I run Red Hat (don't ask me why), and thus first tried the RH package manager, UpToDate. It sucked. Then I tried Ximian Red Carpet -- which is a cool tool, but there are next to no applications on the channels, and what you get is quite old. Finally, i discovered that apt-get will run under RH just find. I never looked back. The only feature i miss is it telling me (like Red Carpet does) which updates are most urgent.
Also, the fact the you have to be root to do some things (like open well-known ports) is stupid. Agreed, normal users should not be allowed to do that, but the "all or nothing" situation imposed by the linux policies is far from nice. Some way of assigning previleges for such things to specific groups would be nice. You know, a *real* ACL-based security system.
just today, i asked someone to test a website on a PDA. He Told me "sure, my PDA has WLAN, I always use it to surf while i'm on the toilet". Somehow, i found it a little disturbing that he was going to test my software while taking a shit...
tell me if i'm wrong, but i thought all freenet traffic was encrypted, so only the recipient could actually read it? The feds would have a hard time dealing with that...
...the microsoft instructions. They actually tell you to turn off all firewalls for the windows update?? What a heap of bull!
The update is, AFAIK, done by HTTP. No reason to turn off your firewall, which should, at this point, block *all* incomming TCP connections (and also *all* incomming UDP except DNS and DHCP ports). It should also definetely ALWAYS block at least the most vulnerable MS ports, ie. 135-139 and 445, from enything outside your local LAN. ALWAYS! Use Kerio (downloaded it using a linux box) for that, it gives you full control. Make sure you have "Microsoft Networking" disabled, and do not register the network card you use to connect to the cable modem as a "safe device".
But it would be much easier and safer to do this through a (linux or BSD) router. Oh, and BTW, the Norton stuff is by itself as bad as a virus: it messes with a lot of stuff, quite frequently screwing up your system, leading to things like, well, continuous reboots, hosed network devices, etc.
well, duh. Ideally, the filtering would be done on the senders box, so the spam would never leave the outbox. But the world isn't perfect, you know? As long as many ISPs don't provide good spam filtering, it's nice for Joe Average to have a mail client that filters out the crud -- without manually setting up a pop proxy, or some such.
no, seriously: if the phone is running WinCE, a VBS-Based Worm would have no problems moving from phones to computers and back. The platform-barrier would be gone.
The same could be said about java-based phones, but i doubt a java-worm ould be very successful, because of the low-level security build into the VM.
Maybe this would generally be a cool idea: post honeypot-addresses all over the net, and cause spammers to spam people who CAN and WILL do something about that...
A while back, when i first heard about tabbed browsing, i thought "ok, but who *needs* that"? Then i installed moz and got used to it, and i really started to like it. The point is: before, i had only 1 or 2 browser windows open. Today, i have 1 or 2 browser windows open, containing 5-10 tabs each.
Some company (i belive it was called D-Info) did that a couple of years ago: they where the first to offer a phone-book for all of germany on a CD-ROM. They took the info from the hard-copy phone books (where are, or rather used to be, a public record and thus not copyrighted) -- but they where not allowed to scan it, because layout and such *was* copyrighted (which was made rather clear by the Deutsche Telekom (or, back then, the Deutsche Post).
So, wat did they do? They had a couple of hundred chinese (mostly) women typing away for some months. It seemed to have worked quite well, until the Telekom started to release their own CD-ROM.
you are right, of course. But: in this case, the time (in years) you are looking back is *exactly* the distance in light years (by definition of light year). I understood this as an intentional pun pointing out the equivalence (or, more precicely, correlation) of distance you look to time you look back. And, after all, Einstein taught us that time and space are just different sides of the same coin (well, hypercube, actually). so.... just loosen up, ok? don't take everything so litterally.
ask some of those guys, so have experience. In the wiki you might even be able to find the info you were looking for. You'll find a lot of people to ask, anyway.
The CCC Camp 2003 was a really cool event, and i really hope there are going to be more camps like this in the future (thanks, guys!).
depends on what you mean be "clone". Copyright does not protect algorithems or look and feel. So copyright does not prevent anyone from creating a looalike and workalike, which is usually meant by the term "clone" (like, for example, XMMS is a clone of WinAmp). All copyright does is to prevent you from copying and reusing source code (if you have access to it, that is).
i think KDE has the much better API -- more OO, more mudularized, KParts are just cool, etc...
As far as the desktop goes, it's probably a matter of taste. What i would really like to see would be QT and GTK programmers duking it out: the maintainablility, scalability, stability and community supports rises and falls with the API.
...did you just slashdot faqs.org? That's the first thing that comes up when you google for "RFC 1149", and it's not responding.... go for the mirrors folx, there are plenty out there;)
or maybe it's just coincidence? naawwwww...
oh, and the title of said RFC is.... (drum rolls)... "A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers".
Slashdot Mirror
hell no, i would *ask* my children for drugs!
"ok, daddy, the first one is free..."
I run Red Hat (don't ask me why), and thus first tried the RH package manager, UpToDate. It sucked. Then I tried Ximian Red Carpet -- which is a cool tool, but there are next to no applications on the channels, and what you get is quite old. Finally, i discovered that apt-get will run under RH just find. I never looked back. The only feature i miss is it telling me (like Red Carpet does) which updates are most urgent.
Also, the fact the you have to be root to do some things (like open well-known ports) is stupid. Agreed, normal users should not be allowed to do that, but the "all or nothing" situation imposed by the linux policies is far from nice. Some way of assigning previleges for such things to specific groups would be nice. You know, a *real* ACL-based security system.
just today, i asked someone to test a website on a PDA. He Told me "sure, my PDA has WLAN, I always use it to surf while i'm on the toilet". Somehow, i found it a little disturbing that he was going to test my software while taking a shit...
renders it just fine (there is not much there to render anyway, just a jpeg)
I was going to try 0.9 when all my favorite extension are up to it. But now you've got me wondering...
This Macrovision technology does NOT install spyware or vaporware of any kind on a users PC (emphasis mine)
Those marketing-drones really have no clue what they are talking about... vaporware can, by definition, not be installed.
tell me if i'm wrong, but i thought all freenet traffic was encrypted, so only the recipient could actually read it? The feds would have a hard time dealing with that...
...the microsoft instructions. They actually tell you to turn off all firewalls for the windows update?? What a heap of bull!
The update is, AFAIK, done by HTTP. No reason to turn off your firewall, which should, at this point, block *all* incomming TCP connections (and also *all* incomming UDP except DNS and DHCP ports). It should also definetely ALWAYS block at least the most vulnerable MS ports, ie. 135-139 and 445, from enything outside your local LAN. ALWAYS! Use Kerio (downloaded it using a linux box) for that, it gives you full control. Make sure you have "Microsoft Networking" disabled, and do not register the network card you use to connect to the cable modem as a "safe device".
But it would be much easier and safer to do this through a (linux or BSD) router. Oh, and BTW, the Norton stuff is by itself as bad as a virus: it messes with a lot of stuff, quite frequently screwing up your system, leading to things like, well, continuous reboots, hosed network devices, etc.
well, duh. Ideally, the filtering would be done on the senders box, so the spam would never leave the outbox. But the world isn't perfect, you know? As long as many ISPs don't provide good spam filtering, it's nice for Joe Average to have a mail client that filters out the crud -- without manually setting up a pop proxy, or some such.
why am i replying to an AC, anyway?
no, seriously: if the phone is running WinCE, a VBS-Based Worm would have no problems moving from phones to computers and back. The platform-barrier would be gone.
The same could be said about java-based phones, but i doubt a java-worm ould be very successful, because of the low-level security build into the VM.
just let spammers pick it up and report themselves :-P
here goes: inspec.eco@mineco.fgov.be
Maybe this would generally be a cool idea: post honeypot-addresses all over the net, and cause spammers to spam people who CAN and WILL do something about that...
i'm only here right now 'cause updatedb is slowing down my box at the moment.
oh wait, it's done.
bye...
A while back, when i first heard about tabbed browsing, i thought "ok, but who *needs* that"? Then i installed moz and got used to it, and i really started to like it. The point is: before, i had only 1 or 2 browser windows open. Today, i have 1 or 2 browser windows open, containing 5-10 tabs each.
Whenever i have to use IE, i just feel trapped.
Some company (i belive it was called D-Info) did that a couple of years ago: they where the first to offer a phone-book for all of germany on a CD-ROM. They took the info from the hard-copy phone books (where are, or rather used to be, a public record and thus not copyrighted) -- but they where not allowed to scan it, because layout and such *was* copyrighted (which was made rather clear by the Deutsche Telekom (or, back then, the Deutsche Post).
So, wat did they do? They had a couple of hundred chinese (mostly) women typing away for some months. It seemed to have worked quite well, until the Telekom started to release their own CD-ROM.
gah! it's slashdotted!
been here for long, have you?
you are right, of course. But: in this case, the time (in years) you are looking back is *exactly* the distance in light years (by definition of light year). I understood this as an intentional pun pointing out the equivalence (or, more precicely, correlation) of distance you look to time you look back. And, after all, Einstein taught us that time and space are just different sides of the same coin (well, hypercube, actually). so.... just loosen up, ok? don't take everything so litterally.
ask some of those guys, so have experience. In the wiki you might even be able to find the info you were looking for. You'll find a lot of people to ask, anyway.
The CCC Camp 2003 was a really cool event, and i really hope there are going to be more camps like this in the future (thanks, guys!).
here you go
depends on what you mean be "clone". Copyright does not protect algorithems or look and feel. So copyright does not prevent anyone from creating a looalike and workalike, which is usually meant by the term "clone" (like, for example, XMMS is a clone of WinAmp). All copyright does is to prevent you from copying and reusing source code (if you have access to it, that is).
i think KDE has the much better API -- more OO, more mudularized, KParts are just cool, etc...
As far as the desktop goes, it's probably a matter of taste. What i would really like to see would be QT and GTK programmers duking it out: the maintainablility, scalability, stability and community supports rises and falls with the API.
chears.
...did you just slashdot faqs.org? That's the first thing that comes up when you google for "RFC 1149", and it's not responding.... go for the mirrors folx, there are plenty out there;)
or maybe it's just coincidence? naawwwww...
oh, and the title of said RFC is.... (drum rolls)... "A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers".
...a walking DNA robot. So are you.
so let's go and get a.... wait... what where we talking about?
An AC talking about AC...