Back when both Rasterman and Alan Cox worked at Red Hat, Alan had mentioned doing a security audit of Raster's code and made a comment that it was rather spagghetti-like.
After the big news of Raster angrily quitting Red Hat, rumours circlated and Alan came out and posted on Slashdot apologizng to Raster stating that he didn't mean to offend him if that's what it was. It wasn't Alan, but an unnamed middle manager that caused Raster to quit.
Yeah there was a lot of debate about loss of privacy when it happened. It wasn't until I realized I wasn't able to read EVERY comment on stories (those were the days) that I signed up for an account.
When Slashdot finally implemented user accounts, there was a bit of paranoia about people losing their anonymity and I held off joining until finally one of the features was too juicy to have...I think it was one of the ways to sort posts:)
Back then, or a little before, you could essentially read every post every day without it taking TOO much of your time. LOL.
The GNOME developers clearly don't surf for porn or they don't do it in an environment where they could get caught:)
It's like there's a unified anti-porn conspiracy. First Ubuntu makes me lose the ability to quickly cube rotate to another workspace, now GNOME prevents me from quickly minimizing. I hope they at least retain the ability to set the mouse scroll-wheel on the titlebar to shade windows!:)
The current Linux Integration Components are still very error-prone, at least on non-supported Linux distributions like Debian/Ubuntu. I make sure to take a snapshot before doing any apt-get upgrades because it's borked my filesystem many times. I think it might have something to do with the Microsoft modules using/dev/hdx instead of/dev/sdx.
Re:Please answer some questions about Lost
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Sorry. I can't answer all of your questions, but I answered the ones where I'm pretty sure are correct.
2) Everyone died at different times. They all died, whenever they died, for whatever reason. We assume that the concept of "time" isn't relevant in the afterworld. That's why they could all be there together but had died at different times.
3) Everyone in that fake LA after-death world had died. And that's why they were in the afterworld.
4) Penny could have died of old age for instance.
7) We eventually find out it wasn't really a flash sideways. More like flash into the future where everyone had died.
8) Uncorking was a mistake. Which is why they went back to re-cork it.
9) Richard character was used as a plot device for a variety of things...
10) I suppose he could have...
11) I don't think so.
Island was sunk due to Global Warming? :)
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I'm guessing that the melting of the polar ice-caps was the reason why we see the island underwater at the start of Season 6:)
We know that by uncorking the island, it crumbles to pieces, yet all the stuff underwater was preserved.
So maybe it took place well into the future where Hurley and Ben figured out a way to protect the island and die (and thus meet up with the rest of them in that fake-LA-afterdeath world).
Re:Wait, Jack and Juliet were involved?
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The Others originally chose Juliet to get him to perform the surgery to fix Ben Linus. They chose her because she sort of looked like his ex-wife. Eventually, they did grow close...enough for some kissy-kissy face action:)
If she's that brainwashed I'm not sure she can easily change her opinion.
A while back, there was a Slashdot story about a Debian developer quitting because Debian decided to include a locale option for Taiwan. I think that developer lived outside of China so wasn't subjected to censorship anymore...I think he was living in Australia. In any case, a single option buried amongst hundreds that pissed him enough to make him quit. Then there was a slashdot poster that got upset/defensive at how the discussions about it were going and lashed out writing how non-Chinese people would "never" be able to understand why China would be willing to go to war (and therefore have people on either side die) just to own Taiwan.
For those saying how the photo doesn't make any sense because the Joker was all about anarchy and Obama is socialist (or socialist-leaning), I recently came across this seemingly conflicting political view:
Anarchist communism advocates the abolition of the state, private property and capitalism in favor of common ownership of the means of production,[1][2] direct democracy and a horizontal network of voluntary associations, workers' councils and/or a gift economy through which everyone will be free to satisfy their needs.
I wonder how many of those people proudly wearing the maple leaf are actually Americans? While traveling in Europe about 6-7 years ago, I met around four people outside bars and restaurants who were Americans pretending to be Canadians. At this point, I just assume anyone wearing a Canadian flag on them is really just an American in disguise:)
Is it possible to break into a server just by guessing the host or server keys?
I don't think it would be possible...because then it'd be like guessing a password and then, what's the point of PKI, right? Based on how I think ssh works, the only use of the host key is to identify the server to the connecting client so that the client can confirm that it's not connecting to a fake server. The actual connection is authenticated purely on the client's public and private key pair.
So you're right in that checking the authorized_keys files is what's really important for most people (especially for the root user).
You should try running Windows under VirtualBox (or another VM) so you don't have to reboot just to run IE.
I also used to always neglect whatever I had to do whenever it required rebooting into Windows...testing under IE, working on MS Access, etc. Now I have very few reasons to reboot into Windows. It's so rare that I usually have to install a ton of Windows updates that have built up since the last time.
Alternatively, you can check out the IEs4Linux script to get IE running under Linux under Wine.
You should check out the tons of videos posted on YouTube with videos showing off various features possible with a compositing desktop.
From my own videos that I put up months ago for fun, I am still getting people messaging me asking me how they can set up their system like mine (which I put up to annoy my girlf):) Sometimes they are Windows users asking me what software they need to install...
I use Beryl (svn 4453) everyday at work to do development. To be honest, I really only just use the Expose-clone (called "Scale") which has made working with many windows open across multiple desktops so much more comfortable. That's really the main feature I use the most that wouldn't be available without compositing. I used to use the translucent cube often to find my windows (they'd appear backwards when looking at them from behind), but now it's just lumped with all the other eye-candy features that I'd only show when curious people want to see want I can do with my desktop.
There are also many other productive features, but I don't think they require a compositing window manager though.
I use Thunderbird and make SSL/TLS connections for SMTP, POP, and IMAP every day. The very first time it pops up about the certificate being untrusted. I just select the radio button to permanently trust that self-signed certificate. I've never been re-asked ever since...
If I recall, the first option is to trust the cert permanently, the second (and default) is to trust the cert temporarily for the session, the third option is to not trust the cert (and then TB will abort the connection attempt).
Since the LTS for desktops are supported for 3 years (5 years for server), maybe they won't release another LTS till Dapper is almost 3 years old. Just my guess.
Lenticular clouds...some look like UFOs
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I came across this link recently and was pretty amazed at some of the cloud formations.
A $25,000 reward is offered for information leading to the location of Nina Reiser. Police ask anyone with information to contact Oakland homicide investigators at (510) 238-3821 or a police tip line at (510) 637-0298.
But he better get that reward claimed soon, because the investigators might read those books found in his car and find her body themselves:
Also found inside the car...two books: "Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets," by David Simon, about the Baltimore police homicide squad, and "Masterpieces of Murder," by Jonathan Goodman, about notorious murder cases.
Reading subtitles is usually why I need to pause, but I hit the spacebar...the OSD pause icon immediately displays in the top-right corner, but the video continues a bit longer no matter how fast I release the spacebar. I think VLC is playing whatever is left in its buffer before it pauses.
I think it's fixed. When I was still using VLC under Windows, the subtitles looked pretty nasty. But it's been a while and I've been using Ubuntu Edgy now and recently watched some stuff with softsubs and they were very nice and not all chopped up.
The version I'm using is 0.8.6-svn20061012.debian-1ubuntu1 from Ubuntu Edgy.
VLC is a packet-based player
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I use VLC player for playing all my videos under Linux, both standalone and as a firefox plugin (in conjunction with the MediaPlayerConnectivity Firefox addon extension).
The only downside I find is that actions are a bit laggy compared to frame-based players. For example, if I hit pause, it doesn't pause instantaneously.
Also, and I'm not sure if it's a limitation of being a packet-based player, but I wish it wouldn't close the video right after it's done playing. I prefer the last frame to stay on the screen.
P.S. For those using VLC under XGL and get a weird green-tinted bar at the top of your videos, change the Video output module to "X11 video output". You'll need to toggle the Advanced Settings checkbox.
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Under Outlook 2010, open the email, go to File -> Properties and look in the Internet Headers section.
Back when both Rasterman and Alan Cox worked at Red Hat, Alan had mentioned doing a security audit of Raster's code and made a comment that it was rather spagghetti-like.
After the big news of Raster angrily quitting Red Hat, rumours circlated and Alan came out and posted on Slashdot apologizng to Raster stating that he didn't mean to offend him if that's what it was. It wasn't Alan, but an unnamed middle manager that caused Raster to quit.
Yeah there was a lot of debate about loss of privacy when it happened. It wasn't until I realized I wasn't able to read EVERY comment on stories (those were the days) that I signed up for an account.
When Slashdot finally implemented user accounts, there was a bit of paranoia about people losing their anonymity and I held off joining until finally one of the features was too juicy to have...I think it was one of the ways to sort posts :)
Back then, or a little before, you could essentially read every post every day without it taking TOO much of your time. LOL.
Older versions of Apache and IIS could not handle multiple SSL sites using the same IP address.
The problem (in past versions) was that if the host-header was encrypted, how was the web server to know which site's certificate to process?
But newer versions of Apache and IIS7 can do it. Actually I haven't done it with Apache yet, but I'm pretty sure it can do it now.
...after the Earth had been all but abandoned and become a legend.
The GNOME developers clearly don't surf for porn or they don't do it in an environment where they could get caught :)
It's like there's a unified anti-porn conspiracy. First Ubuntu makes me lose the ability to quickly cube rotate to another workspace, now GNOME prevents me from quickly minimizing. I hope they at least retain the ability to set the mouse scroll-wheel on the titlebar to shade windows! :)
The current Linux Integration Components are still very error-prone, at least on non-supported Linux distributions like Debian/Ubuntu. I make sure to take a snapshot before doing any apt-get upgrades because it's borked my filesystem many times. I think it might have something to do with the Microsoft modules using /dev/hdx instead of /dev/sdx.
Sorry. I can't answer all of your questions, but I answered the ones where I'm pretty sure are correct.
2) Everyone died at different times. They all died, whenever they died, for whatever reason. We assume that the concept of "time" isn't relevant in the afterworld. That's why they could all be there together but had died at different times.
3) Everyone in that fake LA after-death world had died. And that's why they were in the afterworld.
4) Penny could have died of old age for instance.
7) We eventually find out it wasn't really a flash sideways. More like flash into the future where everyone had died.
8) Uncorking was a mistake. Which is why they went back to re-cork it.
9) Richard character was used as a plot device for a variety of things...
10) I suppose he could have...
11) I don't think so.
I'm guessing that the melting of the polar ice-caps was the reason why we see the island underwater at the start of Season 6 :)
We know that by uncorking the island, it crumbles to pieces, yet all the stuff underwater was preserved.
So maybe it took place well into the future where Hurley and Ben figured out a way to protect the island and die (and thus meet up with the rest of them in that fake-LA-afterdeath world).
The Others originally chose Juliet to get him to perform the surgery to fix Ben Linus. They chose her because she sort of looked like his ex-wife. Eventually, they did grow close...enough for some kissy-kissy face action :)
If she's that brainwashed I'm not sure she can easily change her opinion.
A while back, there was a Slashdot story about a Debian developer quitting because Debian decided to include a locale option for Taiwan. I think that developer lived outside of China so wasn't subjected to censorship anymore...I think he was living in Australia. In any case, a single option buried amongst hundreds that pissed him enough to make him quit. Then there was a slashdot poster that got upset/defensive at how the discussions about it were going and lashed out writing how non-Chinese people would "never" be able to understand why China would be willing to go to war (and therefore have people on either side die) just to own Taiwan.
Anarchist Communism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchist_communism
Anarchist communism advocates the abolition of the state, private property and capitalism in favor of common ownership of the means of production,[1][2] direct democracy and a horizontal network of voluntary associations, workers' councils and/or a gift economy through which everyone will be free to satisfy their needs.
So perhaps an Anarchist Socialist is possible! :)
I wonder how many of those people proudly wearing the maple leaf are actually Americans? While traveling in Europe about 6-7 years ago, I met around four people outside bars and restaurants who were Americans pretending to be Canadians. At this point, I just assume anyone wearing a Canadian flag on them is really just an American in disguise :)
The only reason I am slowly converting my Debian servers to Ubuntu LTS releases is because they are supported longer.
So you're right in that checking the authorized_keys files is what's really important for most people (especially for the root user).
You should try running Windows under VirtualBox (or another VM) so you don't have to reboot just to run IE.
I also used to always neglect whatever I had to do whenever it required rebooting into Windows...testing under IE, working on MS Access, etc. Now I have very few reasons to reboot into Windows. It's so rare that I usually have to install a ton of Windows updates that have built up since the last time.
Alternatively, you can check out the IEs4Linux script to get IE running under Linux under Wine.
You should check out the tons of videos posted on YouTube with videos showing off various features possible with a compositing desktop.
:) Sometimes they are Windows users asking me what software they need to install...
From my own videos that I put up months ago for fun, I am still getting people messaging me asking me how they can set up their system like mine (which I put up to annoy my girlf)
I use Beryl (svn 4453) everyday at work to do development. To be honest, I really only just use the Expose-clone (called "Scale") which has made working with many windows open across multiple desktops so much more comfortable. That's really the main feature I use the most that wouldn't be available without compositing. I used to use the translucent cube often to find my windows (they'd appear backwards when looking at them from behind), but now it's just lumped with all the other eye-candy features that I'd only show when curious people want to see want I can do with my desktop.
There are also many other productive features, but I don't think they require a compositing window manager though.
I use Thunderbird and make SSL/TLS connections for SMTP, POP, and IMAP every day. The very first time it pops up about the certificate being untrusted. I just select the radio button to permanently trust that self-signed certificate. I've never been re-asked ever since...
If I recall, the first option is to trust the cert permanently, the second (and default) is to trust the cert temporarily for the session, the third option is to not trust the cert (and then TB will abort the connection attempt).
Perhaps I am misunderstanding something here?
Since the LTS for desktops are supported for 3 years (5 years for server), maybe they won't release another LTS till Dapper is almost 3 years old. Just my guess.
I came across this link recently and was pretty amazed at some of the cloud formations.
Check it out: http://pic1.funtigo.com/valuca/?g=25544746&cr=1
Reading subtitles is usually why I need to pause, but I hit the spacebar...the OSD pause icon immediately displays in the top-right corner, but the video continues a bit longer no matter how fast I release the spacebar. I think VLC is playing whatever is left in its buffer before it pauses.
I think it's fixed. When I was still using VLC under Windows, the subtitles looked pretty nasty. But it's been a while and I've been using Ubuntu Edgy now and recently watched some stuff with softsubs and they were very nice and not all chopped up.
The version I'm using is 0.8.6-svn20061012.debian-1ubuntu1 from Ubuntu Edgy.
I use VLC player for playing all my videos under Linux, both standalone and as a firefox plugin (in conjunction with the MediaPlayerConnectivity Firefox addon extension).
The only downside I find is that actions are a bit laggy compared to frame-based players. For example, if I hit pause, it doesn't pause instantaneously.
Also, and I'm not sure if it's a limitation of being a packet-based player, but I wish it wouldn't close the video right after it's done playing. I prefer the last frame to stay on the screen.
P.S. For those using VLC under XGL and get a weird green-tinted bar at the top of your videos, change the Video output module to "X11 video output". You'll need to toggle the Advanced Settings checkbox.