1. Old pc 2. Smoothwall GPL 3. Ad Zapper (in the smoothwall, google martybugs) 4. Privoxy 5. TOR 6. Linux all around.
Track me bitch...
I see no ads unless I WANT to see them. On TV, I make frequent use of the mute button. I'm about to build a Mythtv box and take FULL control of what I watch as I hear Mythtv busts ads automagically.
Let M$ stay under the crosshairs of the script kiddies and virus/trojan scumbags. And if it did become "big", the commercialized scumbag profiteers would try to squeeze out the "free" folks. And of course M$ would be behind this push, funding it like they funded SCO. The sheer greed of M$ knows no bounds or limits..
I like it as is, an obscure and out of the limelight system. I like when I talk about Linux and people act as if I'm from another galaxy and have three heads.
And I most of all don't want to see distros grasping at the "look and feel" of M$. All the bling-bling eye candy and playskool icons are for babies and they can keep that crap. I don't want to run ANY M$ apps on my machines. Not one. If you do, you may as well just reformat your drives and install XP. Use Linux or do not, there is no compromise.
And lastly, I want to see Linspire fail completely. What a total pile of insecure and unstable trash. Putting people into Linspire and selling them the fairy tale that they are "safe" is doing people a disservice.
Let's keep Linux where it should be, in the hands of the capable.
I recently had surgery and am now full of titanium rods and bolts in my spine. (ouch...)
Before the surgery I had to have all sorts of MRI and cat scans. They questioned me about any sort of medical implants or tattoos that I might have.
While it's not so much a problem with CAT scans, the MRI scanner can cause you very serious problems if you have metal in your body or certain tattoo ink that has a metalic powder in it. It won't suck the ink out of your skin but they say it can heat up and become extremely uncomfortable and unbearable. Metal implants, pacemakers, pumps, etc. can cause serious problems under MRI..
I've never heard anyone mention how RFID and MRI are going to get along with each other.
And by the way, they can take the RFID chip meant for me and implant it up their asses, sideways with a chainsaw.
The brick-and-mortar analogy would be to say that you're going to have a "discussion night" about your store, and encourage everyone in town to show up. Then, anyone who speaks up with a negative opinion you tell to leave your store immediately, and when someone expresses a positive opinion, you let them stay.
If I have a brick and mortar store and an unsatisfied customer enters my store and begins passing out fliers and berating my business with a megaphone, INSIDE MY STORE, do you think that's acceptable?
Should I even permit him to do the same thing in at the entrance door or even in the parking lot?? What about on the sidewalk across the street? Where is the line drawn?
I think not. Go try that at Wal-Mart or just about any other physical store and see what happens to you.
Allowing people to criticize them on their ecommerce websites is really no different. I would do the same thing, delete the offending comments.
Now, OTOH, if someone wants to criticize them on their own website, no problem. That's more than acceptable. Go to google and type "walmart sucks" and you'll find more than enough sites to suit your needs.
Note: I deeply despise BIG business and BIG GLOBAL Corporations and the FAT PIGS at the top of the food chain that enslave the little people at the bottom. I hate them with a passion that you can't begin to fathom. If you want to criticize them, do so, by all means. But doing it on/in their property, that's never going to fly.
90% chance that nothing at all will happen to them?
Getting in your car and driving to the store, you have a 50/50 chance of getting killed in a wreck.
When it comes down to it, everything is 50/50 Either it will happen or it won't happen..
Suck it up and take the chance. I would do it in a heartbeat. And if told that I couldn't return to earth and had to remain on Mars for the rest of my life, that would be just fine with me. Matter of fact, I would prefer that option..
Car Whisperer The carwhisperer project intends to sensibilise manufacturers of carkits and other Bluetooth appliances without display and keyboard for the possible security threat evolving from the use of standard passkeys. A Bluetooth passkey is used within the pairing process that takes place, when two Bluetooth enabled devices connect for the first time. Besides other public data, the passkey is a secret parameter used in the process that generates and exchanges the so-called link key. In Bluetooth communication scenarios the link key is used for authentication and encryption of the information that is exchanged between the counterparts of the communication. The cw_scanner script is repeatedly performing a device inquiry for visible Bluetooth devices of which the class matches the one of Bluetooth Headsets and Hands-Free Units. Once a visible Bluetooth device with the appropriate
device class is found, the cw_scanner script executes the carwhisperer binary that connects to the found device (on RFCOMM channel 1) and opens a control connection and connects the SCO links. The carwhiperer binary connects to the device found by the cw_scanner. The passkey that is required for the initial connection to the device is provided by the cw_pin.pl script that replaces the official Bluez PIN helper (graphical application that usually prompts for the passkey). The cw_pin.pl script provides the passkey depending on the Bluetooth address that requests it. Depending on the first three bytes of the address, which references the manufacturer, different passkeys are returned by the cw_pin.sh script. In quite a few cases the preset standard passkey on headsets and handsfree units is '0000' or '1234'. Once the connection has been successfully established, the carwhisperer binary starts sending audio to, and recording audio from the headset. This allows attackers to inject audio data into the car. This could be fake
traffic announcements or nice words. Attackers are also able to eavesdrop conversations among people sitting in the car. Ideally, the carwhisperer is used with a toooned dongle and a directional antenna that enhances the range of a Bluetooth radio quite a bit. (see Long-Distance-Snarf experiment)
IMHO it promotes safe (and ultimately geeky) drinking.
Do you honestly think that kids are going to "drink responsibly? Do you think they will really stick with this thing?
A very small few, a very tiny minority MAY go with this program but I assure you the vast majority will not.
The promotion of alcohol use to anyone, in any amount is wrong. Especially promoting it among young people. Young people for the greatest part, with few exceptions, behave very irresponsibly. I am appalled by the alcohol commercials on TV, "Spike" (I watch 007 movies on there from time to time) is one channel I can say for certain is a big offender. I dare not tune into one of the "music" channels, such as MTV or the likes, I won't tolerate those festering sewers on my TV but I would lay money on it that they promote alcohol on there like there is no tomorrow.
Alcohol is almost always over indulged in and almost always abused. It is an extremely rare case where someone might indulge in a drink now and then without getting wasted. You have some people that might have a glass of wine with dinner, that's fine. But the beer drinkers that pour it down their necks until the keg runs dry, that's stupid. I've been around it. I've seen what it does to people. There is nothing more despicable than a drunk person. Drunks are idiots. I'm not trolling, I'm telling the F-N truth and if you take offense to it you probably have an alcohol problem and should seek help.
Just what we need. The promotion of an activity that is harmful and destructive. How many will die from alcohol poisoning now? How many will get killed in car wrecks? How many will kill others in car wrecks?
The lucky ones will get arrested and MAY stop in time.
What ever happened to going to school to LEARN??
My son chose to go to a religious college because of the reputation of the local community college had from drunkeness and just turning out ignorant idiots.
There should be a nationwide ban of alcohol on college campuses, public and private.
Firefox does not render the fonts the same. In this image you can see that links in firefox are so heavy they just ugly. It does NOT look the same, no matter what size the fonts are set at.
Looking at browsers all day is like looking at women. You may look at a woman and think "Wow, she's hot!" and I may look at her and think "Damn, that ho is fugly!" It's all a matter of personal preference.
I use a 21" Sony Trinitron CRT at 1400x1050 at 112hz Be aware that jpeg compression makes the fonts in this snapshot look *much* worse than they are when live.
This is *after* I tweaked Firefox to use the same fonts (Suse Sans 12).. They do NOT look the same despite that they are both configured to use the same fonts at the same resolution.
1. On my Suse 9.3 pro box fonts are razor sharp, crystal clear, bold and very pleasant to look at all day.
2. Web archiver. I use it frequently.
3. Split windows.
4. Perfect integration into my OS. None of the others do that at all, even to the slightest degree.
There are other minor things. But it's more of a situation of what I DON'T LIKE about the other browsers. I simply do not like them. First of, M$ is not even in the picture here, nor is MAC. That leaves Opera, which has SHIT for fonts. And then there is Firefox which has too few features and options, plus, I don't like the fonts in it either.
In 99% of my browsing, Konqueror suits all my needs and does an outstanding job. On some very rare occasions I run across an oddball site and have to resort to dragging up Firefox, namely when doing any of the google goodies, like gmail or google maps, etc.. Plain old google.com searching works fine.
If 99% of the people like to eat spinach should I too be forced to eat spinach?
I don't know if it's a case of google telling KDE/Konq to go to hell or if it's KDE/Konq not wanting to or unable to make Konq and Google work with each other but I wish someone would get on the stick and fix it.
Microsoft IE 5.5+ (download: Windows)
- Netscape 7.1+ (download: Windows Mac Linux)
- Mozilla 1.4+ (download: Windows Mac Linux)
- Mozilla Firefox 0.8+ (download: Windows Mac Linux)
- Safari 1.2.1+ (download: Mac) Many other browsers work with Gmail's basic HTML view, including:
- Microsoft IE 4.0+
- Netscape 4.07+
- Opera 6.03+
One of my biggest pet peeves is HD whine. I usually have 4+ (up to 9 sometimes) pc's running here and among the fan noise, the HD whine is far louder and far more annoying. I am in the process of building a sound proof area in my office for the pc's.
I moved all the pc's into a double wide closet and brought out my connections through a 16 port KVM to my desk. Next step is to install sliding glass patio doors on the closet so I can see inside and get inside to access them. I installed a QUIET bathroom type vent in the ceiling of the closet to exhaust the heat up into the attic. When done my noise AND heat problem will be almost nil.. I know it will work because I tested it by closing the original wooden doors. I just want the glass doors so I can see status lights and the like..
Pretty cheap to do when compared to replacing all the PSU's and fans with water cooling stuff. The price of one set of sliding glass doors is about the same as one water cooled PSU.. When you are talking about quite a few of them like I am, it's an easy choice to make.
Slashdot Mirror
on all of my Linux boxes..
Thanks Linus!!
So yes, it'll be safe and secure.
Ah, so that means it'll be open source!
Bitch fight!!
1. Old pc
2. Smoothwall GPL
3. Ad Zapper (in the smoothwall, google martybugs)
4. Privoxy
5. TOR
6. Linux all around.
Track me bitch...
I see no ads unless I WANT to see them. On TV, I make frequent use of the mute button.
I'm about to build a Mythtv box and take FULL control of what I watch as I hear Mythtv busts ads automagically.
Let M$ stay under the crosshairs of the script kiddies and virus/trojan scumbags.
And if it did become "big", the commercialized scumbag profiteers would try to squeeze out the "free" folks. And of course M$ would be behind this push, funding it like they funded SCO. The sheer greed of M$ knows no bounds or limits..
I like it as is, an obscure and out of the limelight system. I like when I talk about Linux and people act as if I'm from another galaxy and have three heads.
And I most of all don't want to see distros grasping at the "look and feel" of M$. All the bling-bling eye candy and playskool icons are for babies and they can keep that crap. I don't want to run ANY M$ apps on my machines. Not one. If you do, you may as well just reformat your drives and install XP.
Use Linux or do not, there is no compromise.
And lastly, I want to see Linspire fail completely.
What a total pile of insecure and unstable trash. Putting people into Linspire and selling them the fairy tale that they are "safe" is doing people a disservice.
Let's keep Linux where it should be, in the hands of the capable.
I recently had surgery and am now full of titanium rods and bolts in my spine. (ouch...)
Before the surgery I had to have all sorts of MRI and cat scans. They questioned me about any sort of medical implants or tattoos that I might have.
While it's not so much a problem with CAT scans, the MRI scanner can cause you very serious problems if you have metal in your body or certain tattoo ink that has a metalic powder in it. It won't suck the ink out of your skin but they say it can heat up and become extremely uncomfortable and unbearable.
Metal implants, pacemakers, pumps, etc. can cause serious problems under MRI..
I've never heard anyone mention how RFID and MRI are going to get along with each other.
And by the way, they can take the RFID chip meant for me and implant it up their asses, sideways with a chainsaw.
Fuck you very much.
Have a great day asshole!
http://ticom.tyumen.ru/jokes/itsasony.jpg
The brick-and-mortar analogy would be to say that you're going to have a "discussion night" about your store, and encourage everyone in town to show up. Then, anyone who speaks up with a negative opinion you tell to leave your store immediately, and when someone expresses a positive opinion, you let them stay.
It works for Dubya...
If I have a brick and mortar store and an unsatisfied customer enters my store and begins passing out fliers and berating my business with a megaphone, INSIDE MY STORE, do you think that's acceptable?
Should I even permit him to do the same thing in at the entrance door or even in the parking lot??
What about on the sidewalk across the street?
Where is the line drawn?
I think not. Go try that at Wal-Mart or just about any other physical store and see what happens to you.
Allowing people to criticize them on their ecommerce websites is really no different. I would do the same thing, delete the offending comments.
Now, OTOH, if someone wants to criticize them on their own website, no problem. That's more than acceptable. Go to google and type "walmart sucks" and you'll find more than enough sites to suit your needs.
Note: I deeply despise BIG business and BIG GLOBAL Corporations and the FAT PIGS at the top of the food chain that enslave the little people at the bottom. I hate them with a passion that you can't begin to fathom. If you want to criticize them, do so, by all means. But doing it on/in their property, that's never going to fly.
http://www.evilbible.com/
90% chance that nothing at all will happen to them?
Getting in your car and driving to the store, you have a 50/50 chance of getting killed in a wreck.
When it comes down to it, everything is 50/50
Either it will happen or it won't happen..
Suck it up and take the chance. I would do it in a heartbeat. And if told that I couldn't return to earth and had to remain on Mars for the rest of my life, that would be just fine with me. Matter of fact, I would prefer that option..
Car Whisperer
The carwhisperer project intends to sensibilise manufacturers of carkits and other Bluetooth appliances without display and keyboard for the possible security threat evolving from the use of standard passkeys.
A Bluetooth passkey is used within the pairing process that takes place, when two Bluetooth enabled devices connect for the first time. Besides other public data, the passkey is a secret parameter used in the process that generates and exchanges the so-called link key. In Bluetooth communication scenarios the link key is used for authentication and encryption of the information that is exchanged between the counterparts of the communication.
The cw_scanner script is repeatedly performing a device inquiry for visible Bluetooth devices of which the class matches the one of Bluetooth Headsets and Hands-Free Units. Once a visible Bluetooth device with the appropriate
device class is found, the cw_scanner script executes the carwhisperer binary that connects to the found device (on RFCOMM channel 1) and opens a control connection and connects the SCO links.
The carwhiperer binary connects to the device found by the cw_scanner. The passkey that is required for the initial connection to the device is provided by the cw_pin.pl script that replaces the official Bluez PIN helper (graphical application that usually prompts for the passkey). The cw_pin.pl script provides the passkey depending on the Bluetooth address that requests it. Depending on the first three bytes of the address, which references the manufacturer, different passkeys are returned by the cw_pin.sh script. In quite a few cases the preset standard passkey on headsets and handsfree units is '0000' or '1234'.
Once the connection has been successfully established, the carwhisperer binary starts sending audio to, and recording audio from the headset. This allows attackers to inject audio data into the car. This could be fake
traffic announcements or nice words. Attackers are also able to eavesdrop conversations among people sitting in the car.
Ideally, the carwhisperer is used with a toooned dongle and a directional antenna that enhances the range of a Bluetooth radio quite a bit. (see Long-Distance-Snarf experiment)
why didn't they send them up with a bunch of Super Glue??
Cutting the material off is risky, they might slip and gouge a tile, pulling it out doesn't sound too good either, at least in my mind.
Seems Super Glue is in order. I would think they would have some on board, maybe on the ISS???
There are lots of us atheists who have a very strong sense of morality which has nothing to do with illegality.
Amen to that brother!
IMHO it promotes safe (and ultimately geeky) drinking.
Do you honestly think that kids are going to "drink responsibly? Do you think they will really stick with this thing?
A very small few, a very tiny minority MAY go with this program but I assure you the vast majority will not.
The promotion of alcohol use to anyone, in any amount is wrong. Especially promoting it among young people.
Young people for the greatest part, with few exceptions, behave very irresponsibly.
I am appalled by the alcohol commercials on TV, "Spike" (I watch 007 movies on there from time to time) is one channel I can say for certain is a big offender. I dare not tune into one of the "music" channels, such as MTV or the likes, I won't tolerate those festering sewers on my TV but I would lay money on it that they promote alcohol on there like there is no tomorrow.
Alcohol is almost always over indulged in and almost always abused. It is an extremely rare case where someone might indulge in a drink now and then without getting wasted. You have some people that might have a glass of wine with dinner, that's fine.
But the beer drinkers that pour it down their necks until the keg runs dry, that's stupid.
I've been around it. I've seen what it does to people.
There is nothing more despicable than a drunk person.
Drunks are idiots.
I'm not trolling, I'm telling the F-N truth and if you take offense to it you probably have an alcohol problem and should seek help.
Some more dead kids coming up soon!
Just what we need. The promotion of an activity that is harmful and destructive.
How many will die from alcohol poisoning now?
How many will get killed in car wrecks?
How many will kill others in car wrecks?
The lucky ones will get arrested and MAY stop in time.
What ever happened to going to school to LEARN??
My son chose to go to a religious college because of the reputation of the local community college had from drunkeness and just turning out ignorant idiots.
There should be a nationwide ban of alcohol on college campuses, public and private.
F*cking idiots......
Could this ever happen?
God I hope not!!
http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/7453/omfgx1312q x.jpg
e r.jpg o b.jpg
Firefox does not render the fonts the same.
In this image you can see that links in firefox are so heavy they just ugly. It does NOT look the same, no matter what size the fonts are set at.
Looking at browsers all day is like looking at women.
You may look at a woman and think "Wow, she's hot!" and I may look at her and think "Damn, that ho is fugly!" It's all a matter of personal preference.
And here's Opera and Konq side by side
http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/1686/omfgx1338
and lastly, all three up at the same time..
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/9518/omfgx1349
ALL three browsers are configured to use the Suse Sans 12. ALL three look very different despite that.
Here's a side by side comparison of firefox and konqueror.9 ea.jpg
http://img223.imageshack.us/my.php?image=omfgx130
I use a 21" Sony Trinitron CRT at 1400x1050 at 112hz
Be aware that jpeg compression makes the fonts in this snapshot look *much* worse than they are when live.
This is *after* I tweaked Firefox to use the same fonts (Suse Sans 12).. They do NOT look the same despite that they are both configured to use the same fonts at the same resolution.
I rest my case.
1. On my Suse 9.3 pro box fonts are razor sharp, crystal clear, bold and very pleasant to look at all day.
2. Web archiver. I use it frequently.
3. Split windows.
4. Perfect integration into my OS. None of the others do that at all, even to the slightest degree.
There are other minor things. But it's more of a situation of what I DON'T LIKE about the other browsers. I simply do not like them.
First of, M$ is not even in the picture here, nor is MAC.
That leaves Opera, which has SHIT for fonts.
And then there is Firefox which has too few features and options, plus, I don't like the fonts in it either.
In 99% of my browsing, Konqueror suits all my needs and does an outstanding job. On some very rare occasions I run across an oddball site and have to resort to dragging up Firefox, namely when doing any of the google goodies, like gmail or google maps, etc..
Plain old google.com searching works fine.
If 99% of the people like to eat spinach should I too be forced to eat spinach?
I don't know if it's a case of google telling KDE/Konq to go to hell or if it's KDE/Konq not wanting to or unable to make Konq and Google work with each other but I wish someone would get on the stick and fix it.
Microsoft IE 5.5+ (download: Windows)
- Netscape 7.1+ (download: Windows Mac Linux)
- Mozilla 1.4+ (download: Windows Mac Linux)
- Mozilla Firefox 0.8+ (download: Windows Mac Linux)
- Safari 1.2.1+ (download: Mac)
Many other browsers work with Gmail's basic HTML view, including:
- Microsoft IE 4.0+
- Netscape 4.07+
- Opera 6.03+
Konqueror users are still SOL
a beowulf cluster of pringles cans!j pg
http://www.stjosephisland.com/pringles_002_small.
This additional and thus far unexamined data
Let me be the first to say WTF?!!
This is inexcusable.
It's insane to throw this project out the window..
I hope people will step up to the plate on this. I for one will..
One of my biggest pet peeves is HD whine.
I usually have 4+ (up to 9 sometimes) pc's running here and among the fan noise, the HD whine is far louder and far more annoying. I am in the process of building a sound proof area in my office for the pc's.
I moved all the pc's into a double wide closet and brought out my connections through a 16 port KVM to my desk. Next step is to install sliding glass patio doors on the closet so I can see inside and get inside to access them. I installed a QUIET bathroom type vent in the ceiling of the closet to exhaust the heat up into the attic. When done my noise AND heat problem will be almost nil.. I know it will work because I tested it by closing the original wooden doors. I just want the glass doors so I can see status lights and the like..
Pretty cheap to do when compared to replacing all the PSU's and fans with water cooling stuff. The price of one set of sliding glass doors is about the same as one water cooled PSU.. When you are talking about quite a few of them like I am, it's an easy choice to make.