Something strange I noticed last night looking for lyrics on a popular site, is that I was prompted to install a "Free Access Plugin" firefox extension.
I tried searching google to find it again, but the only thing I'm finding is a page in german, which I'm not entirely sure is what I'm talking about.
If I were one of my users, I would have clicked Install, because I'd be jawdroppingly retarded.
The XPInstall functionality is a tradeoff between security and convenience, but just like IE's install feature, it's going to be abused.
Oh, and unlike a few of the other comments, I'm not talking about cookies. I could give a shit if my users are tracked, that's their fault. I'm just annoyed when the browser hijacking variety get me called away from important work because someone can't open IE without being plastered with porn, like the lady who yelled at me until I gave her a new email account, because she'd used the old one up, and gets nothing but spam.
I'm a Sysadmin for a tiny little k12 School District, and even with the meager amount of computers, it's nearly IMPOSSIBLE to keep a handle on this.
I run Ad-Aware every chance I get on most of these computers, but if I took the time to sit down at each of these computers and clean them up, I'd have no time left to attend to actual problems.
What I'd really like is if I could block these with SquidGuard or something, just pinch em from incoming traffic or something, because people are too stupid to know what they're installing, or if they're installing it.
Sometimes, I like to get a piece of paper and just fill it up with right parenthesis, because of all the unfinished parenthetical statements in the world, to balance the universe.
1. Find its fonts without having to edit the XF86Config file 189 times and install some half-working font server for the other three fonts.
You must know by now that all you have to do is either apt-get install msttcorefonts or create a.fonts directory in your homedir and dump a bunch of TTF fonts in there. Oh, maybe you didn't know. This doesn't suck anymore.
2. Upgrade Gnome and KDE applications without having to install yet ANOTHER version of glibc. That or statically link everything and quit pursuing dynamically-linked utopia. I think there's enough disk space now.
3. Have a file manager that isn't linked to every single library on the system, so that if one library is upgraded/replaced, it doesn't make the file manager useless.
Wait, I'm getting the feeling that...
4. Make it so these problems can be fixed without changing distributions.
Yep. I've just been trolled by the Static Linking Troll. Shit.
Re:I don't see why this is so difficult.
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It has to do with decisions that the programmers made very early on. If they chose to use ActiveX and take full advantage of all the APIs that Windows as a platform offers, it's going to be very difficult (ie, almost a full rewrite of display, input, and sound code) to port it to another platform.
Smart designers plan for multi-platform use early on. Quake 3 was written portably, and its engine is in use on platforms as exotic as Sega Dreamcast and Playstation 2! And probably many more non-PC type computers. And it's used by a lot of other games too! (Nevermind the fact that those games play almost exactly like Quake 3. I'd like to see an RPG based on the Q3 engine, huh?)
BTW, it must be incredibly painful for anyone who writes a complex 3d graphics engine to hear you say that it's "minor work".
For example, on Fjear-Nation, comedy is pretty much all we do, so we had to do something drastic for april fool's day... we put the OSDN bar on our pages and pretended to sell out to VA Linux... Slashdot should do something like that, it'd be really funny, slashdot selling out to a media conglomerate like that!
Nah. SNES is a great machine, but DKC and Killer Instinct had everything to gain from 32Mega(Bit!!) carts. Correct me if i'm wrong, but these carts held 4mb of data, and those were the biggest ones, and if you gzip your (illegal;) rom images, they compress even tighter, because the snes couldn't handle decompressing all that data. the "3d" look of those games simply came from an SGI workstation. The most truly impressive game for that system, in terms of graphics was Mario World 2, with all the scaling and whatnot. Very different art style..
DKC and MW2, weighed against each other.. well, dkc has a barrel of leet, and MW2 has an entire metric fuckton of leet, to put it one way..
"We" the people... "we" don't like pollution (who does..:P feh)
we dont like the fact that the social diamond is turning back into a pyramid with the richest 2% on top and the poor plebs making up the base of society.. it's nice having the middle class be the fat end of the stick, with less poor and less rich. more fair to the average person.
the tax system he talks about makes plenty of sense to me. I'm sorry that you got all the karma with trollish paranoia.
No, in fact, this is the whole point. They found a bug in slashcode, they sent the fix to the right people. We're lucky that they posted this, and why? Because now it's fixed, and can't happen again, and it's causing discussion on the subject.
Good Thing.:-)
I hate to bitch about moderation, I really do, even when this has |2, but how can that be flamebait? 1 Funny, and it's very insightful.. All of the political "education" that went on in this discussion was practically wasted.
My point? We need less preaching to the choir! We're not the ones who need to hear this, print out this discussion and snail it to your rep!
Personally, I think that the reason that Linux has done so well as opposed to FreeBSD or some other Free Speech, Free Beer, or even Non-Free operating system is the penguin. Tux is so much cuter than that damned little Daemon.. Sig? We don't need no steenking sig!
Short answer: You shouldn't have the partition mounted under linux, especially in RW. It tends to really mess things up. Make sure you're using the latest version, and have your/etc/molrc properly configured to mount the mac partition RW when you boot it. I've set up a wrapper script to make sure that it's unmounted when I start Mac-on-linux, and to remount when finished. http://www.maconlinux.com for the newest version, in RPM or source tarball format.
actually i have a copy of the full qt4 installer on my linux box.. somewhere.. you can get the whole archive if you poke around on their ftp enough. They just don't put the whole 12MB in-your-face, it's not Apple's style..
Yes, but then again, what protocols are a) free, and not propriatary, such as ipx or appletalk, and b) secure in the long run? Imo, ip is the best we have and will have for a long time. It's secure enough to keep people from easily doing this kind of thing (With the distributed DoS's) but open enough to allow things like this to happen.
It's kinda cool that this can be done. However, like some others have said, who the hell cares if yahoo goes down for an hour? Massive bandwidth was spent to down yahoo. And after that, it was basically spent. I suppose i'm rambling now. But any protocol that's too closed to not allow people to do really neat things is just working in the wrong direction... [/ramble]
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whatever you say, gi joe
oh, assuming you run unix. Ha-ha, windows users
Something strange I noticed last night looking for lyrics on a popular site, is that I was prompted to install a "Free Access Plugin" firefox extension.
I tried searching google to find it again, but the only thing I'm finding is a page in german, which I'm not entirely sure is what I'm talking about.
If I were one of my users, I would have clicked Install, because I'd be jawdroppingly retarded.
The XPInstall functionality is a tradeoff between security and convenience, but just like IE's install feature, it's going to be abused.
Hopefully standard unix security stems the tide.
Oh, and unlike a few of the other comments, I'm not talking about cookies. I could give a shit if my users are tracked, that's their fault. I'm just annoyed when the browser hijacking variety get me called away from important work because someone can't open IE without being plastered with porn, like the lady who yelled at me until I gave her a new email account, because she'd used the old one up, and gets nothing but spam.
I'm a Sysadmin for a tiny little k12 School District, and even with the meager amount of computers, it's nearly IMPOSSIBLE to keep a handle on this.
I run Ad-Aware every chance I get on most of these computers, but if I took the time to sit down at each of these computers and clean them up, I'd have no time left to attend to actual problems.
What I'd really like is if I could block these with SquidGuard or something, just pinch em from incoming traffic or something, because people are too stupid to know what they're installing, or if they're installing it.
Yeah, I sure do wish Linux could do that! We're always playing catch-up with Microsoft!
Pogo.com requires WildTangent too.
Sometimes, I like to get a piece of paper and just fill it up with right parenthesis, because of all the unfinished parenthetical statements in the world, to balance the universe.
No, they make whiskey.
You must know by now that all you have to do is either apt-get install msttcorefonts or create a .fonts directory in your homedir and dump a bunch of TTF fonts in there. Oh, maybe you didn't know. This doesn't suck anymore.
Get a distribution that can handle these things for you, or get a Mac if you like static linking.
Wait, I'm getting the feeling that...
Yep. I've just been trolled by the Static Linking Troll. Shit.
It has to do with decisions that the programmers made very early on. If they chose to use ActiveX and take full advantage of all the APIs that Windows as a platform offers, it's going to be very difficult (ie, almost a full rewrite of display, input, and sound code) to port it to another platform.
Smart designers plan for multi-platform use early on. Quake 3 was written portably, and its engine is in use on platforms as exotic as Sega Dreamcast and Playstation 2! And probably many more non-PC type computers. And it's used by a lot of other games too! (Nevermind the fact that those games play almost exactly like Quake 3. I'd like to see an RPG based on the Q3 engine, huh?)
BTW, it must be incredibly painful for anyone who writes a complex 3d graphics engine to hear you say that it's "minor work".
For example, on Fjear-Nation, comedy is pretty much all we do, so we had to do something drastic for april fool's day... we put the OSDN bar on our pages and pretended to sell out to VA Linux... Slashdot should do something like that, it'd be really funny, slashdot selling out to a media conglomerate like that!
Things will get wet!
Yeah, but lots of people used scour.. it was cool. And now it's coming back. Be happy!
Nah. SNES is a great machine, but DKC and Killer Instinct had everything to gain from 32Mega(Bit!!) carts. Correct me if i'm wrong, but these carts held 4mb of data, and those were the biggest ones, and if you gzip your (illegal ;) rom images, they compress even tighter, because the snes couldn't handle decompressing all that data. the "3d" look of those games simply came from an SGI workstation. The most truly impressive game for that system, in terms of graphics was Mario World 2, with all the scaling and whatnot. Very different art style..
DKC and MW2, weighed against each other.. well, dkc has a barrel of leet, and MW2 has an entire metric fuckton of leet, to put it one way..
"We" the people... "we" don't like pollution (who does.. :P feh)
we dont like the fact that the social diamond is turning back into a pyramid with the richest 2% on top and the poor plebs making up the base of society.. it's nice having the middle class be the fat end of the stick, with less poor and less rich. more fair to the average person.
the tax system he talks about makes plenty of sense to me. I'm sorry that you got all the karma with trollish paranoia.
Yeah, but can he -cook-?
I don't think so.
No, in fact, this is the whole point. They found a bug in slashcode, they sent the fix to the right people. We're lucky that they posted this, and why? Because now it's fixed, and can't happen again, and it's causing discussion on the subject. :-)
Good Thing.
I hate to bitch about moderation, I really do, even when this has |2, but how can that be flamebait? 1 Funny, and it's very insightful.. All of the political "education" that went on in this discussion was practically wasted.
My point? We need less preaching to the choir! We're not the ones who need to hear this, print out this discussion and snail it to your rep!
NOOOO!!
When will Alan Cox have Linux ported to it? ;)
Personally, I think that the reason that Linux has done so well as opposed to FreeBSD or some other Free Speech, Free Beer, or even Non-Free operating system is the penguin. Tux is so much cuter than that damned little Daemon.. Sig? We don't need no steenking sig!
Short answer: You shouldn't have the partition mounted under linux, especially in RW. It tends to really mess things up. Make sure you're using the latest version, and have your /etc/molrc properly configured to mount the mac partition RW when you boot it. I've set up a wrapper script to make sure that it's unmounted when I start Mac-on-linux, and to remount when finished. http://www.maconlinux.com for the newest version, in RPM or source tarball format.
actually i have a copy of the full qt4 installer on my linux box.. somewhere.. you can get the whole archive if you poke around on their ftp enough. They just don't put the whole 12MB in-your-face, it's not Apple's style..
Imo, ip is the best we have and will have for a long time. It's secure enough to keep people from easily doing this kind of thing (With the distributed DoS's) but open enough to allow things like this to happen.
It's kinda cool that this can be done. However, like some others have said, who the hell cares if yahoo goes down for an hour?
Massive bandwidth was spent to down yahoo. And after that, it was basically spent. I suppose i'm rambling now. But any protocol that's too closed to not allow people to do really neat things is just working in the wrong direction... [/ramble]