Now the real challenge is to get someone to write a new rootkit, and see if it can defeat the protections. What's the point in protecting against known kits?
It gets someone to write a new rootkit. Challenge met!
Funny, this will crash linux if you don't have a/dev/windowspartition file (as most won't). It will create a regular file by that name and then fill the root partition (100% full given that you're running as root). Oops.
"So far, of the various subnotebooks I've been glancing at over shoulders at OSCON, though, most of the ones with an easily identified operating system seem to be running Ubuntu"
OLPC started with FC7 and recently jumped to Fedora 9
Strongly Godlike AI refers to an intelligence that is for all meaningful purposes God - effectively unbounded control over space and time. Weakly Godlike AI refers to a being that intellectually transcends us in ways we can't imagine, but is still bound by the laws of the universe. Strongly godlike AI would be the AI running the computer that your simulation is running on, the AI that controls that virtual world.
I read a paper a few years back (somewhere webby, but i can't remember where) that came to the conclusion... "If it is at all possible to build a virtual system with enough detail to describe our universe, then it is probable we are in one already." It was in the New York Times last year
"So in 22.3 years you will break even. This 22.3 years of work after your 8 years of education, so you are nearly 50. And you just broke even. Doesn't seem like such a great deal to me."
School is fun. And you worked on more interesting projects in those 22 years.
> The electricity to charge all those batteries has to come from > someplace.
yes
> all you are doing is shifting the the consumption of > fossil fuel from one place to another.
Not necessarily. You can make grid power greener easier then making a car greener. And power plants are already more efficient and cleaner that cars.
> The energy required to manufacture these batteries in VERY > large quantities has to come from someplace as well.
compare to the energy to manufacture internal combustion engines, refine gasoline, etc
> Last time I checked there are not many rivers left to damn up > for hydro so the juice has to come from someplace > you are going to have to build a hell of a lot more power plants
Nope. Turns out power plants are mostly idle when the electric cars are recharged (nighttime, off peak). Now they wont be idle and will use more fuel and need more maintenance. But no new plants. Neat huh?
The wireless firmware is going to be replaced. The only problem is manpower. I think Marvell released the IP for the hardware or there was some other scheme (cleanroom?)
"you could always renice apache and mysql down to a lower priority. Possibly in a log-on/log-off script which would change the priorities and then reset them when you log out."
Much easier to just renice your root shell automatically at login
And a third question: how many of the IE browsers are really opera? I have opera identify itself as IE because some braindead sites insist on IE or nothing.
> Jeezus. Is there any single market that Microsoft WON'T try and > get its grubby little hands into? I don't really get why > companies like Microsoft need to invade every single market > they possibly can for no other reason than > "because it's there". They're like some sort of cancer.
Yes. But cancer isn't a bad thing from the cancer's point of view
"Imagine if someone said to you that you couldn't make money writing code - you could only have an income from hitting the road, 'touring', and providing computer support along the way."
Actually being paid to write open source code is a better analogy. You get paid for your time doing actual work like a musician playing. The "information", your code or the music recording, is now free.
"For one, why does the display always have to be 'on top of' the keypad You have to hold the thing with both hands, or nearly drop the phone while reaching for the * 0 # keys. Instead, flip it around so the display is *below* the keypad."
But it's open source. Convince any developer that this is cool and you get the display flipped and keys renumbered. Hopefully you could just pop off the keycaps to make them agree with the new keycodes.
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Thinking google is a cult is a cult.
get to high ground...?
For a really big one, you're only choice will be to get high.
Now the real challenge is to get someone to write a new rootkit, and see if it can defeat the protections. What's the point in protecting against known kits?
It gets someone to write a new rootkit. Challenge met!
erm, the term is "even a broken clock is right twice a day
But "stopped" makes more sense, at least for an analog clock.
"Broken" could simply means that it loses a minute per day, in which case it's going to be right much less often.
It'll be right twice every 24 hours and one minute
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/windowspartition
my pleasure.
Funny, this will crash linux if you don't have a /dev/windowspartition file (as most won't). It will create a regular file by that name and then fill the root partition (100% full given that you're running as root). Oops.
Big Linux fan but been there done that :-)
Yeah, it is nice. I've had a T1 line at home ... I'll take my 1.5Mbps.
What do you pay?
"So far, of the various subnotebooks I've been glancing at over shoulders at OSCON, though, most of the ones with an easily identified operating system seem to be running Ubuntu"
OLPC started with FC7 and recently jumped to Fedora 9
"So in 22.3 years you will break even. This 22.3 years of work after your 8 years of education, so you are nearly 50. And you just broke even. Doesn't seem like such a great deal to me."
School is fun. And you worked on more interesting projects in those 22 years.
Not mine. 2 watts. 200mW with the backlight off (sunlight readable).
http://www.laptop.org/
> The electricity to charge all those batteries has to come from
> someplace.
yes
> all you are doing is shifting the the consumption of
> fossil fuel from one place to another.
Not necessarily. You can make grid power greener
easier then making a car greener. And power plants
are already more efficient and cleaner that cars.
> The energy required to manufacture these batteries in VERY
> large quantities has to come from someplace as well.
compare to the energy to manufacture internal combustion engines,
refine gasoline, etc
> Last time I checked there are not many rivers left to damn up
> for hydro so the juice has to come from someplace
> you are going to have to build a hell of a lot more power plants
Nope. Turns out power plants are mostly idle when the electric
cars are recharged (nighttime, off peak). Now they wont be idle
and will use more fuel and need more maintenance. But no new plants.
Neat huh?
The wireless firmware is going to be
replaced. The only problem is manpower.
I think Marvell released the IP for the hardware
or there was some other scheme (cleanroom?)
> Not sure there is much of anything GNU on it.
it's based on fedora 7 -- lots of gnu
> Well, maybe whatever comes after Vista (if it even comes out
> in a reasonable amount of time) will replace my Bootcamp XP
> by 2014.
Fedora 15!
> If the true goal of a computer program
> for a school is to ready its students
> for the workplace
It's an education project, not a laptop project.
Think electronic book...
"you could always renice apache and mysql down to a lower priority. Possibly in a log-on/log-off script which would change the priorities and then reset them when you log out."
Much easier to just renice your root shell automatically at login
And a third question: how many of the IE browsers are really opera? I have opera identify itself as IE because some braindead sites insist on IE or nothing.
:-)
So if you counted me as IE, change it to opera
"Bees are absolutely essential in polinating corn"
Corn is wind pollinated.
"and many, many other crops"
True
> Jeezus. Is there any single market that Microsoft WON'T try and
> get its grubby little hands into? I don't really get why
> companies like Microsoft need to invade every single market
> they possibly can for no other reason than
> "because it's there". They're like some sort of cancer.
Yes. But cancer isn't a bad thing from the cancer's point of view
"Imagine if someone said to you that you couldn't make money writing code - you could only have an income from hitting the road, 'touring', and providing computer support along the way."
Actually being paid to write open source code is a better analogy. You get paid for your time doing actual work like a musician playing. The "information", your code or the music recording, is now free.
"For one, why does the display always have to be 'on top of' the keypad You have to hold the thing with both hands, or nearly drop the phone while reaching for the * 0 # keys. Instead, flip it around so the display is *below* the keypad."
But it's open source. Convince any developer that this is cool and you get the display flipped and keys renumbered. Hopefully you could just pop off the keycaps to make them agree with the new keycodes.
> I just want to thank you for using the proper terminology,
> and not saying "QA this stuff"
Any noun can be verbified
> I can't imagine that TSA is going to allow me a small
> quantity of flamible liquid so I can run my laptop on the plane.
Vodka
Its the old laptop using fuelcells joke, stop in the
airport bar, order a beer for yourself and a martini
for your laptop
> sorry, wandering. couldn't read my
> post because my dominant eye was busy.
S'ok, was pretty funny anyway