I remember watching a TV show about a pub (probably in Britain) that had a soundproof phone booth and a selection of background noises you could play while using it. I thought this was an excellent service for any pub to provid for its patrons:)
"So of course, someone who shouldn't have been in the class raised his hand and asked, "Is that an "i" after the "c"?"
You know what is really funny? The fact that you think someone should be knowledgeable about all facets of computers and semantics of specific operating systems in an "Intro to C++" course... if you were such a fucking hotshot why didn't you test out of the course? The point is people are in school to learn, not to be put down by elitists.
I had mod points, and was going to mod you down, but I'd rather vent. You need a serious attitude adjustment, and if you had actually turned around and chastised that poor fellow for wanting to learn, I seriously hope the professor would throw you out of the class by your ear like the immature punk you are.
is a fine sci fi writer, and the only reason I can see for you to put down his work like that without reason is so you can feel elitist in what you choose to read. As an early teen I was enthralled by the world of Xanth, and I was able to immerse myself in his books for hours and hours. I rarely get a chance to read a good sci fi book these days, as I'm too busy reading technical manuals and the like, but I will always fondly remember Piers works. Xanth, Apprentice Adept, and Incarnations were all excellent sci fi/fantasy series that I would all read again.
You take a cheap shot at a good writer, and act as if you're some sort of authority on what good sci fi is.. your review shows you have an inability to actually put anything into perspective.
"There are problems with the book, mostly in the perennial bugbear of science-fiction, character development, but the rush of ideas glossed over that for me."
So cramming as many ideas into as small a space makes up for a lack of personality in the characters? Sci Fi is not about who can fit the most neat ideas into the least number of pages.
I might have taken your review seriously, and possibly taken some time to check out this guy's work, but your unwarranted cheap shot at Piers Anthony just proved to me your opinion is far from trustworthy. Next time your write a review, try sticking reviewing the book you're supposed to revuew and not throwing in one liner summation reviews of other authors entire works, it just indicateds your ignorance and inability to stay on topic without trying to cram your opinions about the sci fi world down everyone's throat. This book can be a good book without "All others sucking".
btw Piers Anthony is personally kind of an asshole. I still like his work.
I got a Sparc 20 from work, and I have to say I was amazed by it. I was probably about 14 when these things came out, and didn't even have my first CD rom yet, but this thing had an optical mouse. Now it may not have been optical, I'm leaning towards magnetic induction due to the mousepad that is required to use the mouse, but there was no mouseball and that really amazed me:) Currently I have this thing running a Gentoo live cd (compiling was taking wayt oo long, over a week into it and still no sign of finishing) acting as my music box.
Anybody know exactly what kind of mouse it was that came with the Sparc20's?
" Carly's totally right -- what makes a job yours by birthright? Compete like everyone else."
Totally agreed, so let's drop the import taxes that are protecting these companies from cheaper foreign products. This double standard is bullshit, plain and simple. Why should a corporation receive protection that the actual citizens of the country do not receive? HP would most definately go bankrupt if we were allowed to receive equipment made in chinese sweatshops at costs before taxes. This would equate to a lower cost of living for me, so I could afford to take on a job making less money, albeit at the suffering of the chinese people.
Everyone is calling for an equal playing feild for foreign and US workers, but the homefield advantage US companies receive is ignored as being the status quo.
On a side note, I would say that US Citizens do not have a god given right to a certain job, they should have a birthright to a good job by being born in this country. The US government exists for the benefit of its own people, regardless of the insane amounts we spend on foreign aid. It is the duty of the US government to ensure the prosperity of its people. If a government can not provide this to its people, it is, in my opinion, a failure.
Yes because we all know it's much better to sit around with known vulnerabilties for months at a time, because you are simply UNABLE to do anything about it. No one if forcing you to patch, and as this is a local exploit the need is certainly not as great for the majority of Linux users. Are you trying to imply that the better way to do it is to trust some companies code who has in the past put the very same vulnerabilities back into their OS that had been taken out in a previous update? If you hate patching so much and prefer windows binary updates, try just getting a prepatched binary kernel, install, reboot. Hell you could go so far as to emulate windows update by randomly making calls to windowsupdate.microsoft.com and uploading sensitive information. All in all your point is meritless and shows gross ignorance about system maintenance on your part.
I have to disagre with this one point, as it is perfectly legal to give your kids alchohol. Same goes if you have an underaged spouse. Getting a child drunk could probably constitute wreckless endangerment, but it is allowed (at least in all states I have lived in) to allow your own child to drink a small amount of alcholic beverage.
Of course, giving another persons child could get you a contributing to minors charge, but I would think it would be up to the parents to actually file charges...
*sigh* Yet another post claiming what Linux needs to be and where it needs to go, seemingly without understanding the seperation from Linux and the desktop.
"First, the linux installer must be as easy as windows."
I suggest you try actually installing RedHat or Mandrake compared to Windows. Windows installer is not anything ot be proud of. If you really want to see the example of how an installer should work, try letting Lindows just do it for you. Apart from looking much better than the windows installer, all these installers provide more flexibiliy while retaining an even more user friendly install that Windows. Gentoo and Debian and the like aren't made for being easy to use, basing your idea of a Linux install off of these just shows that you either don't know what is out there or are just trolling.
"Second the linux desktop has to surpass Windows XP in usability"
Again, this is not something that Linux needs to do, because it has already been done. I find my fluxbox desktop infinately more usable than a Windows desktop (or a gnome or KDE desktop for that matter).
A standardized hot-key interface already exists. It's pretty much the same as it is in Windows. Alt-first letter of the menu item. Some people choose not to implememnt this in their applications, same goes for the Windows community.
There already are programs to launch programs or perform other tasks using gestures. Take a look at xstroke. It doesn't come as default in a distro, because most people don't use gestures. This includes advanced users. A great deal of us Linux users try to use the mouse as little as possible, as a keyboard is quicker and more precise, and with customizable hotkey functionality can pretty much make your rat obsolete, which is a perfect reason NOT to force any standard hotkeys. Why include stuff only a few people are going to use? Just because it makes you happy and might impress a PHB who will still never use that functionality? Gesture users are a definate minority. I have yet to use the gestures plugin I downloaded and installed for Firebird, even though I took the time to customize my gestures.
If these are thing syou truly beleive Linux "needs" to become successful in your eyes, then build your own damn distro. Quit screaming that Linux's "needs" are identical to your own, because they are not.
All Linux "needs" to do is stay open and free in the same spirit it has always been, and the community will tailor Linux to suit their needs. It sounds like what you want is a free and open Windows. Linux was and is not created to replace Microsoft Windows, it has it's own goals which it will complete in its own time, and is doing fine without the 20000/. ideallists telling it what and where it should be.
Sorry for the rantings, but every time a comment like this comes along it boils my blood. Linux in my eyes has far surpassed Windows in every arena except for gaming, and the blame there lies with Game Developers, not Linux. Yes it took me some time and effort to get my ultimate desktop, and no matter what, it will take individuals time and effor to get the ultimate desktop, because it's a very personal experience. If you just want something that's standardized across platforms, pick a distro and a desktop and stick to it, but you will always have to make sacrafices.
The only thing that annoys me more than the whiners you speak of are the whiners who wine about people whining, which you are doing. Why don't you just shut the hell up and let people whine? Do you think you are imparting the community with some precious nugget of golden knowledge here? Take you own advice, and "For God sakes, ignore the post if your time is so precious!"
See, I could have just ignored you're post, but I chose to whine about it instead. It's quite a vicious circle you're a part of here.
Perhaps you don't understand, but there is a huge difference b/w what your crappy $40 linksys can do and what a Linux router can do. There are very advanced features that can be implemented with a linux based router that are not present in ANY consumer grade gateway/firewall. I've yet to see anything that costs less than $5000 support advanced Quality of Service options such as Class Based Queing. Apart from that, you have an ability to install any software on your Linux router. I don't see LinkSys's running ethereal or ettercap any time soon.
all of this aside, my #1 reason for using a DIY router over a cheap consumer model is that I can build my own interface to it. My current setup includes all the functionality and ease of use of a LinkSys router, and a whole lot more. i have nmap, nessus, ACID+snort for IDS, portsentry for proactive attack detection and response, and much else, all within a simple web interface.
I'm sure I'll be going to Karma Hell for posting this, but I have seen alot of UserID's I respected around here turn complete hippocrits in regards to what this guy is doing. In articles about his iTunes DRM cracking efforts, I see people saying things such as "We finally get something we like and this guy tries to ruin it!" What difference does it make if he's writing software to watch DVD's or writing software to listen to music? Just because you hate the MPAA and love Apple? In articles about DeCSS you hear a great deal of argument based of Freedom of Speech and consumers right to Fair Use, but somehow these rights do not apply to aything we support, such as iTunes.
I like iTunes a great deal. I'd hate to see them make it any more difficult for me to get the same level of service I'm getting now. However, if they changed their policy to circumvent his efforts, I would blame Apple, not this guy for making use of his rights.
I've even heard peple claim, "Apple DRM is easy enough to get around, just burn a CD and a re-rip in whatever format!" I doubt these same people would accept the same excuse from the MPAA "CSS is already easy enough to get around, just burn it to DVD and rip it!" Why in the hell should I have to burn it to CD? That's wasting my money, time, and resources on a completely unecessary step, not to mention that I may not have a CD burner to begin with. I guess I should just be screwed over in that instance, as long as the majority of users are happy.
I sync every night a 3:30am CST, and last night this did not work for me. I'm not sure what caused it not to work, as everything was fetched and installed okay, yet x would not run using the nvida driver, only using nv.o would work. Upon examination it appeared not to have applied the patch. This may be due to a problem elsewhere in my configuration, but I suspect if it is, then someone else may have the same problem,
I know alot of this was mentioned last night when the story of the kernel release came out, but I thought I'd mention it anyways.
There are two new interfaces to configuring the kernel. xconfig (based on QT) and gconfig, as well as the old menuconfig. I only tried xconfig and menuconfig, but they both worked fine and more quickly than their predecessors.
When compiling your kernel, drop the make dep and make clean and just #make bzImage modules modules_install. It might just be my imagination, but it seems like it took half the time to compile 2.6.0 and modules as it did for 2.4.23-pre6 which I was using.
If you get an error message like QM_MODULES: Function not implemented you haven't gotten the module-init-tools for 2.6.0 installed.
Nvidia users need to patch the nvidia-kernel sources with the appropriate diff from http://www.minion.de and apply before installing your new nvidia.o. My install went like this (Gentoo 1.4): 1. Get the nvidia-kernel package #emerge -f nvidia-kernel (if it's not already is/usr/portage/distfile) 2. Extract nvidia-kernel #sh NVIDIA-Linux-...-pk0 --extract-only 3. Patch driver #cd usr/src/nv #patch -p1 NVIDIA_Kernel-1.0.4496-2.6.diff #ln -s Makefile.kbuild Makefile #make install
Hope this helps someone out there, I spent an hour or two googling to figure this out, so I hope I can save someone the trouble:)
So you're saying if they put an icon of a lock in the program, you'll use it? What greater guarantee does that really give you? You still have to put your trust in the browser, and assume that it works as you expect. How is that different than the trust you put into a p2p program's encryption? Unless you're sniffing the actual traffic, there's no way to tell if it's actually being encrypted during transmission. What they are talking about is not necessarily hidden away from your prying eyes, it's just transparent in the normal operations of the program, so that people won't "ignore that lock icon", because by default it would be encrypted.
I found my introduction to the BBS community when I was 8 or so and going through everything that came with our new computer. While playing with lotus 1-2-3 I came across a bunch of options I didn't understand, but one said Kermit, like the frog, so I checked that out. This brought me to the (horrible) built in terminal and gave me some options for dialing numbers. That's what gave me a clue as to what that one weird shaped port was on the back of the computer, so I hooked up the phoneline and dialed PKWare's BBS, which was the first BBS I ever connected to. After hours of long distance charges all over the country, much to my parents displeasure, I had a good terminal program (Terminate FYI:) and a decent list of local BBS.
So I guess kermit played a crucial role in my life, as now I'm a network engineer:) Of course I ditched kermit for Zmodem, and a few other nutty protocols. Anybody remember the ones that would let you play tetris and such? Those were great back in the days of 2400 baud and single tasking operating systems.
And since I'm feeling nostalgic I'll just throw these in at random.
-Annoying people by creating insanely large and annoying ANSI sigs. -Fidonet -KINGCOTT -ANSI Bombs -Legend of the Red Dragon -TradeWars 2002 -Horrible misconfigured MajorBBS sites. -Wardialing (ToneLoc!) -Can I have Co-Sys?
If you understand anything in that list, you're probably a geek. If you understand everything in the list, you were probably as annoying of a punkass as I was:)
I went through the build process of a DIY PVR. Eventually I stuck with MythTV after trying Freevo and some others, because of all the kick ass plugins for myth. The most useful piece of advice I have is pay attention to the hardware you're going to use first, and then add software.
The $45 ATI TV-Wonder you can get at best buy isn't going to cut it. This thing is ok for watching TV, but it's not even great at that. You definately want a TV tuner card with hardware MPEG2 encoding, preferably at 12MB/s. I'd recommend a Hauppauge product. You may even want to look into HDTV tuner cards, although I have no experience with them.
In the end the quality of your hardware is going to matter most, because regardless of the software you use to accomplish your goal, the end result will only be as good as the hardware that was used to capture the image.
I had a TiVo, but sold it after I built my own PVR. TiVo is great, and did some things my PVR doesn't (like suggested viewing), but all in all there's nothing better than your own home rolled PVR:)
I disagree. eMachines are cheap, plentiful, and reasonably reliable for the price. I have a 300mhz eMachine acting as my router right now. It handles advanced routing like QoS CBQ and HBT without a noticeable impace on performance. The cheapest router I could find that would support any type of QoS was $500, almost twice what the eMachine cost new.
Also, your claim about them being non upgradable is flat out false. You can't change the hard drive? They use standard sized IDE HDD drives. What eMachine did you see that didn't have an upgradable harddrive? I'd love to know. The graphics card is usually built-in with no AGP slot, but eMachines aren't designed for gamers, they are designed to be low cost desktop machines, and the video cards they come with handle that quite well. If you need to replaces the video, there are extra PCI slots to do so. THe processor is also upgradable. I swapped the Cyrix chip my Mom's came with with an AMD Duron by simply popping it out and replacing, just as I would with any other equivalent x86 board. Your complaint that the components are cheap is ridiculous. The point of an eMachine is a cheap computer.. do you think they'd accomplish that with premium components? eMachines were not designed as gaming machines or high end workstations. If you or your dad are using them as such, then obviously the problem is not in the eMachine, but in the logic of the person who recommended or bought the eMachine expecting it to accomplish unrealistic goals.
On a side note, without products like eMachines and Microtel's $200 wal-mart PC's, I wouldn't be able to build an 8 node LVS cluster for $1600 that can replace $30G worth of cisco equipment.
"Steganography (literally meaning covered writing) dates back to ancient Greece, where common practices consisted of etching messages in wooden tablets and covering them with wax, and tattooing a shaved messenger's head, letting his hair grow back, then shaving it again when he arrived at his contact point."
I feel sorry for the messenger who's tattoo ended in "Destroy this message after receiving." We can't have male pattern baldness exposing classified information!
That's what you're going to call it, damnit. I'd definately use XchinoLinux, and I think all the other Xchino's out there would too. Why use XchinoLinux? Brand name synergy paradigm shifting, now with XML!
"problem of people using software that is fundamentally insecure (Outlook, IE, ISS, Windows, etc). "
I can understand how the ISS could be fundamentally insecure. I mean, who'd a thunk you'd have to lock your doors in space too! Damn kids and their space station jacking gang wars in space.
"Researchers say potential applications for the robots include performing search missions on the battlefield, transporting injured soldiers to safety, or following humans around while hauling their gear."
Of course the "potential applications" given to the public are all politically correct, but knowing the DoD the true intended applications if for something more sinister like reducing the number of human heads needed for an occupation force.
Right now we have our forces spread out all over the world. We're still in Afghanistan and Iraq, and we're still "keeping check" in Bosnia.
With a team of several smart robots communicating with a much smaller set of actual humans, we could occupy larger areas, with fewer personel.
Not too far fetched when you consider that we've basically conquered two nations in the past 2 years, and especially with the criticism the effort in Iraq has received since the body count after the war surpassed the count during war.
Maybe it's about time to revisit the Geneva convention for an addendum or two...
If you really want it to be a gift, customize it yourself. Just find a good php script that does each of the things you require, then customize and combine them. Then you can create your own administration interface, or combine the admin interfaces of the individual scripts if possible. I've never found a CMS I liked, as they all seem to try to do too much, and it becomes a pain to customize them due to their massive codebase. And you're wise to stay away from PHPNuke.
It's too bad this won't get any support, as it doesn't make politicians any profit. Maybe if they could promise Bush Ohio's vote, or line some pockets with green, they'll get some government backing. I think there should be a law against a politician having invested interest into the means by which they are elected.
"v) If all else fails, vote with your feet. Canada is close by."
I've been considering this for quite awhile, and so have pretty much all of my friends. Is it easy to immigrate to Canda? Do I have to give up my US citizenship to become a Canadian citizen? What's the tech job market like?
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I remember watching a TV show about a pub (probably in Britain) that had a soundproof phone booth and a selection of background noises you could play while using it. I thought this was an excellent service for any pub to provid for its patrons :)
"So of course, someone who shouldn't have been in the class raised his hand and asked, "Is that an "i" after the "c"?"
You know what is really funny? The fact that you think someone should be knowledgeable about all facets of computers and semantics of specific operating systems in an "Intro to C++" course... if you were such a fucking hotshot why didn't you test out of the course? The point is people are in school to learn, not to be put down by elitists.
I had mod points, and was going to mod you down, but I'd rather vent. You need a serious attitude adjustment, and if you had actually turned around and chastised that poor fellow for wanting to learn, I seriously hope the professor would throw you out of the class by your ear like the immature punk you are.
is a fine sci fi writer, and the only reason I can see for you to put down his work like that without reason is so you can feel elitist in what you choose to read. As an early teen I was enthralled by the world of Xanth, and I was able to immerse myself in his books for hours and hours. I rarely get a chance to read a good sci fi book these days, as I'm too busy reading technical manuals and the like, but I will always fondly remember Piers works. Xanth, Apprentice Adept, and Incarnations were all excellent sci fi/fantasy series that I would all read again.
You take a cheap shot at a good writer, and act as if you're some sort of authority on what good sci fi is.. your review shows you have an inability to actually put anything into perspective.
"There are problems with the book, mostly in the perennial bugbear of science-fiction, character development, but the rush of ideas glossed over that for me."
So cramming as many ideas into as small a space makes up for a lack of personality in the characters? Sci Fi is not about who can fit the most neat ideas into the least number of pages.
I might have taken your review seriously, and possibly taken some time to check out this guy's work, but your unwarranted cheap shot at Piers Anthony just proved to me your opinion is far from trustworthy. Next time your write a review, try sticking reviewing the book you're supposed to revuew and not throwing in one liner summation reviews of other authors entire works, it just indicateds your ignorance and inability to stay on topic without trying to cram your opinions about the sci fi world down everyone's throat. This book can be a good book without "All others sucking".
btw Piers Anthony is personally kind of an asshole. I still like his work.
I got a Sparc 20 from work, and I have to say I was amazed by it. I was probably about 14 when these things came out, and didn't even have my first CD rom yet, but this thing had an optical mouse. Now it may not have been optical, I'm leaning towards magnetic induction due to the mousepad that is required to use the mouse, but there was no mouseball and that really amazed me :) Currently I have this thing running a Gentoo live cd (compiling was taking wayt oo long, over a week into it and still no sign of finishing) acting as my music box.
Anybody know exactly what kind of mouse it was that came with the Sparc20's?
" Carly's totally right -- what makes a job yours by birthright? Compete like everyone else."
Totally agreed, so let's drop the import taxes that are protecting these companies from cheaper foreign products. This double standard is bullshit, plain and simple. Why should a corporation receive protection that the actual citizens of the country do not receive? HP would most definately go bankrupt if we were allowed to receive equipment made in chinese sweatshops at costs before taxes. This would equate to a lower cost of living for me, so I could afford to take on a job making less money, albeit at the suffering of the chinese people.
Everyone is calling for an equal playing feild for foreign and US workers, but the homefield advantage US companies receive is ignored as being the status quo.
On a side note, I would say that US Citizens do not have a god given right to a certain job, they should have a birthright to a good job by being born in this country. The US government exists for the benefit of its own people, regardless of the insane amounts we spend on foreign aid. It is the duty of the US government to ensure the prosperity of its people. If a government can not provide this to its people, it is, in my opinion, a failure.
Yes because we all know it's much better to sit around with known vulnerabilties for months at a time, because you are simply UNABLE to do anything about it. No one if forcing you to patch, and as this is a local exploit the need is certainly not as great for the majority of Linux users. Are you trying to imply that the better way to do it is to trust some companies code who has in the past put the very same vulnerabilities back into their OS that had been taken out in a previous update? If you hate patching so much and prefer windows binary updates, try just getting a prepatched binary kernel, install, reboot. Hell you could go so far as to emulate windows update by randomly making calls to windowsupdate.microsoft.com and uploading sensitive information. All in all your point is meritless and shows gross ignorance about system maintenance on your part.
"* Giving alcohol to minors. "
I have to disagre with this one point, as it is perfectly legal to give your kids alchohol. Same goes if you have an underaged spouse. Getting a child drunk could probably constitute wreckless endangerment, but it is allowed (at least in all states I have lived in) to allow your own child to drink a small amount of alcholic beverage.
Of course, giving another persons child could get you a contributing to minors charge, but I would think it would be up to the parents to actually file charges...
*sigh* Yet another post claiming what Linux needs to be and where it needs to go, seemingly without understanding the seperation from Linux and the desktop.
/. ideallists telling it what and where it should be.
"First, the linux installer must be as easy as windows."
I suggest you try actually installing RedHat or Mandrake compared to Windows. Windows installer is not anything ot be proud of. If you really want to see the example of how an installer should work, try letting Lindows just do it for you. Apart from looking much better than the windows installer, all these installers provide more flexibiliy while retaining an even more user friendly install that Windows. Gentoo and Debian and the like aren't made for being easy to use, basing your idea of a Linux install off of these just shows that you either don't know what is out there or are just trolling.
"Second the linux desktop has to surpass Windows XP in usability"
Again, this is not something that Linux needs to do, because it has already been done. I find my fluxbox desktop infinately more usable than a Windows desktop (or a gnome or KDE desktop for that matter).
A standardized hot-key interface already exists. It's pretty much the same as it is in Windows. Alt-first letter of the menu item. Some people choose not to implememnt this in their applications, same goes for the Windows community.
There already are programs to launch programs or perform other tasks using gestures. Take a look at xstroke. It doesn't come as default in a distro, because most people don't use gestures. This includes advanced users. A great deal of us Linux users try to use the mouse as little as possible, as a keyboard is quicker and more precise, and with customizable hotkey functionality can pretty much make your rat obsolete, which is a perfect reason NOT to force any standard hotkeys. Why include stuff only a few people are going to use? Just because it makes you happy and might impress a PHB who will still never use that functionality? Gesture users are a definate minority. I have yet to use the gestures plugin I downloaded and installed for Firebird, even though I took the time to customize my gestures.
If these are thing syou truly beleive Linux "needs" to become successful in your eyes, then build your own damn distro. Quit screaming that Linux's "needs" are identical to your own, because they are not.
All Linux "needs" to do is stay open and free in the same spirit it has always been, and the community will tailor Linux to suit their needs. It sounds like what you want is a free and open Windows. Linux was and is not created to replace Microsoft Windows, it has it's own goals which it will complete in its own time, and is doing fine without the 20000
Sorry for the rantings, but every time a comment like this comes along it boils my blood. Linux in my eyes has far surpassed Windows in every arena except for gaming, and the blame there lies with Game Developers, not Linux. Yes it took me some time and effort to get my ultimate desktop, and no matter what, it will take individuals time and effor to get the ultimate desktop, because it's a very personal experience. If you just want something that's standardized across platforms, pick a distro and a desktop and stick to it, but you will always have to make sacrafices.
The only thing that annoys me more than the whiners you speak of are the whiners who wine about people whining, which you are doing. Why don't you just shut the hell up and let people whine? Do you think you are imparting the community with some precious nugget of golden knowledge here? Take you own advice, and "For God sakes, ignore the post if your time is so precious!"
See, I could have just ignored you're post, but I chose to whine about it instead. It's quite a vicious circle you're a part of here.
Perhaps you don't understand, but there is a huge difference b/w what your crappy $40 linksys can do and what a Linux router can do. There are very advanced features that can be implemented with a linux based router that are not present in ANY consumer grade gateway/firewall. I've yet to see anything that costs less than $5000 support advanced Quality of Service options such as Class Based Queing. Apart from that, you have an ability to install any software on your Linux router. I don't see LinkSys's running ethereal or ettercap any time soon.
all of this aside, my #1 reason for using a DIY router over a cheap consumer model is that I can build my own interface to it. My current setup includes all the functionality and ease of use of a LinkSys router, and a whole lot more. i have nmap, nessus, ACID+snort for IDS, portsentry for proactive attack detection and response, and much else, all within a simple web interface.
Also, it's geeky, and this is a geek site.
I'm sure I'll be going to Karma Hell for posting this, but I have seen alot of UserID's I respected around here turn complete hippocrits in regards to what this guy is doing. In articles about his iTunes DRM cracking efforts, I see people saying things such as "We finally get something we like and this guy tries to ruin it!" What difference does it make if he's writing software to watch DVD's or writing software to listen to music? Just because you hate the MPAA and love Apple? In articles about DeCSS you hear a great deal of argument based of Freedom of Speech and consumers right to Fair Use, but somehow these rights do not apply to aything we support, such as iTunes.
I like iTunes a great deal. I'd hate to see them make it any more difficult for me to get the same level of service I'm getting now. However, if they changed their policy to circumvent his efforts, I would blame Apple, not this guy for making use of his rights.
I've even heard peple claim, "Apple DRM is easy enough to get around, just burn a CD and a re-rip in whatever format!" I doubt these same people would accept the same excuse from the MPAA "CSS is already easy enough to get around, just burn it to DVD and rip it!" Why in the hell should I have to burn it to CD? That's wasting my money, time, and resources on a completely unecessary step, not to mention that I may not have a CD burner to begin with. I guess I should just be screwed over in that instance, as long as the majority of users are happy.
I sync every night a 3:30am CST, and last night this did not work for me. I'm not sure what caused it not to work, as everything was fetched and installed okay, yet x would not run using the nvida driver, only using nv.o would work. Upon examination it appeared not to have applied the patch. This may be due to a problem elsewhere in my configuration, but I suspect if it is, then someone else may have the same problem,
I know alot of this was mentioned last night when the story of the kernel release came out, but I thought I'd mention it anyways.
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There are two new interfaces to configuring the kernel. xconfig (based on QT) and gconfig, as well as the old menuconfig. I only tried xconfig and menuconfig, but they both worked fine and more quickly than their predecessors.
When compiling your kernel, drop the make dep and make clean and just #make bzImage modules modules_install. It might just be my imagination, but it seems like it took half the time to compile 2.6.0 and modules as it did for 2.4.23-pre6 which I was using.
If you get an error message like QM_MODULES: Function not implemented you haven't gotten the module-init-tools for 2.6.0 installed.
Nvidia users need to patch the nvidia-kernel sources with the appropriate diff from http://www.minion.de and apply before installing your new nvidia.o. My install went like this (Gentoo 1.4):
1. Get the nvidia-kernel package
#emerge -f nvidia-kernel
(if it's not already is
2. Extract nvidia-kernel
#sh NVIDIA-Linux-...-pk0 --extract-only
3. Patch driver
#cd usr/src/nv
#patch -p1 NVIDIA_Kernel-1.0.4496-2.6.diff
#ln -s Makefile.kbuild Makefile
#make install
Hope this helps someone out there, I spent an hour or two googling to figure this out, so I hope I can save someone the trouble
So you're saying if they put an icon of a lock in the program, you'll use it? What greater guarantee does that really give you? You still have to put your trust in the browser, and assume that it works as you expect. How is that different than the trust you put into a p2p program's encryption? Unless you're sniffing the actual traffic, there's no way to tell if it's actually being encrypted during transmission. What they are talking about is not necessarily hidden away from your prying eyes, it's just transparent in the normal operations of the program, so that people won't "ignore that lock icon", because by default it would be encrypted.
I found my introduction to the BBS community when I was 8 or so and going through everything that came with our new computer. While playing with lotus 1-2-3 I came across a bunch of options I didn't understand, but one said Kermit, like the frog, so I checked that out. This brought me to the (horrible) built in terminal and gave me some options for dialing numbers. That's what gave me a clue as to what that one weird shaped port was on the back of the computer, so I hooked up the phoneline and dialed PKWare's BBS, which was the first BBS I ever connected to. After hours of long distance charges all over the country, much to my parents displeasure, I had a good terminal program (Terminate FYI :) and a decent list of local BBS.
:) Of course I ditched kermit for Zmodem, and a few other nutty protocols. Anybody remember the ones that would let you play tetris and such? Those were great back in the days of 2400 baud and single tasking operating systems.
:)
So I guess kermit played a crucial role in my life, as now I'm a network engineer
And since I'm feeling nostalgic I'll just throw these in at random.
-Annoying people by creating insanely large and annoying ANSI sigs.
-Fidonet
-KINGCOTT
-ANSI Bombs
-Legend of the Red Dragon
-TradeWars 2002
-Horrible misconfigured MajorBBS sites.
-Wardialing (ToneLoc!)
-Can I have Co-Sys?
If you understand anything in that list, you're probably a geek. If you understand everything in the list, you were probably as annoying of a punkass as I was
I went through the build process of a DIY PVR. Eventually I stuck with MythTV after trying Freevo and some others, because of all the kick ass plugins for myth. The most useful piece of advice I have is pay attention to the hardware you're going to use first, and then add software.
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The $45 ATI TV-Wonder you can get at best buy isn't going to cut it. This thing is ok for watching TV, but it's not even great at that. You definately want a TV tuner card with hardware MPEG2 encoding, preferably at 12MB/s. I'd recommend a Hauppauge product. You may even want to look into HDTV tuner cards, although I have no experience with them.
In the end the quality of your hardware is going to matter most, because regardless of the software you use to accomplish your goal, the end result will only be as good as the hardware that was used to capture the image.
I had a TiVo, but sold it after I built my own PVR. TiVo is great, and did some things my PVR doesn't (like suggested viewing), but all in all there's nothing better than your own home rolled PVR
I disagree. eMachines are cheap, plentiful, and reasonably reliable for the price. I have a 300mhz eMachine acting as my router right now. It handles advanced routing like QoS CBQ and HBT without a noticeable impace on performance. The cheapest router I could find that would support any type of QoS was $500, almost twice what the eMachine cost new.
Also, your claim about them being non upgradable is flat out false. You can't change the hard drive? They use standard sized IDE HDD drives. What eMachine did you see that didn't have an upgradable harddrive? I'd love to know. The graphics card is usually built-in with no AGP slot, but eMachines aren't designed for gamers, they are designed to be low cost desktop machines, and the video cards they come with handle that quite well. If you need to replaces the video, there are extra PCI slots to do so. THe processor is also upgradable. I swapped the Cyrix chip my Mom's came with with an AMD Duron by simply popping it out and replacing, just as I would with any other equivalent x86 board. Your complaint that the components are cheap is ridiculous. The point of an eMachine is a cheap computer.. do you think they'd accomplish that with premium components? eMachines were not designed as gaming machines or high end workstations. If you or your dad are using them as such, then obviously the problem is not in the eMachine, but in the logic of the person who recommended or bought the eMachine expecting it to accomplish unrealistic goals.
On a side note, without products like eMachines and Microtel's $200 wal-mart PC's, I wouldn't be able to build an 8 node LVS cluster for $1600 that can replace $30G worth of cisco equipment.
Steganography has been around since the days of the ancient geeks, er greeks. :)
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http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/steganography.htm
"Steganography (literally meaning covered writing) dates back to ancient Greece, where common practices consisted of etching messages in wooden tablets and covering them with wax, and tattooing a shaved messenger's head, letting his hair grow back, then shaving it again when he arrived at his contact point."
I feel sorry for the messenger who's tattoo ended in "Destroy this message after receiving." We can't have male pattern baldness exposing classified information!
That's what you're going to call it, damnit. I'd definately use XchinoLinux, and I think all the other Xchino's out there would too. Why use XchinoLinux? Brand name synergy paradigm shifting, now with XML!
"problem of people using software that is fundamentally insecure (Outlook, IE, ISS, Windows, etc). "
I can understand how the ISS could be fundamentally insecure. I mean, who'd a thunk you'd have to lock your doors in space too! Damn kids and their space station jacking gang wars in space.
"Researchers say potential applications for the robots include performing search missions on the battlefield, transporting injured soldiers to safety, or following humans around while hauling their gear."
Of course the "potential applications" given to the public are all politically correct, but knowing the DoD the true intended applications if for something more sinister like reducing the number of human heads needed for an occupation force.
Right now we have our forces spread out all over the world. We're still in Afghanistan and Iraq, and we're still "keeping check" in Bosnia.
With a team of several smart robots communicating with a much smaller set of actual humans, we could occupy larger areas, with fewer personel.
Not too far fetched when you consider that we've basically conquered two nations in the past 2 years, and especially with the criticism the effort in Iraq has received since the body count after the war surpassed the count during war.
Maybe it's about time to revisit the Geneva convention for an addendum or two...
If you really want it to be a gift, customize it yourself. Just find a good php script that does each of the things you require, then customize and combine them. Then you can create your own administration interface, or combine the admin interfaces of the individual scripts if possible. I've never found a CMS I liked, as they all seem to try to do too much, and it becomes a pain to customize them due to their massive codebase. And you're wise to stay away from PHPNuke.
It's too bad this won't get any support, as it doesn't make politicians any profit. Maybe if they could promise Bush Ohio's vote, or line some pockets with green, they'll get some government backing. I think there should be a law against a politician having invested interest into the means by which they are elected.
"v) If all else fails, vote with your feet. Canada is close by."
I've been considering this for quite awhile, and so have pretty much all of my friends. Is it easy to immigrate to Canda? Do I have to give up my US citizenship to become a Canadian citizen? What's the tech job market like?
"Bullshit. You can already do that within iTunes. Just burn to a CD."
Bullshit. I don't have a CD burner.