You can turn GPS off, but it still works for 911? If it works for 911, why couldn't it work for the government? Sounds to me like it just turns the GPS off for most people..
Oh please, anyone can understand what Sii3112A is!
Let me explain how to read it. First, the S designation means that it was added to the kernel in September 2003. If it was a little "s" it would have been added on June 23rd, 1996, but that's not important.
Next comes two little i's. Alan Cox put them there because he thought they looked cool, but since they're the IP of SCO, they'll have to be removed in a later revision.
Next is a "3112". This means that there are 31^12 transistors on whatever this Sii3112A thing is.
And last, there is a big "A". This means that in the count of 31^12 transistors, purple transistors were NOT counted. This was because Alan Cox was feeling tired of the color purple at the time of this things addition to the kernel.
See how easy it is to tell? Now to find out what a Sii3112A is, you only have to find out which component of your computer has 31^12 transistors! (Not including those purple transistors, of course!)
More like '94, we were still stuck with Prodigy though. My point is that you can't possibly block everything, and whether you want to try or just trust your kid is up to you.
I'm a 15 year old, and have had internet access since Prodigy was THE ISP. Here is my opinion, from the viewpoint of a 15 year old that has been familiar with the internet and computers from an early age.
1. If one of your children quickly exits a program when you walk by, they're not nescessarily doing anything that you don't allow. I've found that it's a _natural_ reaction for me to minimize whatever I'm doing when a parent or sibling walks by, no matter what it is. I use Linux, and even have a Virtual Desktop left empty except for a console, for the sole purpose of switching to when someone is looking. People looking at the screen just annoys me, no matter what it is, so I protect my privacy. Your kids probably do too.
2. If you try to put restrictions on their internet activity, they CAN AND WILL learn how to get around them. There is no easy way to make a computer both usable, and to force it's users to not use some programs. Sure, you can block every port but port 80, but they'll just find a way to tunnel things over port 80. If they're really determined to get around the restrictions, they will be able to sooner or later. Personally, I can get around any one of my school's internet filtering systems, and most home computers have something similar to them. All it takes to get around a filter is time, and experimentation.
Having said all that, I believe the best thing to do is to trust your kids. It's virtually impossible to stop them from doing things you don't want them to do, so why not just sit down with them, and have a talk about the proper use of the internet? If they break that trust, take away their internet access for a day or two. And they'll hopefully be less likely to do it again.
Yeah, you're missing a SSH client. That would be a perfect phone - for people like us. Joe CellPhoneUser wouldn't even understand what most of the features are, let alone use them.
I agree with you that this was a hasty decision (and probably a bad one), but not listening to the public is probably a good thing. We would be much better off if politicians did what they think is in the best interest of the country, instead of conforming to public opinion. After all, most of the public is simply a part of the Stupid Masses. We don't want them controlling things, now do we?
This is somewhat offtopic as well, but it needs to be pointed out.
I agree with you that PETA seems to value animal life, more than human life. But I also think that the argument could be made that they're hypocrites. I don't expect them to make a big deal about this, and, if they don't, they would be _discriminating against cockroaches_ *gasp*
What I'm saying, is that they seem to value some animal life more than other animal life. Why? Maybe because cockroaches disgust some of them? And that's hypocrisy. If they're going to argue for animal rights, they should at least argue for all animals rights (and make themselves look even stupider at the same time).
It's very stable for me. # uptime
06:38:34 up 13 days, 14:46, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
That's my server. HTTPd/IRCd/MySQL/BIND/Postfix
Before that it was up 14 days, and before that ~20. The reason it rebooted wasn't because it crashed - it was because the power went out and I haven't bought a UPS yet.
This is 2.6.0-test5, btw. I haven't upgraded because I don't want to reboot until I have to. (Although 2.6.0-test8 is on the GRUB list, and 2.6.0-test9 is compiling right now.)
They'll almost certainly be taken out, there's no reason for a Debian install to have RedHat pictures.
But I wouldn't say they were really ads, at least not for other companies. Some were interesting facts, and others told about stuff like RHCE's/up2date/etc.
Are there any motives that I'm missing, other than the fact that they are trying to capitalize on SCO's FUD? Maybe they have money invested in Micro$oft? Or they have something to lose from SCO (or M$ for that matter) going under? Anyone?
I won't argue with you on Win2k's stability, but IMHO, XP is just as unstable as 98.
For example, in XP Pro with all service packs and patches applied, going to an FTP site in IE causes IE to crash, and sometimes XP itself. I've noticed this behavior usually occurs in systems with only >=256mb of RAM, but that is still no reason for the entire OS to lock up.
I've also noticed that XP locks up _ALOT_ because of RAM issues. It really shouldn't be nescessary to have >256mb of RAM for an OS to be stable. After all, *BSD and Linux both run fine with 128mb.
Ohhhhh, hardware installation skills. Why didn't ya say so?
After all, Windows lets you change MILLIONS of ULTRA ADVANCED hardware related settings, doesn't it? There are just millions of things you can screw up with Windows, after all, it's made for power users!
My installation skills? How can my installation skills have anything to do with it when Windows XP doesn't let you customize a damn thing during installation?
I find that hard to believe, seeing as how the security updates to fix the recent vulnerabilities came out less than 3 months ago.. and they all required restarts.
Oh yes, Windows XP runs perfectly, I'm sure. Apart from the crashing every 10 minutes, and having a new major vulnerability discovered every few days, of course.
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You can turn GPS off, but it still works for 911?
If it works for 911, why couldn't it work for the government?
Sounds to me like it just turns the GPS off for most people..
What Russian hackers? Was there an article I missed?
I doubt a simple VPN client would help much.
Joe User has never heard of a VPN, and any geek can set up one with FreeS/WAN.
Is it as good as the first one? Better than Jedi Academy? /.ers that have it think of it?
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Start counting your transistors (But not the purple ones!), you lazy bum.
Australia has the Digital Agenda Act, which is just an Australian version of the DMCA.
Same thing.
Now it's illegal to _LINK_ to websites that have content that _MAY_ infringe on someone's copyrights?
And what law makes that illegal? The DMCA?
Oh please, anyone can understand what Sii3112A is!
Let me explain how to read it.
First, the S designation means that it was added to the kernel in September 2003. If it was a little "s" it would have been added on June 23rd, 1996, but that's not important.
Next comes two little i's. Alan Cox put them there because he thought they looked cool, but since they're the IP of SCO, they'll have to be removed in a later revision.
Next is a "3112". This means that there are 31^12 transistors on whatever this Sii3112A thing is.
And last, there is a big "A". This means that in the count of 31^12 transistors, purple transistors were NOT counted. This was because Alan Cox was feeling tired of the color purple at the time of this things addition to the kernel.
See how easy it is to tell?
Now to find out what a Sii3112A is, you only have to find out which component of your computer has 31^12 transistors! (Not including those purple transistors, of course!)
More like '94, we were still stuck with Prodigy though.
My point is that you can't possibly block everything, and whether you want to try or just trust your kid is up to you.
I'm a 15 year old, and have had internet access since Prodigy was THE ISP.
Here is my opinion, from the viewpoint of a 15 year old that has been familiar with the internet and computers from an early age.
1. If one of your children quickly exits a program when you walk by, they're not nescessarily doing anything that you don't allow.
I've found that it's a _natural_ reaction for me to minimize whatever I'm doing when a parent or sibling walks by, no matter what it is.
I use Linux, and even have a Virtual Desktop left empty except for a console, for the sole purpose of switching to when someone is looking.
People looking at the screen just annoys me, no matter what it is, so I protect my privacy. Your kids probably do too.
2. If you try to put restrictions on their internet activity, they CAN AND WILL learn how to get around them.
There is no easy way to make a computer both usable, and to force it's users to not use some programs. Sure, you can block every port but port 80, but they'll just find a way to tunnel things over port 80.
If they're really determined to get around the restrictions, they will be able to sooner or later.
Personally, I can get around any one of my school's internet filtering systems, and most home computers have something similar to them. All it takes to get around a filter is time, and experimentation.
Having said all that, I believe the best thing to do is to trust your kids.
It's virtually impossible to stop them from doing things you don't want them to do, so why not just sit down with them, and have a talk about the proper use of the internet?
If they break that trust, take away their internet access for a day or two. And they'll hopefully be less likely to do it again.
Yeah, you're missing a SSH client.
That would be a perfect phone - for people like us. Joe CellPhoneUser wouldn't even understand what most of the features are, let alone use them.
I agree with you that this was a hasty decision (and probably a bad one), but not listening to the public is probably a good thing.
We would be much better off if politicians did what they think is in the best interest of the country, instead of conforming to public opinion.
After all, most of the public is simply a part of the Stupid Masses. We don't want them controlling things, now do we?
...and you also work for Belkin.
Then recompile your own kernel.. it's most likely a problem with SuSE's precompiled kernel, not the Linux kernel itself.
This is somewhat offtopic as well, but it needs to be pointed out.
I agree with you that PETA seems to value animal life, more than human life.
But I also think that the argument could be made that they're hypocrites. I don't expect them to make a big deal about this, and, if they don't, they would be _discriminating against cockroaches_ *gasp*
What I'm saying, is that they seem to value some animal life more than other animal life. Why? Maybe because cockroaches disgust some of them?
And that's hypocrisy. If they're going to argue for animal rights, they should at least argue for all animals rights (and make themselves look even stupider at the same time).
You're going to need something to remove Windows, if you're intent on getting rid of ALL your spyware.
;)
format.exe is the perfect program to do that.
It's very stable for me.
# uptime
06:38:34 up 13 days, 14:46, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
That's my server. HTTPd/IRCd/MySQL/BIND/Postfix
Before that it was up 14 days, and before that ~20. The reason it rebooted wasn't because it crashed - it was because the power went out and I haven't bought a UPS yet.
This is 2.6.0-test5, btw. I haven't upgraded because I don't want to reboot until I have to. (Although 2.6.0-test8 is on the GRUB list, and 2.6.0-test9 is compiling right now.)
They'll almost certainly be taken out, there's no reason for a Debian install to have RedHat pictures.
But I wouldn't say they were really ads, at least not for other companies. Some were interesting facts, and others told about stuff like RHCE's/up2date/etc.
Are there any motives that I'm missing, other than the fact that they are trying to capitalize on SCO's FUD?
Maybe they have money invested in Micro$oft?
Or they have something to lose from SCO (or M$ for that matter) going under?
Anyone?
I won't argue with you on Win2k's stability, but IMHO, XP is just as unstable as 98.
For example, in XP Pro with all service packs and patches applied, going to an FTP site in IE causes IE to crash, and sometimes XP itself. I've noticed this behavior usually occurs in systems with only >=256mb of RAM, but that is still no reason for the entire OS to lock up.
I've also noticed that XP locks up _ALOT_ because of RAM issues. It really shouldn't be nescessary to have >256mb of RAM for an OS to be stable.
After all, *BSD and Linux both run fine with 128mb.
Ohhhhh, hardware installation skills.
Why didn't ya say so?
After all, Windows lets you change MILLIONS of ULTRA ADVANCED hardware related settings, doesn't it? There are just millions of things you can screw up with Windows, after all, it's made for power users!
My installation skills? How can my installation skills have anything to do with it when Windows XP doesn't let you customize a damn thing during installation?
I find that hard to believe, seeing as how the security updates to fix the recent vulnerabilities came out less than 3 months ago.. and they all required restarts.
Oh yes, Windows XP runs perfectly, I'm sure.
Apart from the crashing every 10 minutes, and having a new major vulnerability discovered every few days, of course.
I'm on the side of the Evil Software Patents.
After all, while a software patent victory might hurt Micro$oft and IE, a victory for Micro$osft would do little or no damage to software patents.
Therefore, the most can be accomplished in this case by software patents "winning".