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I would suggest installing apt for rpm. See http://freshrpms.net/apt for details. Once that is installed and configured, updating to the latest redhat patches is as simple as:
I'd like the web gestures of opera more if I could understand German, French, or Italian. Why don't more people write Opera in English? Now "Tommy" by The Who, that's a great Opera written in english, and the gestures are beautiful...
still I don't really see how that fits into the technology motif...
that is rediculous. TrollTech's implementation of QT is released under the GPL. Certainly they could remove the GPL tag from future versions, but the KDE community would certainly take the latest GPL'd version and continue to extend, enhance, and support it.
Also, I find it totally asinine that because Canopy owns 6% of trolltech all these slashlosers think they can lump them together.
And that is Richard Stallman's single greatest hack. He actually hacked the legal system by writing 'code' (the license) that is written in the 'assembly language' of law to get a FUCKED UP legal system to do what he wants.
actually, I'm sure they'll fix the vulnerability anyhow -- lest they risk lawsuits. However, if they can keep this information out of the public eye, they can fix it slowly over years of routine ATM machine upgrades, instead of spending how-many-millions to replace the crypto units in every ATM machine in the UK. That's the way companies think -- that because something is out of the public eye, and they are showing 'due diligence' in repairing the problem, that's better then admitting they fucked up and fixing it. Now they will probably define 'due diligence' as having a replacement schedule for the faulty hardware. That schedule might be 'wait until the shit breaks anyway' but as long as they have a plan they think they are covered. Solution: someone who doesn't mind jail time should steal money from the bank president' accounts.:-)
OT: funny story: Re:Noise i can't hear?
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My EX fiancee and I were driving home from a friend's house -- an hour ride -- and she was pissed off and not talking. I put some music on the radio and lit up a butt. About 15 minutes down the highway she said "well, I'm not going to ride all the way home in silence."
from the section entitled "BeOS in all it's glory":
I have an adsl connection here at home and this is where I ran into my first problem. There is a package for BeOS called PPPoE which lets you connect to any adsl provider that uses the PPPoE protocol. Of course, I installed it, configured it and dialed up my ISP. I get a connection, but only for about 3 seconds. Major pain in the ass! So I looked through the readme file, changed all the appropriate settings and still no cigar. "Well", says I, "It's time for the old tech support forum!" I rebooted into an OS with a decent PPPoE implementation, logged onto BeOSOnline and found an interesting thread in their forum suggesting I use BONE 7a. BONE stands for BeOS Networking Environment and is of fairly dubious legality. It was supposed to be part of the last release of BeOS, just before it got sold to palm but was supposedly never officially released. As Be was selling BeOS, some developer(s) on the project decided to leek BONE onto the net. Good old hacker disregard for authority! Finding BONE is not easy, but once I downloaded it I was supposedly ready to go. How wrong I was! I downloaded BONE to my windows partition as I already knew BeOS can mount, read and right to Fat32 partitions. I unpacked the Zip file, opened a terminal and ran the install script. Time to reboot. This is when the shit hit the proverbial fan. Instead of looking at my nice new desktop I was faced with the textual garble that is the kernel debugger!
Whew... so as long as you don't wanna use it for anything, BeOS is GLORIOUS!
you don't think samba is better? Samba is a revolutionary. I'm not sure Samba was part of the competition... Be that what it may, Samba is one of the most important open-source tools in the world, if you are are serious about Linux suceeding in the enterprise. Sure, it's not sexy, glamorous, or fun. The protocols all suck. No one likes SMB. But because of Samba, I can say to my boss ( who is a Microsoft minion all the way ), " I can save you $500 here by using Linux to share out that printer," and "oh, don't worry about Professor so-and-so who wants to use Linux, it gets along perfectly with NT," countering each objection to Linux entering our enterprise with a working, efficient, and cost-effective OPEN SOURCE solution. Samba rules.
As any starcraft player can attest... EMP Pulses are a real pain in the ass. You need a science station... which means an upgraded research lab, a machine shop, and a zillion drones mining crystal and gas.
( from http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/306476 )
Vendor Notification Status:
The professional staff of GOBBLES Security believe that by releasing our
advisories without vendor notification of any sort is cute and humorous, so
this is also the first time the vendor has been made aware of this problem.
We hope that you're as amused with our maturity as we are.;PpPppPpPpPPPpP
It reads more like a script kiddie to me... all your mp3 are b3l0nG t0 u$!
For the benefit of those who are to lazy to read the (fine) story...
SCO statement on Client Server News story
On January 10, 2003 Client Server News published a story concerning SCO and its UNIX intellectual property. This article states as fact speculations about what SCO may do or not do with regard to its ownership of core UNIX IP.
Darl McBride, president and CEO of SCO, has discussed SCO's UNIX IP ownership in many public venues and on the most recent quarterly investors' conference call. SCO has significant UNIX intellectual property dating back to the company's purchase of AT&T's Bell Labs UNIX technology. Our UNIX IP is a significant asset and for several months we have been holding internal discussions, exploring a wide range of possible strategies concerning this asset. We've reached no final decisions on any course of action.
SCO is a Linux vendor and a leading member of United Linux. Contrary to the claims in the Client Server News article, SCO has no desire to take legal action against fellow Linux vendors. As a normal part of business, SCO has had discussions with several legal experts in the field of intellectual property law, and these discussions included David Boies. Contrary to the claims in the Client Server News story, SCO has not engaged Mr. Boies to take legal action against our fellow Linux vendors.
It's unfortunate when a publication runs a headline, stating as fact in the present tense that our company is engaging in certain activities when, in fact, we've made no decisions, formed no programs and announced nothing about this.
In the future, DCMA will stifle innovation, and you will have to pay $$ right to download the plans to power your new 3D farm-robot printer. Except you won't really get the farm-robot. You'll have version 1.0 of Micr$oft Farm-Robot XP Milennia "Small Farmer" Edition which doesn't support growing actual vegetables, only pictures of the vegetables grown at MSNfarm.com, and your subscription to said robot will need to be renewed each year.
Really? If programmers were unionized that wouldn't happen? So the CEO of General Motors doesn't make an 'order of magnitude' greater than the unionized auto workers who work for GM?
so you are telling me that if I don't buy a PS3, the entire world economy will come crashing down in flames? That's soooooo cool! I was gonna pre-order one now for only $1995, now NO WAY, I'm boycotting Sony for the simple pleasure of single-handedly destroying the economy of the entire planet.
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I would suggest installing apt for rpm. See http://freshrpms.net/apt for details. Once that is installed and configured, updating to the latest redhat patches is as simple as:
apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade
If I actually *wanted* to be more productive at work, I'd follow his advice. Of course I'd probably stay away from reading slashdot too...
I'd like the web gestures of opera more if I could understand German, French, or Italian. Why don't more people write Opera in English? Now "Tommy" by The Who, that's a great Opera written in english, and the gestures are beautiful...
still I don't really see how that fits into the technology motif...
that is rediculous. TrollTech's implementation of QT is released under the GPL. Certainly they could remove the GPL tag from future versions, but the KDE community would certainly take the latest GPL'd version and continue to extend, enhance, and support it. Also, I find it totally asinine that because Canopy owns 6% of trolltech all these slashlosers think they can lump them together.
And that is Richard Stallman's single greatest hack. He actually hacked the legal system by writing 'code' (the license) that is written in the 'assembly language' of law to get a FUCKED UP legal system to do what he wants.
actually, I'm sure they'll fix the vulnerability anyhow -- lest they risk lawsuits. However, if they can keep this information out of the public eye, they can fix it slowly over years of routine ATM machine upgrades, instead of spending how-many-millions to replace the crypto units in every ATM machine in the UK. That's the way companies think -- that because something is out of the public eye, and they are showing 'due diligence' in repairing the problem, that's better then admitting they fucked up and fixing it. Now they will probably define 'due diligence' as having a replacement schedule for the faulty hardware. That schedule might be 'wait until the shit breaks anyway' but as long as they have a plan they think they are covered. Solution: someone who doesn't mind jail time should steal money from the bank president' accounts. :-)
just off the top of my head, add to the list:
My EX fiancee and I were driving home from a friend's house -- an hour ride -- and she was pissed off and not talking. I put some music on the radio and lit up a butt. About 15 minutes down the highway she said "well, I'm not going to ride all the way home in silence."
I said, "I knew it was too good to be true."
end of the silence... start of a fight...
Please, MusicBrainz people, develop a linux version of your 'tagger' software.
from the section entitled "BeOS in all it's glory":
I have an adsl connection here at home and this is where I ran into my first problem. There is a package for BeOS called PPPoE which lets you connect to any adsl provider that uses the PPPoE protocol. Of course, I installed it, configured it and dialed up my ISP. I get a connection, but only for about 3 seconds. Major pain in the ass! So I looked through the readme file, changed all the appropriate settings and still no cigar. "Well", says I, "It's time for the old tech support forum!" I rebooted into an OS with a decent PPPoE implementation, logged onto BeOSOnline and found an interesting thread in their forum suggesting I use BONE 7a. BONE stands for BeOS Networking Environment and is of fairly dubious legality. It was supposed to be part of the last release of BeOS, just before it got sold to palm but was supposedly never officially released. As Be was selling BeOS, some developer(s) on the project decided to leek BONE onto the net. Good old hacker disregard for authority! Finding BONE is not easy, but once I downloaded it I was supposedly ready to go. How wrong I was! I downloaded BONE to my windows partition as I already knew BeOS can mount, read and right to Fat32 partitions. I unpacked the Zip file, opened a terminal and ran the install script. Time to reboot. This is when the shit hit the proverbial fan. Instead of looking at my nice new desktop I was faced with the textual garble that is the kernel debugger!
Whew... so as long as you don't wanna use it for anything, BeOS is GLORIOUS!
from http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/info.html
License:
MPlayer is GPL now. In the past it contained non-GPL code from the OpenDivX project, which did not allow binary redistribution. This has been removed.
you don't think samba is better? Samba is a revolutionary. I'm not sure Samba was part of the competition... Be that what it may, Samba is one of the most important open-source tools in the world, if you are are serious about Linux suceeding in the enterprise. Sure, it's not sexy, glamorous, or fun. The protocols all suck. No one likes SMB. But because of Samba, I can say to my boss ( who is a Microsoft minion all the way ), " I can save you $500 here by using Linux to share out that printer," and "oh, don't worry about Professor so-and-so who wants to use Linux, it gets along perfectly with NT," countering each objection to Linux entering our enterprise with a working, efficient, and cost-effective OPEN SOURCE solution. Samba rules.
As any starcraft player can attest... EMP Pulses are a real pain in the ass. You need a science station... which means an upgraded research lab, a machine shop, and a zillion drones mining crystal and gas.
"Maybe we all need to subsidize a cheap ISP for morons."
Good idea... we already have the cheap ISP for morons. Now who's going to kick in some money to help pay for everyone's bill?
hmm... wonder why Linus Torvalds ever moved to California... he's missing out on all that high culture and wonderful weather.
marry her
Vendor Notification Status:
The professional staff of GOBBLES Security believe that by releasing our advisories without vendor notification of any sort is cute and humorous, so this is also the first time the vendor has been made aware of this problem. We hope that you're as amused with our maturity as we are. ;PpPppPpPpPPPpP
It reads more like a script kiddie to me... all your mp3 are b3l0nG t0 u$!
that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life. 'Gobbles' ? Come ON. Where is PT Barnum when you need him?
For the benefit of those who are to lazy to read the (fine) story... SCO statement on Client Server News story On January 10, 2003 Client Server News published a story concerning SCO and its UNIX intellectual property. This article states as fact speculations about what SCO may do or not do with regard to its ownership of core UNIX IP. Darl McBride, president and CEO of SCO, has discussed SCO's UNIX IP ownership in many public venues and on the most recent quarterly investors' conference call. SCO has significant UNIX intellectual property dating back to the company's purchase of AT&T's Bell Labs UNIX technology. Our UNIX IP is a significant asset and for several months we have been holding internal discussions, exploring a wide range of possible strategies concerning this asset. We've reached no final decisions on any course of action. SCO is a Linux vendor and a leading member of United Linux. Contrary to the claims in the Client Server News article, SCO has no desire to take legal action against fellow Linux vendors. As a normal part of business, SCO has had discussions with several legal experts in the field of intellectual property law, and these discussions included David Boies. Contrary to the claims in the Client Server News story, SCO has not engaged Mr. Boies to take legal action against our fellow Linux vendors. It's unfortunate when a publication runs a headline, stating as fact in the present tense that our company is engaging in certain activities when, in fact, we've made no decisions, formed no programs and announced nothing about this.
no such list is complete without Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse.
In the future, DCMA will stifle innovation, and you will have to pay $$ right to download the plans to power your new 3D farm-robot printer. Except you won't really get the farm-robot. You'll have version 1.0 of Micr$oft Farm-Robot XP Milennia "Small Farmer" Edition which doesn't support growing actual vegetables, only pictures of the vegetables grown at MSNfarm.com, and your subscription to said robot will need to be renewed each year.
How do you feel about a "moderation" system that gives that post a score of "2" ?
Really? If programmers were unionized that wouldn't happen? So the CEO of General Motors doesn't make an 'order of magnitude' greater than the unionized auto workers who work for GM?
so you are telling me that if I don't buy a PS3, the entire world economy will come crashing down in flames? That's soooooo cool! I was gonna pre-order one now for only $1995, now NO WAY, I'm boycotting Sony for the simple pleasure of single-handedly destroying the economy of the entire planet.
evil laughter...