Yes, that is my idea of support. They give us the tools we need to make the best possible driver for the Matrox G400. A driver which, I might add, works on any platform, with any kernel, and any configuration.
Constrast that with the fine, fine output of those 100 engineers (although I suspect that their Linux driver "team" numbers in the ones). The NVidia binary-only driver runs only on particular kernel revisions, and does not allow the user to switch between SMP and UP operation. Worse, NVidia could choose to stop supporting Linux at any time, and there's nothing we could do about. Since we have the specs for the G400, we can support that card forever.
If you want to support a company that is behind Linux, get a Matrox G400. Matrox releases the full programming manuals to the XFree development team, and the GLX and DRI drivers for the G400 are fully open-source. The G400 isn't nearly as fast as the GTS Ultra, but the nvidia drivers aren't open source.
The vaio series has a history of packing tons of features into a small package. My z505hs has a 500 MHz processor, 256 MB of RAM, a 12 GB disk, built-in 100 Mbps ethernet, built-in audio, built-in Lucent winmodem (works with Linux!), infra-red port, 2 usb ports, a firewire link, a pcmcia slot, and a memory stick slot. All of that without any dongles or docking stations, in a < 4lb package.
In fact, the only thing that could make the z505 better is a less power-hungry processor. The stock battery in the z505 only lasts an hour under normal use.
As for the Vaio C1 series, it has almost all of the equipment that the z505 has, without the extra usb port and the built-in ethernet. It even has the same screen resolution (1024x768), albeit in a smaller size. With the Crusoe processor, that little 2-lb machine may be even more neat.
Actually it is much more secure to first DENY all inbound connections, and then selectively ALLOW connections that you have deemed to be secure. For example, assuming eth0 is your only public network interface.
First, deny and log to syslog all inbound connections: ipchains -A input -p tcp -y -l -i eth0 -j REJECT
I'm pretty sure I got it right but I didn;t consult the manual. Use at your own risk.
Second, decide that you wish to always allow inbound SSH connections: ipchains -I input 1 -p tcp --dport ssh -i eth0 -j ACCEPT
And maybe a secure web server too: ipchains -I input 1 -p tcp --dport 443 -i eth0 -j ACCEPT
Everybody says jabber. I cannot get a damn jabber client to compile and run properly on Linux. I tried Gabber, and even installed the bazillion c++ glue libraries it needs. Client did not work. I tried Jarl, which is in Perl/Tk, and it would come up with a blank display.
Why is there not a jabber-supported jabber client for Linux? What about Java?
The PR2 release is a complete disservice to the mozilla.org community. There are really two products here, the Mozilla browser and the Commercial browser. The Mozilla browser is a very fine product. The Commercial browser is a steaming pile of shit. Unfortunately, Mozilla.org, the makers of the Mozilla browser, are going to get skewered by Slashdot and trade press magazines because the Commercial browser, which is made by AOL, is such a joke.
Why is the commercial browser so lame? From out site of the walls at AOL/Netscape, I can only guess. But I can tell you that as an active tester of the Mozilla browser, Netscape Product Development Team's bug-fixing priorities are infuriating. Hours before the release of this PR2, I filed two "smoketest blocker" bugs. This is the most severe kind of bug, and should have prevented the release of the browser. A blocker is a bug which prevents the browser from passing the defined smoketests. These are tests of basic functionality. Not passing these tests means that the browser is not ready for release.
These two serious bugs were marked, by AOL/Netscape people, as "MOZ ONLY", which essentially means "to hell with you we're releasing the product anyway." Of course, the product is released, and the Linux installer doesn't work at all if you have bash2, and the browser will dump core if you try to load ftp.netscape.com in a particular way.
The quality control process at AOL/Netscape has completely failed. They do not follow the quality guidelines of the Mozilla project, as defined on the Mozilla web site. By releasing the Commercial product in such a sorry state, they have embarrased everyone who works so hard on Mozilla, and I suspect that they have lowered morale across the entire project.
I tested this with NN 4.74 and the Blackdown Java Plugin 1.2.2 Final. The exploit also works against this combination, so it isn't limited to the Java plugin that is shipped by default.
When did slashdot start running banners from doubleclick? I just loaded the front page and got a doubleclick banner (which I don't let Mozilla load). I'm very surprised. I thought Slashdot served all ads from images.slashdot.org, and I thought they were all related to open source projects.
Given doubleclicks arch-evil plans for our browsing click-trails, I would suggest Andover.net and Slashdot reconsider their use of doubleclick.
Well I think moz is cool but you are ignorant if you haven't noticed any new features in the last three months. The XP File Picker (which stinks), Ender Lite (becoming stable), URL completion (still doesn't work), and Strct DTD parsing (works perfectly but breaks almost every web page) have all landed in the last few months.
I use Mozilla and in fact I am an active participant in bug reporting and triage, and have even contributed code. But I think it is very damning that we have this huge beast and the history (back button) still doesn't work right. This is very basic.
So I'm not expecting much out of this boycott. Sure, a few of us will give up corporate movies and music, but the majority will keep right on eating up all the pop music, movies, and television they can ge their hands on.
For those of you with a backbone, go to independent films, attend live concerts, sell your DVD player, and turn off the TV
Sounds like you might be aware of this already, but the angle of your cat5 *does* have an impact on your bandwidth. Tight corners, kinks, bends, and wrapping can all notch or damage the conductors, which can wreak havoc on high-speed signalling.
Of course, ths is assuming that the rest of the premises is wired to proper cat5 standards, which in the dorms I lived in was far from true. Lots of people abuse UTP because they think wire is wire, but if you look at the cat5 standard it really isn't.
He's not credible because he claims Slackware has a very long release cycle, when in fact it has one of the shortest release cycles of any distribution.
Yeah, 2.4 scales a lot better than 2.2 on paper. In reality, the network stack in 2.4 is superior to that in 2.2. However, disk I/O is sucking in all ways: IDE, SCSI, software RAID, everywhere. Many people have reported I/O performance down 60% or more from Linux 2.2 on linux-kernel and linux-raid mailing list.
I think you should be more cautious in your cheerleading. 2.4 has potential, but the realization of that potential is diffcult and not gauranteed.
Involved? I wrote that site, and hosted it in my own room! It wasn't immoral then, and it isn't immoral now. I do not believe it is immoral for people to offer copyrighted music online. I believe that it IS immoral for people to download, listen to, and keep the music without having previously purchased a copy. I only download MP3s of music that I bought on CD or tape. If other people can't do the same thing, that's their problem and not mine.
What we offered at Tek was a service. We encoded and classified the music, provided the playlist service, and kept track of the statistics. Like someone else said in this thread, dont shoot the messenger.
Actually, it is neutral. You are making the mistake of considering the entertainment industry's argument when the underlying assumption is not valid. That is, the entertainment industry has no inherent right to regulate the transmission of digital music files.
The fact that you can download the music from within the scour interface is irrelevant. Music files on the internet may be copyrighted by bg labels, or they may not be. The industry has a very large share of the copyrights out there, but that doesn't mean that they should be given control over ALL music distribution.
People are copying copyrighted music out there and I think that is unethical. However, I do not believe that going after the mode of transmission is justified. The cost, which will be squashing independently recorded music forever, is simply too great.
In short, don't be trapped by the industry's mind control attempts.
Yes Scour must win this one. All they do is report the response from a particular protocol from certain hosts attached to a certain network. If Scour looses this one, we're well beyond the time for elections and judicial appeal. That would be time for guns and subversion.
Yeah, the TRO is terribly easy to get, let's hope that the MAPS people kill this in the next round. You're right about the Supreme Court, too, and although they are coming around to a slightly more strict constitutional interpretation, the rest of the federal judicial branch continues to erode freedom at a pretty frightening pace.
It isn't slander. MAPS provides the rationale for each entry on the RBL. There are five specific acts that will get you on the RBL. They are listed on this web page. All the RBL says is that the people on the list are doing one of these five things. Judgement is then passed by the subscribing ISPs, who choose not to deal with ISPs who are on the list. It's simple, and it isn't slander.
Company A is suing group B to prevent group B from adding company A to a list. Once you distill it that far, it is an obvious restraint on free speech. MAPS, as long as they are careful to show the reasons, has every right to put Yesmail on a list. Obviously, Yesmail would agree to be on a list of, say, the Red Herring top 100 internet companies, so they also have to be willing to be listed for their questionable practices.
At a typical big-name colocation center, you get one or two 100 Mbps ethernet drops, or a gigabit ethernet drop, and maybe a few WAN drops into your cage. The ethernet drops go to some big honkin switch somewhere which you share with zero or more other customers, depending on the size of your installation. In at least the colocation centers I have dealt with (Exodus, Level 3, and Concentric), using promiscuous mode on any interface connected to a shared switched segment gets you shut down fast. So I wonder what Cringley is talking about when he says that every box in the colo center could be a sniffer.
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Constrast that with the fine, fine output of those 100 engineers (although I suspect that their Linux driver "team" numbers in the ones). The NVidia binary-only driver runs only on particular kernel revisions, and does not allow the user to switch between SMP and UP operation. Worse, NVidia could choose to stop supporting Linux at any time, and there's nothing we could do about. Since we have the specs for the G400, we can support that card forever.
If you want to support a company that is behind Linux, get a Matrox G400. Matrox releases the full programming manuals to the XFree development team, and the GLX and DRI drivers for the G400 are fully open-source. The G400 isn't nearly as fast as the GTS Ultra, but the nvidia drivers aren't open source.
In fact, the only thing that could make the z505 better is a less power-hungry processor. The stock battery in the z505 only lasts an hour under normal use.
As for the Vaio C1 series, it has almost all of the equipment that the z505 has, without the extra usb port and the built-in ethernet. It even has the same screen resolution (1024x768), albeit in a smaller size. With the Crusoe processor, that little 2-lb machine may be even more neat.
First, deny and log to syslog all inbound connections: ipchains -A input -p tcp -y -l -i eth0 -j REJECT
I'm pretty sure I got it right but I didn;t consult the manual. Use at your own risk.
Second, decide that you wish to always allow inbound SSH connections: ipchains -I input 1 -p tcp --dport ssh -i eth0 -j ACCEPT
And maybe a secure web server too: ipchains -I input 1 -p tcp --dport 443 -i eth0 -j ACCEPT
With the current popularity of ed, does anyone hink that vi can really take over? Even if vi is better, ed is the standard!
Why is there not a jabber-supported jabber client for Linux? What about Java?
The PR2 release is a complete disservice to the mozilla.org community. There are really two products here, the Mozilla browser and the Commercial browser. The Mozilla browser is a very fine product. The Commercial browser is a steaming pile of shit. Unfortunately, Mozilla.org, the makers of the Mozilla browser, are going to get skewered by Slashdot and trade press magazines because the Commercial browser, which is made by AOL, is such a joke.
Why is the commercial browser so lame? From out site of the walls at AOL/Netscape, I can only guess. But I can tell you that as an active tester of the Mozilla browser, Netscape Product Development Team's bug-fixing priorities are infuriating. Hours before the release of this PR2, I filed two "smoketest blocker" bugs. This is the most severe kind of bug, and should have prevented the release of the browser. A blocker is a bug which prevents the browser from passing the defined smoketests. These are tests of basic functionality. Not passing these tests means that the browser is not ready for release.
These two serious bugs were marked, by AOL/Netscape people, as "MOZ ONLY", which essentially means "to hell with you we're releasing the product anyway." Of course, the product is released, and the Linux installer doesn't work at all if you have bash2, and the browser will dump core if you try to load ftp.netscape.com in a particular way.
The quality control process at AOL/Netscape has completely failed. They do not follow the quality guidelines of the Mozilla project, as defined on the Mozilla web site. By releasing the Commercial product in such a sorry state, they have embarrased everyone who works so hard on Mozilla, and I suspect that they have lowered morale across the entire project.
Shame on you Netscape.
Having said that, I wish there was a way to make the Blackdown Java Plugin replace the JVM that Netscape ships.
Well I didn't think I was going to have to post my whole ipchains-save output just to satisfy people's curiousity :) And yes, -y is quite handy.
Every day I raise up thanks for ipchains(8):
ipchains -A input -l -y -j REJECT
Given doubleclicks arch-evil plans for our browsing click-trails, I would suggest Andover.net and Slashdot reconsider their use of doubleclick.
I use Mozilla and in fact I am an active participant in bug reporting and triage, and have even contributed code. But I think it is very damning that we have this huge beast and the history (back button) still doesn't work right. This is very basic.
At least slashdot has quit linking to Amazon in their book reviews. But they stif use GIFs, as do Red Hat, VA Linux, and even GNOME. The MPAA boycott is a complete joke. The latest spawn of the many-tentacled corporate movie industry was much hyped through out the geek community.
So I'm not expecting much out of this boycott. Sure, a few of us will give up corporate movies and music, but the majority will keep right on eating up all the pop music, movies, and television they can ge their hands on.
For those of you with a backbone, go to independent films, attend live concerts, sell your DVD player, and turn off the TV
Of course, ths is assuming that the rest of the premises is wired to proper cat5 standards, which in the dorms I lived in was far from true. Lots of people abuse UTP because they think wire is wire, but if you look at the cat5 standard it really isn't.
He's not credible because he claims Slackware has a very long release cycle, when in fact it has one of the shortest release cycles of any distribution.
- 3.9: 16/7/99
- 4.0: 28/11/99
- 7.0: 27/4/00
- 7.1: 27/6/00
Compare to Red Hat:- 5.2: 12/10/98
- 6.0: 20/4/99
- 6.1: 26/9/99
- 6.2: 8/3/00
So you are looking at 5-6 months between RH releases, and 2-5 months for Slackware. Oops, looks like the reviewer was just a lazy fuckbag.reviewer.streetCred = 0;
I think you should be more cautious in your cheerleading. 2.4 has potential, but the realization of that potential is diffcult and not gauranteed.
What we offered at Tek was a service. We encoded and classified the music, provided the playlist service, and kept track of the statistics. Like someone else said in this thread, dont shoot the messenger.
Oh, and I'm flattered you remember :)
"jeff"
The fact that you can download the music from within the scour interface is irrelevant. Music files on the internet may be copyrighted by bg labels, or they may not be. The industry has a very large share of the copyrights out there, but that doesn't mean that they should be given control over ALL music distribution.
People are copying copyrighted music out there and I think that is unethical. However, I do not believe that going after the mode of transmission is justified. The cost, which will be squashing independently recorded music forever, is simply too great.
In short, don't be trapped by the industry's mind control attempts.
Yes Scour must win this one. All they do is report the response from a particular protocol from certain hosts attached to a certain network. If Scour looses this one, we're well beyond the time for elections and judicial appeal. That would be time for guns and subversion.
Your last line is great.
It isn't slander. MAPS provides the rationale for each entry on the RBL. There are five specific acts that will get you on the RBL. They are listed on this web page. All the RBL says is that the people on the list are doing one of these five things. Judgement is then passed by the subscribing ISPs, who choose not to deal with ISPs who are on the list. It's simple, and it isn't slander.
Company A is suing group B to prevent group B from adding company A to a list. Once you distill it that far, it is an obvious restraint on free speech. MAPS, as long as they are careful to show the reasons, has every right to put Yesmail on a list. Obviously, Yesmail would agree to be on a list of, say, the Red Herring top 100 internet companies, so they also have to be willing to be listed for their questionable practices.
The battery in today's electric cars isn't a little D-cell. It generally weighs many hundreds of pounds, and often is part of the car's chassis.
At a typical big-name colocation center, you get one or two 100 Mbps ethernet drops, or a gigabit ethernet drop, and maybe a few WAN drops into your cage. The ethernet drops go to some big honkin switch somewhere which you share with zero or more other customers, depending on the size of your installation. In at least the colocation centers I have dealt with (Exodus, Level 3, and Concentric), using promiscuous mode on any interface connected to a shared switched segment gets you shut down fast. So I wonder what Cringley is talking about when he says that every box in the colo center could be a sniffer.