Or on unix, they got/etc/shadow, which you'd normally need root privs to read anyway. That's why crypted pws are stored in/etc/shadow...
However, hacked user passwords are useful if they give you user-level access to another system, since then you can use a non-remote root exploit to get root.
You dont have to deal with several hundred students using Xterminals...
- it's flexible, meaning each of our lecturers wants the students to use a different window manager, and the students edit their.xsession and window manager configs until I haven't a clue what does what and can't help them sort out problems.
- it's network portable, which means our students could be using machines on the other side of the world and running netscape on that and then complaining to me that it's running slowly and I cant tell they are running it on foo.bar.au
- it's cross platform, meaning whatever machine someone has on their desk, they want a copy of it installed! Grrr! There's nothing a BOFH hates more than having someone want some software!
- it allows you to run a screensaver as background, using up CPU cycles that the rest of our students would like to use for statistical analyses! killall -9 xscreensaver!
- it's free, which means I cant use our budget as an excuse to not get it so I dont have to install it, thus creating more work for me!
No, I love it really. X is fantastic. Here's to X more years!
Maybe we'll be less tolerant of racism, child abuse, slavery, dictators, monopolies, pollution...
I just don't like the way the idea of tolerance has been appropriated as a good thing. Tolerance in itself has no values, its the things you choose to tolerate that do.
Baz
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And there's me thinking "The Revolution OS Will Not Be Televised"....
It's fun to charter an accountant
And sail the wide accountancy,
To find, explore the funds offshore
And skirt the shoals of bankruptcy!
It can be manly in insurance.
We'll up your premium semi-annually.
It's all tax deductible.
We're fairly incorruptible,
We're sailing on the wide accountancy!
[its from the short film shown before Monty Python's Meaning of Life...]
So only have one computer talk to it at once. How? By setting up a unix box as an LPD server, and define a queue that prints to the Jet Direct. All client machines print to the queue on the LPD server, and you configure the JetDirect so that only the LPD server has access to it.
If your server is close enough to your printer, you can do without the JetDirect box and plug the printer straight into the server, but our print server is a long way from our printer, so the printer is connected to a JetDirect box in the user lab, and the server is tucked away in the machine room.
Yes, I know its another single-point-of-failure, but ours hasn't failed for years....
Just make sure you can get out. One of our central IT systems server rooms has a Halon system. A huge tank. When the alarm goes, you have about 20 seconds to clear the room, or you'll suffocate, since you can't breath halon....
Except it doesn't always work and I've just found out why. StarOffice, for example, emits PostScript that looks like this:
% initialise...
save
% do stuff, draw things, set text, change colours... ...
restore
showpage
Now the problem here is that my code hooks into the postscript colour-changing functions and sets a variable if its colour. But the save/restore pair mean that whatever I change it to, it gets restored to the initial state by the restore! *sob*. Even objects in the systemdict get restored! The only thing that survives a save/restore is the graphics on the page.
One last chance - I'll have to write the colour/mono state to a file! Yes!
..but I cant find the code. How did it work? Well, maybe like this...
Write some postscript that redefines all the colour-setting commands and the colour bitmap commands. The redefined commands set a variable to say this page is colour.
Redefine 'showpage' to only do a real 'showpage' if the 'page-is-colour' variable is set. Clear the variable.
Now rerun, but reverse the logic to do 'showpage' on the mono pages. You can pass the sense of the logic to ghostscript on the command line.
Of course this wont tell you if there is a grey-scale bitmap in a colour image command. You could always redefine the image command to check that all the pixels have the same r,g,b colours....
And dont forget anyone outside the USA who wants ad-free slashdot has to pay in dollars, and hence is subject to the vagaries of exchange rates and rip-off currency conversion commission charges...
In the UK, Robot Wars had a 'flyweight' category, which they played in a miniature version of the main arena, about a metre square. The robots were a bit bigger than matchboxes, but some had flippers and spikes. Great to watch the little things whizzing about, and it wasn't long before half of them were just running round in circles.
I think one even got flipped right out of the arena.
Imagine the new Apple Imac, with its flat screen, supported on its smooth chrome arm, and its shining dome glistening in the fluorescent light. Now add a couple of screw-heads sitting in the top and a little nut for good measure. Kinda spoils it dontcha think?
The alumin[i]um and plexi case is fantastic, I'd rather have that on my desk than the beige box I'm stuck with. But I was just surprised the nuts were visible.
Shame the nice lines are spoilt by the four nuts at the top. I think they detract from the appearance of the box. Perhaps he could have countersunk some screws in there and covered them with something....
It sounds like linux sits on top of the Runtime Environment, much like an emulator sits on top of the host OS of another system. They can release the Runtime Environment under any license they want, linux would just be a GPL app running on it.
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If success is measured in terms of being referenced in a Matt Groening cartoon series, then Farnsworth was no failure!
Baz
Or on unix, they got /etc/shadow, which you'd normally need root privs to read anyway. That's why crypted pws are stored in /etc/shadow...
However, hacked user passwords are useful if they give you user-level access to another system, since then you can use a non-remote root exploit to get root.
Baz
Who is going to be the first idiot to get their tongue stuck to one of these!?
Baz
You dont have to deal with several hundred students using Xterminals...
.xsession and window manager configs until I haven't a clue what does what and can't help them sort out problems.
- it's flexible, meaning each of our lecturers wants the students to use a different window manager, and the students edit their
- it's network portable, which means our students could be using machines on the other side of the world and running netscape on that and then complaining to me that it's running slowly and I cant tell they are running it on foo.bar.au
- it's cross platform, meaning whatever machine someone has on their desk, they want a copy of it installed! Grrr! There's nothing a BOFH hates more than having someone want some software!
- it allows you to run a screensaver as background, using up CPU cycles that the rest of our students would like to use for statistical analyses! killall -9 xscreensaver!
- it's free, which means I cant use our budget as an excuse to not get it so I dont have to install it, thus creating more work for me!
No, I love it really. X is fantastic. Here's to X more years!
Baz
Maybe we'll be less tolerant of racism, child abuse, slavery, dictators, monopolies, pollution...
I just don't like the way the idea of tolerance has been appropriated as a good thing. Tolerance in itself has no values, its the things you choose to tolerate that do.
Baz
And there's me thinking "The Revolution OS Will Not Be Televised"....
Baz
I like this one:
It's fun to charter an accountant
And sail the wide accountancy,
To find, explore the funds offshore
And skirt the shoals of bankruptcy!
It can be manly in insurance.
We'll up your premium semi-annually.
It's all tax deductible.
We're fairly incorruptible,
We're sailing on the wide accountancy!
[its from the short film shown before Monty Python's Meaning of Life...]
So only have one computer talk to it at once. How? By setting up a unix box as an LPD server, and define a queue that prints to the Jet Direct. All client machines print to the queue on the LPD server, and you configure the JetDirect so that only the LPD server has access to it.
If your server is close enough to your printer, you can do without the JetDirect box and plug the printer straight into the server, but our print server is a long way from our printer, so the printer is connected to a JetDirect box in the user lab, and the server is tucked away in the machine room.
Yes, I know its another single-point-of-failure, but ours hasn't failed for years....
Just make sure you can get out. One of our central IT systems server rooms has a Halon system. A huge tank. When the alarm goes, you have about 20 seconds to clear the room, or you'll suffocate, since you can't breath halon....
Try it on man pages:
man awk | perl -ne 'split;foreach(@_){print $_." " if (rand()>.9)}'
and it still makes sense! :)
One last chance - I'll have to write the colour/mono state to a file! Yes!
Baz
..but I cant find the code. How did it work? Well, maybe like this...
Write some postscript that redefines all the colour-setting commands and the colour bitmap commands. The redefined commands set a variable to say this page is colour.
Redefine 'showpage' to only do a real 'showpage' if the 'page-is-colour' variable is set. Clear the variable.
Now rerun, but reverse the logic to do 'showpage' on the mono pages. You can pass the sense of the logic to ghostscript on the command line.
Of course this wont tell you if there is a grey-scale bitmap in a colour image command. You could always redefine the image command to check that all the pixels have the same r,g,b colours....
I'll try and dig the code out.
Baz
I already have something in my User Slashbox - a nice local weather pic and info. Can I just add the code to it?
That's _indirect_ recursion! Maybe I should have explicitly said no _indirect_ or _direct_ recursion.
I'm sure I asked this on our local BBS and we got something that was three or four levels deep. Danged if I can remember what it was though!
Baz
And dont forget anyone outside the USA who wants ad-free slashdot has to pay in dollars, and hence is subject to the vagaries of exchange rates and rip-off currency conversion commission charges...
Baz
Where one of the letters of the acronym is an acronym. And one of its letters is also an acronym. Etc.
e.g. GCC is GNU Compiler Collection (these days) and GNU is GNU's Not Unix. Hence GCC has depth 2. I'm sure you can do better!
Baz
In the UK, Robot Wars had a 'flyweight' category, which they played in a miniature version of the main arena, about a metre square. The robots were a bit bigger than matchboxes, but some had flippers and spikes. Great to watch the little things whizzing about, and it wasn't long before half of them were just running round in circles.
I think one even got flipped right out of the arena.
Imagine the new Apple Imac, with its flat screen, supported on its smooth chrome arm, and its shining dome glistening in the fluorescent light. Now add a couple of screw-heads sitting in the top and a little nut for good measure. Kinda spoils it dontcha think?
The alumin[i]um and plexi case is fantastic, I'd rather have that on my desk than the beige box I'm stuck with. But I was just surprised the nuts were visible.
Shame the nice lines are spoilt by the four nuts at the top. I think they detract from the appearance of the box. Perhaps he could have countersunk some screws in there and covered them with something....
Baz
Don't you mean Cocoon The Return?
Here's a really useful buttonless mouse, the Stupidamouse.
plus i imagine the keyboard would have to be reinforced for when the frustrated Klingon programmer bashes his or her head against it.
Shackleton's story was recently made into a TV two-parter shown in the UK over Christmas and New Year, with Kenneth Branagh as 'the Boss'.
Shame they messed up on the historical accuracy by having the crew sing songs that weren't written when they were stuck on the ice though. Whoops.
Its probably coming to a small screen near you soon.
Baz
It sounds like linux sits on top of the Runtime Environment, much like an emulator sits on top of the host OS of another system. They can release the Runtime Environment under any license they want, linux would just be a GPL app running on it.
Baz
Well, the operating system would be called 'Klingux' and would incorporate pre-emptive strike multi-tasking.
The hardware would obviously be a box with lots of blinking lights on it.