Speaking of pornography I find it amusing that it's ok to share Gb's worth of hardcore material without harassment - potentially supplying minors with stuff they wouldn't have been able to get hold of say 10 years ago
I get your point, but as someone who receives copies of abuse email complaints for a medium to large network of users, I'd like to notify those who share porn that some studios *ARE* sending copyright violation notice.
I'm not in the legal dept nor I'm a customer service rep, so I don't know exactly how it ends. But I suppose it must be pretty embarrasing for all parties to notify a customer that a complaint has been received because he/she is sharing "Banging Miss Daisy" or something like that.
Several of the complains are for gay porn, so those that are still in the closet, take care.
Edonkey, kazaa, gnutella, direct-connect and bit-torrent are some of the networks/methods reported so I'd reccomend that those who want to share such material, do it thru some more anonymous network.
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Under Fedora Core 1 and 2, if I depress the wheel, it acts as a middle button (usually "paste"). Under XP, it behaves as you mentioned, but when I "wheel-click" a link in Firefox, it opens on a new window (or tab). This works the same with a Logitech wheelmouse and a generic no-name $9.00 wheel mouse.
I haven't done anything (that I remember) to either Fedora or XP/Firefox for this behavior. It seems to be by default.
Apparently no other browser ever has had a security flaw. Ever. Mozilla and Opera bugtraqs are empty files
This isn't just about some browser's security problem. It's about software monoculturism (is that a word?).
IE is not without merits and people will continue to use it. But it's market dominance create a chicken and egg problem: people will build web sites tailored to it, and people will use IE because the web sites are built so.
Then if a flaw appears in the browser, *everybody* will be affected. (ok, not everybody, but the non-IE users will be so few as to be negligible).
Of course other browsers have flaws. And those IE users that don't bother patching/updating will most likely don't bother patching/updating Firefox/Mozilla/Opera. But at least it won't affect the better part of the internet users.
Here's an idea, try monogamy, then if you feel like multitasking, upgrade back to full blown polygamy.
Now, I'll be the first to admin that I'm no Casanova, but in my experience, women want pretty much the same things men do. The only difference, is they are more subtle.
Eventually, the authorities begin to get the message through their cement heads that the time has come for the situation to change.
It changes. No more 420 arrests; regardless of the 'law'.
Boy, that cracks me up! Given the current events, what will happen is that The Powers That Be will try to control the situation thru some bonehead restriction of technology.
Are people using cell phone text messages to spread the word? Then expect said service to be restricted under some "security act".
I gave up on edonkey, because whenever I found a file and tried to download it, it would place me in a queue, sometimes over 1500 long. You need patience to use this thing.
industries will start targeting ed2k and its associated clients next
That's already happening. I've seen several notices from MPAA and BSA regarding people using edonkey (I get copies of the abuse email). Usually for entire movies (600+ MB).
Golly gee-whiz, if someone is too stupid to migrate a million-record dBase table to SQL, he only deserves a real good whacking (and a career re-orientation into would you like grits with that ???)...
Most of the time it is not because the inability of the database tech, but the "hey, it's been working so far" attitude of the decision makers.
Maybe the powers that be are allergic to Open Source solutions and commercial databases can be expensive. Maybe the client applications are tied to the current system and porting them would be too expensive (example, POS systems).
I can imagine the conversation:
- "We are closed at night anyway" - "Yes, boss, but recovering from a failure (knock on wood) can be too difficult in the current system" - "Well, that's what we are paying you for" - "Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. Would you like grits with that?"
[the address]...Palmyra Atoll (Uninhabited Sovereign Territory)
This is thge odd part. How can an uninhabited territory be sovereign. According to the CIA Factbook it is a National Wildlife Refuge managed by the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Also, it says it has no economic activity. What the heck would back Palmyra Atoll's dollar?
As far as I am concerned, he is an unethical shmuck who bears principal responsibility for the suicide of Gary Kildall. Search on "Gary Kildall" if you do not know who he is.
I had no idea as to who Gary Kildall was. I did a quick search and found out. The cause of death is not clear tho, but nowhere it says it was suicide.
Now, I believe you have your reasons to blame Gates for Kildall's death, but in my own humble opinion, nobody is responsible for someone else's suicide. If you take the decision to kill yourself, no external factor is to blame.
As for "honoring" him by naming the building after him, well, he is paying for it. If the donation comes with strings attached and Stanford doesn't like it, they can always turn him down.
He might be a college dropout with little knowledge of CS, but he *is* doing something for the field: he is donating resources, just like the person who doesn't know anything about medicine, but donates money for a new hospital wing, or simply gives blood. You contribute with what you can.
(yes, I know Gates isn't probably doing it out of the goodness of his heart... he is getting publicity for it, but does it really matters so long as the job gets done?)
If I had to choose between a Solaris install, or a Linux install, on it's own, with a live IP address, I'd choose Linux every time
A Solaris install on the Internet on its own would probably get rooted before the hour ran out. At least it would if you were to choose a full install.
I use solaris on most of my servers, but before entering production, you have to patch the hell out of it (last time I checked, the Solaris 8 patch cluster was like 50MB), install ssh, if needed, and close a bunch of services that are activated by default *and* reactivated upon patch application.
I usually play it safe and install ipfilter, just in case.
What I would expect to see fairly quickly is a "GNU/Solaris" distribution, where (as many of us have been doing for years) you get a Solaris kernel and basic libraries, and then put a GNU based set of tools on top of it.
Solaris is a sweet OS, but what I which the most is something like the FreeBSD port tree to be done for solaris. Sun already has niftly package tools, but a port collection would take care of dependencies and make updating easier.
I've toyed around with Slackware, Redhat, and Debian (in the form of Xebian and KnoppMyth - a Knoppix re-package) and it seems that if you install the right packages any one could be made to function as well as another (of course my experience may be limited). What distros are better than others at what specific tasks?
Yes, you can take a Debian box and transform it easily into a a firewall/proxy. But if you want some specific functionality, such as single button poweron/poweroff for a headless firewall box, without worryng whether its properly shutdown, or you want to admin it from a web browser, etc, you will have to toy with it until it works the way you want.
Other specific distros will do that right from install. No need to tweak. That's the idea behind so many distros.
Need a quick and dirty web/smtp/pop3 server, there's probably a distro for that. Just pop in the cd and install.
Heck, a lot of these distros are variants from the ones you mentioned. Think of them as pre-configured versions of Redhat, Debia, etc.
...as in forever. Let it serve as an abject lesson to other hosters that if they take up the soon to be alleged spam gap, they too will get permanently blocked.
What happens when the ISP goes belly-up and the IP space gets reassigned to somebody else?
The problem with permanent blocking is that eventually, most of the internet will be blocked.
Patents expire if Microsoft and GlaxoSmithKline don't sweet-talk Congress into a delusion that repeated term extensions are good for the American economy.
Actually, it should be easier than that (IANAL): simply do a slight modification to MSCODEC and call it MSCODEC2. Force/coax industry to adopt it and presto!
I specify "family movie" because kids under 13 can't read subtitles
Really? How do "foreign" kids under 13 watch the latest Hollywood blockbuster? Most of those movies are not dubbed until a couple of years later, when they come on TV.
The exception, of course, are the movies aimed at the very young (Disney and such).
Microsoft will immediately become number two, and perhaps number one, if not almost straight away, with a shoddier product, and years earlier than they'd otherwise have been able to had it not been for Apple once again pioneering this market
That's what some people said about the Xbox. And even tho it's not shoddier than PS2 or Gamecube, it still hasn't cought up.
If MS gives the choice of interacting with multiple players, offer the same or similar selection of music than iTunes, then I don't see how is it any shoddier.
Of course they won't be innovating (that seems to be against MS' policy), but the only thing they could be accused of is of being Johnny-Come-Latelys (sp?) to the market.
There has been several good posts regarding how to protect your stuff from being stolen and I sugest you take their advice.
But if, heaven forbid, your equipment gets stolen, minimize your loss by having always some form of off-site backup.
Store files in storage provided by your college, or buy one of those USB keyrings and make sure you copy your important data into it regularly. Or if you have a friend you trust enough, copy your files into his machine (and maybe he'll copy his into yours). Encription would be a good idea in this case. Now, if both machines get stolen the same day your are one unlucky SOB.
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Speaking of pornography I find it amusing that it's ok to share Gb's worth of hardcore material without harassment - potentially supplying minors with stuff they wouldn't have been able to get hold of say 10 years ago
I get your point, but as someone who receives copies of abuse email complaints for a medium to large network of users, I'd like to notify those who share porn that some studios *ARE* sending copyright violation notice.
I'm not in the legal dept nor I'm a customer service rep, so I don't know exactly how it ends. But I suppose it must be pretty embarrasing for all parties to notify a customer that a complaint has been received because he/she is sharing "Banging Miss Daisy" or something like that.
Several of the complains are for gay porn, so those that are still in the closet, take care.
Edonkey, kazaa, gnutella, direct-connect and bit-torrent are some of the networks/methods reported so I'd reccomend that those who want to share such material, do it thru some more anonymous network.
Under Fedora Core 1 and 2, if I depress the wheel, it acts as a middle button (usually "paste"). Under XP, it behaves as you mentioned, but when I "wheel-click" a link in Firefox, it opens on a new window (or tab). This works the same with a Logitech wheelmouse and a generic no-name $9.00 wheel mouse.
I haven't done anything (that I remember) to either Fedora or XP/Firefox for this behavior. It seems to be by default.
Apparently no other browser ever has had a security flaw. Ever. Mozilla and Opera bugtraqs are empty files
This isn't just about some browser's security problem. It's about software monoculturism (is that a word?).
IE is not without merits and people will continue to use it. But it's market dominance create a chicken and egg problem: people will build web sites tailored to it, and people will use IE because the web sites are built so.
Then if a flaw appears in the browser, *everybody* will be affected. (ok, not everybody, but the non-IE users will be so few as to be negligible).
Of course other browsers have flaws. And those IE users that don't bother patching/updating will most likely don't bother patching/updating Firefox/Mozilla/Opera. But at least it won't affect the better part of the internet users.
HA! It is bad enough when people ask for legal advice on slashdot, but now they are asking for dating advice?
What would be the IANAL equivalent? IASAV (still a virgin)?
My girlfriends are like Linux...
What, all of them?
Here's an idea, try monogamy, then if you feel like multitasking, upgrade back to full blown polygamy.
Now, I'll be the first to admin that I'm no Casanova, but in my experience, women want pretty much the same things men do. The only difference, is they are more subtle.
From Wikipedia:
This page is a candidate for speedy deletion.
Looks like Wikipedia sysops might not have a sense of humor.
Or maybe if you had elucidated a bit more, such as posting examples or such.
I think US just payed for a very expensive show.
... and the world gained Tang.
Yes, it was a very expensive show, fueled by the cold war competition with the soviets.
It was necesary, tho. They proved it was possible to take a human being into another celestial body and return him safely, and that's no mean feat.
Eventually, the authorities begin to get the message through their cement heads that the time has come for the situation to change.
It changes. No more 420 arrests; regardless of the 'law'.
Boy, that cracks me up! Given the current events, what will happen is that The Powers That Be will try to control the situation thru some bonehead restriction of technology.
Are people using cell phone text messages to spread the word? Then expect said service to be restricted under some "security act".
I gave up on edonkey, because whenever I found a file and tried to download it, it would place me in a queue, sometimes over 1500 long. You need patience to use this thing.
On a related note, Sharezaa supports edonkey.
industries will start targeting ed2k and its associated clients next
That's already happening. I've seen several notices from MPAA and BSA regarding people using edonkey (I get copies of the abuse email). Usually for entire movies (600+ MB).
Golly gee-whiz, if someone is too stupid to migrate a million-record dBase table to SQL, he only deserves a real good whacking (and a career re-orientation into would you like grits with that ???)...
Most of the time it is not because the inability of the database tech, but the "hey, it's been working so far" attitude of the decision makers.
Maybe the powers that be are allergic to Open Source solutions and commercial databases can be expensive. Maybe the client applications are tied to the current system and porting them would be too expensive (example, POS systems).
I can imagine the conversation:
- "We are closed at night anyway"
- "Yes, boss, but recovering from a failure (knock on wood) can be too difficult in the current system"
- "Well, that's what we are paying you for"
- "Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. Would you like grits with that?"
"I will never ever release the unaltered originals unless it would be profitable, which it would, so I will."
Expect the release of "Star Wars Classic" sometime in 2006. You know there are some fanboys that will start forming the line tonight.
It's called something like "demanding money with menaces"
But would it apply in this case? The MPAA is not demanding money, just the removal of certain material from the website.
[the address]...Palmyra Atoll (Uninhabited Sovereign Territory)
This is thge odd part. How can an uninhabited territory be sovereign. According to the CIA Factbook it is a National Wildlife Refuge managed by the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Also, it says it has no economic activity. What the heck would back Palmyra Atoll's dollar?
As far as I am concerned, he is an unethical shmuck who bears principal responsibility for the suicide of Gary Kildall. Search on "Gary Kildall" if you do not know who he is.
I had no idea as to who Gary Kildall was. I did a quick search and found out. The cause of death is not clear tho, but nowhere it says it was suicide.
Now, I believe you have your reasons to blame Gates for Kildall's death, but in my own humble opinion, nobody is responsible for someone else's suicide. If you take the decision to kill yourself, no external factor is to blame.
As for "honoring" him by naming the building after him, well, he is paying for it. If the donation comes with strings attached and Stanford doesn't like it, they can always turn him down.
He might be a college dropout with little knowledge of CS, but he *is* doing something for the field: he is donating resources, just like the person who doesn't know anything about medicine, but donates money for a new hospital wing, or simply gives blood. You contribute with what you can.
(yes, I know Gates isn't probably doing it out of the goodness of his heart... he is getting publicity for it, but does it really matters so long as the job gets done?)
It's a standard power cable with a notch cut above it.
Are they, really? I always thought they were higer rated cables (more amperes capacity).
I have had some dinky cables heat up when connected to some medium size equipment.
If I had to choose between a Solaris install, or a Linux install, on it's own, with a live IP address, I'd choose Linux every time
A Solaris install on the Internet on its own would probably get rooted before the hour ran out. At least it would if you were to choose a full install.
I use solaris on most of my servers, but before entering production, you have to patch the hell out of it (last time I checked, the Solaris 8 patch cluster was like 50MB), install ssh, if needed, and close a bunch of services that are activated by default *and* reactivated upon patch application.
I usually play it safe and install ipfilter, just in case.
What I would expect to see fairly quickly is a "GNU/Solaris" distribution, where (as many of us have been doing for years) you get a Solaris kernel and basic libraries, and then put a GNU based set of tools on top of it.
Solaris is a sweet OS, but what I which the most is something like the FreeBSD port tree to be done for solaris. Sun already has niftly package tools, but a port collection would take care of dependencies and make updating easier.
I've toyed around with Slackware, Redhat, and Debian (in the form of Xebian and KnoppMyth - a Knoppix re-package) and it seems that if you install the right packages any one could be made to function as well as another (of course my experience may be limited). What distros are better than others at what specific tasks?
Yes, you can take a Debian box and transform it easily into a a firewall/proxy. But if you want some specific functionality, such as single button poweron/poweroff for a headless firewall box, without worryng whether its properly shutdown, or you want to admin it from a web browser, etc, you will have to toy with it until it works the way you want.
Other specific distros will do that right from install. No need to tweak. That's the idea behind so many distros.
Need a quick and dirty web/smtp/pop3 server, there's probably a distro for that. Just pop in the cd and install.
Heck, a lot of these distros are variants from the ones you mentioned. Think of them as pre-configured versions of Redhat, Debia, etc.
What happens when the ISP goes belly-up and the IP space gets reassigned to somebody else?
The problem with permanent blocking is that eventually, most of the internet will be blocked.
I bet those in the know get a free shell account in another country and ssh tunnel all their web traffic through it.
... because a high volume of encrypted traffic would never attract the attention of the authorities...
Patents expire if Microsoft and GlaxoSmithKline don't sweet-talk Congress into a delusion that repeated term extensions are good for the American economy.
Actually, it should be easier than that (IANAL): simply do a slight modification to MSCODEC and call it MSCODEC2. Force/coax industry to adopt it and presto!
I specify "family movie" because kids under 13 can't read subtitles
Really? How do "foreign" kids under 13 watch the latest Hollywood blockbuster? Most of those movies are not dubbed until a couple of years later, when they come on TV.
The exception, of course, are the movies aimed at the very young (Disney and such).
Microsoft will immediately become number two, and perhaps number one, if not almost straight away, with a shoddier product, and years earlier than they'd otherwise have been able to had it not been for Apple once again pioneering this market
That's what some people said about the Xbox. And even tho it's not shoddier than PS2 or Gamecube, it still hasn't cought up.
If MS gives the choice of interacting with multiple players, offer the same or similar selection of music than iTunes, then I don't see how is it any shoddier.
Of course they won't be innovating (that seems to be against MS' policy), but the only thing they could be accused of is of being Johnny-Come-Latelys (sp?) to the market.
There has been several good posts regarding how to protect your stuff from being stolen and I sugest you take their advice.
But if, heaven forbid, your equipment gets stolen, minimize your loss by having always some form of off-site backup.
Store files in storage provided by your college, or buy one of those USB keyrings and make sure you copy your important data into it regularly. Or if you have a friend you trust enough, copy your files into his machine (and maybe he'll copy his into yours). Encription would be a good idea in this case. Now, if both machines get stolen the same day your are one unlucky SOB.