I used to compile my own kernels in the old Slackware 97 days, and indeed when I switched to Debian's woody release.
Since nowadays I don't have to worry about random patches to get full hardware support (like the old MS-PPTPD / poptop patches) I can rely upon my distribution to give me kernel images which increases their workload, but decreases mine.
The only non-standard things I need now are the nvidia modules, and a few bonuse patches which I can easily apply for mounting remote filesystems via ssh.
Had the policeman who turned up actually taken me away and held me, or proceeded to charge me with anything then yes - but as it was he just spoke to me.
We agreed that I had nothing stolen on me, and I left shortly afterwards.
I can't believe that I could sue given that I was never charged, locked up, or even cautioned...
I have a bunch of body piercings and seem to set of more than my fair share of alarms too.
(Although incidently I'm just back from a bunch of flights from the UK -> America and back, and only set of about four of the alarms from a total of six).
I've always stopped and waited for somebody to approach me, if they don't I leave.
If somebody speaks and demands that I be searched I'll tell them I'm happy to be searched if they get a policeman into the store, if not there's no way on earth they're poking about me or my person.
Nine times out of ten I've been able to leave with that. Once I was told I'd be barred unless i was searched and shortly after that a policeman turned up. I was pronounced clean and whilst I may be barred I'm not sure - because there's no way I'm going back there.
Actually this trip to the USA really opened my eyes, I was suprised to see that some stores want to check your recipets and goods before they let you leave - nobody stopped me personally, if they had have done I'd have said the same.. Still I'm suprised this is a) common and b) apparently accepted treatment from stores.
It seemed like space comedy. That's okay, I guess, if you like comedy, but I don't.
The definitive space comedy has already been made, it's called Red Dwarf.
I have to agree with you on Firefly though, it did nothing for me. Andromdia I didn't like, but Farscape was fun in it's own way - although editted all over the place and butchered for the UK market..
While this is not a virus in the traditional sense,
Very few are these days, I'm sick of seeing mass-mailing trojans being called viruses.
I remember the old days of a virus being something that appended itself to.exe or.com files - and had real coding.
These days to write a virus all you need to do is write a small SMTP engine, and give it a bunch of message subjects/bodies and kick it loose - it's just relying upon people being stupid.
So, where UL borrows from Ubuntu, the result will be checked into Debian.
In what way do you propose the changes from UL will be made part of Debian?
Ubuntu appears to publish the patches they make against stock Debian packages, although lots of them aren't terribly relevent to Debian's versions (such as changes to the output messages from init.d scripts, for example).
Do you propose to do more than merely share your patches, such as reporting bugs, and submitting patches directly to package maintainers?
I'd like to see things flow back, but I'm not sure I can believe maintainers with little motivation to serve another, external, userbase will have the motiviation to accept all patches.
As a seperate question are you currently paying or planning to pay Debian developers to work on your distribution in the way that Canonical are? (And guess why I asked that question?;)
In any event the best of luck to you, Ubuntu, and Debian.
Although unless you could post a subject, or the mail account you mailed from it'd be hard to tell.
There are literally hundreds of messages going to the security@debian.org alias - and vendor sec also gets a lot of spam. This is one reason why sometimes I've lost things.
Of course that's likely not to be what's happened to yours, maybe it just got queued up behind all the other things that we're working on.
Does that help?
Feel free to ping me with another copy if you like.. Actually forget I said that, I've just found your mail and I've personally not responded because of the lack of details - we already publish our private keys on our webpage so asking for them again is extra work when we've got lots to do.
Vendor-sec / Debian can do lots of things your particular case you might think of a more appropriate person to pass it onto - obviously I don't wanna give details here.. Grr.
The slashcode system generates the output pages that we see via the use of template files - to change the output we see there would need to be lots of template tweaking, and cleanups.
In short CSS for/. is harder than changing a single HTML page, because of the nature of the site.
Still it'd be worth it in terms of bandwidth savings, and letting the site work well into the future.
I think an obvious approach here is to use a genetic algorithm - literally breed the best collection of editting commands to generate the output.
Reading the rules says that there is a time limit of 60 seconds per program, so it might not be the best approach in reality - but it might be a fun way to attack the problem.
The big difference with Zen is that it requires the operating systems it runs to be modified, whereas Qemu will run any native operating system, Linux, Windows, *BSD, Knoppix, etc without change.
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nc is netcat, and it's a very useful tool. It does way more than telnet.
I wrote an introduction to netcat if you're interested in exploring it.
I'm afraid I don't own Microsoft Windows.
Perhaps I could apply for a Federal Grant, to fund the purchase of a new machine with it installed?
I'm not sure that's true. Using my Debian SID system, with it's precompiled packages the recent 2.6.x kernels are just over 1Mb.
This machine isn't fully up to date, but close enough:
I used to compile my own kernels in the old Slackware 97 days, and indeed when I switched to Debian's woody release.
Since nowadays I don't have to worry about random patches to get full hardware support (like the old MS-PPTPD / poptop patches) I can rely upon my distribution to give me kernel images which increases their workload, but decreases mine.
The only non-standard things I need now are the nvidia modules, and a few bonuse patches which I can easily apply for mounting remote filesystems via ssh.
I do not believe that to be the case.
Had the policeman who turned up actually taken me away and held me, or proceeded to charge me with anything then yes - but as it was he just spoke to me.
We agreed that I had nothing stolen on me, and I left shortly afterwards.
I can't believe that I could sue given that I was never charged, locked up, or even cautioned...
I have a bunch of body piercings and seem to set of more than my fair share of alarms too.
(Although incidently I'm just back from a bunch of flights from the UK -> America and back, and only set of about four of the alarms from a total of six).
I've always stopped and waited for somebody to approach me, if they don't I leave.
If somebody speaks and demands that I be searched I'll tell them I'm happy to be searched if they get a policeman into the store, if not there's no way on earth they're poking about me or my person.
Nine times out of ten I've been able to leave with that. Once I was told I'd be barred unless i was searched and shortly after that a policeman turned up. I was pronounced clean and whilst I may be barred I'm not sure - because there's no way I'm going back there.
Actually this trip to the USA really opened my eyes, I was suprised to see that some stores want to check your recipets and goods before they let you leave - nobody stopped me personally, if they had have done I'd have said the same .. Still I'm suprised this is a) common and b) apparently accepted treatment from stores.
gnocatan plays a decent game if you're looking for a Settlers Experience.
It implements a few of the expansions too, all of them maybe?
I've always used the state-shortcuts instead:
Windows + m == Minimize all apps.
Windows + Shift + m == Revert the minimization.
I guess I've learnt that Windows+D is easier to reverse though!
There are a lot of different sites around depending on what you want:
More can be found with your favourite search engine - disclaimer I run the last one on the list.
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos!
(Actually I voted for Branden, and look forward to seeing how well he does).
I hada great idea for TCP/IP over chocolate - inspired by pidgeon transmission.
Every time I sit down to write it up I get so full of laughter it's never completed. Shame.
Some choice bits include:
Maybe next year ..
The definitive space comedy has already been made, it's called Red Dwarf.
I have to agree with you on Firefly though, it did nothing for me. Andromdia I didn't like, but Farscape was fun in it's own way - although editted all over the place and butchered for the UK market..
Very few are these days, I'm sick of seeing mass-mailing trojans being called viruses.
I remember the old days of a virus being something that appended itself to .exe or .com files - and had real coding.
These days to write a virus all you need to do is write a small SMTP engine, and give it a bunch of message subjects/bodies and kick it loose - it's just relying upon people being stupid.
There's no real viral nature at all.
Kids today ;)
Thanks, it's only been running for a few months but I'm pretty happy with the way that it's working out :)
Of course more authors would always be a good thing!
In what way do you propose the changes from UL will be made part of Debian?
Ubuntu appears to publish the patches they make against stock Debian packages, although lots of them aren't terribly relevent to Debian's versions (such as changes to the output messages from init.d scripts, for example).
Do you propose to do more than merely share your patches, such as reporting bugs, and submitting patches directly to package maintainers?
I'd like to see things flow back, but I'm not sure I can believe maintainers with little motivation to serve another, external, userbase will have the motiviation to accept all patches.
As a seperate question are you currently paying or planning to pay Debian developers to work on your distribution in the way that Canonical are? (And guess why I asked that question? ;)
In any event the best of luck to you, Ubuntu, and Debian.
If you find that interesting you'll love seeing Duff's Device - a useful form of the switch statement with no breaks.
(Used for loop unrolling).
Although unless you could post a subject, or the mail account you mailed from it'd be hard to tell.
There are literally hundreds of messages going to the security@debian.org alias - and vendor sec also gets a lot of spam. This is one reason why sometimes I've lost things.
Of course that's likely not to be what's happened to yours, maybe it just got queued up behind all the other things that we're working on.
Does that help?
Feel free to ping me with another copy if you like.. Actually forget I said that, I've just found your mail and I've personally not responded because of the lack of details - we already publish our private keys on our webpage so asking for them again is extra work when we've got lots to do.
Vendor-sec / Debian can do lots of things your particular case you might think of a more appropriate person to pass it onto - obviously I don't wanna give details here.. Grr.
Retooling Slashdot with CSS has been done already, but it didn't get integrated with the site.
The slashcode system generates the output pages that we see via the use of template files - to change the output we see there would need to be lots of template tweaking, and cleanups.
In short CSS for /. is harder than changing a single HTML page, because of the nature of the site.
Still it'd be worth it in terms of bandwidth savings, and letting the site work well into the future.
I think an obvious approach here is to use a genetic algorithm - literally breed the best collection of editting commands to generate the output.
Reading the rules says that there is a time limit of 60 seconds per program, so it might not be the best approach in reality - but it might be a fun way to attack the problem.
But which requires the operating system to be modified to work upon it - meaning that you cannot install arbitary OSs, like you can with Qemu.
I've installed Windows 2000 on a Qemu system before and found its speed acceptible - I can't do that with Xen...
We already have an open source replacement for VMWare - It's called Qemu.
It will boot Knoppix CDs, install Windows XP, 2000, and 98, and all the other operating systems I've tried it with.
Maybe not as fast as either VMWare, or Xen, but fast enough to be comfortable.
Windows on Linux is here already thanks to Qemu.
I wrote a simple guide to Running Windows inside Debian a while back which seems fairly popular.
The big difference with Zen is that it requires the operating systems it runs to be modified, whereas Qemu will run any native operating system, Linux, Windows, *BSD, Knoppix, etc without change.
That to me makes it more useful.
Essentially there are pools of viewers chosen at random, or from some particular demographics, who have devices wired up to their TV sets.
These report to a company which shows were watched.
Given enough of these meters the monitors of the data can extrapolate a viewer figure for each show on the network.
(Obviously these results are advisory at best, and not accurate in any real sense).
After a quick google I found this writeup of one family's experience.
That's not entirely true, there exceptions for some things.
My understanding is that right now you don't need to buy a TV license if:
Still I guess it can't hurt to check properly.
To select all in Emacs is "Ctrl+X h", which according to the built-in help is bound to the function "mark-whole-buffer".
Fun stuff, eh?