First, I'm guessing that a upper-lowerclass $$$ maker such as myself will not be able to buy any stock. The price will most likely be prohibitive, and access will be tough (my prediction). (50+ bucks a share??) I don't know, as IANASB (I Am Not A Stock Broker). Then, with a zillion shares out there, how can the price go up as...
Google's results have been biting the big-internet-searching-cock-in-the-sky recently, and I haven't seen much improvement. Linkfarms and blogs are wrecking the results.
I recall when Google was invaluable. Now its just valuable.
Add to this the dreaded 'shareholder effect', where hundreds of thousands of people who want Google to make them money over returning good (uncluttered, accurate, non-paid) results will destroy what value is left.
How about a distributed, open source web spider. While you are not using bandwidth/PC, this app spiders pages for you and shares (P2P-style) the results of searches.
Some encrypted? files are stored on your side, (ala Freenet - to prevent gaming of the system) and querys are sent just like a p2p search.
Yes, it would be slower, yes, IANAP (not a programmer), but it sounds like it could be a workable solution to search engines becoming corporatized and worthless.
I've got a extra p225 with 196 meg of ram. How can I turn this into the same thing, but platform independent? I've got a BeOS machine, OS X, and Windows XP. I would love to mirror folders from each, but currently there is no easy way (that I know of).
Where is the magic linux solution for this? Something that goes in, mirrors the files, keeps maybe 1 version back, and allows for automagical, hands-off, set and forget operation.
I've tried various backup programs that claim to do similar things, but none really do the job. What's people using for on/offsite network backup on old machines?
as well as screw hookers in the back seat of cars I carjacked from their owners. I provide bank robbers with getaway vehicles, run over seniors, beat police officers with golf clubs then shoot them with their own guns.
I help scummy lawyers get their cocaine back, and run it for the Mafia. I often stand on rooftops and snipe at passerby with a rocket launcher. I sometimes will run around city streets with a flamethrower and burn random people.
I like to run into the police station and preceeded by grenades and clean up with a machine gun. I drive on the beach and run over people who are sunbathing.
I beat most hookers with a baseball bat, take their money, and buy guns with it. I can sometimes be found running over moped riders, waiting 'til they get back on, then elbowing them in the throat and stealing their bike.
I drive on the sidewalks. On golf courses. In parks and malls. I run over anyone I see. If I'm on foot, I'll run up to someone and kick them in the head. Sometimes I'll beat them until the blood spreads in a spreading pool.
If it only takes half a second, why don't they do it? On the most dupes day I've ever seen (3 - of stories still on the front page!), that would have taken, um, yeah, hmmmm. I'll let someone else do the math.
Why people complain about it is beyond me. Duplication of effort is a tradition in the open source world!
Plus, I've already wasted more than 30 earth-orbit-leap-seconds posting this.
I'd like to convert the nifty remote control to usb for my PC - any one know where I could find a link for that? All those accesories are usb, aren't they?
So this isn't completely OT, I don't own an xbox, but I'd buy one if it ran beos - windows CE is so 1999.:P
You can give someone is a Mac. Mom got one a while ago, and I have made two troubleshooting calls. One was due to my Dyn-dns client I had installed to reach the box ( the mac hadn't been on for a bout a month), and the other was when I got an email saying, "I can't send email". Classic.
Compare that to a godawful dialup VNC session on a home shopping network XP box where I needed to fix blaster and the person didn't know how to get to system settings.
I sold a mac that day with "Guess what, buy a mac and you will never have to deal with this again."
(and I won't either, to myself) That's why it is the best Christmas present you can give yourself, if you are the designated "computer-guy". Not having to deal with other people's XP is worth its weight in Half-Life Gold, Al Franken, and Myth II: Soulblighter.
DHCP currently provides no authentication or security mechanisms
Potential exposures to attack are discussed is section 7 of
protocol specification [1].
This lack of authentication mechanism means that a DHCP server
check if a client or user is authorized to use a given User Class
This introduces an obvious vulnerability when using the User
option. For example, if the User Class is used to give out a
parameter (e.g., a particular database server), there is no way
authenticate a client and it is therefore impossible to check if
client is authorized to use this parameter
If you mean saturated as: Microsoft used monopoly power to stop the distribution of BeOS on new machines, I agree.
Be was not immune from making mistakes - their 'focus shift' to an embedded OS cost them their company.
If OpenBeOS focuses on being the happy medium between Linux and Windows, I can see it making great strides.
If Linux could get the raw speed and a consistent GUI interface that BeOS has, I could see it being a waste of time. I don't think that's going to happen. Linux and its GUIs are trying to be all things to all people.
It's not about choice in this case - it's about one thing that works (ala the ideas behind UserLinux, OS X)
OpenBeOS will be fine if they focus on the desktop, and the things that BeOS (was) good at: Audio and Video. It might be a bit vertical, but that didn't stop Linux/BSD from taking over the server market.
I look forward to the release of OpenBeOS (you can read my first Journal entry for a clue as to why).
You can keep in mind that this is the first release - the goals for this release are to recreate BeOS with binary compatabillity. Ideas for R2 are already out there and RFCs are being worked on.
I predict that we'll see some great things from OpenBeos and it's kin. Its a matter of waiting, contributing and helping where one can. Like any other Open Source project.
hehehe. I probably will save my $$ for Farscape on DVD, as I never saw an episode. That says something about its placement as our TV is on 24/7.
Why the SciFi network doesn't pick it up and replace "Gorgol: The Betrayal", "Extreme Black: The Evil Within" and their other crappy shows with colons in them - I do not know.
I think that the RIAA will take any drop in revenue as an 'attack by pirates'. So where does that leave me? For the most part, I don't trade songs, up or down. (I perhaps have 30 that I don't have the CD or Album for, and you can read my Journal for how BuyMusic.com, and Orchard Records are RESELLING my music.)
Yet the RIAA will blame me as well as everyone else. They have already shown that they believe that *everyone* is a thief.
Why should anyone act differently? Even if there was a massive boycott of Industry music, the RIAA will still lobby for laws favorable to themselves, and anti-consumer/citizen/fair use. If you're going to get screwed, might as well have something to show for it.
OT - I still don't understand how with more content created every day than ever before, how and why copyright has gotten longer and longer.
EMOT -Why are there so many ACs in this thread? Get a pair and log in, you pussies.
You might want to do a search and see that we talked about WASTE about a zillion months ago. Although, I don't see why the editors don't just dupe it.;)
Let's say it happens to you. You get in a car accident and lose an arm. Or find out that you have a degenerative eye disease. Then where will 'Sticky Keys' and 'Magnifier' be on your list?
It's easy to discount stuff that doesn't immediately apply, but this is only a good thing for lots of people.
I agree that UI consistency is something that needs work, but thinking about how *everyone* uses KDE can only help the UI design.
I'm going to encrypt everything! Oh wait. How is Mom going to read my emails?
Saying that using encryption is good doesn't change the fact that regular people see no use for encrypting everything.
People will send their CC numbers through regular email! How can we get people to use encryption? Transparency, transparency, transparency.
If I send, "agoij(*UOLHa^&&%alhkAHI3%&%&jdha8tFHD98ht4Fls 8" to Mom she'll delete it. If I send it, and she reads, "Buy me an iPod for Christmas", she'll still delete it, but at least she got the message with no labor on her side.
Until encryption is enabled by default, and is transparent to the user, clueless users will rule the way you communicate. Sadly, this puts much of the onus on Microsoft, which won't do anything until there is a huge! public backlash - then come out with a easily broken implementation of it.:(
Encryption use isn't about privacy, it's about necessity. When the great unwashed (wait, that's Linux users;) - when the masses are FORCED to use it, that's when it will get used.
Apple could do what MS can't - have an 'Encrypt for OS X users' checkbox on their mail app. Then with some 'return receipt' automagically encrypt messages to other OS X users. (I'm not a programmer, can you tell?).
To sum up, users want to be safe, secure, and anonymous, but they don't want to do anything to make it happen. 'Eat what you get, and use what you have" is the pervasive attitude.
Are there *any*? With a generic default install of 10.3 (plus net connection), are there any remote exploits? I'm guessing that any exploit that has been found is due to 3rd party software.
Are there any viruses/trojans for OS X?
I know there was the ssh deal a while back, but does anyone know of any remote r00ting of an OS X box anywhere?
Slashdot Mirror
I will be buying it just for that.
Fully fledged iPod for half the price! - Suckers!
Hmm...something seems not quite right...
Google's results have been biting the big-internet-searching-cock-in-the-sky recently, and I haven't seen much improvement. Linkfarms and blogs are wrecking the results.
I recall when Google was invaluable. Now its just valuable.
Add to this the dreaded 'shareholder effect', where hundreds of thousands of people who want Google to make them money over returning good (uncluttered, accurate, non-paid) results will destroy what value is left.
How about a distributed, open source web spider. While you are not using bandwidth/PC, this app spiders pages for you and shares (P2P-style) the results of searches.
Some encrypted? files are stored on your side, (ala Freenet - to prevent gaming of the system) and querys are sent just like a p2p search.
Yes, it would be slower, yes, IANAP (not a programmer), but it sounds like it could be a workable solution to search engines becoming corporatized and worthless.
Where is the magic linux solution for this? Something that goes in, mirrors the files, keeps maybe 1 version back, and allows for automagical, hands-off, set and forget operation.
I've tried various backup programs that claim to do similar things, but none really do the job. What's people using for on/offsite network backup on old machines?
I help scummy lawyers get their cocaine back, and run it for the Mafia. I often stand on rooftops and snipe at passerby with a rocket launcher. I sometimes will run around city streets with a flamethrower and burn random people.
I like to run into the police station and preceeded by grenades and clean up with a machine gun. I drive on the beach and run over people who are sunbathing.
I beat most hookers with a baseball bat, take their money, and buy guns with it. I can sometimes be found running over moped riders, waiting 'til they get back on, then elbowing them in the throat and stealing their bike.
I drive on the sidewalks. On golf courses. In parks and malls. I run over anyone I see. If I'm on foot, I'll run up to someone and kick them in the head. Sometimes I'll beat them until the blood spreads in a spreading pool.
I blame my parents.
My personal favorite 'secret' documents. Hmm. I wonder if that could be used today...?
Why people complain about it is beyond me. Duplication of effort is a tradition in the open source world! Plus, I've already wasted more than 30 earth-orbit-leap-seconds posting this.
And he wears really old hand-me-down shirts too!
So this isn't completely OT, I don't own an xbox, but I'd buy one if it ran beos - windows CE is so 1999. :P
Gotcha beat.;)
If there is a Hebrew localization of Office, what is to stop a zillion people from pirating it? (like everywhere else)
I think that whenever you sign a new contract, the *lawyers* are getting what *you* deserve.
Compare that to a godawful dialup VNC session on a home shopping network XP box where I needed to fix blaster and the person didn't know how to get to system settings.
I sold a mac that day with "Guess what, buy a mac and you will never have to deal with this again."
(and I won't either, to myself) That's why it is the best Christmas present you can give yourself, if you are the designated "computer-guy". Not having to deal with other people's XP is worth its weight in Half-Life Gold, Al Franken, and Myth II: Soulblighter.
Thanks for clearing it up for me - I will go back to believing that Microsoft is a black hole of tech. :)
6. Security
DHCP currently provides no authentication or security mechanisms Potential exposures to attack are discussed is section 7 of protocol specification [1].
This lack of authentication mechanism means that a DHCP server check if a client or user is authorized to use a given User Class This introduces an obvious vulnerability when using the User option. For example, if the User Class is used to give out a parameter (e.g., a particular database server), there is no way authenticate a client and it is therefore impossible to check if client is authorized to use this parameter
Sounds like Microsoft...
And what's with the rainbow? hmmm...?
(posted from a powerbook, you zealots!)
I Kid! (Besides, I'm working tonight and I feel Christmas fat settling on me even as I type)
Be was not immune from making mistakes - their 'focus shift' to an embedded OS cost them their company.
If OpenBeOS focuses on being the happy medium between Linux and Windows, I can see it making great strides.
If Linux could get the raw speed and a consistent GUI interface that BeOS has, I could see it being a waste of time. I don't think that's going to happen. Linux and its GUIs are trying to be all things to all people.
It's not about choice in this case - it's about one thing that works (ala the ideas behind UserLinux, OS X)
OpenBeOS will be fine if they focus on the desktop, and the things that BeOS (was) good at: Audio and Video. It might be a bit vertical, but that didn't stop Linux/BSD from taking over the server market.
I look forward to the release of OpenBeOS (you can read my first Journal entry for a clue as to why).
You can keep in mind that this is the first release - the goals for this release are to recreate BeOS with binary compatabillity. Ideas for R2 are already out there and RFCs are being worked on.
I predict that we'll see some great things from OpenBeos and it's kin. Its a matter of waiting, contributing and helping where one can. Like any other Open Source project.
Why the SciFi network doesn't pick it up and replace "Gorgol: The Betrayal", "Extreme Black: The Evil Within" and their other crappy shows with colons in them - I do not know.
Yet the RIAA will blame me as well as everyone else. They have already shown that they believe that *everyone* is a thief.
Why should anyone act differently? Even if there was a massive boycott of Industry music, the RIAA will still lobby for laws favorable to themselves, and anti-consumer/citizen/fair use. If you're going to get screwed, might as well have something to show for it.
OT - I still don't understand how with more content created every day than ever before, how and why copyright has gotten longer and longer. EMOT -Why are there so many ACs in this thread? Get a pair and log in, you pussies.
You might want to do a search and see that we talked about WASTE about a zillion months ago. Although, I don't see why the editors don't just dupe it. ;)
It's easy to discount stuff that doesn't immediately apply, but this is only a good thing for lots of people.
I agree that UI consistency is something that needs work, but thinking about how *everyone* uses KDE can only help the UI design.
Tons of iTunes related apps. Great program anyways...
Saying that using encryption is good doesn't change the fact that regular people see no use for encrypting everything.
People will send their CC numbers through regular email! How can we get people to use encryption? Transparency, transparency, transparency.
If I send, "agoij(*UOLHa^&&%alhkAHI3%&%&jdha8tFHD98ht4Fls 8" to Mom she'll delete it. If I send it, and she reads, "Buy me an iPod for Christmas", she'll still delete it, but at least she got the message with no labor on her side.
Until encryption is enabled by default, and is transparent to the user, clueless users will rule the way you communicate. Sadly, this puts much of the onus on Microsoft, which won't do anything until there is a huge! public backlash - then come out with a easily broken implementation of it. :(
Encryption use isn't about privacy, it's about necessity. When the great unwashed (wait, that's Linux users ;) - when the masses are FORCED to use it, that's when it will get used.
Apple could do what MS can't - have an 'Encrypt for OS X users' checkbox on their mail app. Then with some 'return receipt' automagically encrypt messages to other OS X users. (I'm not a programmer, can you tell?).
To sum up, users want to be safe, secure, and anonymous, but they don't want to do anything to make it happen. 'Eat what you get, and use what you have" is the pervasive attitude.
Are there any viruses/trojans for OS X?
I know there was the ssh deal a while back, but does anyone know of any remote r00ting of an OS X box anywhere?