"SCO's future on Itanium is immense, burning brightly like a flaming retard. SCO on Itanium supports more than 4GB of RAM. Do not believe the Debian infidels when they say otherwise! We are also the cheapest Linux distribution in the world! Anything you are told by the scheming harbingers of doom is a lie."
McAfee used Fink during the development of Virex, and as such, if you're using Virex and try to install Fink--well, you can't install Fink, so I won't finish that thought.
It's not a problem with Fink. Virex is causing the problem, and unfortunately, until McAfee get their act together, Fink and Virex can't be installed on the same machine.
Fink, when instaled, looks for/sw, and if it finds it, it doesn't install. This might look like Fink's problem, but in reality, it's Fink trying its absolute best not to do anything that might harm your machine. (They use/sw instead of other binary directories for the same reason.) Much applause to the Fink team for these conventions, I say. Developers looking out for users is always a good thing, even when some might think they [the developers] are being overly cautious.
Lately, there have been many instances of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act being used to prevent the publication of security issues found with various companies' products and services, or both.
A recent story here on Slashdot covered university ID cards being flawed, and the DMCA being invoked to prevent discussion of the problem publicly.
Given that your/dig,/ so to speak, is security, what is your take on such invocations of the Act?
I question whether or not this guy's father will want to learn the ins and outs of ipfw.
Perhaps using the GUI firewall controls in System Preferences:Sharing:Firewall is a better way to go, at least for starters. It may be overly simple for many people, but it's perfect for those for whom scrolling through the ipfw man pages is a bit daunting.
If you're on broadband, I say you should buy a router anyway.
There's nothing like a hardware firewall and your own private subnet as a line of defense, and there's nothing like being cracked and raped until you'r raw. I'll take the former, thankyouverymuch.:-)
Actually, I find BBEdit is great for editing/etc/hosts--especially with the "bbedit" command-line tool.
% bbedit/etc/hosts
Also, I like the regex-like way you can block ads with style sheets, but since I still have to load them (they're just not displayed), this isn't going to be an option for me. I see banner ads as massive wastes of bandwidth.
Yeah, but what's one more ad when you gotta see a thousand anyway? (I think that's Opera's logic. It isn't too off-base, either.)
Does anyone know if/etc/hosts can be used to block the banners in Opera? I bet that would interest some people.
Is there a list of what servers it gets its banners from? (I.e., do they come from doubleclick.net, etc., or do they come from a central Opera ad server that can be blocked?)
The funniest thing of all about Opera is the company who makes it.
Opera to Apple: "Use our rendering engine or we'll have to rethink our product's availability on the Mac."
Apple to Opera: "HAhhahhsgkjlasdhlglasfasjklroflroflroflololodgjal sdgljhahdgahhhdajsklgfasdgsafjsahetfiasjkd37895&*( ^QW%QWE.
Camino is definitely cool in my book, though. I figure, the Mac has Camino and Safari... They're both great browsers--fast as hell, tab-enabled, built on open source technology (and as such get two great rendering engines), and get updated more than one or two times a year (IE can eat me).
Opera on Windows is nice, but they've never given a crap about Mac users, and thus Mac users have never given a crap about them.
Lesson: Meh, who cares. Use Safari and Camino and be done with it.:-D
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Did anyone else find that rather funny?
Speaking for SpamJunkie:
"And next time, I won't have an opinion on your opinion."
Pudge:
"After that, I won't say anything about your thoughts on my opinion."
SJ:
"Opinion opinion opinion opinion opinion opinion opinion opinion opinion opinion opinion opinion opinion opinion opinion opinion opinion opinion opinion opinion opinion opinion opinion opinion opinion opinion opinion opinion opinion opinion."
AC:
"omg shut up u faces jeez why dont u just go back to you're gay appple MACs??"
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Burninating karma at the speed of TROGDOR!
... Is a way to render irrelevant the burnination known as the Slashdot Effect! ;-D
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Um.
/etc/hosts)? Turn them on with Directory Access, in "/Applications/Utilities".
/etc/crontab
... But only one flavor of it. ;-)
Not only can your BSD flat files be used in OS X, but you can shell-script the system to hell and back all you like.
Want to use the BSD configuration files (e.g.,
Want to script xyz task to run once a week at midnight?
$ sudo vi
And go for it.
Mac OS X is as much of a hardcore Unix as you want it to be, even though there's a pretty UI on the surface.
For clarificatin, netinfo DOES come with Unix
"SCO's future on Itanium is immense, burning brightly like a flaming retard. SCO on Itanium supports more than 4GB of RAM. Do not believe the Debian infidels when they say otherwise! We are also the cheapest Linux distribution in the world! Anything you are told by the scheming harbingers of doom is a lie."
I could go on all day with this thread.
"Okay, if I'm dying, what the fuck do you call SCO on Itanium?" - BSD
The gist of the situation:
McAfee used Fink during the development of Virex, and as such, if you're using Virex and try to install Fink--well, you can't install Fink, so I won't finish that thought.
It's not a problem with Fink. Virex is causing the problem, and unfortunately, until McAfee get their act together, Fink and Virex can't be installed on the same machine.
Fink, when instaled, looks for
Check out this thread for more discussion.
I guess if you can't use 'em, give 'em away, right?
:-)
Waste not, want not!
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Mikey-San
Crap! Musta missed that.
:-/
Withdrawn.
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You'd have a bigger on-screen keyboard to submit Slashdot posts without spelling errors with! ;-D
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Mikey-San
Lately, there have been many instances of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act being used to prevent the publication of security issues found with various companies' products and services, or both.
/dig,/ so to speak, is security, what is your take on such invocations of the Act?
A recent story here on Slashdot covered university ID cards being flawed, and the DMCA being invoked to prevent discussion of the problem publicly.
Given that your
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Mikey-San
http://www.mikey-san.net/
"Liberty Connector"?
:-)
That's the funniest freakin' thing I've heard so far this week.
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Mikey-San
I question whether or not this guy's father will want to learn the ins and outs of ipfw.
Perhaps using the GUI firewall controls in System Preferences:Sharing:Firewall is a better way to go, at least for starters. It may be overly simple for many people, but it's perfect for those for whom scrolling through the ipfw man pages is a bit daunting.
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If you're on broadband, I say you should buy a router anyway.
:-)
There's nothing like a hardware firewall and your own private subnet as a line of defense, and there's nothing like being cracked and raped until you'r raw. I'll take the former, thankyouverymuch.
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Actually, I find BBEdit is great for editing /etc/hosts--especially with the "bbedit" command-line tool.
/etc/hosts
% bbedit
Also, I like the regex-like way you can block ads with style sheets, but since I still have to load them (they're just not displayed), this isn't going to be an option for me. I see banner ads as massive wastes of bandwidth.
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Norton won't do anything you can't do for free, and do better on your own.
:-)
Also, Norton can eat it.
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It actually means "road", I believe.
:-)
I'm getting used to it. I liked Chimera more as a name, but really, I couldn't care less what it's called.
Yeah, but what's one more ad when you gotta see a thousand anyway? (I think that's Opera's logic. It isn't too off-base, either.)
/etc/hosts can be used to block the banners in Opera? I bet that would interest some people.
Does anyone know if
Is there a list of what servers it gets its banners from? (I.e., do they come from doubleclick.net, etc., or do they come from a central Opera ad server that can be blocked?)
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The funniest thing of all about Opera is the company who makes it.
l sdgljhahdgahhhdajsklgfasdgsafjsahetfiasjkd37895&*( ^QW%QWE.
... They're both great browsers--fast as hell, tab-enabled, built on open source technology (and as such get two great rendering engines), and get updated more than one or two times a year (IE can eat me).
:-D
Opera to Apple: "Use our rendering engine or we'll have to rethink our product's availability on the Mac."
Apple to Opera: "HAhhahhsgkjlasdhlglasfasjklroflroflroflololodgja
Camino is definitely cool in my book, though. I figure, the Mac has Camino and Safari
Opera on Windows is nice, but they've never given a crap about Mac users, and thus Mac users have never given a crap about them.
Lesson: Meh, who cares. Use Safari and Camino and be done with it.
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Mikey-San
Camino makes you look at ads, too, you dork.
/etc/hosts to block ad servers, and you won't have to look at many banner ads in /any/ browser.
/etc/hosts:
/Applications/Utilities/Directory Access.
Learn to use
Example entry in
0.0.0.0 ad.doubleclick.net
I see no ads from that server anymore.
For more info, check out http://www.everythingisnt.com/hosts.html
However, to enable this file, you must enable "BSD Configuration Files" with/in
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Heh. I thought the Rube Goldberg joke (a chain reaction of posts) was kidna funny. The mods who tagged me with offtopic and troll -1s disagreed. :-)
Yay Slashdot! Yay nothing better to do at work! Yay lots of karma to burn!
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:-D
/really/ bored at work today.
Yeah, I'm
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Mikey-San
(keep going!)
(keep looking at the thread)
Oops! Wow. Nice catch.
I should drink more coffee in the mornings.