It's a really good interview -- give it a listen. He does mention that at the end he became sloppy. He thinks he wanted to get caught because it became such an addiction he lost his girlfriend and gave up his job. He said at first, he'd hop through different computers around the world -- but at the end, he'd just sign on.
If you listened to the story, he mentions being surprised netstat would show hundreds of connections from all over the world. He's just a scapegoat -- the real criminals are the ones who fail to secure sensitive data. You know if you leave your shit open all over the place that people are going to look. Anyway, unless he had come to the place in his life where he subconciously wanted to get caught (obsession = lost GF, lost job), and started basically asking to be caught, those systems would likely be just as open today. For that matter, they might still be just as open.
Now, as for the military caring about national security -- right. Let's arrest a pacifist UFO kook from the UK. Who cares about N. Korea, China, etc. etc. Besides, extradiction from N. Korea is a bitch. "Let's kill the low hanging fruit and call it good." Military idiots.
Or that the seals can distinguish between the fish eaters and the seal eaters. This was in a recent National Geographic (last few months I believe) -- but the seal eating orcas look a little different and the seals flip out when they see them (understandably).
Oh yeah -- I was trapped. I even pasted in the boilerplate text on this message making window -- didn't work and gave up. I see at least one person did get a bunch of actual dots and underscores at least.
I disagree. I like widescreen because it lets me have a few windows overlapping each other without artifically narrowing the window width. My desktop monitor is a standrd 1280x1024 -- nothing wrong with that, but after using a widescreen on my 15" powerbook, it feels like I'm missing the edges off of my screen when using my desktop. My next desktop monitor will be a widescreen.
I'm willing to bet that the copyright-violting-file-sharing crowd is made up mostly of windows users. It's been my experience that linux users are very conscientious about licenses. Why else would we have gnome or ogg?
No -- you aren't. Part of the reason I use Free software is so I don't feel like I'm cheating when I decide to use the same install disc/file/whatever on two or more computers. Free software isn't just gratis, it's also guilt free. Part of the reason I love it.
I dunno, frogbert, if units of measure intimidate you, maybe you should try this new thing we put together a few years back.
It's called a calculator...
I don't understand why you got flamebait. It makes total sense to me. I'm an intermediate user with only the most basic programing skills (simple php stuff) so just learning about the systems is good enough fun for me. I can totally see how others would be past this point, and I don't think you deserve a flamebait on it at all.
I'm really tired of having to think about tar files vs. rpms, and gtk vs. qt; I just want the software to install and work so that I can get on with using it to do something else.
This is understandable and how most people approach computers. It doesn't do much for me though. The fun part about a computer is the process involved in getting it set up to do something -- the actual usuage isn't usually anywhere near as fun. Compare setting up a database system to doing the actual data entry -- the first part can be challenging and interesting, the second part plain ass mind numbingly dull.
I've been fooling around w/ Ubuntu on a secondary laptop I have recently -- it's a cool system. But now I'm ready for a new game, so this morning I burned some BSD cds -- soon as I get back from the store with another pcmcia network card, I'm going to fool around with setting it up as a firewall -- a new thing for me which is certain to increase my awareness, and provide many hours of challenging puzzles to solve. I love puzzle games! A new distro is to me like a new FPS is to teenage gamers.;-)
Of course I have a computer I don't mess with so I can always check my email and surf the net -- but that isn't really a fun machine. The computers I have a good time with are the old secondary systems I have laying around (there are 8 functioning machines here, from a TRS-80 coco, through various x86 systems, g3 and 4 ibooks, and a new powerbook).
That's right.. like "I did not have sexual relations with that woman"
I long for the days of a president who got a bit of nookie on the side. It's a far better situation than a president who fucks us over, fucks others over, and generates piles of dead bodies. On the other hand, my fossil fuel stocks have been kickin' ass -- even with today's hit on speculation China will not consume as much oil as it has been. Anyway... if Bush spent more time getting laid instead of boosting profits for his oil cronies, the world would be a better place (and my portfolio worth less -- some cognitive dissonance here but not much -- I'd prefer lower profits and more peace).
Hell - I WANT it to be heavy -- like my Model M feels substantial and real and unlike the $10 memorex bubble switch keyboard I picked up 3 years ago for a computer at work -- letters already worn off.
Although just a design model -- I have to say it has me drooling. And if made with quality parts that gave it a nice heft, I'd pay bucks for it. The keyboard is, afterall, a large percentage of how we communicate with our computers. Why is it such a neglected component?
I recently installed Linux on my non-computer literate girlfriend's computer.... She even sighs when she has to reboot to Windows. She was amazed at the little things, like how cut 'n paste works. I could tell she was thinking "why wasn't it always this easy?"
Personally, I believe the only reason "linux is not ready for the desktop" is the mindset people have that says "linux is not ready for the desktop". I have had similar experiences over the last couple years and with every new release of distros, things seem to get better and better. So much of a new install is automagically handled now, I fear that in a couple years, using linux is going to stop being cool -- there just isn't much to do to make it work anymore.
I have 1.5ghz G4 powerbook with the 15" screen, battery about a month old since the replacement -- I can get maybe 3 hours if I'm careful. With a full charge, I can watch one average length movie. I think the 4 hour figure would probably be accurate with 1ghz or less 12" notebook -- but I'm sceptical that anything bigger would last four hours if the computer was being worked at all.
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Grateful dead?? WTF I'm waiting for the happyhardcore version.
It's a really good interview -- give it a listen. He does mention that at the end he became sloppy. He thinks he wanted to get caught because it became such an addiction he lost his girlfriend and gave up his job. He said at first, he'd hop through different computers around the world -- but at the end, he'd just sign on.
If you listened to the story, he mentions being surprised netstat would show hundreds of connections from all over the world. He's just a scapegoat -- the real criminals are the ones who fail to secure sensitive data. You know if you leave your shit open all over the place that people are going to look. Anyway, unless he had come to the place in his life where he subconciously wanted to get caught (obsession = lost GF, lost job), and started basically asking to be caught, those systems would likely be just as open today. For that matter, they might still be just as open.
Now, as for the military caring about national security -- right. Let's arrest a pacifist UFO kook from the UK. Who cares about N. Korea, China, etc. etc. Besides, extradiction from N. Korea is a bitch. "Let's kill the low hanging fruit and call it good." Military idiots.
Or that the seals can distinguish between the fish eaters and the seal eaters. This was in a recent National Geographic (last few months I believe) -- but the seal eating orcas look a little different and the seals flip out when they see them (understandably).
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Que the boring and unending ID comments.
Hell -- the devil makes me want to try it!
Dupe post. Makes you a liar. or caught in a time loop.
Oh yeah -- I was trapped. I even pasted in the boilerplate text on this message making window -- didn't work and gave up. I see at least one person did get a bunch of actual dots and underscores at least.
dot dot dash dot dot dot dot dash dot dot dot dot / dot dash dash dot dash dash dash dot dot dot dash
modding me troll does not change the truth of the matter -- the Beatles are the most overplayed band in the history of the known universe.
modding me offtopic does not change the truth, that the Beatles are the most overplayed band in the history of known universe.
Burn karma burn! Plenty to spare.
Doesn't change the fact that the Beatles are the most overplayed band in the history of the known universe.
I disagree. I like widescreen because it lets me have a few windows overlapping each other without artifically narrowing the window width. My desktop monitor is a standrd 1280x1024 -- nothing wrong with that, but after using a widescreen on my 15" powerbook, it feels like I'm missing the edges off of my screen when using my desktop. My next desktop monitor will be a widescreen.
I'm willing to bet that the copyright-violting-file-sharing crowd is made up mostly of windows users. It's been my experience that linux users are very conscientious about licenses. Why else would we have gnome or ogg?
No -- you aren't. Part of the reason I use Free software is so I don't feel like I'm cheating when I decide to use the same install disc/file/whatever on two or more computers. Free software isn't just gratis, it's also guilt free. Part of the reason I love it.
Lockheed Martin agrees with you.
I don't understand why you got flamebait. It makes total sense to me. I'm an intermediate user with only the most basic programing skills (simple php stuff) so just learning about the systems is good enough fun for me. I can totally see how others would be past this point, and I don't think you deserve a flamebait on it at all.
This is understandable and how most people approach computers. It doesn't do much for me though. The fun part about a computer is the process involved in getting it set up to do something -- the actual usuage isn't usually anywhere near as fun. Compare setting up a database system to doing the actual data entry -- the first part can be challenging and interesting, the second part plain ass mind numbingly dull.
I've been fooling around w/ Ubuntu on a secondary laptop I have recently -- it's a cool system. But now I'm ready for a new game, so this morning I burned some BSD cds -- soon as I get back from the store with another pcmcia network card, I'm going to fool around with setting it up as a firewall -- a new thing for me which is certain to increase my awareness, and provide many hours of challenging puzzles to solve. I love puzzle games! A new distro is to me like a new FPS is to teenage gamers.
Of course I have a computer I don't mess with so I can always check my email and surf the net -- but that isn't really a fun machine. The computers I have a good time with are the old secondary systems I have laying around (there are 8 functioning machines here, from a TRS-80 coco, through various x86 systems, g3 and 4 ibooks, and a new powerbook).
I long for the days of a president who got a bit of nookie on the side. It's a far better situation than a president who fucks us over, fucks others over, and generates piles of dead bodies. On the other hand, my fossil fuel stocks have been kickin' ass -- even with today's hit on speculation China will not consume as much oil as it has been. Anyway
McBride -- We don't like your type around here - AC or not!
Hell - I WANT it to be heavy -- like my Model M feels substantial and real and unlike the $10 memorex bubble switch keyboard I picked up 3 years ago for a computer at work -- letters already worn off.
Although just a design model -- I have to say it has me drooling. And if made with quality parts that gave it a nice heft, I'd pay bucks for it. The keyboard is, afterall, a large percentage of how we communicate with our computers. Why is it such a neglected component?
FYI -- harry potter spoilers link.
Personally, I believe the only reason "linux is not ready for the desktop" is the mindset people have that says "linux is not ready for the desktop". I have had similar experiences over the last couple years and with every new release of distros, things seem to get better and better. So much of a new install is automagically handled now, I fear that in a couple years, using linux is going to stop being cool -- there just isn't much to do to make it work anymore.
I have 1.5ghz G4 powerbook with the 15" screen, battery about a month old since the replacement -- I can get maybe 3 hours if I'm careful. With a full charge, I can watch one average length movie. I think the 4 hour figure would probably be accurate with 1ghz or less 12" notebook -- but I'm sceptical that anything bigger would last four hours if the computer was being worked at all.