And I don't really want to get an XBOX then modify it, so don't give me the obvious answer...
So how about the slightly-less-obvious-answer: Find one of the guys that is selling pre-modded XBoxen on the internet, and grab one of those. Usually they can be had for around $250, and have a switch so you can temporarily "unmod" as necessary.
Don't mistake my annoyance for paranoia, but I serve an IT role at a medium sized company. We have a bunch of GPL and other OSS stuff installed on our windows-centric network. When we deployed SP2 company-wide, about 30% of the OSS apps broke, and either had to be reinstalled or (in three cases) have SP2 rolled back for critical machines. not like most of it matters anyway since the machines in question are behind an honest-to-goodness, well maintained firewall, aren't used to recieve any email, and have IIS turned off by default.
mind you we did have about 3 proprietary apps break down as well.
There are two main reasons for this instability under windows. The first is the irregular fashion in which GTK fixes and enhancements are ported to windows-- usually at least several weeks and occasionally several months behind the linux verions typically due to testing cycles. The second is in the gimp dev cycle itself in that (and this seems common to most windows ports of OSS to windows) it's always down to one or two people to do the rather labor intensive and unrewarding task of setting up the windows binaries and installer and keeping it inline with whatever random crap MS & co. is doing this week from windupdate to prevent us from using free (speech) software. (ahem in our work enviornment... hey it pays the bills, ok? I only run *n[i|u]x at home, I swear.)
Frankly, you should count yourself lucky that somebody bothers, and that you don't have to build from source to get a working version on ANY platform, but specifically windows as its installtion cruft is most annoying, and windows users tend to be less patient with the build process.
...said the man with the "yer mom" joke for a sig.
Actually, the last refuge for the "your mama" joke is in fark or/. (which obviously grandparent is new to or he wouldn't have spelled it out.) and chrysler press releases. These are still acceptable because there's no chance that someone will think you are actually talking about their mom, since they are such generalized media, but especially for/., the cliche has magnetic value that makes such a versitile example fo the cliche more welcome than other, less flexible ones, such as "in soviet russia" "step 3 profit!" and "I for one welcome our".
The fact that Bush is referenced in the aforementioned "your mama" doesn't do anything for the value of it, because it's just as effective on CmdrTaco, Cowboyneal, and all the other innumerable old-schoolers, Clinton, Gore, and Jabba the Hut. If we lump Fark.com in, Ackbar applies./modularity ensues.
Honestly I think this is a good slashdot FP topic because a) there's a lot of firefox users here. b) some are very evangelical about either the browser or the license, or the quality of firefox, and OSS in general, especially in relation to the time/completeness of bug fixes.
I was actually wondering when this was going to come up as the rollback from 1.0 to.98 in Ubuntu as caused quite a stir on the lists, and other than rather dead weight thread about the overly sexy graphics on gdm and the desktop, this was probably the most common topic last month. 1.0 has some serious issues, and having geeky sites like this bring them up puts a fire under the ass of the firefox dev team to prove the mantra once again, that OSS packages are more well maintained then their proprietary counterparts.
Maybe I'm missing the point here, but don't they have these problems with any kind of underground infrastructural deployments in certain areas? I thought this has more to do with geology than with contractor ineptitude.
Ok, hitting sewer lines is bad, but in theory, before any dig, the local utilites (including sanitation) would come and mark the ground so that this wouldn't happen. But sinkholes? Aren't those things opening up all over Florida all the time anyway? I thought it had to do with the geological makeup of the soil in the area and the lack of firm bedrock, more than bad digging. Not that digging wouldn't exacerbate the problem.
Seems to me the county wouldn't have much room to complain if they hadn't accurately marked underground lines before digging begins, as is usually the law (in every place i've lived anyway.) Also seems like if they did do this, then Verizon's contractors got some 'splainin to do.
Yes a very wry answer indeed, however something will need to be inhaled along with the oxygen to prevent oxygen poisoning-- something well known to divers.
Nitrogen would be a good choice as it is not toxic to humans and doesn't even liquify until -195.8C.. again, they wouldn't be needing a breathing reflex at that temperature.
The way the original blurb was written, I took it to mean that an active connection was undetectable. It's much different to say that it's not an open service, and therefore not vulnerable to scanning.
Portable so Mac, Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD versions will be available.
okay, when? this would be great. Here's where this gets sticky.
impossibility to detect and attack Master/Slave
Uh-huh. Sure. I mean if there's traffic, it's detectable. Might not be easy, but come on--as if their directory service has a magical packet cloaking device. Ok... could be firewalling. that's not necessarily "impossibility to detect." I call shenanigans.
This was actually one of the most painful things I have had the displeasure to watch in a long time. And I say this as a fan of RvB.(heh ok that was mean) I'm really disappointed.
Someone should inform the guys at rooster teeth that the first episode of something is supposed to set up the scene for something, and maybe introduce you to some characters. The thing that first episodes should explicitly NOT do is have the characters plaintively asking who they are and what they are doing here. THAT IS THE POINT OF THE FIRST EPISODE... to TELL us this stuff, not ask.
Sorry rooster teeth, I love some of your work, but this is utter and total crap, and it will take something really special to draw me back.
better to find out now the likelihood of cosmonauts going nuts and killing each other when crammed in a tin for 500 days, than in the black depths of space.
Here's a
summary of the revisions they made to the code.
Note this one right here (about halfway down):
(3) Retail encryption commodities and software. You may export and reexport to any end-user encryption commodities, software and components which have been reviewed and classified as retail under ECCNs 5A002 and 5D002.
any encryption technology which is made available to the public is "reviewed" by the NSA, and if they don't have a way to snoop on it effectively it is classified as "Military Weaponry" and it never sees the light of day. If some such algorhythm were to come out of F/OSS, its creators would be threatened and intimidated until it went away.
I don't consider being locked into only one OS a good thing no matter which OS that is. However your reasoning isn't bad. IBM doesn't have a lot to gain by making a PC "windows only" and they do invest an awful lot in linux.
While vendor lock-out is definitely a threat, it's not a terrible threat because amateur developers are such a key part of the industry, and always will be.
What concerns me much more is the stuff that's going to start happening when "trusty" computing becomes ubiquitous, if it ever does. More and more important transactions and secret info exchange will take place over the net. and of course you know the government doesn't allow good encryption for "national security" reasons.
the article talks about the security and encryption being in hardware rather than software as though that was some sort of improvement on it, but who wants to replace their hardware as soon as some 1337 5kr1p7 k1d5 figure out an exploit? and it's only a matter of time.
on the other hand this is one of the few technologies that could permanently cure the world of spyware (the other obvious one being dumping windows altogether.). of course with every new anti-spam technology, the spammers are the first on board, so I imagine the industry will sell out again and no good will come of it.
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GW really does lead an army of the undead!
Well, of course, but what does that have to do with robots?
"code that %&#@% interface by tomorrow you @#$%@ piece of *&^$&!!!"
Boss, is that you?
And I don't really want to get an XBOX then modify it, so don't give me the obvious answer...
So how about the slightly-less-obvious-answer: Find one of the guys that is selling pre-modded XBoxen on the internet, and grab one of those. Usually they can be had for around $250, and have a switch so you can temporarily "unmod" as necessary.
Perhaps now would be a good time for Intel to launch its enigmatic ZIG program.
Invariably prompting AMD to release it's CATS system ahead of schedule. Make your time.
Don't mistake my annoyance for paranoia, but I serve an IT role at a medium sized company. We have a bunch of GPL and other OSS stuff installed on our windows-centric network. When we deployed SP2 company-wide, about 30% of the OSS apps broke, and either had to be reinstalled or (in three cases) have SP2 rolled back for critical machines. not like most of it matters anyway since the machines in question are behind an honest-to-goodness, well maintained firewall, aren't used to recieve any email, and have IIS turned off by default.
mind you we did have about 3 proprietary apps break down as well.
That's crazy talk. This place is spam free.
I was spam free until I followed the lst three article links, where the pages promptly scanned my gmail and yahoo cookies and added me to their list.
Oh wait; I pressed "insightful" when I meant to press "funny" on my /. comment generator. here's what I was going for:
No, that's my brother, crazy talk.
There are two main reasons for this instability under windows. The first is the irregular fashion in which GTK fixes and enhancements are ported to windows-- usually at least several weeks and occasionally several months behind the linux verions typically due to testing cycles. The second is in the gimp dev cycle itself in that (and this seems common to most windows ports of OSS to windows) it's always down to one or two people to do the rather labor intensive and unrewarding task of setting up the windows binaries and installer and keeping it inline with whatever random crap MS & co. is doing this week from windupdate to prevent us from using free (speech) software. (ahem in our work enviornment... hey it pays the bills, ok? I only run *n[i|u]x at home, I swear.)
Frankly, you should count yourself lucky that somebody bothers, and that you don't have to build from source to get a working version on ANY platform, but specifically windows as its installtion cruft is most annoying, and windows users tend to be less patient with the build process.
Actually, the last refuge for the "your mama" joke is in fark or /. (which obviously grandparent is new to or he wouldn't have spelled it out.) and chrysler press releases. These are still acceptable because there's no chance that someone will think you are actually talking about their mom, since they are such generalized media, but especially for /., the cliche has magnetic value that makes such a versitile example fo the cliche more welcome than other, less flexible ones, such as "in soviet russia" "step 3 profit!" and "I for one welcome our".
The fact that Bush is referenced in the aforementioned "your mama" doesn't do anything for the value of it, because it's just as effective on CmdrTaco, Cowboyneal, and all the other innumerable old-schoolers, Clinton, Gore, and Jabba the Hut. If we lump Fark.com in, Ackbar applies. /modularity ensues.
Honestly I think this is a good slashdot FP topic because a) there's a lot of firefox users here. b) some are very evangelical about either the browser or the license, or the quality of firefox, and OSS in general, especially in relation to the time/completeness of bug fixes.
I was actually wondering when this was going to come up as the rollback from 1.0 to .98 in Ubuntu as caused quite a stir on the lists, and other than rather dead weight thread about the overly sexy graphics on gdm and the desktop, this was probably the most common topic last month. 1.0 has some serious issues, and having geeky sites like this bring them up puts a fire under the ass of the firefox dev team to prove the mantra once again, that OSS packages are more well maintained then their proprietary counterparts.
funny or insightful? you decide/
Maybe I'm missing the point here, but don't they have these problems with any kind of underground infrastructural deployments in certain areas? I thought this has more to do with geology than with contractor ineptitude.
Ok, hitting sewer lines is bad, but in theory, before any dig, the local utilites (including sanitation) would come and mark the ground so that this wouldn't happen. But sinkholes? Aren't those things opening up all over Florida all the time anyway? I thought it had to do with the geological makeup of the soil in the area and the lack of firm bedrock, more than bad digging. Not that digging wouldn't exacerbate the problem.
Seems to me the county wouldn't have much room to complain if they hadn't accurately marked underground lines before digging begins, as is usually the law (in every place i've lived anyway.) Also seems like if they did do this, then Verizon's contractors got some 'splainin to do.
This is slashdot. Do I *need* to remind you that Anglina Jolie's boobies are visible in that movie?
lucky that indeed, too bad it's too frigid to be inhaled without permanent lung damage.
Yes a very wry answer indeed, however something will need to be inhaled along with the oxygen to prevent oxygen poisoning-- something well known to divers.
Nitrogen would be a good choice as it is not toxic to humans and doesn't even liquify until -195.8C.. again, they wouldn't be needing a breathing reflex at that temperature.
They have repeatedly used force, fraud, and intimidation
Are you suggesting that Microsoft is a... TERRORIST?
You may be on to something there.
interesting.
The way the original blurb was written, I took it to mean that an active connection was undetectable. It's much different to say that it's not an open service, and therefore not vulnerable to scanning.
Thanks for the extra info!
Portable so Mac, Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD versions will be available.
okay, when? this would be great.
Here's where this gets sticky.
impossibility to detect and attack Master/Slave
Uh-huh. Sure. I mean if there's traffic, it's detectable. Might not be easy, but come on--as if their directory service has a magical packet cloaking device. Ok... could be firewalling. that's not necessarily "impossibility to detect."
I call shenanigans.
MOD UP FUNNY!!!!
Hear Hear.
This was actually one of the most painful things I have had the displeasure to watch in a long time. And I say this as a fan of RvB.(heh ok that was mean) I'm really disappointed.
Someone should inform the guys at rooster teeth that the first episode of something is supposed to set up the scene for something, and maybe introduce you to some characters. The thing that first episodes should explicitly NOT do is have the characters plaintively asking who they are and what they are doing here. THAT IS THE POINT OF THE FIRST EPISODE... to TELL us this stuff, not ask.
Sorry rooster teeth, I love some of your work, but this is utter and total crap, and it will take something really special to draw me back.
better to find out now the likelihood of cosmonauts going nuts and killing each other when crammed in a tin for 500 days, than in the black depths of space.
we can just telnet to him if something goes wrong.
root@terminalman# killall -s SIGKILL braind
Is something going on?
If something were going on, /. wouldn't be mining the sister sites for "news" like this.
I wonder where the guy is who's sitting around thinking "you know what our fall lineup needs? another reality show!"
I'm glad you asked.
Here's a summary of the revisions they made to the code.
Note this one right here (about halfway down):
(3) Retail encryption commodities and software. You may export and reexport to any end-user encryption commodities, software and components which have been reviewed and classified as retail under ECCNs 5A002 and 5D002.
any encryption technology which is made available to the public is "reviewed" by the NSA, and if they don't have a way to snoop on it effectively it is classified as "Military Weaponry" and it never sees the light of day. If some such algorhythm were to come out of F/OSS, its creators would be threatened and intimidated until it went away.
shoot, now I have to adjust my tinfoil hat again.
I don't consider being locked into only one OS a good thing no matter which OS that is. However your reasoning isn't bad. IBM doesn't have a lot to gain by making a PC "windows only" and they do invest an awful lot in linux.
When did Slashdot gain the ability to see the future?
uhh... tomorrow!
While vendor lock-out is definitely a threat, it's not a terrible threat because amateur developers are such a key part of the industry, and always will be.
What concerns me much more is the stuff that's going to start happening when "trusty" computing becomes ubiquitous, if it ever does. More and more important transactions and secret info exchange will take place over the net. and of course you know the government doesn't allow good encryption for "national security" reasons.
the article talks about the security and encryption being in hardware rather than software as though that was some sort of improvement on it, but who wants to replace their hardware as soon as some 1337 5kr1p7 k1d5 figure out an exploit? and it's only a matter of time.
on the other hand this is one of the few technologies that could permanently cure the world of spyware (the other obvious one being dumping windows altogether.). of course with every new anti-spam technology, the spammers are the first on board, so I imagine the industry will sell out again and no good will come of it.