our private data, we should.
I agree... see above. Legislation is unneeded.
ltsp.org
Linux Terminal Server Project.
It's pretty well-known, and very useful. Look into it.
OK, tomorrow I have an interview, my third, for a "new home seller" in the area (N.W. Chicago). I'm happy as a pig in shot that I'm turning my back on IT before it's proverbially "too late."
I was the sole administrator and "Technology Advisor" for a school district up until I left to start my own consulting firm. I made $32k/yr to work a 5-building WAN (NT, bah) with 10 servers plus two OS/2 voicemail servers and 750+ nodes with 3,200 users by myself (sorry to end on a preposition:). I made more doing side jobs for small/medium enterprises, so decided to ditch the cash-poor school systems to go out on my own.
I had two very good years, followed by two and a half of being out-bid on just about everything by the mass of 500,000 or so out of work IT guys that would bid peanuts on jobs just to be working. Nothing since has been but a measley 10 hours or so PER MONTH to my remaining clients (I don't use windows anymore, so my maintenance is minimal, at best).
So, fair well, this past five years; may I never look back. I do think it's funny that now that IBM is pumping countless millions into my main product line's marketting, that I'm getting out of the game. Fairwell, I'll be remiss in the knowledge that I'm typing out my contracts on an inferior product and keep playing NeverBall at home.
It's being spearheaded by IBM and Sun. I don't think anyone will have issues about poor corporate backing.
Not an issue, not even for the most retarded PHBs.
I agree with you on most of your post, but let me point out the irony of something you said.
I have recommended to my current employer that all developers working on our software should either have the programmer certificate or be working towards it.
You're talking about levying a requisite that you happen to meet, while ripping on a PhD for preferring college grads.
Kinda funny.
I'm sitting here getting teary-eyed. I believe you just reminded me that God is with us. Thank you. I know this sounds stupid, but I'd given-up my faith for "scientific thought." I've tended to ridicule (in my mind) those that believe, brushing them off as morons, or low-brow. In fact, I grew up savagely religious, and by all means, God fearing. When I was 16 (I'm 31 now) I wanted, more than anything, to be a member of this completely hokey christian singing group after seeing them at one of our Lutheran youth conferences, which I travelled to Minneapolis from Chicago to attend. I don't even remember there name now, LOL the only thing I really remember about them is that one of the girls was fantastically hot, and that one of the guys was named Rusty Dick (just try growing-up with that one)!
In summation:
Thank you for reminding me why I loved God so much to begin with. I'm seriously crying.
Thank you for posting such an altruistic and sincere thought here. Slashdot can be a harsh place for such honest emotion.
Science and God do not have to be mutually-exclusive, I feel like I can have faith again.
BTW, my sig is from The Simpsons, in the We Love You Marge episode, Homer sends Flanders a note to keep him away from Marge's party.
Yeah, but your money is so gay. Plus, kids in flamingo costumes make more than Malcolm in the Middle.
LOL, I found your post enlightenned and well stated. Then I laughed my shiny metal ass off at your .sig :)
Kiss My Shiny Metal Ass (What Would Bender Do)
For the Acronym-impaired.
(/me tents his fingers...)
Excellent.
We all got hooked on Divx. The Divx people know it. It will take at least a year for the effects of this to reverse itself and for the Divx encoders/users to switch to another format. Let's hope the Ogg folks come up with a viable alternative, or hey... why not just stick with what we have now until we can reverse engineer it into a OSS clone?
OK, OK... now I know I'm getting out of hand; but what if Microsoft is really looking to "buy" Linux? What I mean is, if during this lawsuit period, Microsoft bought "the rights" to linux from SCO (and let's tag another double-quotes) "in good faith?" Could MS then claim that they are immuned from liability to the GPL? They bought exclusive rights from SCO, right? Could they then turn around and say "Well, we'd sue SCO over this and get the answer striaght, but they've been out of business for over a year now"? Then they take off with the kernel, never having to give source back in the process. Seems like they could bury just about anyone who tries to take them to court over it. Deep, deep pockets, ya know?
Maybe I need to take my medicine...
Does anyone else think it's ironic or somehow telling that the Moz team chose a dinosaur as their logo to begin with? Hopefully Moz/Firebird will have a nice Phoenix logo, birthing from a million tons of incinerated AOL CDs, animated of course.
Yeah, c'mon dumb-dumb, do somethin' unintelligent there- Moe Syzlak
Why give up on it? Surely the outlandish pricing will come down, as that is set for early adopters to offset the research costs. 3G has had this crowd drooling for 1.5yrs (at least), someone will cash in on that cow.
mmmm.... mousy. come 'ere mousy, come 'ere. mmmmmm
As noted by another poster, the main point of this type of thing is to be able to access your remote shell accounts from home. Not necessarily the other way around. However, I'd like to note that I've been working on a version of Knoppix that includes the LUFS lkm and userland deamons, the next step is to get LUFS to automatically setup key-exchange when knoppix boots (set the remote server as boot options), then use the remote server as your /home/dir in Knoppix. I haven't gotten it working perfectly yet, but when it's done I should have a secure environment available on any PC.