I'm a Gentoo user and its sad to say that I can't argue with that.
Until recently when Gentoo's install CDs started coming with a live environment I always used another computer to set up.
With that said, I'm very pleased w/ Gentoo and I use it on 3 machines at home and I'm planning on rotating some machines around and using Gentoo on the new ones too.
When I was at UCF, teachers would sell their notes in the bookstore, not give them for free online
I don't remember any time I had to pay for notes. In my biology class they were available online or you had the option to pay for them at the bookstore. I graduated 2005.
Now, if this is something which is widely happening then it's news.
A Maxtor drive I had flamed up once too. This was after my Power Supply fried almost everything directly connected to it. I took each part of that computer and tried it out on another computer. I had the hard drive upside down (circuits exposed) and outside of the case. When I turned the comptuer on the drive had two flames shoot out. There were a couple centimeters high and lasted about 5 seconds.
Since then, when building a computer I don't cheap out on the power supply. I'll never buy a case that comes with it's own power supply unless it is an Antec case.
All kidding aside... if you had a PS3 would you run this in down time?
I wouldn't have my PS3 on just to run this program. If it could run at the same time as it is playing mp3s or something, then sure...I'd run it.
I really like the visualizations of something like xbmc while my music is playing but showing visualizations of curing diseases???...that might be just as good.
Occasional homebrew??? My modded xbox broke a little while ago and I went out and got a new one and a new modchip for the sole purpose of running homebrew applications like xbmc and gentoox.
the article mentions something about external graphics. This seems like a good idea especially for notebooks. They can be good to use for web use on your lap or at a coffee shop but when you put in on your docking station and hook it up to a 21 inch monitor you also plug in 4 video cards and have an awesome gaming machine from a laptop.
I hear you about you handing them the evidence and they'll only do something they can win with no effort.
Someone started using my credit card online ordering some books on how to use google ads to sell stuff and some porno stuff.
Anyway I was in posession of the card so I figured it had to be a waitress at a restraunt or a 'friend' of mine who was in my house or something.
Anyway, the sites both gave the the same IP address used to order these things and it was a local IP address on the same ISP that I use. The ISP wouldn't give me any information but they said they would give it to the police. Imagine the police having to make one phone call to find out who it was....nope. Too much work for them. Plus that said that is no evidence. They need video footage of them using my credit card number. Stupid lazy doughnut eating police.
Agreed. He doesn't seem to be that technical. If you watch the video rather than read the transcript...the part where he mentions having searched 65,000 computers for blank passwords, he elaborates and says that maybe only 5,000 were alive and of that, maybe only 500 ran Windows and only some of them had blank passwords.
The fact that he mentions targeting windows machines and having a conversation on wordpad with someone leads me to beleive he was usuing one of those Back Oriface / sub-seven things that were going around the time that this happened.
Oh that brings back memories of living in a college apartment complex and using those programs. Having conversations on notepad, playing sounds through their computers at night, printing stuff on their printers. One girl actually thought it was cool and said she felt like Whoopie Goldberg in Jumpin' Jack Flash.
I'm not familiar with the different kind of open source licenses.
If we're talking about legos, what would the difference licenses mean to the end user.
If someone made modifications to the firmware to make the thing change channels on TV could he release it as a binary without source and charge people money depending on which license the original firmware was released under?
Could someone come up with different scenerios for what would be allowed / not allowed under these different types of OS licenses....
According to Wikipedia.... "Contrary to popular belief, Milonakis was not the Man Show boy, a smart-mouthed boy who frequently appeared on The Man Show."
The bug was an IE bug.
Lets say there is a windows exploit out there and it has the potential to let people run arbitrary code on the victim's computer. If that code accesses e-mail files stored on the computer that have usernames / passwords / credit card information....it is not the fault of Thunderbird, Eudora, Netscape, or whatever e-mail client is running there. That isn't how they got in, they got in through the windows exploit.
I'm sure google didn't fix the IE bug, they prevented people using that exploit from getting personal information from Google Desktop Search. The IE bug is still there. This will just put less pressure on Microsoft to fix their POS browser.
I don't know where you're from, but where I grew up in Wisconsin right between Milwaukee and Chicago we got over 30 crystal clear channels using an anteanna. I would say more than 90 percent of the people in that town didn't even have cable tv let alone digital.
I think the last time I used IE (at home, not work) was 3 or 4 years ago. I always partition my drive so I have a windows drive (which gets formatted 3 or 4 times a year) and another drive with everything else including install files for netscape, mozilla, firefox....etc. I tend to use firefox to download the newest version of firefox;-)
I install it for 5 minutes just to download a newer version.
Yeah...I agree with you although it should be noted that you do not need a modchip to run linux, so your figures may be off.
An xbox running linux used to be a pretty good value, but the price of the console hasn't dropped as much as comparable PC parts.
There is something to be said about running linux on as xbox though. When I only had one PC, I used to dual boot with windows and linux. My 3 room-mates and I played a lot of battlefield 1942. That game hogs resources like you wouldn't beleive so having the same box serve the game as one playing it really slowed things down. Enter the xbox. We already owned one and while we were playin 1942 nobody else was usin it.
Yes we could have went to wallmart and bought a much better PC for a game server, but it would have been overkill, plus we already had the xbox. I had 16 people on the internet playin on my xbox server and the CPU was still 90 - 95% idle.
I did not read the article and have not used MCE or any other PVR type stuff. I do however have an ATI All in Wonder which I use to record TV. I also have a modified xbox running Xbox Media Center. Through there I stream any video or audio I want over the network and its wonderful.
Man, this is the reason I love open source software. It has always amazed me at how fast these hackers make keygens and cracks for liscensed programs. But open source is even better. Its saying we're not gonna stand for this crap and we'll copy what you have and make a better free version of it, from compilers to operating systems. Long live Open Source
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I'm a Gentoo user and its sad to say that I can't argue with that. Until recently when Gentoo's install CDs started coming with a live environment I always used another computer to set up. With that said, I'm very pleased w/ Gentoo and I use it on 3 machines at home and I'm planning on rotating some machines around and using Gentoo on the new ones too.
It sure is news. It is OSNews. They posted this a little while ago too.
So to buy something from a web site I should download their own application written in C++ to browse their store and add things to my shopping cart?
I'm not an expert or anything but can't you have malicious ELF binaries?
Occasional homebrew??? My modded xbox broke a little while ago and I went out and got a new one and a new modchip for the sole purpose of running homebrew applications like xbmc and gentoox.
the article mentions something about external graphics.
This seems like a good idea especially for notebooks.
They can be good to use for web use on your lap or at a coffee shop but when you put in on your docking station and hook it up to a 21 inch monitor you also plug in 4 video cards and have an awesome gaming machine from a laptop.
I hear you about you handing them the evidence and they'll only do something they can win with no effort.
Someone started using my credit card online ordering some books on how to use google ads to sell stuff and some porno stuff.
Anyway I was in posession of the card so I figured it had to be a waitress at a restraunt or a 'friend' of mine who was in my house or something.
Anyway, the sites both gave the the same IP address used to order these things and it was a local IP address on the same ISP that I use. The ISP wouldn't give me any information but they said they would give it to the police. Imagine the police having to make one phone call to find out who it was....nope. Too much work for them. Plus that said that is no evidence. They need video footage of them using my credit card number. Stupid lazy doughnut eating police.
Agreed. He doesn't seem to be that technical.
If you watch the video rather than read the transcript...the part where he mentions having searched 65,000 computers for blank passwords, he elaborates and says that maybe only 5,000 were alive and of that, maybe only 500 ran Windows and only some of them had blank passwords.
The fact that he mentions targeting windows machines and having a conversation on wordpad with someone leads me to beleive he was usuing one of those Back Oriface / sub-seven things that were going around the time that this happened.
Oh that brings back memories of living in a college apartment complex and using those programs. Having conversations on notepad, playing sounds through their computers at night, printing stuff on their printers. One girl actually thought it was cool and said she felt like Whoopie Goldberg in Jumpin' Jack Flash.
I'm not familiar with the different kind of open source licenses.
If we're talking about legos, what would the difference licenses mean to the end user.
If someone made modifications to the firmware to make the thing change channels on TV could he release it as a binary without source and charge people money depending on which license the original firmware was released under?
Could someone come up with different scenerios for what would be allowed / not allowed under these different types of OS licenses....
Thanks,
~Eric
According to Wikipedia .... "Contrary to popular belief, Milonakis was not the Man Show boy, a smart-mouthed boy who frequently appeared on The Man Show."
I'm looking at the all test times chart and it seems to mis-represent the time taken to cat a 1Gb file to /dev/null
http://linuxgazette.net/122/misc/piszcz/group002/i mage018.png
In the last set of data points shows REISERv3 as the 4th best but...
http://linuxgazette.net/122/misc/piszcz/group002/i mage017.png
is showing it as the clear loser.
Also, the data at the bottom of the article confirms it.
WTF??
I call shenanagins (sp?)
~ELF
I have been out of the mindstorms programming for a while. Is this similar to NQC? Or not-quite-C ? I remember playing with that early on.
The bug was an IE bug. Lets say there is a windows exploit out there and it has the potential to let people run arbitrary code on the victim's computer. If that code accesses e-mail files stored on the computer that have usernames / passwords / credit card information....it is not the fault of Thunderbird, Eudora, Netscape, or whatever e-mail client is running there. That isn't how they got in, they got in through the windows exploit. I'm sure google didn't fix the IE bug, they prevented people using that exploit from getting personal information from Google Desktop Search. The IE bug is still there. This will just put less pressure on Microsoft to fix their POS browser.
#include //Compile : cc brainTwister.c //Run : ./a.out // //Option, cool output //Run : ./a.out -v | less
// here i and j are offsets, and we iterate through with k and l
int recurse();void findEmpty(int*i, int* j);void printBoard();void printBoard2();int checkBoard();
int board[9][9] =
{{8,5,0,6,1,3,0,4,7},
{0,0,6,0,7,0,5,0,0},
{9,0,0,0,0,5,0,1,0},
{2,0,0,0,0,4,0,9,0},
{0,1,0,5,9,0,0,0,6},
{0,0,9,0,6,0,1,0,0},
{0,0,5,0,3,0,8,0,0},
{7,0,0,9,0,6,4,3,0},
{6,3,0,4,0,0,0,5,9}};
int v = 0;int main(int argc, char *argv[]){if(argc > 1)if(argv[1][0] == '-' && argv[1][1] == 'v')v = 1;recurse();}int recurse(){int i,j,k,l;if(checkBoard() == 0){return 0;}i = j = 0;findEmpty(&i,&j);if(i 0){// it is full
printBoard();}else{// assign the empty spot 1 through 9
for(k = 1 ; k = 9 ; k++){board[i][j] = k;if(v) printBoard2();recurse();board[i][j] = 0;}}}void findEmpty(int* i, int* j){for((*i) = 0 ; (*i) 9 ; (*i)++){for((*j) = 0 ; (*j) 9 ; (*j)++){if(board[*i][*j] == 0){return;}}}*i = -1;*j = -1;return;}void printBoard(){int i,j,l;for(i = 0 ; i 9 ; i++){for(j = 0 ; j 9 ; j++){printf("%d",board[i][j]);if(j != 8)printf(",");}printf("\n");}printf("\n");}void printBoard2(){int i,j,l;for(i = 0 ; i 9 ; i++){for(j = 0 ; j 9 ; j++){if(board[i][j] == 0)printf("_");else printf("%d",board[i][j]);}}printf("\n");}int checkBoard(){int used[10];// 0 through 9, but only use 1 through 9
int i,j,k,l;// check horizontals
for(i = 0 ; i 9 ; i++){// init used array
for(j = 0 ; j = 9 ; j++){used[j] = 0;}for(j = 0 ; j 9 ; j++){if(board[i][j] != 0 && used[board[i][j]]){return 0;}else used[board[i][j]] = 1;}}// check verticals
for(i = 0 ; i 9 ; i++){// init used array
for(j = 0 ; j = 9 ; j++){used[j] = 0;}for(j = 0 ; j 9 ; j++){if(board[j][i] != 0 && used[board[j][i]]){return 0;}else used[board[j][i]] = 1;}}// check squares
for(i = 0 ; i 9 ; i+= 3){for(j = 0 ; j 9 ; j+= 3){// init used array
for(k = 0 ; k = 9 ; k++){used[k] = 0;}for(k = i ; k (i + 3) ; k++){for(l = j ; l (j + 3) ; l++){if(board[k][l] != 0 && used[board[k][l]]){return 0;}else used[board[k][l]] = 1;}}}}return 1;}
I don't know where you're from, but where I grew up in Wisconsin right between Milwaukee and Chicago we got over 30 crystal clear channels using an anteanna. I would say more than 90 percent of the people in that town didn't even have cable tv let alone digital.
I'm guessing that Lumens (N/A) is a possible con because it isn't listed. It has to use light, its an L.E.D. (Light Emmiting Diode).
I think it simply means that it hasn't been tested for light output in the unit of Lumens
~Eric
I think the last time I used IE (at home, not work) was 3 or 4 years ago. I always partition my drive so I have a windows drive (which gets formatted 3 or 4 times a year) and another drive with everything else including install files for netscape, mozilla, firefox....etc. I tend to use firefox to download the newest version of firefox ;-)
I install it for 5 minutes just to download a newer version.
Yeah...I agree with you although it should be noted that you do not need a modchip to run linux, so your figures may be off. An xbox running linux used to be a pretty good value, but the price of the console hasn't dropped as much as comparable PC parts. There is something to be said about running linux on as xbox though. When I only had one PC, I used to dual boot with windows and linux. My 3 room-mates and I played a lot of battlefield 1942. That game hogs resources like you wouldn't beleive so having the same box serve the game as one playing it really slowed things down. Enter the xbox. We already owned one and while we were playin 1942 nobody else was usin it. Yes we could have went to wallmart and bought a much better PC for a game server, but it would have been overkill, plus we already had the xbox. I had 16 people on the internet playin on my xbox server and the CPU was still 90 - 95% idle.
Yes...and I love how the first thing you see when you boot with cromwell is a messing telling you to throw in the CD with bios.bin on it..
I did not read the article and have not used MCE or any other PVR type stuff. I do however have an ATI All in Wonder which I use to record TV. I also have a modified xbox running Xbox Media Center. Through there I stream any video or audio I want over the network and its wonderful.
...perhaps you are one of the slashdot trollers he spoke of who is 'jealous'
Man, this is the reason I love open source software. It has always amazed me at how fast these hackers make keygens and cracks for liscensed programs. But open source is even better. Its saying we're not gonna stand for this crap and we'll copy what you have and make a better free version of it, from compilers to operating systems. Long live Open Source