Okay, I'll make the question more precise. How to extract administrator password off an XP or 2K box if I have booted it to Knoppix and have the USB drive plugged in and working?
I only get pissed off by a whole lot of typing on startup. knoppix myconfig=/dev/sda1 home=/dev/sda1 splash vga=normal lang=pl excuse me. Can't we have some bootparam floppy to keep all that stuff?
Seems Knoppix will be the platform I'll use for defending my graduation work. My school has no decent Linux workstation classroom, and I just couldn't force myself to write all the software I need in visushit. So, Knoppix CD, floppy or USB drive with my work, the custom hardware I'm working with, and - voila!
Stupid lawsuits = protecting your intellectual property being distributed freely online? Ridiculous copyright issues = shutting down websites that track all the illegal downloads on eMule?
Mobil-X shut down for being too similar to Asterix. C&D to a free 2GB picture archive for hosting one(!) copyrighted picture that got there by mistake. A guy host a small picture website from times dating to shortly after creating WWW, then Kodak sends him C&D because the site title is same as one of their new product sites. Still arguing?
Evil marketing techniques = playing commercials and advertisements that you can just turn off if you want? How else do you expect to know about albums?...that I can't just turn off, I must wait through to see the "product". How else? STFW, or go to a doctor, trouble with imagination!
Meanwhile, nobody considers the human beings who rented the studio and spent a couple of months recording the album that you're downloading the fuck out of. What about them? They get $0.03 from each of these $30 albums. Thank you, I'd rather mail them my money in envelope.
The music, software and all such industry assumes, that piracy - scenario:
Customer with product - Producer without money
replaces classic "sale" scenario:
Customer with product - Producer with money
In fact, it usually replaces a different scenario:
Customer without product - Producer without money
The industry loses nothing at all. If they want $30 for a CD album, I won't buy that album. Simple as that. And doesn't matter if I downloaded it or not, they wouldn't see my money ever. At best, I will be pissed off at their ridiculous price and refuse to buy it later when it's cheaper, simply because I don't support thieves (yep, I mean what I just said!)
But when I download the album, another situation appears. They may gain one, rather esotheric thing from me: Gratitude. Maybe I'll buy some crappy product of theirs, just to support them in the future, just to express my thanks. Maybe I will buy "colector's edition" of what I copied earlier. Just because I like it so much. Under one condition: They can't piss me off before that. If I hear about stupid lawsuits, sites closed due to ridiculous copyright issues, evil marketing techniques - then, sorry. I'll gladly make a copy for my friends: "Hey, don't support that assholes with your money, get a copy instead!"
Come on, that's terrible! Not a single buck from the American taxpayers' pockets goes to the American military industry. Not a single of that obsolete missiles that take up precious room in military storage, but are too expensive to just discard them will get used up on military targets, and none will get replaced with a new one, that would push the military industry and American economy in general another step ahead, while simultaneously proving once again that America is the only considerable military power of the world and all should fear it!
Why, say, being a Chineese company am I forced to release hardware meant for Chineese market that conforms to US law? All that crosses US border is DRM compilant, and they have no foot to stand on what I produce outside US and never get through US borders! And if they think they do... Is {US} hardware market bigger than {whole world}\{US} market? Best way to leave US in the beginning of XXI century while the world moves on to XXII.
Oh well, but then SB can just as well tell their Taiwan factory to produce two versions, plain and DRM-enchanced which will be available only on US market. (translating from markedroid, one with DRM just for US market and one with a dummy chip that does nothing sold everywhere except US) - personally I'm not American and I'd rather go for lower-profile non-US products than to buy the highest quality DRM shite - and losing the world market can cost any manufacturer existence, so they may start producing "Non-US versions of everything... and then those will get smuggled inside US and sold in school toilets by drug dealers. "Come on, 100% DRM-clean! Hottest stuff! Straight from Holland! See? The null-chip! You won't find better stuff in the whole town!!"
D0h. I appreciate a good troll. But this is junk, shit! When they post a homosexual story, an ethnic joke with Slashdot management substituted for characters, when they make vague references to usablity of new feature in pr0n business, when they forge the Nigerian Scam or BSD is Dead to suit a story, the classic Beowulf, Russia and Profit, that are all really good trolls! But this? Pathetic.
Yeah. And by "worse" I wouldn't even mean "more frequent". Just plainly MUCH worse quality. Little stupid scoundrels that struggle for attention, just because they are too stupid to post anything that would earn them a single +1.
Now mod me +1 Flamebait;)
Ah, so it wasn't that I'm offtopic - somebody tell me, is that new LiveCD better than knoppix? And if so, how?
Connect to WiFi network and access one of major P2P networks as a generic node sharing all your songs, download new ones. Or connect through WiFi to someone else with the same kind of player, download his songs from his player, let him download your songs, and if he has access to the net or someone with songs you want, use his player as a relay:)
"Wireless iPod"? Possibly integrated with your cellular phone? Pick a song from a (big) list and have it downloaded over GPRS, billed with your phone like a call or MMS, recorded in your player's memory/drive. Anywhere, anytime. No desktop computer required.
The idea is, it shouldn't really get support. If the software gets broken, let some friendly geeks fix it (I'm sure many would be THRILLED to put their fingers in the engine of Wiki). If a piece of hardware goes FUBAR, just discard it, it was cheap, weak, and that's what the redundancy was meant for, others will handle the load, and maybe you will add something else someone donates instead.
Things like that: 3-4 load-ballancing webservers with database server software, one or two smart routers, one server to coordinate that all, one to backup it and all the junk hosting a huge distributed software RAID with contents of the database. One webserver goes offline, there are still 2-3 left. One of RAID hosts dies, the software immediately makes backups of data to other harddrives.
Even a GNU-licensed project that is stupid deserves a flame. Nobody says Wiki doesn't need hardware replacement, but the idea of fundraising $20K to get it done gets criticised in truly open-source manner - the dumber it is, the more violent flames it gets. People are questioning need to gather SO much money, proving it's not the only way and not the best. If Linus asked us to move all of Linux kernel from C to Java, he would probably get the same kind of response. Stupid overkill.
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Obviously: at ".." (parent directory) handling!
...if they took shut down off Kazaa Lite into account.
Excuse me.
%du -h KNOPPIX_V3.3-2003-11-19-EN.iso
703M KNOPPIX_V3.3-2003-11-19-EN.iso
Now is 3M overburn so much that you need an 800M CD?
Okay, I'll make the question more precise.
How to extract administrator password off an XP or 2K box if I have booted it to Knoppix and have the USB drive plugged in and working?
I only get pissed off by a whole lot of typing on startup.
knoppix myconfig=/dev/sda1 home=/dev/sda1 splash vga=normal lang=pl
excuse me. Can't we have some bootparam floppy to keep all that stuff?
They should definitely release a "Bonus" knoppix version designed for 800M CDs. Great most of CD drives supports those anyway!
Seems Knoppix will be the platform I'll use for defending my graduation work. My school has no decent Linux workstation classroom, and I just couldn't force myself to write all the software I need in visushit. So, Knoppix CD, floppy or USB drive with my work, the custom hardware I'm working with, and - voila!
Are you some kind of satanist or what?
...that I can't just turn off, I must wait through to see the "product". How else? STFW, or go to a doctor, trouble with imagination!
Stupid lawsuits = protecting your intellectual property being distributed freely online?
Ridiculous copyright issues = shutting down websites that track all the illegal downloads on eMule?
Mobil-X shut down for being too similar to Asterix. C&D to a free 2GB picture archive for hosting one(!) copyrighted picture that got there by mistake. A guy host a small picture website from times dating to shortly after creating WWW, then Kodak sends him C&D because the site title is same as one of their new product sites. Still arguing?
Evil marketing techniques = playing commercials and advertisements that you can just turn off if you want? How else do you expect to know about albums?
Meanwhile, nobody considers the human beings who rented the studio and spent a couple of months recording the album that you're downloading the fuck out of. What about them?
They get $0.03 from each of these $30 albums. Thank you, I'd rather mail them my money in envelope.
The music, software and all such industry assumes, that piracy - scenario:
Customer with product - Producer without money
replaces classic "sale" scenario:
Customer with product - Producer with money
In fact, it usually replaces a different scenario:
Customer without product - Producer without money
The industry loses nothing at all. If they want $30 for a CD album, I won't buy that album. Simple as that. And doesn't matter if I downloaded it or not, they wouldn't see my money ever. At best, I will be pissed off at their ridiculous price and refuse to buy it later when it's cheaper, simply because I don't support thieves (yep, I mean what I just said!)
But when I download the album, another situation appears. They may gain one, rather esotheric thing from me: Gratitude. Maybe I'll buy some crappy product of theirs, just to support them in the future, just to express my thanks. Maybe I will buy "colector's edition" of what I copied earlier. Just because I like it so much.
Under one condition: They can't piss me off before that. If I hear about stupid lawsuits, sites closed due to ridiculous copyright issues, evil marketing techniques - then, sorry. I'll gladly make a copy for my friends: "Hey, don't support that assholes with your money, get a copy instead!"
But can I use such a $20-40 DVD player with a PC? Does it have any kind of such output or can I hack it to make it an IDE device?
Come on, that's terrible!
Not a single buck from the American taxpayers' pockets goes to the American military industry. Not a single of that obsolete missiles that take up precious room in military storage, but are too expensive to just discard them will get used up on military targets, and none will get replaced with a new one, that would push the military industry and American economy in general another step ahead, while simultaneously proving once again that America is the only considerable military power of the world and all should fear it!
This is a loss America can't afford.
1. letizia ortiz
2. terra
3. gran hermano
Curious... They have trouble finding the Earth?
Why, say, being a Chineese company am I forced to release hardware meant for Chineese market that conforms to US law? All that crosses US border is DRM compilant, and they have no foot to stand on what I produce outside US and never get through US borders!
And if they think they do...
Is {US} hardware market bigger than {whole world}\{US} market?
Best way to leave US in the beginning of XXI century while the world moves on to XXII.
Oh well, but then SB can just as well tell their Taiwan factory to produce two versions, plain and DRM-enchanced which will be available only on US market. (translating from markedroid, one with DRM just for US market and one with a dummy chip that does nothing sold everywhere except US) - personally I'm not American and I'd rather go for lower-profile non-US products than to buy the highest quality DRM shite - and losing the world market can cost any manufacturer existence, so they may start producing "Non-US versions of everything... and then those will get smuggled inside US and sold in school toilets by drug dealers.
"Come on, 100% DRM-clean! Hottest stuff! Straight from Holland! See? The null-chip! You won't find better stuff in the whole town!!"
Of course that woukld include obligatory, non-overridable DRM chip driver?
Big Brother Has You!
Nah, that would be more like dist-upgrade, we talk about replacing the core of OS, not just adding something.
A troll that made it to frontpage of Slashdot!
Any more examples of trolls that the editors accepted as actual stories?
the first of two spacecraft, will touch down around 22:34 on 3 Jan 2004.
:)
Touch down?
And not -splash-all-over-the-area-?
Let's hope so
Just did that. But now I might be missing a lot of valuable trolls :)
D0h. I appreciate a good troll. But this is junk, shit! When they post a homosexual story, an ethnic joke with Slashdot management substituted for characters, when they make vague references to usablity of new feature in pr0n business, when they forge the Nigerian Scam or BSD is Dead to suit a story, the classic Beowulf, Russia and Profit, that are all really good trolls! But this?
Pathetic.
Yeah. And by "worse" I wouldn't even mean "more frequent". Just plainly MUCH worse quality. Little stupid scoundrels that struggle for attention, just because they are too stupid to post anything that would earn them a single +1.
;)
Now mod me +1 Flamebait
Ah, so it wasn't that I'm offtopic - somebody tell me, is that new LiveCD better than knoppix? And if so, how?
...to create a wireless P2P music player.
:)
Connect to WiFi network and access one of major P2P networks as a generic node sharing all your songs, download new ones. Or connect through WiFi to someone else with the same kind of player, download his songs from his player, let him download your songs, and if he has access to the net or someone with songs you want, use his player as a relay
"Wireless iPod"?
Possibly integrated with your cellular phone?
Pick a song from a (big) list and have it downloaded over GPRS, billed with your phone like a call or MMS, recorded in your player's memory/drive. Anywhere, anytime. No desktop computer required.
The idea is, it shouldn't really get support. If the software gets broken, let some friendly geeks fix it (I'm sure many would be THRILLED to put their fingers in the engine of Wiki). If a piece of hardware goes FUBAR, just discard it, it was cheap, weak, and that's what the redundancy was meant for, others will handle the load, and maybe you will add something else someone donates instead.
Things like that: 3-4 load-ballancing webservers with database server software, one or two smart routers, one server to coordinate that all, one to backup it and all the junk hosting a huge distributed software RAID with contents of the database. One webserver goes offline, there are still 2-3 left. One of RAID hosts dies, the software immediately makes backups of data to other harddrives.
Even a GNU-licensed project that is stupid deserves a flame. Nobody says Wiki doesn't need hardware replacement, but the idea of fundraising $20K to get it done gets criticised in truly open-source manner - the dumber it is, the more violent flames it gets. People are questioning need to gather SO much money, proving it's not the only way and not the best. If Linus asked us to move all of Linux kernel from C to Java, he would probably get the same kind of response. Stupid overkill.