Would you block my email? I run exim and use it instead of my ISP's SMTP because the SMTP server is slow and unreliable. Exim gets the job done but my return to address does not match my sending address. I'd love to run my own mail server, but the cable company blocks inbound mail requests. Would your filter label my mail as spam?
The distro comes with a few pieces of sticky red sandpaper to cover the working control surfaces. If that does not change the look and feel, I'm not sure what will.
Just another small improvement from the free software world.
include support for playing mp3s, using the controls or accessing the screen. But it _does_ run linux...This was stupid the first time they posted it, too:).
A man can smile and smile and yet still be a villian. Should we not attribute malice where incompetence will do?
Can we compare free software to propriatory software elswhere to imagine where this will go?
Propriatory software:
choice of one desktop
choice of two file systems
hardware becomes useless when drivers are no longer "supported"
unilateral EULA which incluce revocation on demand
Free software
several video subsystems and dozens of window managers
more than 80 file systems
hardware lives forever once a driver is made
free is yours to do as you please.
So what you have is a 10 gigabyte system that you can walk around with running free software. While MP3 is a propriatory format, OGG will work just fine with 10 gigs. What kind of interface does it have? Fire wire? USB? I can imagine all sorts of cool things you can do with that, such as rig any piece of hardware you want to it. The thing that is staring you in the face is that linux was ported to the device in the first place.
Craftsman is making a new line of hammers made entirely out of wood.
You are not looking at a wooden hammer in the iron age, you are looking at a V2 in the age of black powder and cannons. While you are busy thinking about busting down walls with projectiles, others are figuring out how to get to Mars.
Likelihood that it will affect a Microsoft product: pretty high
Can you name one worm/virus that was so painful that was NOT based on some crappy M$ deployed junk? The closest thing I can think of was the BIND worm of a few years ago that did nothing like this. Trolls continue to equate M$ junk to free software in terms of security and quality, but numbers and experience show something different. Chances are that the next net debilitating worm will be M$ born are 1/1, unless people drop M$.
The problem is NOT the internet and it's protocalls. It's the junk some people run on it.
you can move a whole electron with a single photon, and the conversion happens all the time. The energy of anilhiation shows up on gamma spectrometers, letting you know that mass to energy conversion is ongoing. Think I'm silly? Check out a whole buch of antimater. While moving electrons one puny light photon at a time might not work, more energetic photons may.
Your fav Federal agencies, Microsft and I are busy saving the day for you. We never sleep to keep vital services working for you. Did'nt you read the article?
worms, viruses and other computer evils, as well as the hackers who create them. Both threatened daily to shut down the engines of modern life--electrical power grids, the banking system, water treatment facilities, the World Wide Web.
My favorite part was this:
The Leaves posse proved itself during the Code Red attack. Code Red made headline news. The FBI, the White House and security companies launched a coordinated campaign to track it, warn the public and take steps to protect vulnerable systems.
Microsoft and I also proved ourselves durring the Cod Red attack. Thanks to my efforts, electicity, water and other vital services continued to work at your homes and business. Please fund me directly. Send all cash, checks and tax free donations to me today! Bill Gates and the Feds have plenty of money, but I'm feeling strapped. If you could not tell from the article, those other two are relativly clueless. If I don't get your money today, I might not be able to work tomorrow and all hell will break loose as the forces of cyber chaos go unapposed.
If you've ever installed a Linux distribution, you will immediately note the number of third-party libraries and applications installed on a 'base' system.
Gosh, don't you just hate that? I do too, that is why I only run my servers off the Debian root floppy. With five virtual terminals, who needs a base system or other stuff from "third-parties"? Why should I let this GNU stuff get between my server and pure Linux kernel goodness?
Joke over. Here is a little story about the development of BSD. It kind of looks like other free software develoment, where lots of "third-parties" throw in their useful contributions. I'll admit that some distros are getting a little bloated but that's no reason to be nasty about things. OpenBSD is a nice, easy to use and secure dist.
He said that it's a tough problem and that they're working on it. Then admitted MS's deficiency.
Silly you, indeed! Five of thirteen root servers taken out of action by this silly worm bassed on a year old flaw, with not even M$ themselves able to "patch" their servers. Good thing they are going to make the easiest to use point and click admin tools that much easier to use, they just might get it up to 100%. Then someone else will drive another truck through some other hole and cost everyone even more money, thanks for the security hug.
Oh wait, sorry! I forgot my blatantly-closed-minded-rabid-Linux-zealot glasses.
Bah, you don't need eyes to see where that one goes, it happens once or twice a year like high tide. You can feel it. Tell me again about my big dick again, why don't you?
That's a mighty big penis you've got there. Feel better?
Anything is better than a softie. I feel great!
Rick Devenuti didn't say that it was too hard.
Yes he did. He said, "...it is hard to be 100 percent patched with any machine... we are not there." What else can that mean except that it takes a huge effort to co-ordinate all the silly M$ "patches"? Isn't this the direct result of binary colosed source distribution and sloppy source code organization? In other words, is'nt this symptomatic of an obsolete distribution method? They just can't get it up.
That's such a great tool, thank you Mr. Free Porn for the link. They must have some big losers running the works at M$, huh? Let's quote one of them here:
Rick Devenuti, the chief information officer for the software giant... "We are not sure how the virus got into our network," Must have been terrorists!... "It just takes one machine to get going," he said. "At any given point in time, it is hard to be 100 percent patched with any machine. We are working hard to make patch management easier. But 100 percent is a high bar and in this case we are not there."
Oh, it's too hard, that's it. Too bad they don't have a nice system like Debian's stable distro and apt-get upgrade to keep things all patched up. But wait, M$ patches break other software! It must just be impossible to keep them up.
I'm so sorry that I called those poor M$ admins losers. Blaming the user for your shitty software's failures is a Microsoft thing to do.
Dissmising something because you know its flaws is not bigoted, it's reason. I can reasonably dismiss Microsoft Software from consideration based on their faulty development, distribution and security models. The process is so cumbersome and inferior that they themselves suffer. Why should I expect anyone else to do any better? Due to other problems, ultimately rooted in philisophical issues, I do not expect M$ to get any better any time soon. In fact, I expect things to get worse. Why would I ever trust their software with my data, time and effort? There's nothing M$ does that I can't do with free software, and there's much I can't do with M$ junk that free software does with ease. This is not a biggoted view, it's an application of experience and reason.
Don't confuse what someone spends doing something with the cost of getting something done. Money made by music lables funds things that have little to do with making music. "Promotion" is a vauge cost term added to contracts that can be anything and certianly includes Rosen's golden parachute. Courtney Love pointed out in her "numbers" essay. If a band makes any money at all, suddenly "promotion" costs come out of the woodwork. The Artist rarely makes more than $40k/year after expenses are taken out, while the publisher pockets millions.
The actual costs seem to be what this article has in mind. Most people know what it costs to press a CD and wonder how that $0.25 turns into $20. We also imagine that musicians already own their instruments and have something to record. As you seem to know so much about what's going on, could you detail some actual recording costs for us? Like, what does it cost to rent a studio? Where do we get this outrageous half a million dollar figure from?
but you don't think this has anything to do with double didgit declines in music sales do you? Money talks, insulting your customers, market research number crunchers, lawers and persuing pipe dreams of "pay per play" has walked. Let the good times roll, baby, make some music or die!
Weren't you around when monopoly was downgraded from 'Near complete control of a market' to 'Makes a product that isn't free'?
No, but I was around when the US Government convicted Microsoft of violating anti-trust laws but did nothing about it. Those laws were enacted to prevent companies from racketeering and using the profits from their dishonest practices to take over other markets.
Apple is not free, but they have yet to:
Dump product,
threaten vendors who dare sell competing products unless they cost more and are more trouble than M$ junk,
buy competitors simply to shut them down,
threaten ruin of a lifetime's work for non compliance,
activly discourage hardware makers from forming standards,
embrace planned obsolecence via software incompatibility,
and many other things that have retarded America's and the world's computing, economy and wellbeing.
By the way, bub, you must have missed the Big Guy's message. Quit messing around with issues of freedom, GPL and what not. It has not worked. You only make yourself look bad and waste your time. If you are going to defend M$, you have to do it in positive terms. One more mistake like this and your going to lose your PR contract.
Microsoft set fall 2001 as a deadline for customers to sign up. Those who did would pay $239 to $380 per copy for Office XP, the latest version.
Those who passed would pay $479 a copy when they did upgrade.
At that rate, and with a promised audit carred out, just about anything looks good. They also realized that the machines they had would not run the new bloated M$ junk. Oh yeah, that and M$'s pathetic 11th hour attempts to avoid being dropped must have left a bad taste too. Anonymous accusations of IP theft are very damaging and M$ should get spanked hard if it turns out they did that. Also, I can only hope that M$ has not been dumb enough to use these dupes to get that embezelment charge against Piper.
This is a half measure. It's nice they found a local, but I wish they had discovered someone that would fix them up with free software. Until people do that, there will always be someone who can pull the rope.
Downloading is a crime? That's an interesting twist on copyright law, which is supposed to prevent re-publication. Anyone with a clue understands the publishing is done on the other side of the download. Thanks, DMCA, for this useless new hastle. What's next, prosecuting people who innocently buy copyright violating books? How about burning the public libraries? After all, those downloads obviously violate copyright! Sharing music and other information should not be a crime and you are going to be hard pressed to convince anyone that it's wrong.
"Pirates" are people who steal ships at sea. Copyright violators are people who publish other people's works. What constitutes publishing is open to debate. Kazaa and the like don't meet my criteria.
A person I know worked the phones of a debt collector. She was able to look through the records for debts owed by people she knew. One of those people had a medical debt, and she was able to tell what procedure the debt was for. Like a dumb-ass, she used the information to humiliate her friend.
Privacy violation is already real and there is nothing delicate about it. When the information is available, it will be abused.
That means that everyone will have access to everything! Just imagine the results of it. Everyone pays exactly what they should for health insurance, and insurance companies never lose money on an idividual again. Employers can chose exactly the right people without having to look at resumes. Blacklists will be perfect as no thoughts are hidden. Police will know I'm a model citezen, productive and alturistic. They could check my entire email history to make sure I'm not a terrorist too. Advertisers can adjust their messages just for me. I can just imagine listening to the billboards ask the woman next to me on the subway if she needs more herpes medicine or how she's feeling after the divorce. You might get fucked with information like that! The world would be so much better if little things like personal dignitiy and privacy would not get in the way of making a buck. There are so many great uses for a card that has DRM, so that others can control and read the content, but I can not. What are we waiting for? Put everything in your pocket, but don't forget the dead tree diary so you can write, "I hate big brother" where it won't see you. I hope they won't have my Slashdot posts.
Like the AI troll detector. When complete, it will recognize and exterminate self moderated, off topic personal insults and other garbage about spelling, grammar, duplicate stories, hot grits, insipid moderation, SOVIET RUSSIA, petrified what nots and all that jazz. Version 2 will determine the origin of said posts and write a story about how some big companies, China and others are paid to DoS slashdot with blather like this.
In the mean time the rest of us will ignore the small details.
Spam is currently in a gray area legally, so let's legitimize spam in order to divide the spammers into legal spammers (who pay handsomely for the privilege)
You mean like the laws that alow me to charge $50 for each piece of spam I recieve? No? Only the cartel of ISPs with the "will to implement and enforce these changes" will profit. Sounds like the broadcast TV model where only three or four big corps get to abuse the public airwaves for fun and profit. No thanks, let's simply make a dreadful practice against the law and those who break the law accountable to all parties they inconveniance. There is no technical reason for the kind of restrictions Shien would pull over the rest of us who wish to run their own mail servers.
1. You promise not to tell anyone what you see.
2. You promise not to sell the binaries you make.
3. You promise a whole lot more than I can write in a short list.
4. You are led to a special cubicle on the Redmond Campus.
5. You put a quarter in a slot.
6. A large metal plate lifts, revealing a hidden CRT.
7. After 1 minute, the plate drops and you have to insert another quarter.
So, the media is representing the case in a manner which biases it's viewers. Guess who those viewers are: potential jurors! As a result, the chance Pickton will receive a fair trial with an unbiased jury is compromised, meaning he is stripped of his rights.
A further reduction of rights is not the answer. If "the media" is not impartial, what it gives you is not news. If there is no alternate source of information available, we all have a big problem. You are right to notice that news is hard to come by. The answer, however, is not to make it that much harder for those who would present news in an impartial way.
Recursion is detected. The less freedom we have the less truth there will be. The less truth we have, the easier we are to enslave.
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Would you block my email? I run exim and use it instead of my ISP's SMTP because the SMTP server is slow and unreliable. Exim gets the job done but my return to address does not match my sending address. I'd love to run my own mail server, but the cable company blocks inbound mail requests. Would your filter label my mail as spam?
Just another small improvement from the free software world.
A man can smile and smile and yet still be a villian. Should we not attribute malice where incompetence will do?
Can we compare free software to propriatory software elswhere to imagine where this will go?
Propriatory software:
Free software
So what you have is a 10 gigabyte system that you can walk around with running free software. While MP3 is a propriatory format, OGG will work just fine with 10 gigs. What kind of interface does it have? Fire wire? USB? I can imagine all sorts of cool things you can do with that, such as rig any piece of hardware you want to it. The thing that is staring you in the face is that linux was ported to the device in the first place.
Craftsman is making a new line of hammers made entirely out of wood.
You are not looking at a wooden hammer in the iron age, you are looking at a V2 in the age of black powder and cannons. While you are busy thinking about busting down walls with projectiles, others are figuring out how to get to Mars.
Can you name one worm/virus that was so painful that was NOT based on some crappy M$ deployed junk? The closest thing I can think of was the BIND worm of a few years ago that did nothing like this. Trolls continue to equate M$ junk to free software in terms of security and quality, but numbers and experience show something different. Chances are that the next net debilitating worm will be M$ born are 1/1, unless people drop M$.
The problem is NOT the internet and it's protocalls. It's the junk some people run on it.
you can move a whole electron with a single photon, and the conversion happens all the time. The energy of anilhiation shows up on gamma spectrometers, letting you know that mass to energy conversion is ongoing. Think I'm silly? Check out a whole buch of antimater. While moving electrons one puny light photon at a time might not work, more energetic photons may.
worms, viruses and other computer evils, as well as the hackers who create them. Both threatened daily to shut down the engines of modern life--electrical power grids, the banking system, water treatment facilities, the World Wide Web.
My favorite part was this:
The Leaves posse proved itself during the Code Red attack. Code Red made headline news. The FBI, the White House and security companies launched a coordinated campaign to track it, warn the public and take steps to protect vulnerable systems.
Microsoft and I also proved ourselves durring the Cod Red attack. Thanks to my efforts, electicity, water and other vital services continued to work at your homes and business. Please fund me directly. Send all cash, checks and tax free donations to me today! Bill Gates and the Feds have plenty of money, but I'm feeling strapped. If you could not tell from the article, those other two are relativly clueless. If I don't get your money today, I might not be able to work tomorrow and all hell will break loose as the forces of cyber chaos go unapposed.
all going to Disney's obnoxious cyber advert? Looks like someone slipped Network Solutions a mickey.
Gosh, don't you just hate that? I do too, that is why I only run my servers off the Debian root floppy. With five virtual terminals, who needs a base system or other stuff from "third-parties"? Why should I let this GNU stuff get between my server and pure Linux kernel goodness?
Joke over. Here is a little story about the development of BSD. It kind of looks like other free software develoment, where lots of "third-parties" throw in their useful contributions. I'll admit that some distros are getting a little bloated but that's no reason to be nasty about things. OpenBSD is a nice, easy to use and secure dist.
gpa->0
lim CS = CIS
gpa->0
Silly you, indeed! Five of thirteen root servers taken out of action by this silly worm bassed on a year old flaw, with not even M$ themselves able to "patch" their servers. Good thing they are going to make the easiest to use point and click admin tools that much easier to use, they just might get it up to 100%. Then someone else will drive another truck through some other hole and cost everyone even more money, thanks for the security hug.
Oh wait, sorry! I forgot my blatantly-closed-minded-rabid-Linux-zealot glasses.
Bah, you don't need eyes to see where that one goes, it happens once or twice a year like high tide. You can feel it. Tell me again about my big dick again, why don't you?
This is Slashdot, after all
You don't think it's an AOL forum do you?
Anything is better than a softie. I feel great!
Rick Devenuti didn't say that it was too hard.
Yes he did. He said, "...it is hard to be 100 percent patched with any machine ... we are not there." What else can that mean except that it takes a huge effort to co-ordinate all the silly M$ "patches"? Isn't this the direct result of binary colosed source distribution and sloppy source code organization? In other words, is'nt this symptomatic of an obsolete distribution method? They just can't get it up.
Rick Devenuti, the chief information officer for the software giant... "We are not sure how the virus got into our network," Must have been terrorists! ... "It just takes one machine to get going," he said. "At any given point in time, it is hard to be 100 percent patched with any machine. We are working hard to make patch management easier. But 100 percent is a high bar and in this case we are not there."
Oh, it's too hard, that's it. Too bad they don't have a nice system like Debian's stable distro and apt-get upgrade to keep things all patched up. But wait, M$ patches break other software! It must just be impossible to keep them up.
I'm so sorry that I called those poor M$ admins losers. Blaming the user for your shitty software's failures is a Microsoft thing to do.
Dissmising something because you know its flaws is not bigoted, it's reason. I can reasonably dismiss Microsoft Software from consideration based on their faulty development, distribution and security models. The process is so cumbersome and inferior that they themselves suffer. Why should I expect anyone else to do any better? Due to other problems, ultimately rooted in philisophical issues, I do not expect M$ to get any better any time soon. In fact, I expect things to get worse. Why would I ever trust their software with my data, time and effort? There's nothing M$ does that I can't do with free software, and there's much I can't do with M$ junk that free software does with ease. This is not a biggoted view, it's an application of experience and reason.
The actual costs seem to be what this article has in mind. Most people know what it costs to press a CD and wonder how that $0.25 turns into $20. We also imagine that musicians already own their instruments and have something to record. As you seem to know so much about what's going on, could you detail some actual recording costs for us? Like, what does it cost to rent a studio? Where do we get this outrageous half a million dollar figure from?
IF YOU DON'T SEND IT, THIS INNOCENT PUPPY GETS IT.
The choice is now yours. Which evil bastard will you satisfy?
but you don't think this has anything to do with double didgit declines in music sales do you? Money talks, insulting your customers, market research number crunchers, lawers and persuing pipe dreams of "pay per play" has walked. Let the good times roll, baby, make some music or die!
No, but I was around when the US Government convicted Microsoft of violating anti-trust laws but did nothing about it. Those laws were enacted to prevent companies from racketeering and using the profits from their dishonest practices to take over other markets.
Apple is not free, but they have yet to:
Dump product,
threaten vendors who dare sell competing products unless they cost more and are more trouble than M$ junk,
buy competitors simply to shut them down,
threaten ruin of a lifetime's work for non compliance,
activly discourage hardware makers from forming standards,
embrace planned obsolecence via software incompatibility,
and many other things that have retarded America's and the world's computing, economy and wellbeing.
By the way, bub, you must have missed the Big Guy's message. Quit messing around with issues of freedom, GPL and what not. It has not worked. You only make yourself look bad and waste your time. If you are going to defend M$, you have to do it in positive terms. One more mistake like this and your going to lose your PR contract.
Microsoft set fall 2001 as a deadline for customers to sign up. Those who did would pay $239 to $380 per copy for Office XP, the latest version.
Those who passed would pay $479 a copy when they did upgrade.
At that rate, and with a promised audit carred out, just about anything looks good. They also realized that the machines they had would not run the new bloated M$ junk. Oh yeah, that and M$'s pathetic 11th hour attempts to avoid being dropped must have left a bad taste too. Anonymous accusations of IP theft are very damaging and M$ should get spanked hard if it turns out they did that. Also, I can only hope that M$ has not been dumb enough to use these dupes to get that embezelment charge against Piper.
This is a half measure. It's nice they found a local, but I wish they had discovered someone that would fix them up with free software. Until people do that, there will always be someone who can pull the rope.
"Pirates" are people who steal ships at sea. Copyright violators are people who publish other people's works. What constitutes publishing is open to debate. Kazaa and the like don't meet my criteria.
Privacy violation is already real and there is nothing delicate about it. When the information is available, it will be abused.
That means that everyone will have access to everything! Just imagine the results of it. Everyone pays exactly what they should for health insurance, and insurance companies never lose money on an idividual again. Employers can chose exactly the right people without having to look at resumes. Blacklists will be perfect as no thoughts are hidden. Police will know I'm a model citezen, productive and alturistic. They could check my entire email history to make sure I'm not a terrorist too. Advertisers can adjust their messages just for me. I can just imagine listening to the billboards ask the woman next to me on the subway if she needs more herpes medicine or how she's feeling after the divorce. You might get fucked with information like that! The world would be so much better if little things like personal dignitiy and privacy would not get in the way of making a buck. There are so many great uses for a card that has DRM, so that others can control and read the content, but I can not. What are we waiting for? Put everything in your pocket, but don't forget the dead tree diary so you can write, "I hate big brother" where it won't see you. I hope they won't have my Slashdot posts.
In the mean time the rest of us will ignore the small details.
You mean like the laws that alow me to charge $50 for each piece of spam I recieve? No? Only the cartel of ISPs with the "will to implement and enforce these changes" will profit. Sounds like the broadcast TV model where only three or four big corps get to abuse the public airwaves for fun and profit. No thanks, let's simply make a dreadful practice against the law and those who break the law accountable to all parties they inconveniance. There is no technical reason for the kind of restrictions Shien would pull over the rest of us who wish to run their own mail servers.
1. You promise not to tell anyone what you see. 2. You promise not to sell the binaries you make. 3. You promise a whole lot more than I can write in a short list. 4. You are led to a special cubicle on the Redmond Campus. 5. You put a quarter in a slot. 6. A large metal plate lifts, revealing a hidden CRT. 7. After 1 minute, the plate drops and you have to insert another quarter.
So, the media is representing the case in a manner which biases it's viewers. Guess who those viewers are: potential jurors! As a result, the chance Pickton will receive a fair trial with an unbiased jury is compromised, meaning he is stripped of his rights.
A further reduction of rights is not the answer. If "the media" is not impartial, what it gives you is not news. If there is no alternate source of information available, we all have a big problem. You are right to notice that news is hard to come by. The answer, however, is not to make it that much harder for those who would present news in an impartial way.
Recursion is detected. The less freedom we have the less truth there will be. The less truth we have, the easier we are to enslave.