Difficult to install Linux on a laptop, try Win2k
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Linux Is Going Down
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· Score: 2
"But you probably wouldn't want to run Linux on a laptop, unless the manufacturer supports Linux; otherwise, it's a real chore to find and install the right hardware drivers.
Has this guy ever tried to install a version of Windows that the laptop did not ship with on a laptop? I have just been going through all kinds of painful hoops to get Windows 2000 on some type of Thinkpad (use a mini Linux distro to copy ME to hard disk, install; copy Win2k to hardisk, upgrade). I also have to deal with a Sony Vaio where not all of the Windows 2000 drivers are available for download, so no memory stick under W2k (works fine under Linux).
At least with Linux the hardware drivers are mostly in two spots: the kernel and XFree86. 99% of the time if Linux supports the hardware the driver is in the latest kernel. Run make menuconfig, do you see your hardware? If so it is supported at at least some level. Under Windows it is can be goose chase on google to find the manufacturer or oem and see if they have a driver, which may or may not work.
I realize this guy is just FUDing, and I have down the equivilant of rise to his troll, but I have more difficulty installing Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2K on random hardware than I have in installing linux on a bleeding edge laptop.
the industry couldn't give a rat's ass about "new models of distribution", they care about piracy of their own materials.
This is what I have always wondered. Are these industry groups only interested in the piracy, or do they see their long term obsolescence as distributors? I agree, right now the primary use of P2P is to illegally trade copyrighten material, but will this always be the case?
In a future when I attach to a bands server to acquire their music directly (micropayments, macropayments, just plain free, or whatever) of what use are the recording companies? One of the biggest roles of the recording companies today is to get radio play for their acts. In a future when all "radio" is personalized digital streams customized by each listener their won't be much room for recording industry back room deals to increase their favorite products airtime.
Are the recording companies (and all media distributors) fighting these practices because of a short term interest in limiting the illegal trading of their wares, or do they truly see the end of their role in commerce?
refile +foobar `pick -from foobar`
will move all messages from "foobar" into my foobar folder in about 15 keystrokes (with autocompletion).
refile -link +foobar `pick -search project6` +project6
will refile messages in my foobar folder containing the text "project6" to my project6 folder using hard links. Now the messages exists in both folders.
I can type inc, show, next, comp, etc. in any terminal window at home or at work, and the right thing happens (with a few ssh tricks and gnuclient). No fumbling for some icon to click on, or waiting for the gui to come up, or finding the window running my mail agent...
The only drawback is that after a few hundred thousand messages scattered in hundreds of folders indexing the files for backup can take a bit of time, "what do you think I'm running here, a news server?"
Hollywood and the record industry hate him and give lots of money to the Democrats.
This is only partially true. According to Open Secrets the TV/Movie/Music industry gave $21.6 million to the Dems and $13.4 million to the GOP in 2000.
The breakdown of the contributors is also interesting TV/Movie/Music "production" groups gave much more heavily to the Dems than the GOP, but Cable/TV/Radio stations/owners gave more heavily to the GOP than the Dems.
Basically, this industry is doing what many others have done for many years, which is give to both parties, that way they are covered no matter who wins.
I don't think this is the case. If all you want to do is spew files down a big pipe you don't really need a terribly fast processor. An efficient OS and loads of memory should be enough. ftp.cdrom.com set multiple bandwidth records when it was a dual Pentium Pro 200.
20 2u machines in a rack generate a large amount of heat, and if all they are doing is acting as web frontends to a backend machine that is doing the heavy database lifting I could see the saving in machine room cooling and UPS power to be significant.
Apart from Konquorer - who the gnome zealots won't use
I really like Konqueror. I think it is much faster than Mozilla, and when it works it works really well. Unfortunately Konqueror is not yet as stable as Mozilla---Konqueror seems to blow up about 3 times more frequently than Mozilla, and it doesn't work with Datek.
BTW, I use Gnome as my desktop and Konqueror as my browser.
After getting bit by the creditcards.com crack and now this Egghead thing I am ready to get one of the American Express disposable card numbers to do all of my shopping. Now with disposable e-mail addresses I just need to find a way to have a disposable shipping address.
I don't understand why these companies think it is a "service" to me for them to keep my credit card number on file for a few years. I can understand holding it for 30 or 60 days after the transaction or something, but I haven't bought anything from Egghead in over a year.
Just buy several drip coffee machines and use those. I have one of those big restaurant style coffee machines at work and it makes terrible coffee (even when it starts with quality grounds). Get 2 or 3 10 cup machines, a good grinder, and let people make more coffee as they drink it. Or better yet, assign people "coffee days" where it is there job to make sure there is plenty of coffee and to wash the pots at the end of the work day.
I found it entertaining that on an episode of "Angel" they were using what was clearly an iBook, but there was a sticky note on the back of it covering the Apple logo. I guess Apple didn't kick in their endorsement fee for that episode.
OK, here is the message in all its glory. I have changed MY information in the header, but have left all sender information as I received it. I also had to change a bit of the formating to get around/.'s lameness junk character filter. The words of the text are untouched.
Return-Path: chad@microsoft.com
Delivery-Date: Mon Dec 11 15:08:14 2000
Return-Path:
Received: from mybigserver.my.domain (mybigserver.my.domain [10.0.0.1])
by mymail.my.domain (8.9.1a/8.9.1/FOO-3.0s) with ESMTP id PAA365001
for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 15:08:14 -0700 (MST)
From: chad@microsoft.com
Received: from eb.com ([146.101.3.203])
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Message-Id:
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Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 22:02:44 +0000
Subject: HOT NEWS 11 DECEMBER 2000, HACKERS GOT INTO CREDITCARDS.COM !!!
To: me+myvendorid@my.domain
X-Mailer: WinNT's Blat ver 1.8.2b http://www.interlog.com/~tcharron
X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: me+myvendorid@my.domain
X-Return-Path: chad@microsoft.com
Dear Customers of CREDITCARDS.COM,
Security score rating: -100
Go there to read the STORY about creditcards.com !!!
We represent a group of experts trying to save you from companies, which
do not care about their clients. For your attention we have
designed the "Never trust companies" list.
Any simple hacker can get into Creditcards.com where your confident information stored.
We was contacted with President (Michael Butts) of CreditCards.com, and
they was say us " We don't care about information and about customers"
Today is the special time for every Internet user, e-commerce is still growing
and competitors are fighting each other to win your attention, your loyalty
and as the result your money.
But not all the companies are ready to offer their clients best service,
they trying to get you through low prices, quick delivery, etc., while is
it so important for you?
Basically what are you doing when you buy something via Internet?
You let somebody into your personal finances.
Till no completely secure way of transferring the confidential information
invented, the number one priority for each and every online company is
to secure transaction and to hide information about their clients.
Who knows, may be your partner or your online discount shop is one of them.
We are glad to provide you with this information; we want you to use secure
online resources and most important those who care about you.
Kind Regards,
_____
Today TOP Unsecure Company :
Name Specification Security Score*
Name Specification Security Score*
I got a (well) forged e-mail originating from Psinet UK, which in broken English informed me that it was from people looking out for my well being. They claimed to be targeting companies which "do not care about their clients."
They mention creditcard.com specifically by name and give it a score of -100 for security (no security).
Using my address tracking I could tell they sent me this e-mail using the address I gave to a merchant I used nearly a year ago. Of the 100s of online purchases I make a year, it looks like one of the few places where I made a personal purchase processed their information through creditcards.com. If it had been one of my many corporate purchases I wouldn't have cared too much, but I guess now I will have to go and change the number on the card I used.
If people care, I can post the entire message.
I've been doing this for sometime
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Spambot Poisoner
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I have been running a cgi called nameorama since atleast 1997 on my webserver. If it detects certain user agents it starts spewing out juicy looking links and e-mail addresses. I had hits on it as recently as October. I can't believe the e-mail suckers don't report themselves as generic Netscape or something.
To try it, run lynx -useragent=EmailSiphon http://ibgwww.colorado.edu/
It is really funny to see some poor spambot spend an hour or two thinking it has hit some really rich website.
Indeed, the majority of spam I get originates at a uu.net or psinet dialup (except the foreign stuff relayed through a Chinese or Korean government servers), and I get this same annoying response back each time.
If the institution of higher learning that I am at got some backbone they could probably finance their entire IT budget off the spammers, because it is illegal
in this state.
Of course looking at false negatives (not blocking a site that does containt porn) would be useful, but that is a time consuming analysis. It would require a Peacefire worker to look at each of the nearly 1000 unblocked sites and determine if they contained porn.
The review they did is pretty easy. The only had to review the 5-50 sites that were actually blocked.
False negatives obviously occur, because SurfWatch accurately blocked 9 sites while CyberPatrol only accurately blocked 4 sites from the same list.
So yes, statistics can be used to show anything they want, and in this case they wanted to show the number of false positives in 1000 domains, and they did just that.
When I was at the University of Texas I had some professors who would throw the commercial note takers out of the class, and others who would bring them down to the front row so he could make sure they got everything he said. I even had one professor who claimed he bought a copy of the notes, because they were better than what his originals.
I was there "before" the web, so I haven't looked to see if the note taking services have websites yet. Studying for an exam at 3am it sure would be tempting to enter a credit card number at website and get the notes for that day I had dozed off...
I don't really see what the problem selling lecture notes is, being firmly.edu I think attribution is very important, and the notes obviously retain attribution. What use would lecture notes be if the course and professor weren't listed?
Instead, I have simply called for better citizenship by the entertainment industry and the videogame makers
What this means to me, is that he is saying he wants the entertainment industry to do what he thinks is right. His definition of better citizen, not mine or someone elses.
accept greater responsibility for the influence they wield in our society
With "responsibility" comes liability. Does Lieberman mean that unless the entertainment industry behaves in ways that he finds acceptable they will be liable for any bad consequences he thinks they have caused (whether the entertainment industry caused them or not).
I want to hear a politician say, "This is a free country, make whatever game, movie, or song you want, but don't try to do an end run around parents if they don't want their kids to get your product." Or something like that.
I think this is a great idea. A 20 year patent should get full peer review and public discourse, but a 2 year one should be given to almost any semi-coherent idea. By the time a two year patent can be challenged in court it will have expired anyways...
Of course checks will have to be placed to prevent harassment and annoyance patents.
You can buy them at any reseller like Carotek, Great Lakes, Dexon, etc. So I don't know what the hell you are
talking about, but if you can't get it at one, go to another. It's like whining that Microsoft won't sell you
windows...so go to CompUSA or Best Buy or Office Depot and buy it.
When I can go to CompUSA and buy a dual processor alpha with an academic discount, I'll short INTC to the limits of my margin.
I have been trying to buy an alpha for the last three months but Compaq won't let me. I guess they don't care about people placing $10,000 orders, just those placing $36,000,000 orders.
It is so hard to get a quote out of a Compaq or a reseller that it is as if they don't want to sell anything. I have been promised for Friday (or maybe Monday) a quote I asked for two weeks ago.
DEC was the same way of course, but I guess this explains why CPQ hasn't moved in 2.5 years, while SUNW has doubled three times in that period.
In another stroke of marketing brilliance, the alpha configurator only runs under Windows. Of course it is such a useless piece of crap that once I finally got it running it was of no help.
And as long as I am ranting about Compaq, wasn't the.18micron 1+GHz chip supposed to be here already? The machine I am being quoted on is the same xp1000a I could buy this time last year (well nearly).
The alpha processor is absolutely the fastest way to get done the computing jobs I need to get done, but as soon as SAS Software for Linux is available (and the beta is in the mail to me now) and the 2.4 kernel with its proper NFS and LVM features is available, I am ditching Compaq and going with dual Athlons (which had better be out by then).
I use the name+domain@my.domain all the time, but many sites claim that the + is an illegal character. I then explain the addressing rules to the offending site, but I have only once received a response saying that the address verifier would be fixed.
Another favorite of mine is to enter my address as root@127.0.0.1, and if I am feeling like a real bastard I check the boxes for "please send me spam", etc.
For those in the know, what free Unix like OS would your recommend as network storage appliance? Currently I use a proper server running Tru64, serving NFS and Samba to a variety of hosts. I will soon be upgrading the server, and I would really prefer a good free OS box to a proprietary solution.
Can any free Unix currently or, in the near future (Linux 2.4, etc.), provide the following:
Journaled FS
Good NFS serving with file locking (Linux 2.2 doesn't quite cut it)
Samba (they all can do this I am sure)
Appleshare serving
"Live" backups (such as Tru64's AdvFS or the soon to be Linux LVM)
I am using an external RAID, so soft RAID is not important.
I used OS/2 from version 1.1 up until Linux version 1.0 (OS/2 2.2 I think). I do feel a lot of nostalgia when I hear about OS/2 even though I haven't used it for 6 or 7 years so I am very sorry to see the bad news.
I just can't get over the fact that I was doing things on a 12 mhz 286 with 3MB of RAM in 1990 that I still find difficult to do on Windows 98 today (like doing real work while formatting a floppy). I could download things at 2400 baud without any foreground slow down! Try that in Windows 3.0.
A sad passing for a truly fine operating system. If only Bill Gates had used his powers for good not evil and had backed OS/2 1.3 as the premier desktop/server OS it was and let Windows be merely a footnote next to Microsoft Bob.
This is truthfully the last piece of software that I need which did not run under Linux. SAS has been the only thing that has kept other Unices in my data center for the last two years. This will make my life so much easier, as I will be able to work on my data and write papers from beginning to end with only my laptop and an occasional Internet connection (for Medline, etc.).
I know I will have to wait a while until it is available, but this completely changes my long term planning for future hardware purchases.
The Lucent Wavelan IEEE cards can use the Apple Airport Basestation as their hardware gateway. With an educational institution cost of about $250 it was 1/4th the price of the Lucent basestation.
It requires a Mac running MacOS 8.6 or higher to initially configure the Airport Basestation, but since I set it to run in bridging mode on startup it has run perfectly without a Mac around.
At this time, this was the cheapest way to get the Lucent cards on a bridged solution as neither the Lucent nor GPL driver can currently run the card in promiscuous mode (necessary for the kernel bridging code).
Simon Singh was on theconnection
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The Code Book
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· Score: 3
Simon Singh was interviewed on The Connection immediately after the l0pht show last week. It was interesting and the real audio can be found at here.
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Has this guy ever tried to install a version of Windows that the laptop did not ship with on a laptop? I have just been going through all kinds of painful hoops to get Windows 2000 on some type of Thinkpad (use a mini Linux distro to copy ME to hard disk, install; copy Win2k to hardisk, upgrade). I also have to deal with a Sony Vaio where not all of the Windows 2000 drivers are available for download, so no memory stick under W2k (works fine under Linux).
At least with Linux the hardware drivers are mostly in two spots: the kernel and XFree86. 99% of the time if Linux supports the hardware the driver is in the latest kernel. Run make menuconfig, do you see your hardware? If so it is supported at at least some level. Under Windows it is can be goose chase on google to find the manufacturer or oem and see if they have a driver, which may or may not work.
I realize this guy is just FUDing, and I have down the equivilant of rise to his troll, but I have more difficulty installing Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2K on random hardware than I have in installing linux on a bleeding edge laptop.
This is what I have always wondered. Are these industry groups only interested in the piracy, or do they see their long term obsolescence as distributors? I agree, right now the primary use of P2P is to illegally trade copyrighten material, but will this always be the case?
In a future when I attach to a bands server to acquire their music directly (micropayments, macropayments, just plain free, or whatever) of what use are the recording companies? One of the biggest roles of the recording companies today is to get radio play for their acts. In a future when all "radio" is personalized digital streams customized by each listener their won't be much room for recording industry back room deals to increase their favorite products airtime.
Are the recording companies (and all media distributors) fighting these practices because of a short term interest in limiting the illegal trading of their wares, or do they truly see the end of their role in commerce?
refile +foobar `pick -from foobar`
will move all messages from "foobar" into my foobar folder in about 15 keystrokes (with autocompletion).
refile -link +foobar `pick -search project6` +project6
will refile messages in my foobar folder containing the text "project6" to my project6 folder using hard links. Now the messages exists in both folders.
I can type inc, show, next, comp, etc. in any terminal window at home or at work, and the right thing happens (with a few ssh tricks and gnuclient). No fumbling for some icon to click on, or waiting for the gui to come up, or finding the window running my mail agent...
The only drawback is that after a few hundred thousand messages scattered in hundreds of folders indexing the files for backup can take a bit of time, "what do you think I'm running here, a news server?"
This is only partially true. According to Open Secrets the TV/Movie/Music industry gave $21.6 million to the Dems and $13.4 million to the GOP in 2000.
The breakdown of the contributors is also interesting TV/Movie/Music "production" groups gave much more heavily to the Dems than the GOP, but Cable/TV/Radio stations/owners gave more heavily to the GOP than the Dems.
Basically, this industry is doing what many others have done for many years, which is give to both parties, that way they are covered no matter who wins.
20 2u machines in a rack generate a large amount of heat, and if all they are doing is acting as web frontends to a backend machine that is doing the heavy database lifting I could see the saving in machine room cooling and UPS power to be significant.
I really like Konqueror. I think it is much faster than Mozilla, and when it works it works really well. Unfortunately Konqueror is not yet as stable as Mozilla---Konqueror seems to blow up about 3 times more frequently than Mozilla, and it doesn't work with Datek.
BTW, I use Gnome as my desktop and Konqueror as my browser.
I don't understand why these companies think it is a "service" to me for them to keep my credit card number on file for a few years. I can understand holding it for 30 or 60 days after the transaction or something, but I haven't bought anything from Egghead in over a year.
Just buy several drip coffee machines and use those. I have one of those big restaurant style coffee machines at work and it makes terrible coffee (even when it starts with quality grounds). Get 2 or 3 10 cup machines, a good grinder, and let people make more coffee as they drink it. Or better yet, assign people "coffee days" where it is there job to make sure there is plenty of coffee and to wash the pots at the end of the work day.
I found it entertaining that on an episode of "Angel" they were using what was clearly an iBook, but there was a sticky note on the back of it covering the Apple logo. I guess Apple didn't kick in their endorsement fee for that episode.
OK, here is the message in all its glory. I have changed MY information in the header, but have left all sender information as I received it. I also had to change a bit of the formating to get around /.'s lameness junk character filter. The words of the text are untouched.
Return-Path: chad@microsoft.com
Delivery-Date: Mon Dec 11 15:08:14 2000
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Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 22:02:44 +0000
Subject: HOT NEWS 11 DECEMBER 2000, HACKERS GOT INTO CREDITCARDS.COM !!!
To: me+myvendorid@my.domain
X-Mailer: WinNT's Blat ver 1.8.2b http://www.interlog.com/~tcharron
X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: me+myvendorid@my.domain
X-Return-Path: chad@microsoft.com
Dear Customers of CREDITCARDS.COM,
Security score rating: -100
Go there to read the STORY about creditcards.com !!!
http://venus.njcc.com/ccs/index.html
http://www.givit.com/content/ccs/index.html
http://203.29.170.11/ccs/index.html
We represent a group of experts trying to save you from companies, which
do not care about their clients. For your attention we have
designed the "Never trust companies" list.
Any simple hacker can get into Creditcards.com where your confident information stored.
We was contacted with President (Michael Butts) of CreditCards.com, and
they was say us " We don't care about information and about customers"
Today is the special time for every Internet user, e-commerce is still growing
and competitors are fighting each other to win your attention, your loyalty
and as the result your money.
But not all the companies are ready to offer their clients best service,
they trying to get you through low prices, quick delivery, etc., while is
it so important for you?
Basically what are you doing when you buy something via Internet?
You let somebody into your personal finances.
Till no completely secure way of transferring the confidential information
invented, the number one priority for each and every online company is
to secure transaction and to hide information about their clients.
Who knows, may be your partner or your online discount shop is one of them.
We are glad to provide you with this information; we want you to use secure
online resources and most important those who care about you.
Kind Regards,
_____
Today TOP Unsecure Company :
Name Specification Security Score*
Name Specification Security Score*
CreditCards.com Credit card Processing network - 100
Security Score:
-100 - no security
1 - simple security
100 - Very good security (firewalls + Crypt of confident information in database.)
They mention creditcard.com specifically by name and give it a score of -100 for security (no security).
Using my address tracking I could tell they sent me this e-mail using the address I gave to a merchant I used nearly a year ago. Of the 100s of online purchases I make a year, it looks like one of the few places where I made a personal purchase processed their information through creditcards.com. If it had been one of my many corporate purchases I wouldn't have cared too much, but I guess now I will have to go and change the number on the card I used.
If people care, I can post the entire message.
To try it, run lynx -useragent=EmailSiphon http://ibgwww.colorado.edu/
It is really funny to see some poor spambot spend an hour or two thinking it has hit some really rich website.
If the institution of higher learning that I am at got some backbone they could probably finance their entire IT budget off the spammers, because it is illegal in this state.
The review they did is pretty easy. The only had to review the 5-50 sites that were actually blocked.
False negatives obviously occur, because SurfWatch accurately blocked 9 sites while CyberPatrol only accurately blocked 4 sites from the same list.
So yes, statistics can be used to show anything they want, and in this case they wanted to show the number of false positives in 1000 domains, and they did just that.
I was there "before" the web, so I haven't looked to see if the note taking services have websites yet. Studying for an exam at 3am it sure would be tempting to enter a credit card number at website and get the notes for that day I had dozed off...
I don't really see what the problem selling lecture notes is, being firmly .edu I think attribution is very important, and the notes obviously retain attribution. What use would lecture notes be if the course and professor weren't listed?
What this means to me, is that he is saying he wants the entertainment industry to do what he thinks is right. His definition of better citizen, not mine or someone elses.
accept greater responsibility for the influence they wield in our society
With "responsibility" comes liability. Does Lieberman mean that unless the entertainment industry behaves in ways that he finds acceptable they will be liable for any bad consequences he thinks they have caused (whether the entertainment industry caused them or not).
I want to hear a politician say, "This is a free country, make whatever game, movie, or song you want, but don't try to do an end run around parents if they don't want their kids to get your product." Or something like that.
Of course checks will have to be placed to prevent harassment and annoyance patents.
When I can go to CompUSA and buy a dual processor alpha with an academic discount, I'll short INTC to the limits of my margin.
It is so hard to get a quote out of a Compaq or a reseller that it is as if they don't want to sell anything. I have been promised for Friday (or maybe Monday) a quote I asked for two weeks ago.
DEC was the same way of course, but I guess this explains why CPQ hasn't moved in 2.5 years, while SUNW has doubled three times in that period.
In another stroke of marketing brilliance, the alpha configurator only runs under Windows. Of course it is such a useless piece of crap that once I finally got it running it was of no help.
And as long as I am ranting about Compaq, wasn't the .18micron 1+GHz chip supposed to be here already? The machine I am being quoted on is the same xp1000a I could buy this time last year (well nearly).
The alpha processor is absolutely the fastest way to get done the computing jobs I need to get done, but as soon as SAS Software for Linux is available (and the beta is in the mail to me now) and the 2.4 kernel with its proper NFS and LVM features is available, I am ditching Compaq and going with dual Athlons (which had better be out by then).
I use the name+domain@my.domain all the time, but many sites claim that the + is an illegal character. I then explain the addressing rules to the offending site, but I have only once received a response saying that the address verifier would be fixed.
Another favorite of mine is to enter my address as root@127.0.0.1, and if I am feeling like a real bastard I check the boxes for "please send me spam", etc.
Can any free Unix currently or, in the near future (Linux 2.4, etc.), provide the following:
I am using an external RAID, so soft RAID is not important.
I just can't get over the fact that I was doing things on a 12 mhz 286 with 3MB of RAM in 1990 that I still find difficult to do on Windows 98 today (like doing real work while formatting a floppy). I could download things at 2400 baud without any foreground slow down! Try that in Windows 3.0.
A sad passing for a truly fine operating system. If only Bill Gates had used his powers for good not evil and had backed OS/2 1.3 as the premier desktop/server OS it was and let Windows be merely a footnote next to Microsoft Bob.
I know I will have to wait a while until it is available, but this completely changes my long term planning for future hardware purchases.
It requires a Mac running MacOS 8.6 or higher to initially configure the Airport Basestation, but since I set it to run in bridging mode on startup it has run perfectly without a Mac around.
At this time, this was the cheapest way to get the Lucent cards on a bridged solution as neither the Lucent nor GPL driver can currently run the card in promiscuous mode (necessary for the kernel bridging code).
Simon Singh was interviewed on The Connection immediately after the l0pht show last week. It was interesting and the real audio can be found at here.