I think it opens up a listen port on your machine. This is fine for a normal network, but if you do some investigating in the way ip_maq, you'll find that this is a pain for ip_masq.
My suggestion would be to set up port forwarding on the ip_masq box. You might also want to try testing SpeakFreely behind your network to see if it's the masq thing you don't like, or the acutal functionality. Incidently you'll probably have the same masq problem with PGP Phone.
This depends on how your system is implemented. If you make use of Java, then simply record stats of keypresses per second, average number of corrections, etc. Feed this back to the server, and if the values move outside a preset range from the person's average, lock the user out.
You mean that if my cat decides to get up and walk on my keyboard, or if I get up to answer the door and have a chat, I should be locked out? I imagine this would piss off users enough to switch systems.
A friend beamed this program to my Palm, and it hasn't been the same since. My other apps go unused, while I travel from city to city, waiting for there to be a cocaine bust so I can make out like a bandit.
I've been through 4 AAAs in two weeks.
You will lose all productivity with this game. Do not download.
Actually, Slashdot is specifically targeted towards Linux. You'll notice Microsoft stories have a picture of Bill Gates looking like a Borg. I don't think he really looks like that. Similarly, Linux items are met with enthusiasm. Why do you think that is?
As for forcing others to conform, you're either forcing others to conform to you, or conforming to others. I perfer to use my best judgement, and let the world adjust around me. If there isn't xyz app for my OS choice, I'm going to let the developers know that I'm not using their product because I can't. If enough people are as thick headed as me, apps get ported. The other option is to be just another sheep in the herd (but not the HURD ).
My concession is that I agree that links shouldn't not be posted simply because they don't work on a certain platform, but I believe the jist of most of the posts I read (which were higher scored) is that Apple should port the codec, rather than not post that here.
Linux actually can pull off being all things to all people. Let's take a look:
The kernel (the one, true linux) is open. What this means is that you can have things that are very important to servers (journaled file system, SMP, etc) or leave them out for workstations. Linux is even reasonable on embedded systems, as you can pick and choose what to put in.
Then there's the operating system, GNU/Linux. You can pick different distributions, and configure them to what you want to do. Want a workstation? How about Mandrake. A server? How about Red Hat configured for Network Server.
Linux is all about choices, and it can pull off if anything can. There should be a big difference between the linux machine you set up at home to type papers on and the linux machine that is serving your corporate web site.
After several recent news items, I honestly believe that Ziff Davis would believe the same chain mail I got this morning. I want to know if anyone has verified this outside of the e-mail here.
I bought my Palm III from shopping.com and I'm not buying anything else from them ever again. It took them 4 weeks to send it to me instead of the 7-10 days promised, and I was completly unable to find out anything about my order once they had my money. It was impossible to speak to a human being on the phone, and all of my e-mails went unanswered.
This was about a year ago, but unless they're a completly different company, spend the extra $5 to buy from Amazon.
Some Qualcomm cellphones are "data capable." From what I've been able to glean, this means that there is a cable which plugs into your cellphone, and on the other end is a standard 9 pin serial port. When you send "AT\n" over your computer's serial port, it will respond with "OK\n". When I first heard about this, I very nearly cried.
Unfortunatly, I've never been able to confirm with anyone that this works properly, or even at all. Most of Qualcomm's information says "Coming soon, check with your carrier." Anyone else know anything about this?
Doubtful, as CmdrTaco is the proof reader. I'm constantly amazed by people (Not saying Psiren is one) who imagine/. as a news room full of busy people and editors and interns. From what I can tell,/. is a bunch of people in their own homes going through links in \ (Backslash is Slashdot's backend) which were submitted by random joes not unlike yourself, then posting the interesting ones.
$RANT_MODE=1; How about just looking at the ads? It's cheaper than going out and buying software, and you are supporting Slashdot, which I think is very important.
My opinion is that if you don't want to look at the ads, don't waste Rob's CPU time and bandwidth. Keerist, do people think they're entitled to anything and everything without having to have ads on pages? Its either ads, subscription, or go out of buisness.
Just because you CAN get rid of ads, doesn't mean you should. I can't understand why people are so against keeping websites like Slashdot in business! $RANT_MODE=0;
I agree whole heartedly. Quality control of information is an utmost concern. I think everyone will agree with me that we cannot have people posting whatever information they feel like without strict editorial control.
Imagine a worst case senerio: Some screwball decides to open up his computer, and send whatever information he or she wants to whomever asks for it! No editorial control whatsoever! And worse, the information could somehow reference other information on other computers, "linking" it, if you will. Who knows how big this could get? It would be a gigantic mess, tangled in a web of lies that spans the world wide!
Luckily, we have strict editorial control over information, and won't ever have to deal with descerning for ourselves what information is true or false.
(Props to Swift)
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An Invitation to Michael Martinez
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Since I know he reads slashdot, I'd like to invite Mr. Martinez to post a followup here for stuff that may have been too geeky and technical for the intended audience of an ABCNews article. Anyone else want to hear what he has to say?
I'm trying to avoid the OS Holy War that has erupted in this story, but I needed to reply to this. If this was a troll, I'm glad I could help you out by falling for it. If this is a real post, I'm glad I could help.
2.n.x is a kernel number, where n denotes major version, and x denotes minor version. If n is even, then the kernel is stable. If n isn't even, be damn sure you know why you aren't using a stable kernel. The latest kernel is 2.2.11, don't use anything 2.3.x.
I know this is a joke, but actually he dual boots Red Hat and Windows 95. I don't know about you, but I would hate to try and go through 9.75 Gigs of information in Windows 95 in 6 months. And to have the next few years of your life depend on it? It would give a whole new hate to the BSOD.
I wonder if Red Hat will use this as part of their advertising campaign (a la Analyzer)? I wonder if the competition will use this ("Kevin Mitnick uses Red Hat, and he's in jail! Choose Debian!"). Thank god the Linux community isn't this competitive.
Slashdot Mirror
160 gigabits/sec * 1022 wavelengths = 163,520 gigabits/sec on a single piece of fiber.
Which reminds me, I need more fiber in my diet, if only for the bandwidth alone.
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I think it opens up a listen port on your machine. This is fine for a normal network, but if you do some investigating in the way ip_maq, you'll find that this is a pain for ip_masq.
My suggestion would be to set up port forwarding on the ip_masq box. You might also want to try testing SpeakFreely behind your network to see if it's the masq thing you don't like, or the acutal functionality. Incidently you'll probably have the same masq problem with PGP Phone.
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This depends on how your system is implemented. If you make use of Java, then simply record stats of keypresses per second, average number of corrections, etc. Feed this back to the server, and if the values move outside a preset range from the person's average, lock the user out.
You mean that if my cat decides to get up and walk on my keyboard, or if I get up to answer the door and have a chat, I should be locked out? I imagine this would piss off users enough to switch systems.
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What makes you think that fully grown geeks don't eat Lucky Charms?
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http://packetstorm.securify.com/
/jp directory, though.
You won't find a
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A friend beamed this program to my Palm, and it hasn't been the same since. My other apps go unused, while I travel from city to city, waiting for there to be a cocaine bust so I can make out like a bandit.
I've been through 4 AAAs in two weeks.
You will lose all productivity with this game. Do not download.
(Personal best in 2 weeks: $5,424,941)
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Actually, Slashdot is specifically targeted towards Linux. You'll notice Microsoft stories have a picture of Bill Gates looking like a Borg. I don't think he really looks like that. Similarly, Linux items are met with enthusiasm. Why do you think that is?
As for forcing others to conform, you're either forcing others to conform to you, or conforming to others. I perfer to use my best judgement, and let the world adjust around me. If there isn't xyz app for my OS choice, I'm going to let the developers know that I'm not using their product because I can't. If enough people are as thick headed as me, apps get ported. The other option is to be just another sheep in the herd (but not the HURD ).
My concession is that I agree that links shouldn't not be posted simply because they don't work on a certain platform, but I believe the jist of most of the posts I read (which were higher scored) is that Apple should port the codec, rather than not post that here.
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Linux actually can pull off being all things to all people. Let's take a look:
The kernel (the one, true linux) is open. What this means is that you can have things that are very important to servers (journaled file system, SMP, etc) or leave them out for workstations. Linux is even reasonable on embedded systems, as you can pick and choose what to put in.
Then there's the operating system, GNU/Linux. You can pick different distributions, and configure them to what you want to do. Want a workstation? How about Mandrake. A server? How about Red Hat configured for Network Server.
Linux is all about choices, and it can pull off if anything can. There should be a big difference between the linux machine you set up at home to type papers on and the linux machine that is serving your corporate web site.
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After several recent news items, I honestly believe that Ziff Davis would believe the same chain mail I got this morning. I want to know if anyone has verified this outside of the e-mail here.
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I'm still waiting for my friend to upgrade his phone's firmware before I go out and spend my own money :)
In the meantime, check out this discussion on the subject.
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So it makes your brain get bigger while it makes your testicles get smaller.
Some women I know would claim the former is caused by the latter.
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I bought my Palm III from shopping.com and I'm not buying anything else from them ever again. It took them 4 weeks to send it to me instead of the 7-10 days promised, and I was completly unable to find out anything about my order once they had my money. It was impossible to speak to a human being on the phone, and all of my e-mails went unanswered.
This was about a year ago, but unless they're a completly different company, spend the extra $5 to buy from Amazon.
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Some Qualcomm cellphones are "data capable." From what I've been able to glean, this means that there is a cable which plugs into your cellphone, and on the other end is a standard 9 pin serial port. When you send "AT\n" over your computer's serial port, it will respond with "OK\n". When I first heard about this, I very nearly cried.
Unfortunatly, I've never been able to confirm with anyone that this works properly, or even at all. Most of Qualcomm's information says "Coming soon, check with your carrier." Anyone else know anything about this?
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Doubtful, as CmdrTaco is the proof reader. I'm constantly amazed by people (Not saying Psiren is one) who imagine /. as a news room full of busy people and editors and interns. From what I can tell, /. is a bunch of people in their own homes going through links in \ (Backslash is Slashdot's backend) which were submitted by random joes not unlike yourself, then posting the interesting ones.
And I wouldn't have it any other way.
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Except for Ask Slashdot and Your Rights Online(?), all Slashdot articles appear on the front page.
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=os%2 F2
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$RANT_MODE=1;
How about just looking at the ads? It's cheaper than going out and buying software, and you are supporting Slashdot, which I think is very important.
My opinion is that if you don't want to look at the ads, don't waste Rob's CPU time and bandwidth. Keerist, do people think they're entitled to anything and everything without having to have ads on pages? Its either ads, subscription, or go out of buisness.
Just because you CAN get rid of ads, doesn't mean you should. I can't understand why people are so against keeping websites like Slashdot in business!
$RANT_MODE=0;
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Thank you Rob and all other Slashdot editors.
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cyberpunk/cyberpunk was bequethed on me long ago, and now I bequeth it to you.
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According to this article the first ping went out on October 20th. Anyone know what's what?
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I agree whole heartedly. Quality control of information is an utmost concern. I think everyone will agree with me that we cannot have people posting whatever information they feel like without strict editorial control.
Imagine a worst case senerio: Some screwball decides to open up his computer, and send whatever information he or she wants to whomever asks for it! No editorial control whatsoever! And worse, the information could somehow reference other information on other computers, "linking" it, if you will. Who knows how big this could get? It would be a gigantic mess, tangled in a web of lies that spans the world wide!
Luckily, we have strict editorial control over information, and won't ever have to deal with descerning for ourselves what information is true or false.
(Props to Swift)
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Since I know he reads slashdot, I'd like to invite Mr. Martinez to post a followup here for stuff that may have been too geeky and technical for the intended audience of an ABCNews article. Anyone else want to hear what he has to say?
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Insert buffer overflow joke here.
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2.n.x is a kernel number, where n denotes major version, and x denotes minor version. If n is even, then the kernel is stable. If n isn't even, be damn sure you know why you aren't using a stable kernel. The latest kernel is 2.2.11, don't use anything 2.3.x.
http://aviary-mag.com/New s/Mitnick_Life/mitnick_life.html
I wonder if Red Hat will use this as part of their advertising campaign (a la Analyzer)? I wonder if the competition will use this ("Kevin Mitnick uses Red Hat, and he's in jail! Choose Debian!"). Thank god the Linux community isn't this competitive.
A look at Kevin's life
Free Kevin