Knoppix used to have gnome on it (accessable via a cheat code
Such is my understanding anyway, I've never used a version with Gnome, but there's plenty about it on various messageboards (it got removed before the latest versions because it had "problems" - hopefully this version is what it seems to be on the site - a completely seperate distro, and not just a hack of knoppix that is plagued by the same problems)
If it contained any original thought (rather than just the blurb from Amazon) it would probably be less reprehensible.
As it is this is no better than an ad for viagra in my mailbox, a no-effort way to make a quick buck by polluting the medium it's presented in.
Mod it down!
Why so many content providers aren't using gzip compression? The cpu time required is MUCH cheaper than the bandwidth, AND it makes users happiers because they get it faster. Oh, and it's free (for Apache anyway) and easy to set up. It even works with 99% of browsers these days.
The problem with mod_gzip is it makes the webserver wait until a script is finished executing before it sends *anything* to the browser - no fancy "please wait while we do blah blah blah" pages with mod_gzip installed.
I wrote/am writing a rather nifty chat script that runs realtime through http just by keeping the connection open and flush()ing at the end of the main loop, with mod_gzip installed you would never see anything until you interrupted the transfer (by hitting stop, or back - effectively ending the script and freeing up the server to transmit the data).
mod_gzip is cool for cats, but it's not without its drawbacks.
The whole "comparing a study on P2P usage to a study on which cars are stolen" kinda makes any further comemnts on this article moot, but on the subject of filesharing, Napster came out when, 1999?
I just dug out this PDF showing CD shipments and dollar value "in millions, after net returns"
Singles are sucking and dying (boo-hoo) but album sales (at lest through 2002) were still pretty strong, in fact, in terms of most profitable years, the frontrunners are
1. 2000
2. 2001
3. 1999
4. 2003
All post-filesharing years. P2P doesn't seem to be hurting album sales any, maybe it's time to just give up on singles (they suck anyway and ensure the charts are full of the only faddy pop crap little kids can afford, and apparently 12y/os just download all that these days anyway:D).
The disturbance, during which the site was bombarded with more requests for information than it could handle, lasted for nearly six hours and affected more than 30 Knight Ridder Digital sites.
His hatred of David Hasslehoff rages on. 2 mysteries solved in one.
Nothing quite like slashdotting someone as they're scrambling around trying to recover from a DDoS.
I thought it was deliciously sadistic that the second link (explaining the DDoS) doesn't link directly to the info on the DDoS and instead needs another click, and another pageview.
I really can't believe how overcomplicated people are trying to make this, there's a simple solution that looks something like this:
1) Customer dials in to ISP and is port-scanned --vulnerability found? Go to solution 4.
2) Customer sends mail through ISP's smtp server - a simple scan for virus infection is performed. --infected? Go to 4.
3) Customer has been connected for multiple of 24 hours and is portscanned --vulnerability found? Go to 4.
4) All web and mail traffic from/to the customers machine from the ISP is suspended except http/ftp access to designated update and web-virus scanner sites, whenever they try to hit a website they are shown "Your system is infected with blahblahblah, the patch is here and this is the only piece of the internet you're going to see until you install it - once you have you'll be scanned again and the block will be automatically lifted"
Badda-bing, no need to block any ports unless the user is infected, user *knows* when he's infected and user also is led by the hand to the patch. ISP's update their vulnerability-list (a la Norton liveupdate) every day/week, and they slap their own logo/theme on the pages it generates. No more CodeRed/Sircam/SoBig/Nimda/Blaster/*whatever* problems, ever again.
Speaking as a programmer, this is fucking *trivial*, so why all the discussion of blocking people's ports across the board? Seriously, have I overlooked something really dumb in the above, because that to me seems like the ideal/only solution.
The only people who can fix these problems *for good* are the ISPs, and it's painfully easy (see above) for them to do it *without* blocking all the ports I use for dumb games:D
Doesn't encouraging WINE use prevent or at least slow the development of native versions of applications for Unix/Linux?
No, the more people who install Linux, and who have no reason to dual-boot into Windows, the more financially viable it is to release software specifically for Linux.
Look at it this way - best case scenario is everybody in the world switches to Linux and WINE, largely because it runs all their Windows programs they can't live without, what then? Do you think companies will still write Windows code even though Windows installations no longer exists/are in the minority?
Look at it from the PoV of a poster further down who voices a concern that being able to run Photoshop on Linux will render The Gimp obsolete... If the vast majority of Photoshop users are running it under Wine on Linux, which platform do you think would get the next (native) version?
It's also worth mentioning that the more people who move away from using Windows as an OS the better, all I hear are people complaining about how hard they're getting hit by SoBig and Blaster, shit, my webserver still gets hit by CodeRed on a far-too-frequent basis. Blaster and SoBig are going to be problems for a long time to come, quite possibly forever, we can't do a lot about people who won't patch their machines (well, ISPs could very easily fix this and all other worm problems if they got their acts together) but if there are less people running Windows (the OS, not the apps that run on it) next time an exploit like these come out then that can only be a good thing for networks worldwide.
Let me get this straight, they've studied the formula for box-office success, "to assess the potential success of possible film sponsorship deals.", and they haven't even considered marketing?!?
Interesting, the article doesn't mention, but was any found on the outside? If it was, that's a pretty good example of life not needing water to go about its daily business:)
Definitely, I've always been very interested in Venus, and irrationally convinced we'll find life there someday (a gut feeling I guess) - Titan, Europa and Ganymede would be nice to have more data on too, although there's already a probe on it's way to Titan, and we've got that funky "Jupiter tour" thing coming up (the probe that's going to be able to travel from moon-moon), has that left yet?
But yeah, I'd love to see more of Venus, there are some great (Radio - too cloudy for vis) pics of the surface at the photojournal section of nasa.gov but not nearly enough to satisfy me:D
I'm not sure that there is much (any?) water in the atmosphere on Mars
There isn't for any significant amount of time, no. Seconds, minutes maybe, it would freeze once it got a little bit off the ground (huge temperature difference over the space of just a few feet vertically).
I know you're hungry, I know you're drunk, and I know it smells appetising, but seriously, you don't want to eat the cat food... Oh, and go drag your buddy back inside, he wandered out into the street and passed out while you were MICROWAVING A BOWL OF CAT FOOD.
It's a dupe, and in other news - UFO stands for UNIDENTIFIED flying object.
I don't mind duplicate stories, of which we see one or two occasionally, but 300 people posting the same comment in a row... How hypocritical can you get?
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The title of this post says it all, really.
Knoppix used to have gnome on it (accessable via a cheat code
Such is my understanding anyway, I've never used a version with Gnome, but there's plenty about it on various messageboards (it got removed before the latest versions because it had "problems" - hopefully this version is what it seems to be on the site - a completely seperate distro, and not just a hack of knoppix that is plagued by the same problems)
If it contained any original thought (rather than just the blurb from Amazon) it would probably be less reprehensible. As it is this is no better than an ad for viagra in my mailbox, a no-effort way to make a quick buck by polluting the medium it's presented in. Mod it down!
I wrote/am writing a rather nifty chat script that runs realtime through http just by keeping the connection open and flush()ing at the end of the main loop, with mod_gzip installed you would never see anything until you interrupted the transfer (by hitting stop, or back - effectively ending the script and freeing up the server to transmit the data).
mod_gzip is cool for cats, but it's not without its drawbacks.
Yeah, and if they loose the war their profit margins will tighten.
s/2003/2002
The whole "comparing a study on P2P usage to a study on which cars are stolen" kinda makes any further comemnts on this article moot, but on the subject of filesharing, Napster came out when, 1999?
:D).
I just dug out this PDF showing CD shipments and dollar value "in millions, after net returns"
Singles are sucking and dying (boo-hoo) but album sales (at lest through 2002) were still pretty strong, in fact, in terms of most profitable years, the frontrunners are
1. 2000
2. 2001
3. 1999
4. 2003
All post-filesharing years. P2P doesn't seem to be hurting album sales any, maybe it's time to just give up on singles (they suck anyway and ensure the charts are full of the only faddy pop crap little kids can afford, and apparently 12y/os just download all that these days anyway
His hatred of David Hasslehoff rages on. 2 mysteries solved in one.
Nothing quite like slashdotting someone as they're scrambling around trying to recover from a DDoS. I thought it was deliciously sadistic that the second link (explaining the DDoS) doesn't link directly to the info on the DDoS and instead needs another click, and another pageview.
The fact that they *can* find out who you are should give you insight into the "depths" of your anonymity.
I really can't believe how overcomplicated people are trying to make this, there's a simple solution that looks something like this:
:D
1) Customer dials in to ISP and is port-scanned
--vulnerability found? Go to solution 4.
2) Customer sends mail through ISP's smtp server - a simple scan for virus infection is performed.
--infected? Go to 4.
3) Customer has been connected for multiple of 24 hours and is portscanned
--vulnerability found? Go to 4.
4) All web and mail traffic from/to the customers machine from the ISP is suspended except http/ftp access to designated update and web-virus scanner sites, whenever they try to hit a website they are shown "Your system is infected with blahblahblah, the patch is here and this is the only piece of the internet you're going to see until you install it - once you have you'll be scanned again and the block will be automatically lifted"
Badda-bing, no need to block any ports unless the user is infected, user *knows* when he's infected and user also is led by the hand to the patch. ISP's update their vulnerability-list (a la Norton liveupdate) every day/week, and they slap their own logo/theme on the pages it generates. No more CodeRed/Sircam/SoBig/Nimda/Blaster/*whatever* problems, ever again.
Speaking as a programmer, this is fucking *trivial*, so why all the discussion of blocking people's ports across the board? Seriously, have I overlooked something really dumb in the above, because that to me seems like the ideal/only solution.
The only people who can fix these problems *for good* are the ISPs, and it's painfully easy (see above) for them to do it *without* blocking all the ports I use for dumb games
Look at it this way - best case scenario is everybody in the world switches to Linux and WINE, largely because it runs all their Windows programs they can't live without, what then? Do you think companies will still write Windows code even though Windows installations no longer exists/are in the minority?
Look at it from the PoV of a poster further down who voices a concern that being able to run Photoshop on Linux will render The Gimp obsolete... If the vast majority of Photoshop users are running it under Wine on Linux, which platform do you think would get the next (native) version?
It's also worth mentioning that the more people who move away from using Windows as an OS the better, all I hear are people complaining about how hard they're getting hit by SoBig and Blaster, shit, my webserver still gets hit by CodeRed on a far-too-frequent basis. Blaster and SoBig are going to be problems for a long time to come, quite possibly forever, we can't do a lot about people who won't patch their machines (well, ISPs could very easily fix this and all other worm problems if they got their acts together) but if there are less people running Windows (the OS, not the apps that run on it) next time an exploit like these come out then that can only be a good thing for networks worldwide.
Your mum may know how to send text messages, but does she understand sarcasm? Apparently her son doesn't.
I think we've got enough "???/Profit" jokes to make a decent Beowulf cluster now :D
Let me get this straight, they've studied the formula for box-office success, "to assess the potential success of possible film sponsorship deals.", and they haven't even considered marketing?!?
Umm, riiiight.
Interesting, the article doesn't mention, but was any found on the outside? If it was, that's a pretty good example of life not needing water to go about its daily business :)
Definitely, I've always been very interested in Venus, and irrationally convinced we'll find life there someday (a gut feeling I guess) - Titan, Europa and Ganymede would be nice to have more data on too, although there's already a probe on it's way to Titan, and we've got that funky "Jupiter tour" thing coming up (the probe that's going to be able to travel from moon-moon), has that left yet?
:D
But yeah, I'd love to see more of Venus, there are some great (Radio - too cloudy for vis) pics of the surface at the photojournal section of nasa.gov but not nearly enough to satisfy me
I'm not sure that there is much (any?) water in the atmosphere on Mars
There isn't for any significant amount of time, no. Seconds, minutes maybe, it would freeze once it got a little bit off the ground (huge temperature difference over the space of just a few feet vertically).
Aside from the lottery numbers, I'd probably say
I know you're hungry, I know you're drunk, and I know it smells appetising, but seriously, you don't want to eat the cat food... Oh, and go drag your buddy back inside, he wandered out into the street and passed out while you were MICROWAVING A BOWL OF CAT FOOD.
Come to think of it, can I give me a slap too?
Heheh, that's more "Machine makes last stand - against self" though, isn't it? :)
Nice, with the message within an encrypted message, I like :)
It's a dupe, and in other news - UFO stands for UNIDENTIFIED flying object. I don't mind duplicate stories, of which we see one or two occasionally, but 300 people posting the same comment in a row... How hypocritical can you get?
Very simply, "3"
because if I was a burglar this would be the *first* thing I took :)