So pay a very modest fee and use somebody's smarthost outside of.br. Meanwhile, why don't you work on talking some sense into all of the Brazilian ISPs and sysadmins that cannot control (or have no interest in attempting to control) their networks? How do you think that this current situation of mass blockings of your IP space came to be? Do you think it's a giant conspiracy against the people of Brazil? No, of course not. It's a reaction to the unusually large amount of open proxies/zombie machines that originate from that part of the address space. Your anger completely misses the root cause for all the blacklisting.
First of all, the WHOIS information that appears if you use www.domainsbyproxy.com is NOT FAKE. If you send an email to that address it goes to the domain owner, and if you send snail mail it's forwarded to the domain owner's postal address. That's the whole POINT of the WHOIS information, to be able to contact the owner for technical or administrative reasons, and using domainsbyproxy does NOT break that.
Secondly, if you read DBP's TOS they state that if any law enforcement or subpoena comes their way they just turn over the actual identity. In fact there are a lot of things that cause the domain listing to revert to the actual owner's contact info: spam, hacking, phishing, etc. It's all laid out in their TOS.
I have to agree. Calling a cookie "spyware" is just really pushing the definition. A cookie is a standard part of the HTTP protocol. If you don't like it, then disable cookies and only allow them for trusted sites.
I'll even grant that some web sites send cookies that are used for click-tracking or other habit-based analysis. So what? Nobody says you have to enable the damn things. That hardly makes them spyware. That word should be reserved for programs that install themselves on your computer and call home, or other devious things. Calling a cookie spyware really dilutes the meaning of the word, to absurdity. "OH MY GOD! THE WEBMASTER HAS A LOG OF ALL MY ACCESSES FROM THE HTTPD SOFTWARE! EVERY WEBSITE IS SPYWARE!" Come on, get the fuck over it.
Not just that, but there's a icon titled "Shortcut to aol.exe" on his desktop. And it doesn't look like the kind of desktop that has all the clutter of stock-installed icons even if they've never been used. *shudder*
But more importantly, they did it because...it's a watch. Seriously, I don't know about you but I like having a normal, regular watch on my wrist. I don't want to find some PDA and press a button to see the time, I don't want some silly clock-program for my computer, and I sure as heck wouldn't want some terribly large linux-contraption strapped onto my wrist for the purpose of telling time. I don't think their decision to modify normal watches is strage at all, and it's what I would want if I were in their shoes. Please, you can keep your silly PDA-strapped-to-your-wrist devices.
For this to work well, you'd need --mirror not -r. --mirror includes -r (recursion) but also turns on time-stamping and sets the recursion level to infinite, from default of 5. Time-stamping is crutial, as its what lets wget know what has changed and what doesn't need to be retrieved, assuming you're doing the cvs checkin thing.
In a December 2002 article in
Geospatial Intelligence Review...
Darn it! Wouldn't you know it, just when I let my subscription run out. I mean they had a few pretty good articles but there were just too many ads, you couldn't take their opinions seriously. It was just turning into one of those trashy Geospatial Intelligence tabloids that you always see in the checkout aisle. Oh well. At least I still have all the back issues from 1986 on.
Screw wanting to see how they work, most people just want the source so that they can get it to work, period. Since they're binary only it means that they're usually tied to a specific kernel version and sometimes a specific distro. If you deviate from the path of the most popular distros you soon get into uncharted water.
They're in a catch-22: I'm sure they'd like to open the source but it's been mentioned before that some portions of the drivers contain licensed/proprietary code that they do not themselves control. In other words they couldn't even if they wanted to. (Plus, they seem to take drivers very seriously and might see it as giving away trade secrets to the likes of ATI, so maybe they don't even want to.)
You're missing the point completely. Main memory -> AGP is blazing fast, for the reasons you just stated. AGP -> main memory is painfully slow, because there's almost no requirement for much data to flow this direction. The result of %99.9999 of the output that the video card computes is displayed on the screen and then discarded with the next refresh.
Yes, the AGP -> main memory transfer rate of most video cards is abysmally slow, because it's not something that's needed for gaming. Maybe newer cards have changed, but I don't see why they would. background article
As long as proprietary binary-only modules are supported by the kernel, it's not truly free. Or at least, that's one argument, not necessarily mine.
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If yahoo and hotmail incorporate this and set it such that only the main/official SMTP servers can send out mail that is from yahoo.com or hotmail.com, then how many people is that going to screw over? (That's an actual question, not a rhetorical one.) I'd imagine there are probably lots of folks out there that set their From name in their mailer to their Yahoo or Hotmail address, but don't use the official SMTP servers. They would all be forced to stop using their email app and start using the webmail interface instead since the free-mail plans don't usually include POP/SMTP. You can get around this with programs like YahooPops, and I think hotmail has that "web access" or whatever it's called that lets Outlook send and receive on the web, so maybe I'm overestimating the effect.
Exactly. Here's a quick recipe for anyone that doesn't see why this matters:
Register the "ebay-.com" domain or really anything remotely plausible, to thwart those that hover over the link to see where it goes.
Download/Mirror the exact ebay home page/login page on this domain that you control.
Write a script that accepts the user's login credentials and then forwards the request to the real ebay login page.
Spam millions with a professional looking mail that purports to be from ebay that says something like "Please log into ebay soon otherwise your account will be deleted for inactivity" or "We've made changes to our user options, please login and set your preferences." Include a link to your fake domain that uses this trick to make it look like it's ebay.com in the browser's address bar.
Do whatever you want with your new pile of logins/passwords.
This is devilish because it's plausible that ebay would ask you to log into their site to update something, and with this vuln you can make it seem to the user that that's exactly what they're doing. They wouldn't even know since the login would in fact succeed and they'd be transferred to their actual ebay user page if you did the redirect properly.
Subsitute "paypal" or "Bank of America" (etc.) for "ebay" and repeat.
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*grumble* YEs, they quite botched that 2.13 -> 2.5x thing. It could have been handled much better. Us Cygwin folk require libtool 1.5 to make shared libs, which means that you also require automake > 1.5 and autoconf > 2.50. However, due to how they introduced the new 2.5 series ("Here ya go! It's new! It's different! It breaks everything! No conversion is possible! It's very difficult to run both at the same time! Suck it!") many projects still use 2.13 because those developers don't want to drink the cool-aid as their distro doesn't support both simultaneously. Soooo, this means that Cygwin has to maintain both a -stable and a -devel of the libtool/auto{conf,make} trio. And packagers of one of those 2.13 upstream projects have the pleasure of re-libtool-izing the whole thing every time something changes, resulting in stupid monstrous patches of hundreds of Kbytes. And it's not like all this autotool voodoo is really common knowledge, so it just makes it that much harder to be a package maintainer. Grrrr. (Bless you, Charles Wilson, for doing all the voodoo necessary to keep all these autotool versions co-existing for Cygwin.)
No, it's just that Slashdot editors couldn't possibly fathom a person actually having proper grammar and spelling without a team of advisors going over every word. It's really like asking a lifelong blind person to describe a sunset, you know...
It's called being realistic. Just because you had no problems with whatever you were doing doesn't mean that's the universal experience. No one is claiming that Linux or RedHad isn't CAPABLE of doing all these great things. Instead he's being frank and honest and saying that for the average user that's used to the Windows way, using and especially installing Linux can be very hard and confusing. If you disagree with that I think you've spent too long inside your vi window. Pretending that Linux is happy and fuzzy and easy to use is not going to do anyone any good because it's simply not true. There are still tons of problems that are frustratingly difficult to solve.
Pretending that these don't exist is not going to help anyone, and frankly it gives Linux advocates a bad reputation. "Everyone! You can use a free OS! What are you waiting for? There's all this great desktop software, and it's so easy to use!" And the crowd responds with "-But I can't get Flash to display in Mozilla. -And my video card is in the 640x480 mode! -My Cardbus network adaptor won't show up." Your response in this situation is either "It's very easy really, just post on this newsgroup and search some HOWTOs, come on, what's your problem?" or it's "Well maybe Linux isn't that easy to use for neophytes." If you opt for the former you are in denial.
Yeah, it sucks alright. Especially with that squad of goons that slashdot dispatches to everyone's house to force you to click on each and every SCO story. If only there was some way... some possibility of, oh I don't know, free will -- the ability to actually not click on the links we don't like! I know, it sounds crazy. But I'm convinced that there's a way, a possibilty. It must exist.
We're talking about a couple of minutes of video, how could that POSSIBLY be hundreds of megabytes? Any decent modern codec (such as XviD) should be able to encode this in a few MB at most, while still remaining very high quality. I'm not even going to mention the fact that if you guys all read slashdot it should have occured to you that posting hundreds of MB of videos is not going to be possible. BitTorrent anyone?
Most regular circuits are rated at 20 amps maximum. And that's with 110V that we have here in the US, where this thing is located. That means you'd need double the current, 64 A. Sorry, not from a "Normal building power strip."
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Tell that to one of them when he's got you sprawled out on the hood of his patrol car with a flashlight shoved 10" up your sphincter.
So pay a very modest fee and use somebody's smarthost outside of .br. Meanwhile, why don't you work on talking some sense into all of the Brazilian ISPs and sysadmins that cannot control (or have no interest in attempting to control) their networks? How do you think that this current situation of mass blockings of your IP space came to be? Do you think it's a giant conspiracy against the people of Brazil? No, of course not. It's a reaction to the unusually large amount of open proxies/zombie machines that originate from that part of the address space. Your anger completely misses the root cause for all the blacklisting.
First of all, the WHOIS information that appears if you use www.domainsbyproxy.com is NOT FAKE. If you send an email to that address it goes to the domain owner, and if you send snail mail it's forwarded to the domain owner's postal address. That's the whole POINT of the WHOIS information, to be able to contact the owner for technical or administrative reasons, and using domainsbyproxy does NOT break that.
Secondly, if you read DBP's TOS they state that if any law enforcement or subpoena comes their way they just turn over the actual identity. In fact there are a lot of things that cause the domain listing to revert to the actual owner's contact info: spam, hacking, phishing, etc. It's all laid out in their TOS.
DomainsByProxy is NOT the bad guy here.
I have to agree. Calling a cookie "spyware" is just really pushing the definition. A cookie is a standard part of the HTTP protocol. If you don't like it, then disable cookies and only allow them for trusted sites.
I'll even grant that some web sites send cookies that are used for click-tracking or other habit-based analysis. So what? Nobody says you have to enable the damn things. That hardly makes them spyware. That word should be reserved for programs that install themselves on your computer and call home, or other devious things. Calling a cookie spyware really dilutes the meaning of the word, to absurdity. "OH MY GOD! THE WEBMASTER HAS A LOG OF ALL MY ACCESSES FROM THE HTTPD SOFTWARE! EVERY WEBSITE IS SPYWARE!" Come on, get the fuck over it.
Not just that, but there's a icon titled "Shortcut to aol.exe" on his desktop. And it doesn't look like the kind of desktop that has all the clutter of stock-installed icons even if they've never been used. *shudder*
Hells yeah, why do you think they brought along Carrie-Anne Moss in that Red Planet movie?
But more importantly, they did it because ...it's a watch. Seriously, I don't know about you but I like having a normal, regular watch on my wrist. I don't want to find some PDA and press a button to see the time, I don't want some silly clock-program for my computer, and I sure as heck wouldn't want some terribly large linux-contraption strapped onto my wrist for the purpose of telling time. I don't think their decision to modify normal watches is strage at all, and it's what I would want if I were in their shoes. Please, you can keep your silly PDA-strapped-to-your-wrist devices.
I agree. Bitching about the PC Jr. being lame was sooo 1993.
For this to work well, you'd need --mirror not -r. --mirror includes -r (recursion) but also turns on time-stamping and sets the recursion level to infinite, from default of 5. Time-stamping is crutial, as its what lets wget know what has changed and what doesn't need to be retrieved, assuming you're doing the cvs checkin thing.
Maybe you'd better ask Santa for a sense of humor this holiday season...
Screw wanting to see how they work, most people just want the source so that they can get it to work, period. Since they're binary only it means that they're usually tied to a specific kernel version and sometimes a specific distro. If you deviate from the path of the most popular distros you soon get into uncharted water.
They're in a catch-22: I'm sure they'd like to open the source but it's been mentioned before that some portions of the drivers contain licensed/proprietary code that they do not themselves control. In other words they couldn't even if they wanted to. (Plus, they seem to take drivers very seriously and might see it as giving away trade secrets to the likes of ATI, so maybe they don't even want to.)
You're missing the point completely. Main memory -> AGP is blazing fast, for the reasons you just stated. AGP -> main memory is painfully slow, because there's almost no requirement for much data to flow this direction. The result of %99.9999 of the output that the video card computes is displayed on the screen and then discarded with the next refresh.
Yes, the AGP -> main memory transfer rate of most video cards is abysmally slow, because it's not something that's needed for gaming. Maybe newer cards have changed, but I don't see why they would. background article
As long as proprietary binary-only modules are supported by the kernel, it's not truly free. Or at least, that's one argument, not necessarily mine.
If yahoo and hotmail incorporate this and set it such that only the main/official SMTP servers can send out mail that is from yahoo.com or hotmail.com, then how many people is that going to screw over? (That's an actual question, not a rhetorical one.) I'd imagine there are probably lots of folks out there that set their From name in their mailer to their Yahoo or Hotmail address, but don't use the official SMTP servers. They would all be forced to stop using their email app and start using the webmail interface instead since the free-mail plans don't usually include POP/SMTP. You can get around this with programs like YahooPops, and I think hotmail has that "web access" or whatever it's called that lets Outlook send and receive on the web, so maybe I'm overestimating the effect.
- Register the "ebay-.com" domain or really anything remotely plausible, to thwart those that hover over the link to see where it goes.
- Download/Mirror the exact ebay home page/login page on this domain that you control.
- Write a script that accepts the user's login credentials and then forwards the request to the real ebay login page.
- Spam millions with a professional looking mail that purports to be from ebay that says something like "Please log into ebay soon otherwise your account will be deleted for inactivity" or "We've made changes to our user options, please login and set your preferences." Include a link to your fake domain that uses this trick to make it look like it's ebay.com in the browser's address bar.
- Do whatever you want with your new pile of logins/passwords.
This is devilish because it's plausible that ebay would ask you to log into their site to update something, and with this vuln you can make it seem to the user that that's exactly what they're doing. They wouldn't even know since the login would in fact succeed and they'd be transferred to their actual ebay user page if you did the redirect properly.Subsitute "paypal" or "Bank of America" (etc.) for "ebay" and repeat.
*grumble* YEs, they quite botched that 2.13 -> 2.5x thing. It could have been handled much better. Us Cygwin folk require libtool 1.5 to make shared libs, which means that you also require automake > 1.5 and autoconf > 2.50. However, due to how they introduced the new 2.5 series ("Here ya go! It's new! It's different! It breaks everything! No conversion is possible! It's very difficult to run both at the same time! Suck it!") many projects still use 2.13 because those developers don't want to drink the cool-aid as their distro doesn't support both simultaneously. Soooo, this means that Cygwin has to maintain both a -stable and a -devel of the libtool/auto{conf,make} trio. And packagers of one of those 2.13 upstream projects have the pleasure of re-libtool-izing the whole thing every time something changes, resulting in stupid monstrous patches of hundreds of Kbytes. And it's not like all this autotool voodoo is really common knowledge, so it just makes it that much harder to be a package maintainer. Grrrr. (Bless you, Charles Wilson, for doing all the voodoo necessary to keep all these autotool versions co-existing for Cygwin.)
No, it's just that Slashdot editors couldn't possibly fathom a person actually having proper grammar and spelling without a team of advisors going over every word. It's really like asking a lifelong blind person to describe a sunset, you know...
It's called being realistic. Just because you had no problems with whatever you were doing doesn't mean that's the universal experience. No one is claiming that Linux or RedHad isn't CAPABLE of doing all these great things. Instead he's being frank and honest and saying that for the average user that's used to the Windows way, using and especially installing Linux can be very hard and confusing. If you disagree with that I think you've spent too long inside your vi window. Pretending that Linux is happy and fuzzy and easy to use is not going to do anyone any good because it's simply not true. There are still tons of problems that are frustratingly difficult to solve.
Pretending that these don't exist is not going to help anyone, and frankly it gives Linux advocates a bad reputation. "Everyone! You can use a free OS! What are you waiting for? There's all this great desktop software, and it's so easy to use!" And the crowd responds with "-But I can't get Flash to display in Mozilla. -And my video card is in the 640x480 mode! -My Cardbus network adaptor won't show up." Your response in this situation is either "It's very easy really, just post on this newsgroup and search some HOWTOs, come on, what's your problem?" or it's "Well maybe Linux isn't that easy to use for neophytes." If you opt for the former you are in denial.
Yeah, it sucks alright. Especially with that squad of goons that slashdot dispatches to everyone's house to force you to click on each and every SCO story. If only there was some way... some possibility of, oh I don't know, free will -- the ability to actually not click on the links we don't like! I know, it sounds crazy. But I'm convinced that there's a way, a possibilty. It must exist.
The LZW patent expired in the United States on 20 June 2003, but it's still enforceable in the following countries:
Canada (expires 7 July 2004)
the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy (expires 18 June 2004)
Japan (expires 20 June 2004)
So you're not free to use the LZW routines if you live in one of those countries. Please stop spreading misinformation.
We're talking about a couple of minutes of video, how could that POSSIBLY be hundreds of megabytes? Any decent modern codec (such as XviD) should be able to encode this in a few MB at most, while still remaining very high quality. I'm not even going to mention the fact that if you guys all read slashdot it should have occured to you that posting hundreds of MB of videos is not going to be possible. BitTorrent anyone?
visual aid for those of you, who, like me, had no idea what the fuck a red gingham dress was either.
Most regular circuits are rated at 20 amps maximum. And that's with 110V that we have here in the US, where this thing is located. That means you'd need double the current, 64 A. Sorry, not from a "Normal building power strip."