I'm not sure if your DirecTV has an output port on the back.. If it does then this shouldn't be a problem.. Just look on the back I'd look on the back of mine but I don't feel like pulling it out:)
If it doesn't then you're basically screwed unless you decode the signal from DirecTV somehow using your pvr unit which would be considered illegal.
Nervous about going linux? You really should be more nervous about going win2k. What you are suggesting is silly; if your friend wants easier then go with OS X Server. Not win2k. Also I don't see most of the comments you speak about. I administer and program primarily for unix machines. I don't know anything about administering windows. It takes more than a retard to administer windows infact you have to probably know some black magic and make the occasional sacrifice.
Anyway do your friend a favor and get him/her OS X Server because Joe down the hall will make your TCO skyrocket in about the time it takes for someone like me to report (insert new bug here) to Bugtraq. Apple has provided a GUI interface to a unix backend and it's easy. This is what Joe Schmoe business user in a rush should be looking at to start their business. TCO will be the amount you will spend with Joe Schmoe or a Unix Admin and/or a broken Win2k machine and a clueless admin.
Why does everyone say ATI rules? They don't they have nice hardware and shitty drivers. Their drivers are STILL shitty for all the complaining about it you'd think they'd clean room implement and get some competent people to write their drivers. STILL for all that their drivers are garbage!! NVIDIA's whole design and process trumps ATI by EVERYTHING except hardware quality and thats mainly because Nvidia isn't primarily OEM. If Nvidia ever gets enough money to concentrate on hardware quality ATI will be dropped like a bad habit by anyone in the know.
Man I'd really love to see where you get your facts about ATI vs NVIDIA; really.
Doesn't matter, midshipmen aren't midshipmen forever. Also these midshipmen are at risk of being booted out of even having a Naval career. Do you honestly think that top brass will allow that? Where do the majority of these midshipmen go after the USNA? Do you think a commander likes having to raid his own students? If they have to boot 100 students in one fell swoop what do you think the outcry would be? What do you think retention would say? Sure these organizations might have enough power to do something like that to you as a citizen. That's not so with the gov't and even though they'll follow the law; the law will be changed or forged primarily in their own interest.
Answer those questions and then you'll see how bad of a position those organizations just put themselves in. Especially considering these midshipmen might get the boot; World War Vets will probably jump outta their fucking graves.
Just put an end to their whole propoganda "we are going to get everyone and prosecute to the fullest extent of the law" shit. If there is one thing on earth you don't fuck with its people with the power to make it very difficult for you to operate. The US Naval Academy (as well as other military institutions) has stronger ties to business, schools and government than the RIAA/MPAA/etc/etc could ever dream of. These are the people that have strong influential power when it comes to basically anything regarding basically anything. Not only that but these institutions harbor great ill-will to anyone threatening the "future of our country" over something they'll see as extremely "trivial".
Also, once you piss one military institution off unless it's a battle between divisions (army vs navy etc) then none of them like you. I can already see alot of top brass talking about these Lobbying institutions especially since Thanksgiving is coming up. The word will spread and friends of friends, families who have made service life a career will hear about this. It will spread to public servants etc and this one action seriously just damaged any pull the RIAA/MPAA/NMPA and the Songwriters Guild had with government. Especially considering the state of affairs on the table now. Not only that but the owners of the equipment that was seized will truly remember this especially if they get article 15's as well as not knowing if you're fucking with the next (insert influential power here) or if one of those young men/women has a father/mother/aunt/uncle who happens to be a congressman or senator or what have you.
For the industry to get with the times they'd put all musical content online on their own p2p service and charge a fair price for a download. What you're doing is not getting with the times it's a waste of time, effort and money. The obvious solution is the simple solution is the solution the RIAA is fighting tooth and nail.
The Wired talks more about bugtrack's handling of the whole thing, and how it essentially posted working code for the exploit. Was it irresponsible or not?
What's irresponsible is living in a fantasy world and thinking that Bugtraq are the only ones capable of exploiting a bug like that. Just because you don't talk about it and shh shh it doesn't make the bug disappear and unexploitable. Shit man just like any exploit someone is gonna write code to exploit it if it's in their interest or for fun or just because they are pure evil. With something like this; shit as soon as the exploit was posted I'm sure there were people writing code to exploit the shit.
Current Features
* Watching TV, with TV Guide (using XMLTV).
* Playing Movies (AVI, MPEG, etc) and DVDs.
* Playing Music (MP3, Ogg).
* Viewing Pictures.
* Skins are configurable using XML files.
* Movie and Music file info using XML files.
* Preliminary Mame support.
Price == the cost of hardware.
Why exactly would I pay through the nose, ass and other body cavities for the alienware box?
I think you need to read a bit about HTTP and P2P more; as for "blah server being cracked". It wouldn't come out, heh do you know how many ftp servers are broken into on a daily basis? You should really read about this stuff before talking about it. Or at least try not to make generalized blanket statements. It makes you and whatever you're talking about look bad.
Getting Linux over FTP is much more reliable because a published server is likely to have more bandwidth, be placed "closer" in network hops to you, and is more trustworthy.
More bandwidth? More reliable? It's the same thing you just happen to be putting your trust into an ftp server. Be placed "closer" in network hops? What does this have to do with anything? If you are pulling from 20 people at 20k/s it's faster than pulling from an ftp server at 60k/s.
Imagine if some anti-Linux organization posted trojan-containing distributions and started sending them out over P2P... all it takes is a few people too lazy to check their hashes and it will become impossible to audit back who released all the exploits into the wild.
Image if the same anti-Linux organization posted trojan-containing distributions and started sending them out over ftp or http... all it takes is a few people too lazy to check their hashes and it will become impossible to audit back who released all the exploits into the wild.
P2P has some possilbe legal uses, but for all the legal things P2P could do, the traditional protocols are better at doing them. The only motivating reason P2P for being developed is because people want a tool that makes it harder to trace copyright violations.
Like what? FTP, HTTP, GOPHER? I mean you can transfer files over the http but does that make it less efficient at doing so? That last piece is a joke, you make broad generalizations based on probably what your friends or you yourself do. However there are people who use P2P for things that have nothing to do with violating someones copyright. Especially if you work in the ad business and instead of having an ftp server you have a p2p client where people can transfer clips etc etc using the existing network. Just, there are so many uses for P2P besides violating copyright.
and what your boss doesn't know doesn't hurt him/her especially if it doesn't affect bottom line any and it's for a good cause. System critical stuff not recommended. Secretaries desktop, she's/he's probably using more cycle to play solitaire or chat or whatever it is they do when they aren't working.
Who's really made the stupid mistake when the terrorist just blantantly did whatever they wanted? Proper collection and analysis of the available data SHOULD have almost certainly made those attacks preventable. However the terrorists STILL pulled it off regardless of the evidence. The evidence still needs to be put together and something still needs to be done about it. The intelligence community has enough leeway to do what they need to do. Some spider bot isn't gonna help, whats gonna help is when someone writes a report stating that "certain terrorist group is up to certain activities". Proper precautions are put into place; that is all.
So that you can make a product or steal bits of code. Just because something is opensource doesn't make it cheaper in any aspect really. What it does do is provide you with choice; the choice to fix a bug, the choice to add documentation, the choice to add a new feature etc etc. Which WILL save you money in the long term. Is it going to cost more to support in the short term for a large sum of code, yes. If you want a solution that works with support then you go with the Company that is providing support for the opensource project (eg: mysql, apache blah blah blah). If there is none then you're on your own, however anyone that understands the economics of these things will tell you that sometimes buying the big package and writing it off is ideal. However the cost that you don't see is the one of choice which believe it or not will most likely end up costing you alot more money in the long term. Especially because you can't adapt without that commercial company.
And call it your own shell. Problem solved. However don't call this thing a mixture of Bash and tcsh. Call it Rshell or Redhat Shell or Redhat Prompt or something.
You remind me of the way I used to think; it's very idealistic but when you see what goes on behind the scenes you realize that it's not that easy and it's not that easy because of politics and general bueracratic nonsense. I agree though the money spent else where would be good IE: donating it to the Free Software Foundation and/or the EFF so they can fight the small battles. It's just too idealistic, too easy, too logical and probably has a globe the size of the moon in red tape. I agree though.
Early on win? The government didn't wait before intervening. Cases have been brought against Microsoft many a time and this is just another one and it won't be the last one. You just don't wake up a monopoly. If you are a monopoly and abuse your power over the market it's not going to be noticable until enough people have been burned. Cases have to be filed things need to go along there due course of action. It just proves that a monopoly can mess up and get away with it but they can't keep anti-competitive practices up. The government LACKED qualified people to help them fight the peoples case, they waited to get experts, they slacked in that respect, otherwise they've been on it and even state jurisdictions are waking up. We haven't lost anything, we've held ground if we "cut our losses" we'd be just keeling over and allowing Microsoft to continue with their practices which would be bad in the long run for everyone; because if Microsoft can do it and get away with it whats to stop Insert-fave-Corp here. The whole leave them alone and just drop it i'm tired of fighting for whats right attitude will get you killed and this is precisely what Microsoft wants.. for the gov't to just say fuck it.
That is really a silly statement; considering your attitude and stance Monopolies would exist everywhere. The "eventually superior products and services will be widely adopted" piece is a joke. How exactly do you get those superior products and services? Do they just materialize? Having a monopoly is one thing, abusing a monopoly is another. I'm glad that my tax dollars are being spent fighting such monopolies and other companies who would prevent competition in the marketplace. The only thing that saddens me really is the fact that because of the early neglect this monopoly has abused the marketplace and will probably have enough capital to continue the abuse. If the Free Software movement was just a dream and not reality, you wouldn't have as much choice as you do to even post that comment. Simply and for the most part because Slashdot wouldn't exist.
What about having the cell phone for portablity? The laptop for portability? An SUV is pretty much a portable house. It could be the portability factor; I dunno or it could just be the illumanati.
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Good, so use Netware, buy Netware it obviously does what you want. If you don't want a user to accidentally delete something make sure that like every other admin you backup up there directories. FIND a way to work around it.. under a unix system it's easy. Every 1 hour have a script that runs that backs up the users directories to another partition or where ever you want, if someone creates an original file have it backed up and saved, if a file with the same name is created make; use iterations.. It's not difficult. Linux hasn't left you high and dry you're just to lazy to write a tool that will do what you want. Who's fault is that?!
If you've been a rabid Linux user from the early days, then you've had at least a good 10 yrs to figure this out. Everyone else seems to be using Linux for everything including file servers. How this got modded up is beyond me.
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I'm not sure if your DirecTV has an output port on the back.. If it does then this shouldn't be a problem.. Just look on the back I'd look on the back of mine but I don't feel like pulling it out :)
If it doesn't then you're basically screwed unless you decode the signal from DirecTV somehow using your pvr unit which would be considered illegal.
Nervous about going linux? You really should be more nervous about going win2k. What you are suggesting is silly; if your friend wants easier then go with OS X Server. Not win2k. Also I don't see most of the comments you speak about. I administer and program primarily for unix machines. I don't know anything about administering windows. It takes more than a retard to administer windows infact you have to probably know some black magic and make the occasional sacrifice.
Anyway do your friend a favor and get him/her OS X Server because Joe down the hall will make your TCO skyrocket in about the time it takes for someone like me to report (insert new bug here) to Bugtraq. Apple has provided a GUI interface to a unix backend and it's easy. This is what Joe Schmoe business user in a rush should be looking at to start their business. TCO will be the amount you will spend with Joe Schmoe or a Unix Admin and/or a broken Win2k machine and a clueless admin.
Why does everyone say ATI rules? They don't they have nice hardware and shitty drivers. Their drivers are STILL shitty for all the complaining about it you'd think they'd clean room implement and get some competent people to write their drivers. STILL for all that their drivers are garbage!! NVIDIA's whole design and process trumps ATI by EVERYTHING except hardware quality and thats mainly because Nvidia isn't primarily OEM. If Nvidia ever gets enough money to concentrate on hardware quality ATI will be dropped like a bad habit by anyone in the know.
Man I'd really love to see where you get your facts about ATI vs NVIDIA; really.
this is highly incorrect but I don't have time to explain.
Doesn't matter, midshipmen aren't midshipmen forever. Also these midshipmen are at risk of being booted out of even having a Naval career. Do you honestly think that top brass will allow that? Where do the majority of these midshipmen go after the USNA? Do you think a commander likes having to raid his own students? If they have to boot 100 students in one fell swoop what do you think the outcry would be? What do you think retention would say? Sure these organizations might have enough power to do something like that to you as a citizen. That's not so with the gov't and even though they'll follow the law; the law will be changed or forged primarily in their own interest.
Answer those questions and then you'll see how bad of a position those organizations just put themselves in. Especially considering these midshipmen might get the boot; World War Vets will probably jump outta their fucking graves.
Just put an end to their whole propoganda "we are going to get everyone and prosecute to the fullest extent of the law" shit. If there is one thing on earth you don't fuck with its people with the power to make it very difficult for you to operate. The US Naval Academy (as well as other military institutions) has stronger ties to business, schools and government than the RIAA/MPAA/etc/etc could ever dream of. These are the people that have strong influential power when it comes to basically anything regarding basically anything. Not only that but these institutions harbor great ill-will to anyone threatening the "future of our country" over something they'll see as extremely "trivial".
Also, once you piss one military institution off unless it's a battle between divisions (army vs navy etc) then none of them like you. I can already see alot of top brass talking about these Lobbying institutions especially since Thanksgiving is coming up. The word will spread and friends of friends, families who have made service life a career will hear about this. It will spread to public servants etc and this one action seriously just damaged any pull the RIAA/MPAA/NMPA and the Songwriters Guild had with government. Especially considering the state of affairs on the table now. Not only that but the owners of the equipment that was seized will truly remember this especially if they get article 15's as well as not knowing if you're fucking with the next (insert influential power here) or if one of those young men/women has a father/mother/aunt/uncle who happens to be a congressman or senator or what have you.
For the industry to get with the times they'd put all musical content online on their own p2p service and charge a fair price for a download. What you're doing is not getting with the times it's a waste of time, effort and money. The obvious solution is the simple solution is the solution the RIAA is fighting tooth and nail.
The Wired talks more about bugtrack's handling of the whole thing, and how it essentially posted working code for the exploit. Was it irresponsible or not?
What's irresponsible is living in a fantasy world and thinking that Bugtraq are the only ones capable of exploiting a bug like that. Just because you don't talk about it and shh shh it doesn't make the bug disappear and unexploitable. Shit man just like any exploit someone is gonna write code to exploit it if it's in their interest or for fun or just because they are pure evil. With something like this; shit as soon as the exploit was posted I'm sure there were people writing code to exploit the shit.
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Current Features
* Watching TV, with TV Guide (using XMLTV).
* Playing Movies (AVI, MPEG, etc) and DVDs.
* Playing Music (MP3, Ogg).
* Viewing Pictures.
* Skins are configurable using XML files.
* Movie and Music file info using XML files.
* Preliminary Mame support.
Price == the cost of hardware.
Why exactly would I pay through the nose, ass and other body cavities for the alienware box?
haha this is funny.
I think you need to read a bit about HTTP and P2P more; as for "blah server being cracked". It wouldn't come out, heh do you know how many ftp servers are broken into on a daily basis? You should really read about this stuff before talking about it. Or at least try not to make generalized blanket statements. It makes you and whatever you're talking about look bad.
Getting Linux over FTP is much more reliable because a published server is likely to have more bandwidth, be placed "closer" in network hops to you, and is more trustworthy.
More bandwidth? More reliable? It's the same thing you just happen to be putting your trust into an ftp server. Be placed "closer" in network hops? What does this have to do with anything? If you are pulling from 20 people at 20k/s it's faster than pulling from an ftp server at 60k/s.
Imagine if some anti-Linux organization posted trojan-containing distributions and started sending them out over P2P... all it takes is a few people too lazy to check their hashes and it will become impossible to audit back who released all the exploits into the wild.
Image if the same anti-Linux organization posted trojan-containing distributions and started sending them out over ftp or http... all it takes is a few people too lazy to check their hashes and it will become impossible to audit back who released all the exploits into the wild.
P2P has some possilbe legal uses, but for all the legal things P2P could do, the traditional protocols are better at doing them. The only motivating reason P2P for being developed is because people want a tool that makes it harder to trace copyright violations.
Like what? FTP, HTTP, GOPHER? I mean you can transfer files over the http but does that make it less efficient at doing so? That last piece is a joke, you make broad generalizations based on probably what your friends or you yourself do. However there are people who use P2P for things that have nothing to do with violating someones copyright. Especially if you work in the ad business and instead of having an ftp server you have a p2p client where people can transfer clips etc etc using the existing network. Just, there are so many uses for P2P besides violating copyright.
right, and you know that the secretary at the desk is definitely not using that 3d flower power crap. Yeah.
it's a screensaver. most people leave their computers on. what runs? the screensaver.. affect the bottom line? Not at all.
and what your boss doesn't know doesn't hurt him/her especially if it doesn't affect bottom line any and it's for a good cause. System critical stuff not recommended. Secretaries desktop, she's/he's probably using more cycle to play solitaire or chat or whatever it is they do when they aren't working.
Who's really made the stupid mistake when the terrorist just blantantly did whatever they wanted? Proper collection and analysis of the available data SHOULD have almost certainly made those attacks preventable. However the terrorists STILL pulled it off regardless of the evidence. The evidence still needs to be put together and something still needs to be done about it. The intelligence community has enough leeway to do what they need to do. Some spider bot isn't gonna help, whats gonna help is when someone writes a report stating that "certain terrorist group is up to certain activities". Proper precautions are put into place; that is all.
So that you can make a product or steal bits of code. Just because something is opensource doesn't make it cheaper in any aspect really. What it does do is provide you with choice; the choice to fix a bug, the choice to add documentation, the choice to add a new feature etc etc. Which WILL save you money in the long term. Is it going to cost more to support in the short term for a large sum of code, yes. If you want a solution that works with support then you go with the Company that is providing support for the opensource project (eg: mysql, apache blah blah blah). If there is none then you're on your own, however anyone that understands the economics of these things will tell you that sometimes buying the big package and writing it off is ideal. However the cost that you don't see is the one of choice which believe it or not will most likely end up costing you alot more money in the long term. Especially because you can't adapt without that commercial company.
And call it your own shell. Problem solved. However don't call this thing a mixture of Bash and tcsh. Call it Rshell or Redhat Shell or Redhat Prompt or something.
You remind me of the way I used to think; it's very idealistic but when you see what goes on behind the scenes you realize that it's not that easy and it's not that easy because of politics and general bueracratic nonsense. I agree though the money spent else where would be good IE: donating it to the Free Software Foundation and/or the EFF so they can fight the small battles. It's just too idealistic, too easy, too logical and probably has a globe the size of the moon in red tape. I agree though.
Early on win? The government didn't wait before intervening. Cases have been brought against Microsoft many a time and this is just another one and it won't be the last one. You just don't wake up a monopoly. If you are a monopoly and abuse your power over the market it's not going to be noticable until enough people have been burned. Cases have to be filed things need to go along there due course of action. It just proves that a monopoly can mess up and get away with it but they can't keep anti-competitive practices up. The government LACKED qualified people to help them fight the peoples case, they waited to get experts, they slacked in that respect, otherwise they've been on it and even state jurisdictions are waking up. We haven't lost anything, we've held ground if we "cut our losses" we'd be just keeling over and allowing Microsoft to continue with their practices which would be bad in the long run for everyone; because if Microsoft can do it and get away with it whats to stop Insert-fave-Corp here. The whole leave them alone and just drop it i'm tired of fighting for whats right attitude will get you killed and this is precisely what Microsoft wants.. for the gov't to just say fuck it.
That is really a silly statement; considering your attitude and stance Monopolies would exist everywhere. The "eventually superior products and services will be widely adopted" piece is a joke. How exactly do you get those superior products and services? Do they just materialize? Having a monopoly is one thing, abusing a monopoly is another. I'm glad that my tax dollars are being spent fighting such monopolies and other companies who would prevent competition in the marketplace. The only thing that saddens me really is the fact that because of the early neglect this monopoly has abused the marketplace and will probably have enough capital to continue the abuse. If the Free Software movement was just a dream and not reality, you wouldn't have as much choice as you do to even post that comment. Simply and for the most part because Slashdot wouldn't exist.
What about having the cell phone for portablity? The laptop for portability? An SUV is pretty much a portable house. It could be the portability factor; I dunno or it could just be the illumanati.
I'm working on using XMLRPC with nuke now.. I don't know if i'll release it but I believe there are others working on it too.
bah; shutupppp.
Good, so use Netware, buy Netware it obviously does what you want. If you don't want a user to accidentally delete something make sure that like every other admin you backup up there directories. FIND a way to work around it.. under a unix system it's easy. Every 1 hour have a script that runs that backs up the users directories to another partition or where ever you want, if someone creates an original file have it backed up and saved, if a file with the same name is created make; use iterations.. It's not difficult. Linux hasn't left you high and dry you're just to lazy to write a tool that will do what you want. Who's fault is that?!
If you've been a rabid Linux user from the early days, then you've had at least a good 10 yrs to figure this out. Everyone else seems to be using Linux for everything including file servers. How this got modded up is beyond me.