I personally am not worried about this proposed reactor and whatnot, and those hundreds of tests may not have increased radiation levels worldwide, but locally studies have turned up evidence of negative effects. Such as the Nevada Test Site. Some searches have turned up links suggesting that John Wayne may have died of cancer as a result of filming a movie in the area, along with lots of normal folks. Bush I was persuaded to sign the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, (sponsored by Orrin Hatch), in 1990 because of the damage done to the people in the area.
A simple google for "Orson, Scott, Card, mormon" and here's what I found, (albeit at the bottom of the first page) - Rants - OSC. Nothing wrong with Card writing these kinds of fantasy books with young boys being sexually assaulted by multi-penised monsters and countless, (some would say it's an obsession, not I!), tales of adolescent males coming of age, after all he's a good Saint, (that's Mormon to you and me). Heck give his writings from beliefnet.com a read if you have any doubts. I especially like "Hey, Who are You Calling a Cult?". His repressive religion has built nothing but character as far as I know. Next Sunday: the miracle of shame
"Xouvert, the Babylonian goddess of open windows, wooding digging implements, (laying it on a tad bit heavy here), and moonlight". Memory kept alive by Freemasons? Quite ridiculous. Especially since Sin, or Nannar is the Moon God in the Babylonian pantheon. Maybe they would have a seperate goddess of moonlight in the Greek pantheon, but not in the Babylonian one. And if they did I'd imagine it would be a goddess with an old timey name.
So I tied an onion to my belt... which was the style at the time.
Actually it's "Applications > Archiving > CD-Burning -> k3b". I like the Mandrake menu-system, but the "Applications" section adds a bit more complexity to finding out where everything is for the newbie. Other than that it is pretty straight foward.
Not to overreact myself, but this is indeed a very major cause for concern. Look at the pictures on TV right now and imagine a terrorist attack in conjunction with this massive blackout. The sheer numbers of people in some areas, confusion, lack of power/communication/transportation/electricity could cause some major damage and panic. Let's all hope for everything to get fixed ASAP.
TIS but RTFA. The GNU FTP server was compromised by a local user who exploited a ptrace vulnerability in the kernel. Here's the post regarding said exploit from Bugtraq.
Hello
There are many discussions (on slashdot for example) on the recent linux ptrace (& kmod) bug. I'll try to clarify what is this all about.
It's a local root vulnerability. It's exploitable only if: 1. the kernel is built with modules and kernel module loader enabled and 2./proc/sys/kernel/modprobe contains the path to some valid executable and 3. ptrace() calls are not blocked
These conditions are met on most standard linux distros.
Ok now how it works: When a process requests a feature which is in a module, the kernel spawns a child process, sets its euid and egid to 0 and calls execve("/sbin/modprobe") The problem is that before the euid change the child process can be attached to with ptrace(). Game over, the user can insert any code into a process which will be run with the superuser privileges.
Solutions/workarounds: - patch the kernel or - disable kmod/modules or - install a ptrace-blocking module or - set/proc/sys/kernel/modprobe to/any/bogus/file
IIRC a patch for this exploit was not available until the following week.
Here's a little slice of my firewall log from the last 5 minutes. I've seen dozens more hits on 135 just from today as well, so it looks like a pretty big increase in scans against port 135. Most of the hits are from unique IPs too, so that might be a lot of infected hosts around me.
Others have already mentioned the CLI tools for apt, plus for rpm if you're using Mandrake instead of RH you have urpmi which is arguably just as good as apt, and urpmq and urpmf to browse packages from the command line. Good ol CLI.
Mandrake has urpmi. Arguably just as good as apt-get. When I first tried out MDK back in the 7 or 8 days I ran into so many dependency problems I was going crazy, then I discovered urpmi and haven't seen a single dependency problem yet. The number of packages that are available for MDK are amazing compared to what I find for RH. "urpmi --auto-select --media update" will automatically upgrade all upgradeable packages from the update source you specify. "urpmi mplayer" will grab the mplayer rpm from my Penguin Liberation Front source and also grab all of the win32 codecs and crap I need for DVDs and other formats that aren't available in the stock mplayer MDK provides. I think it would be a great addition to the default RH install. Either that or apt-rpm. Default RH is just a pain compared to distros with nice package systems.
If you do a minimal install make sure that you check the "with documentation" option if you ever plan on needing the man pages and any type of/usr/share/doc files. If you choose to not install the docs you will be screwed if you try to install man or rute or anything along those lines. At least this was the case as of 9.1, maybe it's fixed in this release?
WTF? I've got a Radeon 9700 that works just fine with MDK 9.1. But I will agree that certain programs included with 9.1 are more buggy than I would like. GNOME and Nautilus for example will crash/lockup constantly on both of the Dell test boxes I've used, and some contrib packages seem to be straight out screwed-up. However even with it's faults I still think that MDK is the best newbie-friendly distro out there. Easy configuration and ease of use are a good addition to the distro pool.
Well as perfect a backup of an album as they allow consumers to get, and perfect in the sense that it is an exact clone of whatever you audio you wish to digitize. However FLAC is capable of 24/96 sampling, so if you had the masters for a given recording you could FLAC them and have a "perfect backup" of those masters. Also if you are taping your own music you can take advantage of the 24 bit format. I actually have a few 24 bit FLACs that were made from the masters of various live shows. So despite the fact that the music that we buy has been resampled and is inferior to the original, the FLAC format is a "perfect" way to archive whatever audio you have available. Be it a decaying Lomax tape of Leadbelly that needs to be saved, or the Dark Side of the Moon masters.
Backup. It's just like having the original.wav files, so if anything happens to the CD you have a perfect backup copy. You get all the benefits of it being digitized as well, you can play it in it's full audio glory on your computer/stereo, you can FTP or transfer the tracks in a format that is a clone of what is on the disc, but with a nice time-saving amount of compression. Also when the CD format dies out you have the digital file sitting around on your HD, which will no doubt be the way we store our media in the future. Your question is similar, (albeit with a few important differences), to asking "Why keep around the full rip of your DVDs? You already have the DVD. Why not just make a divx and leave it at that?" Quality is important, disk space is cheap, and there's nothing like a perfect backup when you are serious about archiving.
OSDL, a non-profit, global consortium of leading technology companies dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux
Some of the sponsors from their sponsors page - "Dell, IBM, Cisco, RH, Transmeta, VA Software, Intel, HP"
So the "3 - Profit!" stage is somewhat seperate from OSDL itself.
When you produce a product of some kind you have the right to dictate its use also
When you purchase a hat from Hatco Inc., you agree to our license, and all the contractual obligations that our license entails. All hats must be worn on the purchasers head, any other usage of our "product" is illegal, and shall be dealt with in the most extreme manner available to Hatco Inc. This may seem a tad bit harsh, but the producer of a product has the right to dictate any and all uses that said product may be put to. So sayeth the AC, and he hath been modded "Insightful".
d00d |\|0 5|-|17. It was a joke. Albeit one that will not get modded funny, but any chance to rip on RMS on/. must be taken. Especially when someone sez "RMS". Sorry to offend your "everything must be 100% correct or else I bitch" sensibilities. Don't you have some spelling mistakes to correct? Or possibly an improper usage of "their"?
You ever heard of google buddy? Variable sword - It's like a monofilament, a super-fine piece of something that is ensconced in a stasis field. It can cut through most anything. Think lightsaber without all the flashy coolness and noise. Also see "Shadowrun" and numerous other sci-fi worlds. A super thin, possibly invisible "string", that will slice you in two as you're running down the hallways of Aztechnology.
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I personally am not worried about this proposed reactor and whatnot, and those hundreds of tests may not have increased radiation levels worldwide, but locally studies have turned up evidence of negative effects. Such as the Nevada Test Site. Some searches have turned up links suggesting that John Wayne may have died of cancer as a result of filming a movie in the area, along with lots of normal folks. Bush I was persuaded to sign the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, (sponsored by Orrin Hatch), in 1990 because of the damage done to the people in the area.
A simple google for "Orson, Scott, Card, mormon" and here's what I found, (albeit at the bottom of the first page) - Rants - OSC. Nothing wrong with Card writing these kinds of fantasy books with young boys being sexually assaulted by multi-penised monsters and countless, (some would say it's an obsession, not I!), tales of adolescent males coming of age, after all he's a good Saint, (that's Mormon to you and me). Heck give his writings from beliefnet.com a read if you have any doubts. I especially like "Hey, Who are You Calling a Cult?". His repressive religion has built nothing but character as far as I know. Next Sunday: the miracle of shame
"Xouvert, the Babylonian goddess of open windows, wooding digging implements, (laying it on a tad bit heavy here), and moonlight". Memory kept alive by Freemasons? Quite ridiculous. Especially since Sin, or Nannar is the Moon God in the Babylonian pantheon. Maybe they would have a seperate goddess of moonlight in the Greek pantheon, but not in the Babylonian one. And if they did I'd imagine it would be a goddess with an old timey name. So I tied an onion to my belt... which was the style at the time.
Actually it's "Applications > Archiving > CD-Burning -> k3b". I like the Mandrake menu-system, but the "Applications" section adds a bit more complexity to finding out where everything is for the newbie. Other than that it is pretty straight foward.
Not to overreact myself, but this is indeed a very major cause for concern. Look at the pictures on TV right now and imagine a terrorist attack in conjunction with this massive blackout. The sheer numbers of people in some areas, confusion, lack of power/communication/transportation/electricity could cause some major damage and panic. Let's all hope for everything to get fixed ASAP.
Well at least you've obviously used Linux before and know what you're talking about. Time to apt-get gpl.
Others have already mentioned the CLI tools for apt, plus for rpm if you're using Mandrake instead of RH you have urpmi which is arguably just as good as apt, and urpmq and urpmf to browse packages from the command line. Good ol CLI.
Mandrake has urpmi. Arguably just as good as apt-get. When I first tried out MDK back in the 7 or 8 days I ran into so many dependency problems I was going crazy, then I discovered urpmi and haven't seen a single dependency problem yet. The number of packages that are available for MDK are amazing compared to what I find for RH. "urpmi --auto-select --media update" will automatically upgrade all upgradeable packages from the update source you specify. "urpmi mplayer" will grab the mplayer rpm from my Penguin Liberation Front source and also grab all of the win32 codecs and crap I need for DVDs and other formats that aren't available in the stock mplayer MDK provides. I think it would be a great addition to the default RH install. Either that or apt-rpm. Default RH is just a pain compared to distros with nice package systems.
If you do a minimal install make sure that you check the "with documentation" option if you ever plan on needing the man pages and any type of /usr/share/doc files. If you choose to not install the docs you will be screwed if you try to install man or rute or anything along those lines. At least this was the case as of 9.1, maybe it's fixed in this release?
WTF? I've got a Radeon 9700 that works just fine with MDK 9.1. But I will agree that certain programs included with 9.1 are more buggy than I would like. GNOME and Nautilus for example will crash/lockup constantly on both of the Dell test boxes I've used, and some contrib packages seem to be straight out screwed-up. However even with it's faults I still think that MDK is the best newbie-friendly distro out there. Easy configuration and ease of use are a good addition to the distro pool.
That crapflood sucks for the non crap-flooding ACs who could be modded up for making good points. I would bet not as many people will browse at 0.
Well as perfect a backup of an album as they allow consumers to get, and perfect in the sense that it is an exact clone of whatever you audio you wish to digitize. However FLAC is capable of 24/96 sampling, so if you had the masters for a given recording you could FLAC them and have a "perfect backup" of those masters. Also if you are taping your own music you can take advantage of the 24 bit format. I actually have a few 24 bit FLACs that were made from the masters of various live shows. So despite the fact that the music that we buy has been resampled and is inferior to the original, the FLAC format is a "perfect" way to archive whatever audio you have available. Be it a decaying Lomax tape of Leadbelly that needs to be saved, or the Dark Side of the Moon masters.
Backup. It's just like having the original .wav files, so if anything happens to the CD you have a perfect backup copy. You get all the benefits of it being digitized as well, you can play it in it's full audio glory on your computer/stereo, you can FTP or transfer the tracks in a format that is a clone of what is on the disc, but with a nice time-saving amount of compression. Also when the CD format dies out you have the digital file sitting around on your HD, which will no doubt be the way we store our media in the future. Your question is similar, (albeit with a few important differences), to asking "Why keep around the full rip of your DVDs? You already have the DVD. Why not just make a divx and leave it at that?" Quality is important, disk space is cheap, and there's nothing like a perfect backup when you are serious about archiving.
And how about when he'd spit out a spout of coinage after he came up for air? That didn't make a lick of sense.
d00d |\|0 5|-|17. It was a joke. Albeit one that will not get modded funny, but any chance to rip on RMS on /. must be taken. Especially when someone sez "RMS". Sorry to offend your "everything must be 100% correct or else I bitch" sensibilities. Don't you have some spelling mistakes to correct? Or possibly an improper usage of "their"?
I'll save you guys the time it takes to check out the link. The RMS definition is GNU/db. Sorry in advance.
You ever heard of google buddy? Variable sword - It's like a monofilament, a super-fine piece of something that is ensconced in a stasis field. It can cut through most anything. Think lightsaber without all the flashy coolness and noise. Also see "Shadowrun" and numerous other sci-fi worlds. A super thin, possibly invisible "string", that will slice you in two as you're running down the hallways of Aztechnology.
Don't forget to duct tape a brick to all those junk mail "postage paid" letters. That'll show those damn phone-sex bastards!