Sounds like a modded XBox. XBox media player uses a port of Mplayer to allow the system to play Mpeg's (1 & 2), AVI, DIVX, MP3 as well as browse JPEG's etc. Only thing it can't do is record. It's got quite an active homebrew dev community
and whilst I'm on a rant, in your free society surely we are free to know who is going to be a risk to our children. If a religious fundamentalist serves 15 years in jail for terrorism activities and is then released, would you want to know that he was living next door to you? Isn't that part of your Freedom of Information Act?
And I don't think I understand you argument. You say that "we should just trust the government to sort us all into little groups, and see who's a paedophile, who's a terrorist,". Do you therefore think that you shouldn't have laws? My point was that there is no such thing as a free society because you aren't free to do exactly what you want.
Example: you are required to pay for goods in a store.
you are saying that America is built on freedom. well it was also built on commerce and without the laws that govern your country the populace would be free to take what they wanted when they wanted without paying for goods.
At some point we accept laws restict our freedoms because they also protect our freedom.
The story in this case is for people who are convicted sex offenders. How does that affect "the people who are found to be 'pre-guilty"'
I think the argument boils down to two opposing views:
If we provide the information that allows parents to protect their children, that same information that allows that protection can also bring harm to someone.
The question is - is that acceptable? My view is that it is (although I can see that isn't a popular view on/.)
That's a nice theory and you argued it well in your ivory tower. But when you are on the receiving end of someone else excorsing their freedoms and you are the victim then we'll see if you still live by you ideals.
And btw, you live in America and you think you are free? Funniest thing I've heard all week!
Well, I guess that is something that you and I are going to disagree on. If you are speaking from personal experience then I hope we never meet in person. I dispute your theory that many people have inate desires for children. If that was the case then I doubt it would be the social misdemeanour it is today.
In response to your prior comment about sexual preferences: I see nothing wrong with two consenting individuals having sex. Homosexuality, S&M. Whatever floats your boat. But a child has no concept of and having something forced upon them against their will is just wrong. Regardless of whether you think paedophilia is right or wrong, I seriously doubt you can find a victim who looks back and says - Wow that was fun. Sex is a consent between 2 people.
Does being a paedophile have a timeout? The answer to that is no.
We should be concerned about individuals rights. But a free society is a falacy. Should the KKK be free to persecute and murder black people? Should fanatical muslims be free to fly aeroplanes into skyscrapers. Obviously the answer is no. If there is a threat to the safety of a child then whatever means required is necessary to protect that child. It is impossible to "un-abuse" a child after the fact.
On a related issue, have a look at this story. My opinion on this is that at the end of the day it's an us vs. them situation. It is impossible to exist harmoniously with people like that because no matter how hard they may try, they will always have an inate desire for children. And that is a risk too high to take.
Lots of postings discuss the load being placed on the DNS servers as lots of mp3's and binaries are transferred through them. Perhaps I am misunderstanding this but surely it's just the.torrent files themselves that are being distributed. The torrent files are just pointers to the trackers which keep a record of the peers who have the files. Distributing the.torrent files probably wouldn't put a massive load on DNS Servers.
Are you seriously telling me that you are going to run a printer on every single server in yout datacentre? wow. I'd like to see your UPS and cooling bill. Never mind your costs for increased space. "err, yes boss. we need to expand the datacentre by 300 feet and buy an additional generator becuase I thought that it'd be a good idea to put a printer on the back of each server instead of using the space for actual servers. By the way, whilst you've got the cheque book out, can you sign of this purchase order for more printer paper . . . "
Good for you if you have the time to spend reading printouts from every single server that you have on the off chance that you spot something. Excellent if your company has money to burn paying the staff in your remote site to fill the printer with new paper. And whilst the rest of us in the real world are browsing the logs on our syslog server, spotting when the server behaviour went awry, and how many other servers are exhibiting the same behaviour, we'll leave you to read your printouts. Ever tried runing grep on a piece of paper?
The OP just said Try wiping logs printed out on a matrix printer...
Never said anything about it being serial or on the network. i just said that running lpd was a bad idea and that running more than you absolutely need is a bad idea.
I didn't say you need X to run a printer, I said that daemons and processes that communicate with hardware over the network are notorious for being vulnerable to attack and X and lpd were among the most common culprits.The only way you are going to find a vulnerability on a server is by looking. To break a machine you don't think "what do I know about this server which will might be vulnerable", you have a dig around to see what you can find.
My point was more to with not over complicating the issue. The best way to ensure you server never gets compromised is to run the bare minimum of services on it, and then ensure that you stay on top of the system at all times. The more simple your system is, the easier it is to keep secure. the more functionality you provide, the more likely it is that you will be compromised. Especially when you run a farm of 100's of servers
Installing a printer is something which is more likely to get your server rooted. lpd and X are notorious as security weaknesses because you are providing network access to your hardware.
It's worth bearing in mind tho that this may not necessarily be a bug in the OS. The wrong permissions on a sudoer's file for example could have caused this. The assumption going around here is that there is an unknown root exploit going around which involves buffer over runs, kernel exploits, etc. It's just as likely that someone has made a mistake with their config and mistakenly left their server wide open
The reason that this made the front page is that it's the test release prior to the first "production" release of the 2.6 kernel which we have waited 2years + for. Seems only right that this should be on the homepage. Same as todays earlier story on FreeBSD 5.2.
The replay value in mods is amazing. Take Counter Strike (the example used in the Original Post). That is way more popular that half life. Quake III and UT (in it's various forms) can't come close.
Half Life is an excellent example of homebrew mods expanding the longevity of a game. But thre are plenty of others. Real GTA is superb. Battlefield 1942 and Freelancer are other examples. Modding is just one example of how the PC gives something which consoles can't provide.
As someone who has been reading/. for years and years, I completely agree with you. And I'd love to know the answer./. used to be proper geek fun. It seems to have lost something as it's grown up from the dotCom boom. Unfortunately all the geeks have gone without so much as a "so long, and thanks for all the fish!" so they can't tell us where they went.
Does anyone else know where they are?
P.S. - whilst I'm on a rant, when are we going to bring back segfault?????
Yeah, I used both. Konqueror on the iPaq is massive. When I've only got 32M of RAM to use, which includes the RAM disk for all the OS binaries and Konqueror comes in @ ~ 6M then it's huge. Although I would concur that Konqueror for Qtopia is a much better browser than the horribly crippled PocketIE. Even dillo (the familiar browser) is more compatible. At the time Opie / Qtopia was the more mature environment, but my problem wasn't the quality of the email / contacts / calendar apps but their inability to sync with Outlook / Exchange which was the corporate groupware system imposed on me.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not putting down the efforts of the guys doing the work. It's superb. In the end though, I found that I could either have a good PDA, or a tiny portable UNIX server, but I couldn't have both. But that's only my experience. YMMV
You are correct that most people who purchase a PDA "do it in order to have a portable version of their main PIM database (i.e., Outlook) ". Although I now have a Dell Axim, I used to have an iPaq 3600. The only reason I bought the iPaq was because of the familiar project (I upgraded from a Palm Pilot Professional purely for the reason of running Linux on a PDA). The only frustration with it was that I couldn't sync meetings + tasks + email with Outlook, which is why I kept reinstalling PocketPC on it. And then I got bored and reinstalled Linux on it. Got frustrated and put PocketPC on it. You get the idea.
The point is that running Linux on a PDA is just good geek fun. It's neat to ssh into your PDA. It's fun to hack it in a way that's not really possible with Pocket PC. Completely pointless as it kippers the personal organiser functionality of the unit - but good geek fun nonetheless
I used to use an Ipaq 3630, but now I'm using a Dell Axmin X5. Bluetooth to the pocket pc, dialling in to a 33,6 RAS service (Orange is the mobile company provider). It's not the quickest thing in the world, but it's the most accessible. If I'm in the centre of town, I don't want to carry a laptop around with me. Even round at a friends house, setting up a VPN setting on his PC on his ADSL (where his router doesn't support VPN passthrough for example) is too much trouble.
MochaSoft Telnet is a decent SSH client for Pocket PC.
you can get a VNC Viewer for Pocket PC here
and a Terminal Services client for PocketPC can be downloaded here
I guess it depends on what you are after. Many of the suggestions here mention laptops and that's OK if you are just generally working remotely. But (even the skinniest one's) are bulky to carry around and require an additional bag to be lugging around. If you just need to ensure that you are able to to remote support in disaster situations whilst on the move, then the Pocket PC w/ bluetooth to a Nokia 6310i is a solution which I have used successfully. (I'm UK based if that makes any difference)
What you are after is iSCSI. iSCSI standards for Internet SCSI and is a "method of encapsulating SCSI over TCP/IP". iSCSI allows a network share to appear as a local scsi drive to the operating system. So you need a server that supports the iSCSI protocol and a client that support it also.
This site seems to be quite informative on the status of the various Linux projects. Check this out for a server implementation
Absolutely! Shenmue was brilliant. I spent ages in the first game loading boxes at the docks. that added a week onto the game just doing that. Superb (almost made me change my job to a fork lift driver I was having so much fun. Aside from some of the comical dialogue (remember the jamaican guy who sounded like a japanese guy doing a poor jamaican accent - hilarious).
Agreed. Morpheus, for example, is the Greek god of dreams. Nothing to do with Christianity. I'm not using your Hercules example to suggest that the Matrix is actually based on Greek mythology instead of Christanity. That's too simple. I think the problem lots of people have with the Matrix is that they try and draw direct analogies to specific stories. I think that the Wachowskies have taken a variety of similar themed stories, and created sometihng similar with a modern context.
None of the questions in Reloaded are answered. How does Neo really stop the Sentinels? How did Smith enter Bane? How did he get so powerful?
You obviously haven't just seen the same filmas me. Neo stopped the sentinels because he was able to tap into the Source. Smith enter's Bane because when Neo entered Smith at the end of the first movie he altered Smith so that Smith was like Neo.
The focus is Zion. Instead of freeing the people of the Matrix, as the first one suggested, the sequels have been all about saving this dirty underground city we don't care about
Zion is the hope for humanity to escape the Matrix. It takes humans who are aware that the Matrix isn't real to help the others out. Without Zion, mankind has no hope of leaving the Matrix.
Nobody is freed
Err, end of the movie where the Oracle gets a garauntee that all the humans will be set free. did you miss that part?
I know that many people profess not to understand the Matrix, especially after Reloaded, but come on - you don't need a PHd in philosophy to follow a movie plot
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Sounds like a modded XBox. XBox media player uses a port of Mplayer to allow the system to play Mpeg's (1 & 2), AVI, DIVX, MP3 as well as browse JPEG's etc. Only thing it can't do is record. It's got quite an active homebrew dev community
and whilst I'm on a rant, in your free society surely we are free to know who is going to be a risk to our children. If a religious fundamentalist serves 15 years in jail for terrorism activities and is then released, would you want to know that he was living next door to you? Isn't that part of your Freedom of Information Act?
And I don't think I understand you argument. You say that "we should just trust the government to sort us all into little groups, and see who's a paedophile, who's a terrorist,". Do you therefore think that you shouldn't have laws? My point was that there is no such thing as a free society because you aren't free to do exactly what you want.
Example: you are required to pay for goods in a store.
you are saying that America is built on freedom. well it was also built on commerce and without the laws that govern your country the populace would be free to take what they wanted when they wanted without paying for goods.
At some point we accept laws restict our freedoms because they also protect our freedom.
The story in this case is for people who are convicted sex offenders. How does that affect "the people who are found to be 'pre-guilty"'
That link is there on purpose.
/.)
I think the argument boils down to two opposing views:
If we provide the information that allows parents to protect their children, that same information that allows that protection can also bring harm to someone.
The question is - is that acceptable? My view is that it is (although I can see that isn't a popular view on
That's a nice theory and you argued it well in your ivory tower. But when you are on the receiving end of someone else excorsing their freedoms and you are the victim then we'll see if you still live by you ideals.
And btw, you live in America and you think you are free? Funniest thing I've heard all week!
I dunno. Give me some examples of How many bad laws and wrong headed government initiatives have been justified on "to protect the children"?
Please enlighten me because now I am confused. AFAIK paedophilia is having sex with children. which is a crime.
What are you talking about?
Well, I guess that is something that you and I are going to disagree on. If you are speaking from personal experience then I hope we never meet in person. I dispute your theory that many people have inate desires for children. If that was the case then I doubt it would be the social misdemeanour it is today.
In response to your prior comment about sexual preferences: I see nothing wrong with two consenting individuals having sex. Homosexuality, S&M. Whatever floats your boat. But a child has no concept of and having something forced upon them against their will is just wrong. Regardless of whether you think paedophilia is right or wrong, I seriously doubt you can find a victim who looks back and says - Wow that was fun. Sex is a consent between 2 people.
Does being a paedophile have a timeout? The answer to that is no.
We should be concerned about individuals rights. But a free society is a falacy. Should the KKK be free to persecute and murder black people? Should fanatical muslims be free to fly aeroplanes into skyscrapers. Obviously the answer is no. If there is a threat to the safety of a child then whatever means required is necessary to protect that child. It is impossible to "un-abuse" a child after the fact.
On a related issue, have a look at this story. My opinion on this is that at the end of the day it's an us vs. them situation. It is impossible to exist harmoniously with people like that because no matter how hard they may try, they will always have an inate desire for children. And that is a risk too high to take.
Lots of postings discuss the load being placed on the DNS servers as lots of mp3's and binaries are transferred through them. Perhaps I am misunderstanding this but surely it's just the .torrent files themselves that are being distributed. The torrent files are just pointers to the trackers which keep a record of the peers who have the files. Distributing the .torrent files probably wouldn't put a massive load on DNS Servers.
Are you seriously telling me that you are going to run a printer on every single server in yout datacentre? wow. I'd like to see your UPS and cooling bill. Never mind your costs for increased space. "err, yes boss. we need to expand the datacentre by 300 feet and buy an additional generator becuase I thought that it'd be a good idea to put a printer on the back of each server instead of using the space for actual servers. By the way, whilst you've got the cheque book out, can you sign of this purchase order for more printer paper . . . "
Good for you if you have the time to spend reading printouts from every single server that you have on the off chance that you spot something. Excellent if your company has money to burn paying the staff in your remote site to fill the printer with new paper. And whilst the rest of us in the real world are browsing the logs on our syslog server, spotting when the server behaviour went awry, and how many other servers are exhibiting the same behaviour, we'll leave you to read your printouts. Ever tried runing grep on a piece of paper?
Anonymous Coward, move along please.
The OP just said Try wiping logs printed out on a matrix printer...
Never said anything about it being serial or on the network. i just said that running lpd was a bad idea and that running more than you absolutely need is a bad idea.
I didn't say you need X to run a printer, I said that daemons and processes that communicate with hardware over the network are notorious for being vulnerable to attack and X and lpd were among the most common culprits.The only way you are going to find a vulnerability on a server is by looking. To break a machine you don't think "what do I know about this server which will might be vulnerable", you have a dig around to see what you can find.
My point was more to with not over complicating the issue. The best way to ensure you server never gets compromised is to run the bare minimum of services on it, and then ensure that you stay on top of the system at all times. The more simple your system is, the easier it is to keep secure. the more functionality you provide, the more likely it is that you will be compromised. Especially when you run a farm of 100's of servers
Installing a printer is something which is more likely to get your server rooted. lpd and X are notorious as security weaknesses because you are providing network access to your hardware.
A syslog server would be a much better solution
It's worth bearing in mind tho that this may not necessarily be a bug in the OS. The wrong permissions on a sudoer's file for example could have caused this. The assumption going around here is that there is an unknown root exploit going around which involves buffer over runs, kernel exploits, etc. It's just as likely that someone has made a mistake with their config and mistakenly left their server wide open
The reason that this made the front page is that it's the test release prior to the first "production" release of the 2.6 kernel which we have waited 2years + for. Seems only right that this should be on the homepage. Same as todays earlier story on FreeBSD 5.2.
The replay value in mods is amazing. Take Counter Strike (the example used in the Original Post). That is way more popular that half life. Quake III and UT (in it's various forms) can't come close.
Half Life is an excellent example of homebrew mods expanding the longevity of a game. But thre are plenty of others. Real GTA is superb. Battlefield 1942 and Freelancer are other examples. Modding is just one example of how the PC gives something which consoles can't provide.
P.S. Check your spelling and gain some knowlage
As someone who has been reading /. for years and years, I completely agree with you. And I'd love to know the answer. /. used to be proper geek fun. It seems to have lost something as it's grown up from the dotCom boom. Unfortunately all the geeks have gone without so much as a "so long, and thanks for all the fish!" so they can't tell us where they went.
Does anyone else know where they are?
P.S. - whilst I'm on a rant, when are we going to bring back segfault?????
Yeah, I used both. Konqueror on the iPaq is massive. When I've only got 32M of RAM to use, which includes the RAM disk for all the OS binaries and Konqueror comes in @ ~ 6M then it's huge. Although I would concur that Konqueror for Qtopia is a much better browser than the horribly crippled PocketIE. Even dillo (the familiar browser) is more compatible. At the time Opie / Qtopia was the more mature environment, but my problem wasn't the quality of the email / contacts / calendar apps but their inability to sync with Outlook / Exchange which was the corporate groupware system imposed on me.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not putting down the efforts of the guys doing the work. It's superb. In the end though, I found that I could either have a good PDA, or a tiny portable UNIX server, but I couldn't have both. But that's only my experience. YMMV
The answer is: because.
You are correct that most people who purchase a PDA "do it in order to have a portable version of their main PIM database (i.e., Outlook) ". Although I now have a Dell Axim, I used to have an iPaq 3600. The only reason I bought the iPaq was because of the familiar project (I upgraded from a Palm Pilot Professional purely for the reason of running Linux on a PDA). The only frustration with it was that I couldn't sync meetings + tasks + email with Outlook, which is why I kept reinstalling PocketPC on it. And then I got bored and reinstalled Linux on it. Got frustrated and put PocketPC on it. You get the idea.
The point is that running Linux on a PDA is just good geek fun. It's neat to ssh into your PDA. It's fun to hack it in a way that's not really possible with Pocket PC. Completely pointless as it kippers the personal organiser functionality of the unit - but good geek fun nonetheless
eh? Sun may have sold the Cobalt Qube, but it was a Linux based system. Why on earth would you want to put solaris on it?
I used to use an Ipaq 3630, but now I'm using a Dell Axmin X5. Bluetooth to the pocket pc, dialling in to a 33,6 RAS service (Orange is the mobile company provider). It's not the quickest thing in the world, but it's the most accessible. If I'm in the centre of town, I don't want to carry a laptop around with me. Even round at a friends house, setting up a VPN setting on his PC on his ADSL (where his router doesn't support VPN passthrough for example) is too much trouble.
MochaSoft Telnet is a decent SSH client for Pocket PC.
you can get a VNC Viewer for Pocket PC here
and a Terminal Services client for PocketPC can be downloaded here
I guess it depends on what you are after. Many of the suggestions here mention laptops and that's OK if you are just generally working remotely. But (even the skinniest one's) are bulky to carry around and require an additional bag to be lugging around. If you just need to ensure that you are able to to remote support in disaster situations whilst on the move, then the Pocket PC w/ bluetooth to a Nokia 6310i is a solution which I have used successfully. (I'm UK based if that makes any difference)
What you are after is iSCSI. iSCSI standards for Internet SCSI and is a "method of encapsulating SCSI over TCP/IP". iSCSI allows a network share to appear as a local scsi drive to the operating system. So you need a server that supports the iSCSI protocol and a client that support it also.
This site seems to be quite informative on the status of the various Linux projects. Check this out for a server implementation
Absolutely! Shenmue was brilliant. I spent ages in the first game loading boxes at the docks. that added a week onto the game just doing that. Superb (almost made me change my job to a fork lift driver I was having so much fun. Aside from some of the comical dialogue (remember the jamaican guy who sounded like a japanese guy doing a poor jamaican accent - hilarious).
Onve of my most favourite games - ever.
Agreed. Morpheus, for example, is the Greek god of dreams. Nothing to do with Christianity. I'm not using your Hercules example to suggest that the Matrix is actually based on Greek mythology instead of Christanity. That's too simple. I think the problem lots of people have with the Matrix is that they try and draw direct analogies to specific stories. I think that the Wachowskies have taken a variety of similar themed stories, and created sometihng similar with a modern context.
None of the questions in Reloaded are answered. How does Neo really stop the Sentinels? How did Smith enter Bane? How did he get so powerful?
You obviously haven't just seen the same filmas me. Neo stopped the sentinels because he was able to tap into the Source. Smith enter's Bane because when Neo entered Smith at the end of the first movie he altered Smith so that Smith was like Neo.
The focus is Zion. Instead of freeing the people of the Matrix, as the first one suggested, the sequels have been all about saving this dirty underground city we don't care about
Zion is the hope for humanity to escape the Matrix. It takes humans who are aware that the Matrix isn't real to help the others out. Without Zion, mankind has no hope of leaving the Matrix.
Nobody is freed Err, end of the movie where the Oracle gets a garauntee that all the humans will be set free. did you miss that part?
I know that many people profess not to understand the Matrix, especially after Reloaded, but come on - you don't need a PHd in philosophy to follow a movie plot