The Stateless Linux project is an OS-wide initiative to ensure that Fedora computers can be set up as replaceable appliances, with no important local state.
For example, a system administrator can set up a network of hundreds of desktop client machines as clones of a master system, and be sure that all of them are kept synchronised whenever he or she updates the master system. We provide several technologies for doing this.
The scope of the project is the entire OS, since we are trying to improve configuration throughout all packages. However, there are some packages which are specific to Stateless Linux:
In NYC (Brooklyn or Chinatown) you can pick up a poor quality of any movie in the theatre for 5-7 bucks.
They always have a lot of kids movies. There are some people who trade movies for reasons other than increasing the size of their E-Penis... mainly money.
I personally don't subscribe to point 3, but some people down the hall are big on it.
The OP had to be teh troll.:-)
I'm actually the guy who wants all of our workstations to run CentOS/Fedora Core with a yum server instead of shelling out the bucks for RHEL... so yeah. I don't like paying too much for things.
Environmentals are VERY important for reasons that are kind of obvious.
1) It costs money to cool servers. 2) It costs money to power servers. 3) Saving money is good. 4) Intel Xeon chips don't have better environentals than AMD Opterons.
If you have a computer A that performs better than computer B, and it costs less to power, and it costs more to cool.. It is kind of a no-brainer.
You essentially throw electricity down the toilet by having anything that isn't as efficient as possible.
Technology as an abstract concept is an enabler. Firewall software is an enabler. Guns are enablers.
Some people do not like the idea of selling certain enablers to people who will use it to restrict freedom. I think that there are some trade embargos that the US has against certain countries for these very reasons.
I have little respect for the companies that are trying to make a buck by selling product that is used to cennsor entire countries. It is even worse when they add features for these countries, and market the software to the countries.
I wasn't saying that it is logical in any way shape or form.:-)
The courthouse that I went to had a bunch of problems. They stated that there can be no A/V recording devices or cameras. Any cell phone could be used to transmit audio. My mp3 player (which was allowed in) can record to mp3 with it's built-in microphone or 1/8" jack line-in.
The security guard did not have the technical skills to evaluate whether the device was an obvious threat. That does not mean that he should be prepared for any possible custom spy device, or that a courthouse should be that paranoid.
I think that spy cameras and other equipment could be near eliminated with trained eyes looking at the baggage. I'm not sure how much of it could be automated with a computer, but it shouldn't be that difficult to detect camera lenses, microphones, hard drives et cetera. Where it may get real tricky is detecting removable media. Chips look like chips to me.:-)
I'm not sure how many people do this, but take any given magazine you read, and rip out any pages that have only advertisements.
I know that an art magazine with gallery advertisements is not the best example, but I was left with maybe 1/4 or less of actual content. Kind of sick really.
If one was going to start up a private tracker, they probably wouldn't keep track of as little information as possible. You can roll-up the upload and dowloads into a total ratio, but most people who run these sort of things keep as little information as is needed to ensure the integrity of the tracker, and that's it.
What torrents you have downloaded in the past (and are not seeding) can be removed as long as the stats have been recorded in a generic up/down ratio.
Registration and referrals are good ways of weeding out bots and undesirables.
When you run your HTPC/PVR a lot, you don't want a card that will play the latest and greatest games... you want one that will display what you need to, has video out and does NOT suck up a lot of power.
If you are concerned about the data on your drives, then you shouldn't let them be used again, ever.
There are way to many processes for gaps to occur. Your techs could forget to wipe a drive, or a drive could fail, and not show up at all.
Never let drives out of your premesis, if there ever was any data on then that you are concerned about getting into the wrong hands. Degauss them at least, then store them. Look into shredding solutions where the drives wouldn't be usable at all.
It really depends on what kind of data you are storing, but in the case of US export controlled data, even reporting exposure of the data to a foreign party could cost millions of dollars in fines alone. That doesn't even get into how much the IP or data was worth, and how much time you have to spend correcting the session.
For everyone who doesn't want to follow random links, here is a description.
The first one is a piece of software and hardware that allows you to controll mp3s through your current turntable. It has noises that signal the audio software to skip through a track, play it backwards, queue it up et cetera.
The second is bleep.com, which is a site where you can purchase mp3s from artists on the Warp record label. You get good quality, non DRM, VBR mp3s for a decent price. This is especially good because a lot of the bands on Warp records are difficult to find on a whim.
I recommend Jamie Lidell's album Multiply, which was my latest purchase from the site.
I don't think that most of these "copy protection" stickers that everyone "cracks" involve a new layer of encryption.
They just make it harder to play an audio CD on a PC my using autorun.inf and other such nonsense. Those are all cracked in a few minutes because that's how long it takes to rip them on a fast Linux box.
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The wiki was slow as hell for me, so use this instead:
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http://gentoo-wiki.com.nyud.net:8090/TIP_Using_sc
Stateless Linux (from http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/stateless/)
The Stateless Linux project is an OS-wide initiative to ensure that Fedora computers can be set up as replaceable appliances, with no important local state.
For example, a system administrator can set up a network of hundreds of desktop client machines as clones of a master system, and be sure that all of them are kept synchronised whenever he or she updates the master system. We provide several technologies for doing this.
The scope of the project is the entire OS, since we are trying to improve configuration throughout all packages. However, there are some packages which are specific to Stateless Linux:
* readonly-root
* stateless-common
* stateless-client
* stateless-server
PLEASE don't use XVID/DIVX!
Without the multiple audio tracks it wouldn't be worth the download.
Ogg/MKV please.
In NYC (Brooklyn or Chinatown) you can pick up a poor quality of any movie in the theatre for 5-7 bucks.
They always have a lot of kids movies. There are some people who trade movies for reasons other than increasing the size of their E-Penis... mainly money.
I was thinking less coffee. :-P
I personally don't subscribe to point 3, but some people down the hall are big on it.
:-)
The OP had to be teh troll.
I'm actually the guy who wants all of our workstations to run CentOS/Fedora Core with a yum server instead of shelling out the bucks for RHEL... so yeah. I don't like paying too much for things.
Let me guess, your not in IT. :-)
Environmentals are VERY important for reasons that are kind of obvious.
1) It costs money to cool servers.
2) It costs money to power servers.
3) Saving money is good.
4) Intel Xeon chips don't have better environentals than AMD Opterons.
If you have a computer A that performs better than computer B, and it costs less to power, and it costs more to cool.. It is kind of a no-brainer.
You essentially throw electricity down the toilet by having anything that isn't as efficient as possible.
Yes. I don't think that they are concerned about the .01% of the population that may spoof MAC addresses to use free wireless at McDonalds.
What about MAC addresss filtering with lists supplied by Nintendo?
That's only the first thing that comes to mind.
Technology as an abstract concept is an enabler. Firewall software is an enabler. Guns are enablers.
Some people do not like the idea of selling certain enablers to people who will use it to restrict freedom. I think that there are some trade embargos that the US has against certain countries for these very reasons.
I have little respect for the companies that are trying to make a buck by selling product that is used to cennsor entire countries. It is even worse when they add features for these countries, and market the software to the countries.
How the Great Firewall Worksr eat-firewall.mp3
http://www.the-fifth-hope.org.nyud.net:8090/mp3/gr eat-firewall.m3u
Bill Xia
http://www.the-fifth-hope.org.nyud.net:8090/mp3/g
Cult of the Dead Cow Hactivism Paneld c-hacktivism-1.mp3
http://www.the-fifth-hope.org.nyud.net:8090/mp3/cd c-hacktivism-1.m3u
http://www.the-fifth-hope.org.nyud.net:8090/mp3/cd c-hacktivism-2.mp3
http://www.the-fifth-hope.org.nyud.net:8090/mp3/cd c-hacktivism-2.m3u
Eric Grimm, Sharon Hom, Dr. James Mulvenon, Oxblood Ruffin, Nart Villeneuve
http://www.the-fifth-hope.org.nyud.net:8090/mp3/c
I wasn't saying that it is logical in any way shape or form. :-)
:-)
The courthouse that I went to had a bunch of problems. They stated that there can be no A/V recording devices or cameras. Any cell phone could be used to transmit audio. My mp3 player (which was allowed in) can record to mp3 with it's built-in microphone or 1/8" jack line-in.
The security guard did not have the technical skills to evaluate whether the device was an obvious threat. That does not mean that he should be prepared for any possible custom spy device, or that a courthouse should be that paranoid.
I think that spy cameras and other equipment could be near eliminated with trained eyes looking at the baggage. I'm not sure how much of it could be automated with a computer, but it shouldn't be that difficult to detect camera lenses, microphones, hard drives et cetera. Where it may get real tricky is detecting removable media. Chips look like chips to me.
I'm not sure how many people do this, but take any given magazine you read, and rip out any pages that have only advertisements.
I know that an art magazine with gallery advertisements is not the best example, but I was left with maybe 1/4 or less of actual content. Kind of sick really.
A minority, true, but not a small minority.
Any company that does research and development should have policies about cameras. Some military jobs probably have similar restrictions.
I had jury duty recently, and was not able to bring in a camera phone.
If one was going to start up a private tracker, they probably wouldn't keep track of as little information as possible. You can roll-up the upload and dowloads into a total ratio, but most people who run these sort of things keep as little information as is needed to ensure the integrity of the tracker, and that's it.
What torrents you have downloaded in the past (and are not seeding) can be removed as long as the stats have been recorded in a generic up/down ratio.
Registration and referrals are good ways of weeding out bots and undesirables.
Mod parrent up.
... you want one that will display what you need to, has video out and does NOT suck up a lot of power.
When you run your HTPC/PVR a lot, you don't want a card that will play the latest and greatest games
iPod Killer.
Creative is taking it WAY too far.
Is anyone concerned that there were no pictures, or at least sketches of the Judge wearing that suit?
All I see is some chick in a swim suit in one of the advertisements.
l4m3
If you are concerned about the data on your drives, then you shouldn't let them be used again, ever.
There are way to many processes for gaps to occur. Your techs could forget to wipe a drive, or a drive could fail, and not show up at all.
Never let drives out of your premesis, if there ever was any data on then that you are concerned about getting into the wrong hands. Degauss them at least, then store them. Look into shredding solutions where the drives wouldn't be usable at all.
It really depends on what kind of data you are storing, but in the case of US export controlled data, even reporting exposure of the data to a foreign party could cost millions of dollars in fines alone. That doesn't even get into how much the IP or data was worth, and how much time you have to spend correcting the session.
Wu-Tang said it best. Protect your neck.
Wow, you must have a really shitty score to come up with some bullshit like that. :-P
How is this hardware?
For everyone who doesn't want to follow random links, here is a description.
The first one is a piece of software and hardware that allows you to controll mp3s through your current turntable. It has noises that signal the audio software to skip through a track, play it backwards, queue it up et cetera.
The second is bleep.com, which is a site where you can purchase mp3s from artists on the Warp record label. You get good quality, non DRM, VBR mp3s for a decent price. This is especially good because a lot of the bands on Warp records are difficult to find on a whim.
I recommend Jamie Lidell's album Multiply, which was my latest purchase from the site.
Let the Aphex Twin = noise jokes commence.
I don't think that most of these "copy protection" stickers that everyone "cracks" involve a new layer of encryption.
They just make it harder to play an audio CD on a PC my using autorun.inf and other such nonsense. Those are all cracked in a few minutes because that's how long it takes to rip them on a fast Linux box.
Yeah, but now you can have your own, Open Source player.
About the same time that being in the Computer/French/AV/Photography club did.