Interesting, I get a different blurb. He must have changed it.
New text:
The iptables support is completed, but the software went into stasis.
During the iptables upgrade, I found myself building in a level of technical expertise and a fuller feature set that weren't functionally useful for a home user. The software became something much more than the toy I've always seen it as. At the same time, Linux is more evolved than it was when I started, and we're not in the same precarious situation with our ISPs as we once were.
It was extremely rare to get a thank you. It was fairly common to get demands for free technical service of a nature that a home user just wouldn't be asking for. I'd always hoped that I might get something out of the effort for myself and never did. It costs me money and resources to provide the service. I began to ask, why would "they" hire you if what you're giving away "they" see as "good enough" for their purposes.
About that time I looked up the Linux Router Project for some reason and saw that the project was closed. I read the letter the man left on his Web site, and realised that I felt the same way he did.
It seemed there were more reasons to stop than were reasons to continue. Simply getting a warm-fuzzy feeling about myself wasn't a good enough reason to continue anymore.
He never said it was anything like DNS hijacking. He merely proposes an idea for finding out what server was compromised, and finding the owner of said server.
Most likely it's possible, but the entire point is that it shouldn't do this by default.
First this, then what, they start blocking other questionable sites by default? There go abortion sites, and sites that rally for legalizing drug usage and such.
This alone will probably put a dent in the number of people that use their software. Maybe not many, but likely enough for them to see a difference.
Filter by default - if you need your ports or you want to do your own firewalling then get the "advanced user" account that costs less but requires more responsibility from the user.
Actually I think that the 'Advanced user' account would cost more, not less. Why? Because it's theoretically more of a risk, as opposed to the regular accounts where there is no real chance of anything...I'm not making sense here am I?
Point being, with the lower security precautions and with presumably it being somewhat more work (Well not really but you know how some ISPs are) to disable this 'port protection', they would charge more.
Do you really expect newbie users of Linux to understand "emerge -u world" by chance?
If a user is using Gentoo, unless the system was, for example, installed for them, they have to and undoubtedly will know that 'emerge -u world' updates the system to all latest program versions, bugfixes, etc. One must use 'emerge' several times during the installation process alone much less to install any other software from ports after installation is completed.
During installation 'emergee -u system' is run as well (or emerge -u system? I forget which...)
Do you really expect newbie users of Linux to understand "emerge -u world" by chance? If so, there is MUCH work to be done to Linux's software update model. Sure the emerge command may seem trivial to most advanced Linux users, but what can be done to expand this simplicity towards the consumer market?
You make it sound as if you think that 'emerge' is installed on all distros, where in fact it is used as the sole package manager in only one, Gentoo (portage can, however, be installed on other distros...see gentoo forums to see how). Again, a Gentoo user is essentially required to know how emerge works to use their system.
You know, it makes me wonder...how many people went to that link and were dissapointed when they got a 'Connection Refused' error, and couldn't see cute^babe's pic...
/me raises hand
Okay, I admit it.
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All for the aesthetics, of course. People widely mod their PCs to make them look that much better, so why not an XBox? Or for that matter, any other electrical appliance that crosses a modder's eye.
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You don't have an XBox, do you? The LED on the front panel is by default green, the book teaches how to mod it and replace the green one with a blue.
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I'm running Konq 3.1.5 on Slack -current, and I'm not 'vulnerble' (sic).
Not using IE does not mean not using Windows.
Well, for not using IE as your main browser, anyway.
Humor, but whatever works.
if they can engineer the seeds so that the plants can't have offspring (I forget what the term is)
Plant castration?
Yea I just re-read OP and saw 'brief synopsis'.
Interesting, I get a different blurb. He must have changed it.
New text:
The iptables support is completed, but the software went into stasis.
During the iptables upgrade, I found myself building in a level of technical expertise and a fuller feature set that weren't functionally useful for a home user. The software became something much more than the toy I've always seen it as. At the same time, Linux is more evolved than it was when I started, and we're not in the same precarious situation with our ISPs as we once were.
It was extremely rare to get a thank you. It was fairly common to get demands for free technical service of a nature that a home user just wouldn't be asking for. I'd always hoped that I might get something out of the effort for myself and never did. It costs me money and resources to provide the service. I began to ask, why would "they" hire you if what you're giving away "they" see as "good enough" for their purposes.
About that time I looked up the Linux Router Project for some reason and saw that the project was closed. I read the letter the man left on his Web site, and realised that I felt the same way he did.
It seemed there were more reasons to stop than were reasons to continue. Simply getting a warm-fuzzy feeling about myself wasn't a good enough reason to continue anymore.
OT: How do you spell art[e/i]facts anyway? :)
artifacts.
He never said it was anything like DNS hijacking. He merely proposes an idea for finding out what server was compromised, and finding the owner of said server.
Read The Cuckoo's Egg often, do we? heh
Most likely it's possible, but the entire point is that it shouldn't do this by default.
First this, then what, they start blocking other questionable sites by default? There go abortion sites, and sites that rally for legalizing drug usage and such.
This alone will probably put a dent in the number of people that use their software. Maybe not many, but likely enough for them to see a difference.
And of course if you look earlier in his post -
Did you even bother to finnish reading
Coincidence? I think not. He has it out for Linus.
In Soviet Russia...nah, too easy.
Uranus Consulting Ltd.
Finnish, but still a company bearing the name of the missing planet we were all thinking of.
That I never got....I mean, what the fuck is a gander anyway?
A quick google for 'sun type 5' (wanted to see what you were talking about) turned up this: 'Sun Type 5 keyboard on the PC'
Correction: cheatcodes.
Filter by default - if you need your ports or you want to do your own firewalling then get the "advanced user" account that costs less but requires more responsibility from the user.
Actually I think that the 'Advanced user' account would cost more, not less. Why? Because it's theoretically more of a risk, as opposed to the regular accounts where there is no real chance of anything...I'm not making sense here am I?
Point being, with the lower security precautions and with presumably it being somewhat more work (Well not really but you know how some ISPs are) to disable this 'port protection', they would charge more.
4.5 years ago? What are you, kidding? Dupes are posted here that were posted in the same day, and you expect them to remember 4.5 years ago?
Pen shaped mouse, eh? I think we all know what that was used for.
Do you really expect newbie users of Linux to understand "emerge -u world" by chance?
If a user is using Gentoo, unless the system was, for example, installed for them, they have to and undoubtedly will know that 'emerge -u world' updates the system to all latest program versions, bugfixes, etc. One must use 'emerge' several times during the installation process alone much less to install any other software from ports after installation is completed.
During installation 'emergee -u system' is run as well (or emerge -u system? I forget which...)
Do you really expect newbie users of Linux to understand "emerge -u world" by chance? If so, there is MUCH work to be done to Linux's software update model. Sure the emerge command may seem trivial to most advanced Linux users, but what can be done to expand this simplicity towards the consumer market?
You make it sound as if you think that 'emerge' is installed on all distros, where in fact it is used as the sole package manager in only one, Gentoo (portage can, however, be installed on other distros...see gentoo forums to see how). Again, a Gentoo user is essentially required to know how emerge works to use their system.
Umm...will someone try fixing that kernel.org link? What kind of link is 'htttp:kernelorg'?
Try http://www.kernel.org...
[cute^babe7599] http://www.crackparty.com/showpictrojanisemachine? suckerid=bIcycleSExfiEND&referrid=1269
/me raises hand
You know, it makes me wonder...how many people went to that link and were dissapointed when they got a 'Connection Refused' error, and couldn't see cute^babe's pic...
Okay, I admit it.
All for the aesthetics, of course. People widely mod their PCs to make them look that much better, so why not an XBox? Or for that matter, any other electrical appliance that crosses a modder's eye.
You don't have an XBox, do you? The LED on the front panel is by default green, the book teaches how to mod it and replace the green one with a blue.
What kind of family is this?
The naming convention, quite frankly,scares me...Jamie, Jimmy, Jimmie, god knows how many other kids named as such...