but when they moved to the Sci-Fi channel I quit watching it.
I hate the Sci-Fi channel. They USED to be good but they have too much LOW RENT CRAP on there now and so damn many commercials that you forget what you where watching!
they should have a "To be Continued" tag just before every commercial break. Damn, they run 45 minutes of commercials for a one hour program and you get 15 minutes of program. Just what hits the cutting room floor we may never know, but *I* know that I have been turned off to the Sci-Fi channel by Billy Mays yelling at me and trashy sluts trying to coax me into calling a 1-900-get-alife number for a special hot date with the girl of my dreams, please have your credit card ready!
A number of years ago a local bank and a local newspaper upgraded from the stoneage and discarded their Burroughs systems.. Being that I was the one that installed the PC's and token ring (yuk) I just HAD to snag the beasts.
I got all my friends and a parade of pickup trucks and we got all the iron into my home, with much bner to help us.:-)
They took up ALL of the free space in my house. Good thing I was single then! A 2,200sq ft. house jammed with terminals, CPU's and disk drives where you couldn't walk through it all.
The discs were freaking HUGE, as in the size of trash can lids and held a whopping 5 megabytes.
It booted up from a punch tape and that was the code to begin the disc IO routines so it could boot up a little more and do try to do something useful. NO CRT's on this system! Teletype's only! A REAL MAN'S COMPUTER! YEAH!!
Well, we had to be dumb and power it up. The power cord for the CPU alone was 1.5" in diameter!
I powered up the CPU and disc drive (sounded like an airport in there) and the lights dimmed down pretty low. That should have been a warning sign. But Nooooooooooooooo! Crank it up baby, MORE POWER!
We loaded the paper tape and the discs spun up and all my buds flipped on the terminals. POW!!! Total blackness. It blew my fuses (yes, old screw in type) and set my fuse box on fire. We had to call the FD to come put it out because I didn't have a fire extinguisher at home and you can spray water on an electrical fire.
The FD wrote me up a nice little fine for violating numerous safety codes and the city inspector cited me for operating a business in my home after seeing all the iron.
So much for my own private mainframe. We gutted the units and now I have hundreds of HUGE capacitors for a future project that will involve Tesla coils, water, and flux capacitors..
I don't even dare mention my current computer room. I really do not have any real idea how many computers I have now. I can see 7 running right now on the hub. I have stacks of stuff that would give any normal tech nightmares. After 25+ years at being a tech you tend to accumulate a few spare parts... Arrrrgh!!
This is my first month of 24/7 Linux. I've played with it off and on for years but never seriously, I just used Windows because it was easier than Linux.
As of late, M$ has shown itself to be increasingly hostile towards the end user (AKA the golden egg) and has adopted very oppressive and hostile practices that are blatent invasions of privacy and extreme breaches of security.
I began my Linux journey with Red Hat, a little over a month ago I had my fill with W2K and made the switch. I went with Red Hat again but it did not like my video card so I searched and found that Mandrake made PASSING MENTION of my video card (SiS-305a) and installed 8.2
About a week later 9.0 came out so I upgraded to 9.0 hoping that IT would work with my card (SiS is in bed with M$ and is NOT Linux friendly)
9.0 installed right over my 8.2 pretty smoothly and I lost no data.
I've had my fair share of glitches but most of those have been due to rolling blackouts trashing the system. Other than that, MDK 9.0 seems decent enough.
However, it seems to be a little heavy on the eye candy (I use KDE) With a Celeron 450 and an unsupported video card this is pretty sucky. I toned it down a little and that helped. I like that the MCC interface so that I can start/stop/install/remove whatever. It's not bad.
From a beginner's point of view, it's pretty decent. I am NOT going back to M$, ever so from this point forward it's MDK for me. I moved all my eggs into the MDK basket and that's where they will stay unless something much better comes along.
As long as Mandrake and KDE KEEP AWAY FROM THE XP LOOK and they DON'T incorporate M$ features they will keep me as a fan/user.
After seeing that Red Hat has imbedded DRM features into 8.x I will NOT be using RH. It seems that RIAA and MPAA and M$ and Big Brother just will not stop until they are in every box. I believe that this is a battle for our freedom, to choose the OS of our choice and to be free of the prying eyes of others that would rather we not have the freedom of choice and the right to personal privacy.
For all it's shortcomings, (none of which are serious) MDK, at this point in time is MY choice. And if the day comes that they begin to imbed modules into MDK that violate my privacy and my right to freely choose then I will find another distro that does not hinder my rights.
If worse comes to worse, I will learn to compile my own private NIX....
Privacy and freedom FIRST, everything else is optional..
I thought Linux was about freedom from oppression by the Evil Empire. Where the hell do they get the idea that Linux people want to be assimilated into the Borg M$ machine??
If you believe in privacy but fall for the spyware trap then you better go back to school and study a little harder.
The ONLY secure computer is a disconnected, powered down, Tempest computer in a Faraday cage in a concrete bunker 100' underground. Anything else is a security risk.
At least there is no EULA attached to my old 1945 Underwood (at my office), and it keeps on ticking right through power failures.
WordStar?? A lot of us got our first taste at WP'ing with WordStar. I was so excited to upgrade from Edlin to WordStar that I had to show all my friends.. WOW!!! Those were the days..
Matter of fact, somewhere around here I have an old IBM Diags floppy that I overwrote with WordStar. Come to think of it, somewhere around here I still have an original IBM DOS 1.0 floppy.. Fred Flintstone touched it too...
If Red Hat is going to cave in to the DMCA goonsquad Stasi then I will not be using RH anymore.
Linux is about freedom. Freedom to choose. And I choose to use a different distro. Let the DMCA Stasi hitsquad come kick my door down with ski-masks and machine guns because I watch LOTR on my Linux box or I have 1,000's of MP3's (currently converting them to that other format).
Let us all become MP3/DVD Martyr's. What next? Will the DMCA goonsquads begin dropping 2,000lb LGB's on our homes because we read information that they have deem as verbotten???
Where will this stop? Is there a limit on this or will it be taken to the point that to listen to a song you have to provide biometric fingerprints to your government approved walkman??
I see it now, like in the Soviet Union, copy machines and typewriters had to be licensed. Get caught with an unregistered typewritter and get a bullet in the head.
go to google and search for sit.wav and telemarketer.
Download the sit tone.
Play it into your answering machine, wait 1 second then play it a second time then say something like, "I'm sorry, I'm not in right now, please leave a message and I'll get back with you"
The sit tone is that very annoying tone you hear when you dial up a number that has been disconnected.
Telemarketing computers dial numbers from a database, when there is a pickup they flag it as watched. It then listens for a human voice, namely someone saying "Hello" or any other semi-human utterance.
If the computer recognizes a human voice then it switches the line to a welfare moron that will read lines to you from a laminated flow chart.
If the computer hears the SIT tone, it ASSUMES that the phone number has been disconnected and it immediatly hangs up, removes your number from the database and moves on to dial the next sucker.
If you do this, I promise you that in under a month the telemarketer calls will drop to almost ZERO.
When I see "OUT OF AREA" on my caller ID I just let the answering machine take it. I tell the people that I know and WANT to talk to about the answering machine so they know what's up.
They just listen to the SIT tones then my message then they leave a message like a normal answering machine.
Not very high tech but it's free and it does work..
When I was a kid I rigged a toy motor and a red propeller from a wind up airplane to a coat hanger and mounted it on a hat. The end result was a fan that hung in front of my face to keep me cool in school. We had no AC in school in the 60's..
Anyway, take a laser scanner assembly from an old laserjet printer and mount it in your hat and pump a laser beam at it. It will "spew" a laser beam 360deg. all around you and you will have your "cloak of invisibility"..
I removed the dumbass "turbo" and "green mode" LEDs from an old PC case and painted it black. I dropped two nics and a p100 mobo in and boot up floppyfw on it.
I removed the traffic LEDs from the nics and ran wires to a pair of super blue LEDs in the front of the case.
Now I have a black box router with very cool lights. At night when I turn the main lights down it awesome as traffic flows.
I also replaced the HDD light in my Linux box with a super blue and added one for it's nic.
I have 7 PC's in smoked glass cabinets all with lots of blinking lights, not to mention all manner of monitors and satellite equipment everywhere. It's geek heaven. Mountians and mountains of old mobo's and PC cards. It befuddles all but the most hardcore nerds/geeks..
The light show is annoying, to be honest, now that I got over the newness of it, but it impresses visitors all to hell and my son likes to show of my computer room to his friends.
Still, it's fun, I keep the soldering iron hot all the time and am always hacking into something. I even have Ethernet connections in the bathroom and garage.
Yep, blinking lights do impress folks, but they also are handy when you use them as status indicators.
Micro$HIT SUX! Windows is total $hit. Want a virus? Just install windows! Want to loose all your work, email, docs, etc?? Just boot windows! Want hackers to steal your credit card info and drain your bank account at pr0n sites? Just boot windows! Want to spend all you time FIGHTING with a P-OS trying to keep it from crashing? Just install windows!
I made the switch, I run Mandrake 8.2 now.
(I think I like redhat better though, Mandrake seems too windowish and isolates you from the nuts and bolts too much) Now I have only two machines left (out of 7) in the house running windows. I HAVE to keep a few windows boxes around because I support several people that run windows and I have some specialized apps that only run on windows.
As soon as I can get Linux down 101% pat I'm going to beat the drum and convert my customers too.
"Search Support
Search the Microsoft Product Support Services Knowledge Base of more than 250,000 articles, created by thousands of support professionals who have resolved issues for our customers."
*250,000* freaking "ARTICLES" BULLSHIT!! That tells me that Micro$hit is acknowledging that there
are *at least* 250,000 PROBLEMS with win2K alone.
I consider 2K the best of the worst. I can tighten down the security in 2k pretty damn well, forget the other versions, 9x/Me is total trash. DOS with a GUI.
XP is total spyware and fancy pants $hit for mouth breathers. Part of the settlement of the
anti-trust suit is that M$ will act as an agent for BIG BROTHER by installing SPYWARE in everyone's
home, namely XP. XP is your modern day wire tap for BIG BROTHER. Want people SPYING on you?
Install XP. Do your part for the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. ACT and install XP.
Windows is shit. It's over priced and it's pure trash. It's a friggin monopoly too.
I went to Wal-mart and told them I wanted to buy the E-machine they had for $600.
I told them to open the box and remove ALL the software, that I only wanted the hardware and that I would give them $500 for the hardware, minus a $100 for the M$ crap.
They told me too bad, no machines for sale without windows XP installed, included and priced in.
KISS MY ASS MICRO$HIT !!!!
Linux is about putting the power back in the hands of the people. Micro$oft must be toppled, they are evil to the core and unless they are stopped they will enslave the world.
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but when they moved to the Sci-Fi channel I quit watching it.
I hate the Sci-Fi channel. They USED to be good but they have too much LOW RENT CRAP on there now and so damn many commercials that you forget what you where watching!
they should have a "To be Continued" tag just before every commercial break. Damn, they run 45 minutes of commercials for a one hour program and you get 15 minutes of program. Just what hits the cutting room floor we may never know, but *I* know that I have been turned off to the Sci-Fi channel by Billy Mays yelling at me and trashy sluts trying to coax me into calling a 1-900-get-alife number for a special hot date with the girl of my dreams, please have your credit card ready!
I had the same problem, I configured Konqueror to identify itself as Lynx when visiting weather.com
I was offended.
1. The butterfly is, well, shall we say "effeminate"
2. It bogs my poor little cely450 way down.
I would rather sandpaper a bobcat's ass in a phonebooth than use ANY M$ product or service.
This thing at weather.com smacks of comet cursor.
What the hell are they thinking spamming a Linux user with thier trash?? Yeah, like I'm going back..
A number of years ago a local bank and a local newspaper upgraded from the stoneage and discarded their Burroughs systems.. Being that I was the one that installed the PC's and token ring (yuk) I just HAD to snag the beasts.
:-)
I got all my friends and a parade of pickup trucks and we got all the iron into my home, with much bner to help us.
They took up ALL of the free space in my house. Good thing I was single then! A 2,200sq ft. house jammed with terminals, CPU's and disk drives where you couldn't walk through it all.
The discs were freaking HUGE, as in the size of trash can lids and held a whopping 5 megabytes.
It booted up from a punch tape and that was the code to begin the disc IO routines so it could boot up a little more and do try to do something useful. NO CRT's on this system! Teletype's only! A REAL MAN'S COMPUTER! YEAH!!
Well, we had to be dumb and power it up. The power cord for the CPU alone was 1.5" in diameter!
I powered up the CPU and disc drive (sounded like an airport in there) and the lights dimmed down pretty low. That should have been a warning sign. But Nooooooooooooooo! Crank it up baby, MORE POWER!
We loaded the paper tape and the discs spun up and all my buds flipped on the terminals. POW!!!
Total blackness. It blew my fuses (yes, old screw in type) and set my fuse box on fire. We had to call the FD to come put it out because I didn't have a fire extinguisher at home and you can spray water on an electrical fire.
The FD wrote me up a nice little fine for violating numerous safety codes and the city inspector cited me for operating a business in my home after seeing all the iron.
So much for my own private mainframe. We gutted the units and now I have hundreds of HUGE capacitors for a future project that will involve Tesla coils, water, and flux capacitors..
I don't even dare mention my current computer room. I really do not have any real idea how many computers I have now. I can see 7 running right now on the hub. I have stacks of stuff that would give any normal tech nightmares. After 25+ years at being a tech you tend to accumulate a few spare parts... Arrrrgh!!
depends on how kinky it is, if it involves billy goats and scuba gear Gate$ himself will r00t your box..
You don't have ANY obsolete software packages?? Like some old DOS apps??
Who's side are you on???
This is my first month of 24/7 Linux.
I've played with it off and on for years but never seriously, I just used
Windows because it was easier than Linux.
As of late, M$ has shown itself to be increasingly hostile towards the end user
(AKA the golden egg) and has adopted very oppressive and hostile practices that
are blatent invasions of privacy and extreme breaches of security.
I began my Linux journey with Red Hat, a little over a month ago I had my fill
with W2K and made the switch. I went with Red Hat again but it did not like my
video card so I searched and found that Mandrake made PASSING MENTION of my
video card (SiS-305a) and installed 8.2
About a week later 9.0 came out so I upgraded to 9.0 hoping that IT would work
with my card (SiS is in bed with M$ and is NOT Linux friendly)
9.0 installed right over my 8.2 pretty smoothly and I lost no data.
I've had my fair share of glitches but most of those have been due to rolling
blackouts trashing the system. Other than that, MDK 9.0 seems decent enough.
However, it seems to be a little heavy on the eye candy (I use KDE)
With a Celeron 450 and an unsupported video card this is pretty sucky. I toned
it down a little and that helped. I like that the MCC interface so that I can
start/stop/install/remove whatever. It's not bad.
From a beginner's point of view, it's pretty decent. I am NOT going back to M$,
ever so from this point forward it's MDK for me. I moved all my eggs into the
MDK basket and that's where they will stay unless something much better comes
along.
As long as Mandrake and KDE KEEP AWAY FROM THE XP LOOK and they DON'T
incorporate M$ features they will keep me as a fan/user.
After seeing that Red Hat has imbedded DRM features into 8.x I will NOT be using
RH. It seems that RIAA and MPAA and M$ and Big Brother just will not stop
until they are in every box. I believe that this is a battle for our freedom,
to choose the OS of our choice and to be free of the prying eyes of others that
would rather we not have the freedom of choice and the right to personal
privacy.
For all it's shortcomings, (none of which are serious) MDK, at this point in
time is MY choice. And if the day comes that they begin to imbed modules into
MDK that violate my privacy and my right to freely choose then I will find
another distro that does not hinder my rights.
If worse comes to worse, I will learn to compile my own private NIX....
Privacy and freedom FIRST, everything else is optional..
I thought Linux was about freedom from oppression by the Evil Empire.
Where the hell do they get the idea that Linux people want to be assimilated into the Borg M$ machine??
No thanks Billy, I'll PASS on Passport..
1. Don't play THEIR games.
2. Use Linux.
If you believe in privacy but fall for the spyware trap then you better go back to school and study a little harder.
The ONLY secure computer is a disconnected, powered down, Tempest computer in a Faraday cage in a concrete bunker 100' underground. Anything else is a security risk.
At least there is no EULA attached to my old 1945 Underwood (at my office), and it keeps on ticking right through power failures.
WordStar?? A lot of us got our first taste at WP'ing with WordStar. I was so excited to upgrade from Edlin to WordStar that I had to show all my friends.. WOW!!! Those were the days..
Matter of fact, somewhere around here I have an old IBM Diags floppy that I overwrote with WordStar. Come to think of it, somewhere around here I still have an original IBM DOS 1.0 floppy.. Fred Flintstone touched it too...
If Red Hat is going to cave in to the DMCA goonsquad Stasi then I will not be using RH anymore.
Linux is about freedom. Freedom to choose.
And I choose to use a different distro.
Let the DMCA Stasi hitsquad come kick my door down with ski-masks and machine guns because I watch LOTR on my Linux box or I have 1,000's of MP3's (currently converting them to that other format).
Let us all become MP3/DVD Martyr's.
What next? Will the DMCA goonsquads begin dropping 2,000lb LGB's on our homes because we read information that they have deem as verbotten???
Where will this stop? Is there a limit on this or will it be taken to the point that to listen to a song you have to provide biometric fingerprints to your government approved walkman??
I see it now, like in the Soviet Union, copy machines and typewriters had to be licensed. Get caught with an unregistered typewritter and get a bullet in the head.
It's only a matter of time..
The graphics have the disgusting look of XP.
They look childish, cartoonish.
It looks like it was designed with either little children in mind or simpletons. Probably both.
IF I try it, I will NOT be using the childish looking gui.
I have a serious dislike of M$ products, why would I want my Linux to LOOK like M$???
This is a poor choice in skins/themes and should be deep sixed!!
From the land of anarchy we should expect less??
I'm suprised that the firgure is only 80%, I would have thought it to be near 100%..
go to google and search for sit.wav and telemarketer.
Download the sit tone.
Play it into your answering machine, wait 1 second then play it a second time then say something like,
"I'm sorry, I'm not in right now, please leave a message and I'll get back with you"
The sit tone is that very annoying tone you hear when you dial up a number that has been disconnected.
Telemarketing computers dial numbers from a database, when there is a pickup they flag it as watched. It then listens for a human voice, namely someone saying "Hello" or any other semi-human utterance.
If the computer recognizes a human voice then it switches the line to a welfare moron that will read lines to you from a laminated flow chart.
If the computer hears the SIT tone, it ASSUMES that the phone number has been disconnected and it immediatly hangs up, removes your number from the database and moves on to dial the next sucker.
If you do this, I promise you that in under a month the telemarketer calls will drop to almost ZERO.
When I see "OUT OF AREA" on my caller ID I just let the answering machine take it. I tell the people that I know and WANT to talk to about the answering machine so they know what's up.
They just listen to the SIT tones then my message then they leave a message like a normal answering machine.
Not very high tech but it's free and it does work..
God I hate telemarketers.. (and collectors)
When I was a kid I rigged a toy motor and a red propeller from a wind up airplane to a coat hanger and mounted it on a hat. The end result was a fan that hung in front of my face to keep me cool in school. We had no AC in school in the 60's..
Anyway, take a laser scanner assembly from an old laserjet printer and mount it in your hat and pump a laser beam at it. It will "spew" a laser beam 360deg. all around you and you will have your "cloak of invisibility"..
I know it sounds crazy but why not??
I removed the dumbass "turbo" and "green mode" LEDs from an old PC case and painted it black.
I dropped two nics and a p100 mobo in and boot up floppyfw on it.
I removed the traffic LEDs from the nics and ran wires to a pair of super blue LEDs in the front of the case.
Now I have a black box router with very cool lights. At night when I turn the main lights down it awesome as traffic flows.
I also replaced the HDD light in my Linux box with a super blue and added one for it's nic.
I have 7 PC's in smoked glass cabinets all with lots of blinking lights, not to mention all manner of monitors and satellite equipment everywhere. It's geek heaven. Mountians and mountains of old mobo's and PC cards. It befuddles all but the most hardcore nerds/geeks..
The light show is annoying, to be honest, now that I got over the newness of it, but it impresses visitors all to hell and my son likes to show of my computer room to his friends.
Still, it's fun, I keep the soldering iron hot all the time and am always hacking into something. I even have Ethernet connections in the bathroom and garage.
Yep, blinking lights do impress folks, but they also are handy when you use them as status indicators.
Oh yeah, did I mention that my first sexual experiance was WOPR???
http://www.sorgonet.com/security/tea/
1. They seem to be suffering a /. effect. 8-)
2. Clean up on isle one please, I just had an orgasm!
3. Where's mine damn it!!
Just what we need, more low rent, poorly built
junk. As if there isn't enough of this crap in
the Wally World already.....
I won't be getting one.
With winBLOWS in place we are only a few minutes
away from total K.A.O.S.
Even the dumb ass Al Queda terrorists can hack this trash..
>:(
We don't need no steenking mod chips! We got JTAG baby!!
Micro$HIT SUX! Windows is total $hit.
u lt.asp
Want a virus? Just install windows!
Want to loose all your work, email, docs, etc??
Just boot windows!
Want hackers to steal your credit card info and
drain your bank account at pr0n sites?
Just boot windows!
Want to spend all you time FIGHTING with a P-OS trying
to keep it from crashing?
Just install windows!
I made the switch, I run Mandrake 8.2 now.
(I think I like redhat better though, Mandrake seems too windowish and isolates you from the nuts and bolts too much)
Now I have only two machines left (out of 7)
in the house running windows. I HAVE to keep a few
windows boxes around because I support several people
that run windows and I have some specialized apps that
only run on windows.
As soon as I can get Linux down 101% pat I'm going to
beat the drum and convert my customers too.
I was having an issue with a disapearing mouse and win2k.
I went to the win2k website to look it up.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/support/defa
"Search Support
Search the Microsoft Product Support Services Knowledge Base of more than 250,000 articles, created by thousands of support professionals who have resolved issues for our customers."
*250,000* freaking "ARTICLES" BULLSHIT!! That tells me that Micro$hit is acknowledging that there
are *at least* 250,000 PROBLEMS with win2K alone.
I consider 2K the best of the worst. I can tighten down
the security in 2k pretty damn well, forget the other
versions, 9x/Me is total trash. DOS with a GUI.
XP is total spyware and fancy pants $hit for mouth breathers. Part of the settlement of the
anti-trust suit is that M$ will act as an agent for BIG BROTHER by installing SPYWARE in everyone's
home, namely XP. XP is your modern day wire tap for BIG BROTHER. Want people SPYING on you?
Install XP. Do your part for the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. ACT and install XP.
Windows is shit. It's over priced and it's pure trash. It's a friggin monopoly too.
I went to Wal-mart and told them I wanted to buy the E-machine they had for $600.
I told them to open the box and remove ALL the software, that I only wanted the hardware and that I would give them $500 for the hardware, minus a $100 for the M$ crap.
They told me too bad, no machines for sale without windows XP installed, included and priced in.
KISS MY ASS MICRO$HIT !!!!
Linux is about putting the power back in the hands of the people. Micro$oft must be toppled, they are evil to the core and unless they are stopped they will enslave the world.
Free your soul, boot LINUX!!!!!
BLACKLIST="microsoft.com MSFT.NET"
for i in $BLACKLIST; do
$IPTABLES -A INPUT -s $i -m limit --limit 5/minute \
-j LOG --log-prefix "Blacklisted: "
$IPTABLES -A INPUT -s $i -j DROP
done
RIAA/SWAT team
had to revise the link, geoshitties doesn't like what I was trying to do.
Try this one out..
RIAA/SWAT team
RIAA/SWAT team