If I were to venture a guess, things like turning off and on LEDs remotely sound like something that one would want to do when manufacturing as part of a functional tester. That doesn't mean that the way they are doing it is good, but I bet it is so that they can just plug in a router and connect up to their functional tester to test the system to ensure things are working correctly, such as the LEDs.
Seems like if they want a feature like this to support manufacturing that it should be something that is only accessible on one *internal* (non-ISP facing) Ethernet port and only within a certain amount of time since bootup.
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What is up with this slur on someone's skin color? I don't exactly think it's appropiate for slashdot...
Good thing she's running linux, I'd be afraid to see what kind of garbage she'd say if she was running Windows. MS would probably plant some conspicuous bug, that she would keep advertising and advocating Windows! What horror! And after someone mentions linux, the robot would probably crash with awe.
I haven't used it myself, as I use linux here for my machine. But someone I know, I helped them install it onto their machine, and we got it running xdmcp over the network to a linux box, making a quick X-terminal. It seems to work fairly well.
There are still some BBS's around, as several people have stated.
There is one bbs package for linux, called Mystic which is available, that is very similair to the old school bbs package Renegade. Sadly, this program is not opensource. There is at least one bbs that I know of running this underneath linux, at telnet://xtcbox.org. Including running the old DOS games underneath DOSemu, like BRE, Lord and a few other door games. The reason I like Mystic over some of the other bbs packages for linux, is because it retains it's own user database, seperate from the UNIX database. The reason I like it better that way, is because then you don't have to "cloud" up your passwd database, although, there are advantages to the bbs packages like MBSE where it IS stored in the passwd database(which I don't personally like). Mainly, what this allows you to do, is use other system services like ftp and stuff to grant that to your BBS users.
Also, you have Daydream BBS, which keeps it's own user DB, but the menuing system is a bit lacking. Also, there is a "wrapper" if you will for Mystic available, that is similair to ttysnoop. Let's you do what sysops love to do most - spy on their users. The "wrapper" also has a split screen sysop chat, and is available for CVS download at http://sourceforge.net/projects/bbslogin. Daydream has something like that too built into it, with it's program ddsnoop.
So, you're riding along, and you're like, shoot, where am I going agian? So you whip out that handy stylus for that PDA, and you start writing. Pretty soon, you realize that you've let go of your handle bars, and run into one of those light posts that keep intruding where you bike.
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If I were to venture a guess, things like turning off and on LEDs remotely sound like something that one would want to do when manufacturing as part of a functional tester. That doesn't mean that the way they are doing it is good, but I bet it is so that they can just plug in a router and connect up to their functional tester to test the system to ensure things are working correctly, such as the LEDs. Seems like if they want a feature like this to support manufacturing that it should be something that is only accessible on one *internal* (non-ISP facing) Ethernet port and only within a certain amount of time since bootup.
What is up with this slur on someone's skin color? I don't exactly think it's appropiate for slashdot...
This has got to be the first Lawsuit M$ has lost!
Now we can wait another 5 years for the new blade servers.
Whoops.
Good thing she's running linux, I'd be afraid to see what kind of garbage she'd say if she was running Windows. MS would probably plant some conspicuous bug, that she would keep advertising and advocating Windows! What horror! And after someone mentions linux, the robot would probably crash with awe.
I haven't used it myself, as I use linux here for my machine. But someone I know, I helped them install it onto their machine, and we got it running xdmcp over the network to a linux box, making a quick X-terminal. It seems to work fairly well.
There is one bbs package for linux, called Mystic which is available, that is very similair to the old school bbs package Renegade. Sadly, this program is not opensource. There is at least one bbs that I know of running this underneath linux, at telnet://xtcbox.org. Including running the old DOS games underneath DOSemu, like BRE, Lord and a few other door games. The reason I like Mystic over some of the other bbs packages for linux, is because it retains it's own user database, seperate from the UNIX database. The reason I like it better that way, is because then you don't have to "cloud" up your passwd database, although, there are advantages to the bbs packages like MBSE where it IS stored in the passwd database(which I don't personally like). Mainly, what this allows you to do, is use other system services like ftp and stuff to grant that to your BBS users.
Also, you have Daydream BBS, which keeps it's own user DB, but the menuing system is a bit lacking. Also, there is a "wrapper" if you will for Mystic available, that is similair to ttysnoop. Let's you do what sysops love to do most - spy on their users. The "wrapper" also has a split screen sysop chat, and is available for CVS download at http://sourceforge.net/projects/bbslogin. Daydream has something like that too built into it, with it's program ddsnoop.
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So, you're riding along, and you're like, shoot, where am I going agian? So you whip out that handy stylus for that PDA, and you start writing. Pretty soon, you realize that you've let go of your handle bars, and run into one of those light posts that keep intruding where you bike.