> Just be polite to the Customer Service folks (we have all been through tech support hell), and call from a payphone.
But first check whether that payphone doesn't have a hidden camera... A couple of weeks back, a group of students, wanting some extra days off phoned in a bomb threat to their school. Police took the threats very seriously... and eventually found the prankster by tracing the call to the payphone, and then viewing the phone-booth's video footage... Big Brother is watching you!
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Of course, I feel that RMS ought to use the term "liberated software" to avoid the whole "free beer/free speech" issue, but that's another story....
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But then, gdb would have been called liberated software debugger. Oops!
> it remains to be seen if Google will do something icky and commercial to avoid the same fate.
Errhmm, Deja has already been portalized long ago. All that icky "Deja before you buy" didn't exist initially. And expert search used to be easyer to find too. And the name: back then, it used to be called dejanews, a name which actually said what it does.
Just checked: seems the icky "before you buy" stuff is gone. Seems that google really has a clue: they actually managed to make the site less icky than it used to be!;-)
> See everyone cries foul after something has happened but when things are emerging everyone wants to remain silent until its too late, happens in technology, privacy related issues you name it. So where was your voice to strengthen your current arguement when their patents were being processed? Where was everyone elses,
Actually, the whole point of this mess is that RAMBUS kept their patent application secret, so that nobody would know it, and raise hell at that comittee. As applications take quite some time to process, it was only granted (and thus made public), long after the deed was done.
> now that the sh## is hitting the fan the roaches crawl out the woodwork to cry "gimme gimme gimme
You know, companies do not have a god given right to profit. They cannot just patent the atmosphere and then whine about the "gimme gimme gimme roaches" that want to breathe for free.
Right, better use Windows/Visual Basic instead, which assume the coder doesn't know what he is doing, and thus introduce security holes on his behalf...
> I don't think I'm the only one that finds it quite annoying to have to exit and restart my browser in order to make it forget my HTTP authemtication information. I believe Netscape and IE both have this problem.
It's even worth if this happens to you at a public Internet Kiosk. Where you really don't want the next user to surf over to your private e-mail. And you have no way of flushing neither the password, nor the URL history (still containing the URL of your webmail). Last this happened to me was at a bank in Switzerland. They happened to have one of those Internet kiosks in their ATM area. After checking my mail, I noticed that there was no way of quitting the browser (which was running in full screen mode, with the window-close button nicely hidden). Even visiting Bluescreen.org.lu
didn't help, nor any of the other "crash your windows" sites. Eventually, the only thing left was pulling the power cord (fortunately, this kiosk wasn't built into the wall).
> No wonder they couldn't pull off a Linux distribution; all they saw was the early marketing hype, the high stock prices, and tried to capitalize on the buzz.
Actually, Corel themselves happened to be the first high flying Linux stock, almost one year before Redhat's IPO. Whitness the rise from $1 1/6 in September 1998 to almost 5 in January 1999. That was (at least in part) due to Corel's new engagement into Linux. They may have reacted to the hype, but certainly not to the high stock prices: they actually were the first to see a rise in valuation as a result of a Linux strategy. But that was then, when Cowpland still was in charge, and long before they sold their soul to Micro$oft.
... and in Australia, there used to be Vax vacuum cleaners, advertised with the slogan "Nothing sucks like a Vax". Sure enough, Digital Equipment Corporation (now Compaq) was not amused...
> So you want Solaris to run a non-X Windowing System and at the same time to be Gnome the standard-desktop?
There are Gnome variants out there which are independant of X. Some run on embedded systems using an SVGA-like display system (sorry, can't find the reference), and others even on Windows
> In those applications where some device pretends to be a floppy, are the devices limited then to the slow data rate we see with floppies?
If the device does indeed connect to the floppy bus, it is indeed limited to its slow datarate (1Mbps max, corresponding to 2.88 floppies). This is for example the case for floppy tape drives, as well as for those adapater floppies reading smartcards.
Other devices, such as the LS-120 connect to the IDE bus (AFAIK), and are not limited by the slow floppy speeds.
> . Slow transfer rates, fragile medium, low capacity. This latest invention seems to address the last, only.
This devices connects using USB, which should also address the slow transfer rates problem. Actually, as it uses zone bit recording, rather than the traditional MFM, there's no way it could be connected "the usual way". Indeed, in the traditional PC floppy architecture, the encoding is handled by the floppy disk controller (on the motherboard), rather than the drive.
> 32MB isn't enough for most OSes to boot from, even for those that are small enough it'll still transfer over the floppy bus - painfully slow for 1.44MB of data,
Ermm, this device connects via USB, not via the floppy bus. So forget booting (unless your BIOS can boot from USB?), and floppies' traditional slowness: this will use USB's speed (still slow compared to a hard disk, but much faster than traditional floppies).
Actually, this only works if you fool the density detect mechanism of the drive by drilling an extra hole. And also only if the surface quality of the disk happens to be good enough for HD, which may, or may not work out depending on the quality of your brand of double density disks...: don't try this with 3M disks!
> You can even format 1.44MB disks to 1.7 MB in a normal 1.44MB floppy drive
Actually, this is still the same basic format. Bit density is exactly the same, the only thing is that sectors are packed closer together. Actually, you can even push your disk to 1992K if you use bigger sectors (=less sector header overhead), and use all 83 tracks (rather than the 80, that are used by default).
2.88MB is a different format altogether, using a bit density which is twice as high. The new 32MBformat will be even more different, and probably not use MFM (the low level bit encoding of floppy disks) at all. It doesn't even connect to the floppy bus, but to USB!
I also used to work at an office like that. After some time, I just got fed up with it, resigned, and a couple of days later had a new job at a very Linux friendly company. It even payed more than my previous one.
However, unfortunately, this guy's problem is much more serious. He's stuck in an entire country which pushes Micro$oft on him. Sure, he could always move, H1-B's are not that hard to get. However, changing country is much more difficult than just changing jobs. It means leaving friends, family, you'd might have to sell your house, you might have to face discrimation abroad etc. Too much sacrifices for just an OS...
> However, the long term benefits of pioneering the coolest hack (on-line or off-a-bridge), far outweigh any temporary inconvenience.
What are the long term benefits of hanging a car off a bridge. Just curious. Sure it was fun (especially the police's re-action: hours to figure out they just needed to cut the damn cable..., then threatening to sue and imprison the pranksters), but what possible long term benefits are you thinking of?
> Part of a sense of humor is knowing what's funny and what isn't.
What is funny: someone pretending this is old news (as occasionnally happens on Slashdot), when it was actually a commemorative piece, and that kuro5hin already had the story 15 years ago (at a time when the WWW did not even exist yet...)
What isn't: the Challenger tragedy itself.
However, this thread just happens to be about the old story comment (hint: look at the title of your own post...). And the initial comment is actually a joke on Slashdot's slowness in reporting news, rather than on the tragedy.
> if *you* can't ``rm -rf *" & lose more than a few files, then neither can the enabled protocol
I think that is actually the whole point. If you can rm -rf so can any mischievous web page author over whose sorry ass^H^H^Hpage you might stumble. And that's a bad thing. This kind of security is about securing the client against the server, not the other way round. Thus "securing ports" or whatever is entirely irrelevant here. The only port to secure would be outgoing 80. And if you do that, you basically shut down any browsing...
Actually, the earth was never re-assembled. What actually happened was that the last few books of the "trilogy" took place in a different "parallel universe", where a couple of key decisions were made differently than in the first books: earth not demolished, and Trillian didn't go with Zaphod. No reconstruction, just different choices.
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Sure. Could you just mail me your ISP's IP address and root password.
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But first check whether that payphone doesn't have a hidden camera... A couple of weeks back, a group of students, wanting some extra days off phoned in a bomb threat to their school. Police took the threats very seriously... and eventually found the prankster by tracing the call to the payphone, and then viewing the phone-booth's video footage... Big Brother is watching you!
Of course, I feel that RMS ought to use the term "liberated software" to avoid the whole "free beer/free speech" issue, but that's another story....
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But then, gdb would have been called liberated software debugger. Oops!
Errhmm, Deja has already been portalized long ago. All that icky "Deja before you buy" didn't exist initially. And expert search used to be easyer to find too. And the name: back then, it used to be called dejanews, a name which actually said what it does.
Just checked: seems the icky "before you buy" stuff is gone. Seems that google really has a clue: they actually managed to make the site less icky than it used to be! ;-)
Actually, the whole point of this mess is that RAMBUS kept their patent application secret, so that nobody would know it, and raise hell at that comittee. As applications take quite some time to process, it was only granted (and thus made public), long after the deed was done.
> now that the sh## is hitting the fan the roaches crawl out the woodwork to cry "gimme gimme gimme
You know, companies do not have a god given right to profit. They cannot just patent the atmosphere and then whine about the "gimme gimme gimme roaches" that want to breathe for free.
Oh gawd! The political correctness crowd is at it again. Back in the olden days, we used to say cat in the jar instead!
Right, better use Windows/Visual Basic instead, which assume the coder doesn't know what he is doing, and thus introduce security holes on his behalf...
It's even worth if this happens to you at a public Internet Kiosk. Where you really don't want the next user to surf over to your private e-mail. And you have no way of flushing neither the password, nor the URL history (still containing the URL of your webmail). Last this happened to me was at a bank in Switzerland. They happened to have one of those Internet kiosks in their ATM area. After checking my mail, I noticed that there was no way of quitting the browser (which was running in full screen mode, with the window-close button nicely hidden). Even visiting Bluescreen.org.lu didn't help, nor any of the other "crash your windows" sites. Eventually, the only thing left was pulling the power cord (fortunately, this kiosk wasn't built into the wall).
You know, Opera is also availble on Linux.
Actually, Corel themselves happened to be the first high flying Linux stock, almost one year before Redhat's IPO. Whitness the rise from $1 1/6 in September 1998 to almost 5 in January 1999. That was (at least in part) due to Corel's new engagement into Linux. They may have reacted to the hype, but certainly not to the high stock prices: they actually were the first to see a rise in valuation as a result of a Linux strategy. But that was then, when Cowpland still was in charge, and long before they sold their soul to Micro$oft.
There are Gnome variants out there which are independant of X. Some run on embedded systems using an SVGA-like display system (sorry, can't find the reference), and others even on Windows
If the device does indeed connect to the floppy bus, it is indeed limited to its slow datarate (1Mbps max, corresponding to 2.88 floppies). This is for example the case for floppy tape drives, as well as for those adapater floppies reading smartcards.
Other devices, such as the LS-120 connect to the IDE bus (AFAIK), and are not limited by the slow floppy speeds.
This devices connects using USB, which should also address the slow transfer rates problem. Actually, as it uses zone bit recording, rather than the traditional MFM, there's no way it could be connected "the usual way". Indeed, in the traditional PC floppy architecture, the encoding is handled by the floppy disk controller (on the motherboard), rather than the drive.
Ermm, this device connects via USB, not via the floppy bus. So forget booting (unless your BIOS can boot from USB?), and floppies' traditional slowness: this will use USB's speed (still slow compared to a hard disk, but much faster than traditional floppies).
Actually, this only works if you fool the density detect mechanism of the drive by drilling an extra hole. And also only if the surface quality of the disk happens to be good enough for HD, which may, or may not work out depending on the quality of your brand of double density disks...: don't try this with 3M disks!
> You can even format 1.44MB disks to 1.7 MB in a normal 1.44MB floppy drive
Actually, this is still the same basic format. Bit density is exactly the same, the only thing is that sectors are packed closer together. Actually, you can even push your disk to 1992K if you use bigger sectors (=less sector header overhead), and use all 83 tracks (rather than the 80, that are used by default).
2.88MB is a different format altogether, using a bit density which is twice as high. The new 32MBformat will be even more different, and probably not use MFM (the low level bit encoding of floppy disks) at all. It doesn't even connect to the floppy bus, but to USB!
I also used to work at an office like that. After some time, I just got fed up with it, resigned, and a couple of days later had a new job at a very Linux friendly company. It even payed more than my previous one.
However, unfortunately, this guy's problem is much more serious. He's stuck in an entire country which pushes Micro$oft on him. Sure, he could always move, H1-B's are not that hard to get. However, changing country is much more difficult than just changing jobs. It means leaving friends, family, you'd might have to sell your house, you might have to face discrimation abroad etc. Too much sacrifices for just an OS...
What are the long term benefits of hanging a car off a bridge. Just curious. Sure it was fun (especially the police's re-action: hours to figure out they just needed to cut the damn cable..., then threatening to sue and imprison the pranksters), but what possible long term benefits are you thinking of?
They only have quicktime and Windows media. Why no real media?
What is funny: someone pretending this is old news (as occasionnally happens on Slashdot), when it was actually a commemorative piece, and that kuro5hin already had the story 15 years ago (at a time when the WWW did not even exist yet...)
What isn't: the Challenger tragedy itself.
However, this thread just happens to be about the old story comment (hint: look at the title of your own post...). And the initial comment is actually a joke on Slashdot's slowness in reporting news, rather than on the tragedy.
Is it possible to moderate moderations too? I'd like to moderate the prankster who gave this an Informative as funny...
I think that is actually the whole point. If you can rm -rf so can any mischievous web page author over whose sorry ass^H^H^Hpage you might stumble. And that's a bad thing. This kind of security is about securing the client against the server, not the other way round. Thus "securing ports" or whatever is entirely irrelevant here. The only port to secure would be outgoing 80. And if you do that, you basically shut down any browsing...
Sure.
localcgi:/dos/format?c%3A
I can see it now... A new batch of trolls linking to www.microsoft.com instead of the usual goatse.cx...
Actually, the earth was never re-assembled. What actually happened was that the last few books of the "trilogy" took place in a different "parallel universe", where a couple of key decisions were made differently than in the first books: earth not demolished, and Trillian didn't go with Zaphod. No reconstruction, just different choices.
Sure. Could you just mail me your ISP's IP address and root password.