This site has a record of the following quote from RATM's Tom Morello:
Rage Against the Machine would like to sincerely apologise to all of our fans who were kicked off of Napster for downloading 'Renegades'. The move to take action against Rage fans was taken completely unilaterally by our new management. In their zeal to keep the record from getting out before the release date, they did not consult the band before instructing Sony Music Corp. to institute the Napster ban. As soon as I was made aware of this horrible mistake on their part, I immediately phoned our management and the record company to see what we could do to get our Napster-using fans reinstated as soon as possible. I'm told that the easiest way to get back on Napster as quickly as possible is to download one of many files floating around on the Internet to get around the ban.
Actually a lot of the dell boxes sold by the computer store at the beginning of last year had Win2k on them. The message would also pop up on XP boxes.
No, actually he got a bunch of IMs from guys who were pissed of because they thought he was the one who kept sending the popup messages. He came closer to getting beat down than anything else.
I'd wager that very few, if any machines destined for college shipped with w2k pre-installed.
Actually, at my school, all of the Dell boxes sold by the computer store came pre-loaded with Win2k.
I remember when I lived on campus I used to get a kick out of busting out with a "NET SEND ALL blah blah" command. Good way to annoy everyone with an NT box. Of course I'm sure this isn't the reason they banned NT/2k since it'll automatically pop up on XP boxes too. The funniest thing I did with NET SEND was to send out a message asking all the single ladies to IM my roommate.
Grab Share Scan. It's a nifty little SMB share scanner (as the name implies). I found a decent amount of stuff shared just on the LAN in my apartment complex, so if you're on campus somewhere, you're bound to find a lot.
I agree...once they learn the fundamentals of one word processing program, switching to another is only a matter of finding where in the menus the functions are or what hotkeys control them. There's no problem with them learning on Word because all of Word's competitors are designed to enable users to easily migrate from MS Word.
Experts on childhood and adolescence have long recognised the importance of violent fantasy play in overcoming anxieties, processing anger, and providing outlets for aggression
Sports also do this quite well, without condoning anything immoral (ie. murder). Sure you could say some are a little "violent", but not in a way that promotes hatred. You're always taught to physically beat your opponent, but not to hate him. Plus this mode of violence promotes something else that was quite important last time I checked: health.
Come on, you mean to tell me that nobody cares about zirconium tungstate? And you call yourselves geeks? Mirconium tungstate has always been a big part of my life.
Yeah if they're doing a remote login, sure they should use ssh instead of telnet. The thing is that your average computer user does not use telnet OR ssh and has no need for either one.
I'm not criticizing here...I'm just curious. Why do so many people think of Open Source Software, namely Linux, as some kind of religion that they have to "convert" people to?
Maybe it's not a problem at this point...but "[Gov.] Davis said he endorsed the plan because he didn't want unsolicited messages on mobile phones to reach the same level of mayhem that spam e-mails have." The whole point is to nip it in the bud.
Until Linux comes to a level of user-friendliness much more advanced than it's at now, Linux is not going to enter the general consumer market.
And as soon as this happens, us geeks are just going to move to a new OS and wonder when it will become mainstream. Once an OS is user-friendly, it's not as much fun. (Correct me if I'm wrong...)
Now you can go to any computer you want, pop the CD in, hit reset, and (assuming there's no BIOS PW) play UT on any x86 box. This could be a very fun way to piss of the people in the university computer lab, who will think you hacked NT to lower user restrictions or something.
P2P really is the future for downloading large files, it's to bad USC is trying to keep its students back in the stone age.
The problem is that the campus LAN is intended for educational purposes. While downloading UT may be legal, it can't be considered educational. Also, the fact is that most students are using Kazaa etc. for illegal purposes. As with many other things, the responsible minority has to suffer because of the irresponsible majority.
At the University of Central Florida, they have a no p2p policy also. I got caught last year and had to pay (about) $30 to go to a "computer usage" workshop for an hour. 20 minutes of the hour were spent watching an episode of Futorama. Students who got caught twice had their network access permanently revoked. The letter that I recieved gave me a URL that contained the "evidence" (in the form of a SniffIt screenshot) that I was using a p2p network.
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I use a Logitech Cordless Freedom keyboard and mouse. I can put it on my lap and then I have the desk surface free to put the book on.
Being able to juggle a book and keyboard while looking at a monitor is a mandatory skill for you to be considered a geek. There is no way around this.
Nope, only Johnny Apple would be foolish enough to pay that for a computer.
Yep...they had a free tour sponsored by Napster.
Rage Against the Machine would like to sincerely apologise to all of our fans who were kicked off of Napster for downloading 'Renegades'. The move to take action against Rage fans was taken completely unilaterally by our new management. In their zeal to keep the record from getting out before the release date, they did not consult the band before instructing Sony Music Corp. to institute the Napster ban. As soon as I was made aware of this horrible mistake on their part, I immediately phoned our management and the record company to see what we could do to get our Napster-using fans reinstated as soon as possible. I'm told that the easiest way to get back on Napster as quickly as possible is to download one of many files floating around on the Internet to get around the ban.
Actually a lot of the dell boxes sold by the computer store at the beginning of last year had Win2k on them. The message would also pop up on XP boxes.
No, actually he got a bunch of IMs from guys who were pissed of because they thought he was the one who kept sending the popup messages. He came closer to getting beat down than anything else.
I'd wager that very few, if any machines destined for college shipped with w2k pre-installed. Actually, at my school, all of the Dell boxes sold by the computer store came pre-loaded with Win2k.
heh...did that one too, only I would always direct it at a specific node. I never had the balls to direct it to ALL
I remember when I lived on campus I used to get a kick out of busting out with a "NET SEND ALL blah blah" command. Good way to annoy everyone with an NT box. Of course I'm sure this isn't the reason they banned NT/2k since it'll automatically pop up on XP boxes too. The funniest thing I did with NET SEND was to send out a message asking all the single ladies to IM my roommate.
Grab Share Scan. It's a nifty little SMB share scanner (as the name implies). I found a decent amount of stuff shared just on the LAN in my apartment complex, so if you're on campus somewhere, you're bound to find a lot.
I agree...once they learn the fundamentals of one word processing program, switching to another is only a matter of finding where in the menus the functions are or what hotkeys control them. There's no problem with them learning on Word because all of Word's competitors are designed to enable users to easily migrate from MS Word.
Sports also do this quite well, without condoning anything immoral (ie. murder). Sure you could say some are a little "violent", but not in a way that promotes hatred. You're always taught to physically beat your opponent, but not to hate him. Plus this mode of violence promotes something else that was quite important last time I checked: health.
Come on, you mean to tell me that nobody cares about zirconium tungstate? And you call yourselves geeks? Mirconium tungstate has always been a big part of my life.
Yeah if they're doing a remote login, sure they should use ssh instead of telnet. The thing is that your average computer user does not use telnet OR ssh and has no need for either one.
Sorry, but I don't know too many non-geeks who have a need for an ssh/telnet client.
I'm not criticizing here...I'm just curious. Why do so many people think of Open Source Software, namely Linux, as some kind of religion that they have to "convert" people to?
Nobody downloads music off of the internet illegally anymore. Please move on.
I just want to see how he hacked a router to do that.
Kidding...I'm not that much of a geek.
Maybe it's not a problem at this point...but "[Gov.] Davis said he endorsed the plan because he didn't want unsolicited messages on mobile phones to reach the same level of mayhem that spam e-mails have." The whole point is to nip it in the bud.
And as soon as this happens, us geeks are just going to move to a new OS and wonder when it will become mainstream. Once an OS is user-friendly, it's not as much fun. (Correct me if I'm wrong...)
Now you can go to any computer you want, pop the CD in, hit reset, and (assuming there's no BIOS PW) play UT on any x86 box. This could be a very fun way to piss of the people in the university computer lab, who will think you hacked NT to lower user restrictions or something.
heh...good point...I wish I had thought of that at the time and brought that question up. Hindsight is 20/20
The problem is that the campus LAN is intended for educational purposes. While downloading UT may be legal, it can't be considered educational. Also, the fact is that most students are using Kazaa etc. for illegal purposes. As with many other things, the responsible minority has to suffer because of the irresponsible majority.
At the University of Central Florida, they have a no p2p policy also. I got caught last year and had to pay (about) $30 to go to a "computer usage" workshop for an hour. 20 minutes of the hour were spent watching an episode of Futorama. Students who got caught twice had their network access permanently revoked. The letter that I recieved gave me a URL that contained the "evidence" (in the form of a SniffIt screenshot) that I was using a p2p network.