It's not supposed to be uncrackable. I know it's crackable, you know it's crackable, they sure as hell know it's crackable. Just like any other protection mechanism on anything from a PC CDROM to the XBOX.
What it's supposed to do is limit casual piracy. Make it tougher for the average slob to make a copy with the EZ-CD Copier that shipped with his Dell and give it to his buddies. That's it. Most folks would just give up if it didnt work the first time they tried, they aren't going to jump through any hoops, scribble on it with a sharpie, open up a hex editor, solder a mod-chip into their player, run a distributed cracking engine to decode it, whatever. It sure as hell has nothing to do with preventing some geek from leaking it on the 'net.
That's a *large* chunk of the sales they actually lose. Bob Magoo who gets a copy from his buddy Turd Ferguson because he's too lazy or cheap to run down to Wal-Mart and get his own.
So just friggin relax already, and dont be so proud of yourself that you figured out how to "hack" the technical equivalent of the safety pin that keeps a babies diaper in place.
Depends on your point of view, I suppose. They're in the same general category because they can both share directories?
Most samba boxes I see in the wild are print servers. So maybe samba belongs in the same category as lpr or CUPS? I use it as for centralized authentication, so maybe it belongs somewhere with PAM or LDAP?
No, keep the unix stuff together, stick samba back in an appendix with appletalk and palmpilot syncing software. It's an interoperability tool, IMO.
P2P, no matter what you're using it for, sucks up bandwidth and costs money.
They probably dont want you running webservers on your box either, they have their own servers for your homepage. Don't like it? Run your server somewhere else.
You want to show the world your foo fighters discogrophy? Pay for your own connection. Instead of just indirectly jacking up everyones tuition costs to cover the terabits of dogshit flowing through those pipes - which were put there for academic purposes.
I visit tons of small businesses, and this guys telling me 1 in 4 are running linux somewhere?
And what exactly does he call a small business? Are these.com startups or what? Sounds like a dataset skewed towards tech-oriented businesses.
I mean, your local mom and pop dry cleaner or deli stand doesn't usually have a server farm in the closet or care how many megaflips per flop the electrowizzer can do.
When I think small business and computers, I think of a cheap dell in the corner running QuickBooks..
I know it's people perogative to write whatever they feel like writing, but I cant help wishing that desktop linux had some sort of omnipotent boss who could order the dev community around, thusly: "Quit wasting your time on that until cut and paste works, and all the desktop apps look like something other than shit!"
I mean, thats how OSX and Windows got where they are.
I was all excited till I got the part about it requiring kernel modifications.
So now, as I understand it, this can really only run multiple instances of linux, or perhaps BSD.
I was hoping for something that can run Windows and OS/2, BeOS, side-by-side with these super-fantastic performance levels.
Now, if you require their code in the kernel for it to work, would that mean MS would have to GPL the NT kernel to make it compatible? (fat f'ing chance)
Would the performance stay where it is if OS's other than linux 2.4.22 were used? Or, in other words, how much of the performance is due to linux-specific tweaks?
How well does something like this share a network card? Could I run multiple servers (isolated from one another) on the same box? How can I play with this at home?
Oh well, good job anyhow. Kudos on getting mozilla running under it, too. I can barely get that to run on a machine with a single system image.
You treat the pulp with flame retarding resins. It won't burn any sooner than plastic would.
As for strength, you should see some of the cardboards used in industrial settings. I worked in a hydraulic shop where we'd recieve vane pumps that weight hundreds of pounds in cardboard boxes, and they held together just fine.
Recycling electronics isnt profitable, like recycling glass or cardboard. It requires a ton of work to seperate all the various materials and then to get them to a state where they'd be suitable for reuse.
Everything can be recycled, technically. Not everything that can be recycled is worth the effort (from an economic sense).
Yeah, they do all kinds of stupid shit like dispatching police, ambulances, and fire trucks. They trample your rights by doing things like keeping potable water flowing, processing building applications, distributing drivers licenses.
However, your argument has nothing to do with the topic.
How does mandating linux do anything to slow government bloat? The source code is Free with a capital F, but does that mean they show it to you when you ask? I write all kinds of Free with a capital F software. Wanna see it? You can't, it's for my internal use only.
Slashbotters dont realize there's more in the IT world than just linux and windows. This law shuts out macs, commercial unixes, various mainframe OS's, embedded softwares, etc, etc...
This law may as well say all public employees must wear birkenstocks and all cops drive electric golf carts to help save the whales. Use the most appropriate tools for the job.
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It's not supposed to be uncrackable. I know it's crackable, you know it's crackable, they sure as hell know it's crackable. Just like any other protection mechanism on anything from a PC CDROM to the XBOX.
What it's supposed to do is limit casual piracy. Make it tougher for the average slob to make a copy with the EZ-CD Copier that shipped with his Dell and give it to his buddies. That's it. Most folks would just give up if it didnt work the first time they tried, they aren't going to jump through any hoops, scribble on it with a sharpie, open up a hex editor, solder a mod-chip into their player, run a distributed cracking engine to decode it, whatever. It sure as hell has nothing to do with preventing some geek from leaking it on the 'net.
That's a *large* chunk of the sales they actually lose. Bob Magoo who gets a copy from his buddy Turd Ferguson because he's too lazy or cheap to run down to Wal-Mart and get his own.
So just friggin relax already, and dont be so proud of yourself that you figured out how to "hack" the technical equivalent of the safety pin that keeps a babies diaper in place.
Depends on your point of view, I suppose. They're in the same general category because they can both share directories?
Most samba boxes I see in the wild are print servers. So maybe samba belongs in the same category as lpr or CUPS? I use it as for centralized authentication, so maybe it belongs somewhere with PAM or LDAP?
No, keep the unix stuff together, stick samba back in an appendix with appletalk and palmpilot syncing software. It's an interoperability tool, IMO.
You mean he should use OS/X?
Command prompts and text files have gone the way of the old-timey bikes with the big wheels.
Why, for example, is the NFS module at chapter 4 while the Samba module is discussed in 43?
Because NFS is a unix feature, samba is a kludgy addon to play nice with windows.
Makes perfect sense to me, though I do agree with the criticism of Perens editorial skills as a whole.
I don't think femtosecond is a word.
Oh yeah, the other great american civic scientist and founding father, and favorite fodder for out-of-context quotes about democracy.
I get them all mixed up.
Would this be before or after he rapes his slaves?
P2P, no matter what you're using it for, sucks up bandwidth and costs money.
They probably dont want you running webservers on your box either, they have their own servers for your homepage. Don't like it? Run your server somewhere else.
You want to show the world your foo fighters discogrophy? Pay for your own connection. Instead of just indirectly jacking up everyones tuition costs to cover the terabits of dogshit flowing through those pipes - which were put there for academic purposes.
Are they scanning (hax0ring into) your machine, or just intelligently monitoring network traffic?
Your machine is your machine, the network is theirs. If they don't want you running kazoom then dont run it.
Your there to learn, not steal music from the hardworking folks who produce and distribute it.
Friggin hippies.
11. Speak a language of your own invention, to foil eavesdroppers.
12. Dip wang in chili sauce.
What are you the fucking review nazi?
No book for you!
I visit tons of small businesses, and this guys telling me 1 in 4 are running linux somewhere?
.com startups or what? Sounds like a dataset skewed towards tech-oriented businesses.
And what exactly does he call a small business? Are these
I mean, your local mom and pop dry cleaner or deli stand doesn't usually have a server farm in the closet or care how many megaflips per flop the electrowizzer can do.
When I think small business and computers, I think of a cheap dell in the corner running QuickBooks..
I pick better kernels out of my turds after a feast of corn on the cob.
I know it's people perogative to write whatever they feel like writing, but I cant help wishing that desktop linux had some sort of omnipotent boss who could order the dev community around, thusly: "Quit wasting your time on that until cut and paste works, and all the desktop apps look like something other than shit!"
I mean, thats how OSX and Windows got where they are.
Cheaper than existing solar cells, not cheaper than more mainstream methods of generating electricity.
Your next solar powered calculator could cost 2 or 3 cents less to produce.
I was all excited till I got the part about it requiring kernel modifications.
So now, as I understand it, this can really only run multiple instances of linux, or perhaps BSD.
I was hoping for something that can run Windows and OS/2, BeOS, side-by-side with these super-fantastic performance levels.
Now, if you require their code in the kernel for it to work, would that mean MS would have to GPL the NT kernel to make it compatible? (fat f'ing chance)
Would the performance stay where it is if OS's other than linux 2.4.22 were used? Or, in other words, how much of the performance is due to linux-specific tweaks?
How well does something like this share a network card? Could I run multiple servers (isolated from one another) on the same box? How can I play with this at home?
Oh well, good job anyhow. Kudos on getting mozilla running under it, too. I can barely get that to run on a machine with a single system image.
You treat the pulp with flame retarding resins. It won't burn any sooner than plastic would.
As for strength, you should see some of the cardboards used in industrial settings. I worked in a hydraulic shop where we'd recieve vane pumps that weight hundreds of pounds in cardboard boxes, and they held together just fine.
I dont want the UN, or any "global government" that individuals dont participate in, charging me for anything, thanks.
You can easily make fireproof cardboard.
Recycling electronics isnt profitable, like recycling glass or cardboard. It requires a ton of work to seperate all the various materials and then to get them to a state where they'd be suitable for reuse.
Everything can be recycled, technically. Not everything that can be recycled is worth the effort (from an economic sense).
You can line the cardboard with tinfoil to solve the EM problems. The cats would be eaten before they had a chance to be a problem.
The fact that they aren't dickheads?
Whats to stop me from dumping grass clippings and newspapers at the local dump?
Yeah, they do all kinds of stupid shit like dispatching police, ambulances, and fire trucks. They trample your rights by doing things like keeping potable water flowing, processing building applications, distributing drivers licenses.
However, your argument has nothing to do with the topic.
How does mandating linux do anything to slow government bloat? The source code is Free with a capital F, but does that mean they show it to you when you ask? I write all kinds of Free with a capital F software. Wanna see it? You can't, it's for my internal use only.
Slashbotters dont realize there's more in the IT world than just linux and windows. This law shuts out macs, commercial unixes, various mainframe OS's, embedded softwares, etc, etc...
This law may as well say all public employees must wear birkenstocks and all cops drive electric golf carts to help save the whales. Use the most appropriate tools for the job.