Well if this is true, I wonder if there are any bugs someone can exploit and get root or equivalent privileges, take over the simulation and everything.
Ok, what phenomena in out universe can be categorized as "bugs"? The first step would be to identify them.
There is no bugfree simulation.
I mirrored the source and the full site here. Screw AOL! The source is GPL, they can pull it but they can't kill it. Hopefully someone will keep developing this and hopefully it's going to be as widespread as Gnutella some day.
Heh, I mirrored it from some site, just for the sake pissing AOL off. Get everything here and put up some new public mirrors. Hopefully someone will take the source and further develop. It seems like a good idea.
Blah blah. BT is a tool. BT, like any other tool can be used for many purposes, legal or not. Just as anyone can use a hammer to drive a nail or to hit somebody in the head and kill that person. So outlawing BT will be the same as to outlaw a hammer.
Well leaving the meta part out, I guess if they outlaw BT they're going to do us a favour. BT will be in the news, everybody will find out about it and use it regardless of silly laws, heh.
This is security through obscurity and it doesn't work. Oh wait! There's the DMCA, so maybe it does if developers get arrested for reverse engineering the chips. Anyway. I won't taint my kernel with binary only drivers under obscure EULAs.
I'm surprised they aren't using IPv6 so far in the future.
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I'd not say Debian is great, but it's ok for servers. The software is out of date in between releases. I'm talking about stable, not testing or whatsoever. They also have this annoying habbit of patching old versions instead of just upgrading to the new ones (as RedHat does). I can understand this, upgrading would probably break things, but I can't live with it. So almost all my Linux (Debian) servers were converted to FreeBSD. It's up to date, I can build anything from ports, very easy to keep the system up to date and bug-free (almost, nothing is bug-free). Still using Debian (testing) on the desktop, but I really want to give Gentoo a try.
What if the/Users partitions doesn't get mounted? Or are you doomed to install everything in/? Hey, this actually means more partitions in a distributed scheme.
Yes, but not in the client software. What good is a server that speaks IPv6 when the client's don't? Anyway, it's a good thing to see MS has put v6 in their latest server software. Maybe there is demand if they did that. Maybe IPv6 will find it's way into what is now Longhorn. I don't like MS but it's a good thing (tm) they are shipping IPv6 with their OS.
Not to mention DRM. Yes, a "more controlled" architecture. So the record labels and the movie industry can push signed media on you. It's coming. TCPA, Palladium, you name it. Think I'll buy PCs from China.
NAT is bad. It screws up the end-to-end transparency of the Internet. People shouldn't rely on it as it only delays the inevitable: IPv4 adress space exhaustion. With IPv6 you (as the end user) get a ~2^64 usable address space, aka/64 prefix.
Well, too bad IPv6 is not widely supported. I'd like my ISP to deliver *native* IPv6 services. As of now I'm running IPv6 through a tunnel with all the associated problems: long delays between hops, shitty DNS resolution (for reverse records), etc.
Hm, rahter than using NAT one could use some kind of 6to4 translation and have his network run on IPv6, provided that it's supported by the nodes. Windows doesn't even come with IPv6 out of the box, and Linux distributions are somewhat lacking in the field. The BSDs are way ahead of everyone else I guess. Mostly because of the japs, who afaik are running out of IPv4 addresses.
So configure your router to not decrement the TTL for forwarded packets and to use ports ranging from 1024 to 65535. This can be easily defeated, especially with PF or IPF.
When I first saw the news about Phoenix being renamed to Firebird, I thought "hey, isn't there a database project that's called Firebird?".
Firebird database, Mozilla Firebird? But wait, Phoenix BIOS is also called Phoenix BIOS, not Phoenix. I know, legal blah blah.
So why doesn't the Mozilla team choose another name? Firebird has already been chosen by that Interbase derrived database project some years before they figured they'd name the browser Firebird. What were they thinking?! And to be honest, the new name pretty much sucks anyway IMHO. Why did they also rename Minotaur to Thunderbird? That was a cool name, plus I'm not aware of any other project or product called Minotaur. Oh, but wait isn't Thunderbird that AMD manufactured processor?
So basically, what they did, they chose two names that already exist. That's pretty dumb.
Most e-mail addresses available on the web are harvested by spiders, nothing new here. If your site gets listed on slashdot or indexed by google, you're toast.
A good way to not get trivially spammed is to write your e-mail address on an image (jpg, png, whatever) and *not* provide a mailto: link with it. It's kind of painful for people who want to mail you (no point & click and MUA opens), but again, it would probably discourage some people that send flames as well.
You could as well supply your PGP key only, but that's even more painful as most people don't have PGP. When (and if) they add your key to their keyring, your e-mail address will show up and then people can happily send you mail. In practice this doesn't work very well.
It's probably because Slackware 9.0 recently came out and RedHat doesn't want people to think that "Linux version 9.0" is better than "8.1". AVN (Advanced Version Numbering) is a commonly known RedHat PR tehnique.
What about Palladium or TCPA? Trusted computing blah blah. They want to enforce that on us. Why? Because they are incapable to come up with a secure OS. So they want to enforce secutiry through hardware.
Hey Microsoft (Intel & others). I will *never* but a computer with TCPA or Palladium. I'd rather buy Dragon chip powered computers from China.
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Makes you wonder about the uptime of the machine running the simulation. I bet it can beat all those FreeBSD boxes with 2000+ days.
Well if this is true, I wonder if there are any bugs someone can exploit and get root or equivalent privileges, take over the simulation and everything. Ok, what phenomena in out universe can be categorized as "bugs"? The first step would be to identify them. There is no bugfree simulation.
I mirrored the source and the full site here. Screw AOL! The source is GPL, they can pull it but they can't kill it. Hopefully someone will keep developing this and hopefully it's going to be as widespread as Gnutella some day.
Heh, I mirrored it from some site, just for the sake pissing AOL off. Get everything here and put up some new public mirrors. Hopefully someone will take the source and further develop. It seems like a good idea.
The link now returns a 404. It was there and suddently it dissapeared. Did they pull it down from the site? Did anybody mirror this?!
Yet they seems to do it. Remember that student who wrote some search engine thingie for distributing files around the campus? The RIAA sued him.
Blah blah. BT is a tool. BT, like any other tool can be used for many purposes, legal or not. Just as anyone can use a hammer to drive a nail or to hit somebody in the head and kill that person. So outlawing BT will be the same as to outlaw a hammer. Well leaving the meta part out, I guess if they outlaw BT they're going to do us a favour. BT will be in the news, everybody will find out about it and use it regardless of silly laws, heh.
Hey, we could publish torrents on freenet instead. Let's see how the RIAA/MPAA will take those down.
Well I even saw a webserver written in Postscript.
This is security through obscurity and it doesn't work. Oh wait! There's the DMCA, so maybe it does if developers get arrested for reverse engineering the chips. Anyway. I won't taint my kernel with binary only drivers under obscure EULAs.
I'm surprised they aren't using IPv6 so far in the future.
I'd not say Debian is great, but it's ok for servers. The software is out of date in between releases. I'm talking about stable, not testing or whatsoever. They also have this annoying habbit of patching old versions instead of just upgrading to the new ones (as RedHat does). I can understand this, upgrading would probably break things, but I can't live with it. So almost all my Linux (Debian) servers were converted to FreeBSD. It's up to date, I can build anything from ports, very easy to keep the system up to date and bug-free (almost, nothing is bug-free). Still using Debian (testing) on the desktop, but I really want to give Gentoo a try.
I bet there is a lot of prior art. So they can probably stick their patent someplace dark.
What if the /Users partitions doesn't get mounted? Or are you doomed to install everything in /? Hey, this actually means more partitions in a distributed scheme.
Yes, but not in the client software. What good is a server that speaks IPv6 when the client's don't? Anyway, it's a good thing to see MS has put v6 in their latest server software. Maybe there is demand if they did that. Maybe IPv6 will find it's way into what is now Longhorn. I don't like MS but it's a good thing (tm) they are shipping IPv6 with their OS.
Not to mention DRM. Yes, a "more controlled" architecture. So the record labels and the movie industry can push signed media on you. It's coming. TCPA, Palladium, you name it. Think I'll buy PCs from China.
NAT is bad. It screws up the end-to-end transparency of the Internet. People shouldn't rely on it as it only delays the inevitable: IPv4 adress space exhaustion. With IPv6 you (as the end user) get a ~2^64 usable address space, aka /64 prefix.
Well, too bad IPv6 is not widely supported. I'd like my ISP to deliver *native* IPv6 services. As of now I'm running IPv6 through a tunnel with all the associated problems: long delays between hops, shitty DNS resolution (for reverse records), etc.
Hm, rahter than using NAT one could use some kind of 6to4 translation and have his network run on IPv6, provided that it's supported by the nodes. Windows doesn't even come with IPv6 out of the box, and Linux distributions are somewhat lacking in the field. The BSDs are way ahead of everyone else I guess. Mostly because of the japs, who afaik are running out of IPv4 addresses.
Maybe it's just like obfuscated C and we're to stupid to understand it.
So configure your router to not decrement the TTL for forwarded packets and to use ports ranging from 1024 to 65535. This can be easily defeated, especially with PF or IPF.
When I first saw the news about Phoenix being renamed to Firebird, I thought "hey, isn't there a database project that's called Firebird?".
Firebird database, Mozilla Firebird? But wait, Phoenix BIOS is also called Phoenix BIOS, not Phoenix. I know, legal blah blah.
So why doesn't the Mozilla team choose another name? Firebird has already been chosen by that Interbase derrived database project some years before they figured they'd name the browser Firebird. What were they thinking?! And to be honest, the new name pretty much sucks anyway IMHO. Why did they also rename Minotaur to Thunderbird? That was a cool name, plus I'm not aware of any other project or product called Minotaur. Oh, but wait isn't Thunderbird that AMD manufactured processor?
So basically, what they did, they chose two names that already exist. That's pretty dumb.
Why the hell would anyone want to run Visual FoxPro or Linux in WINE, when there are native, free alternatives. Well not the IDE anyway.
Most e-mail addresses available on the web are harvested by spiders, nothing new here. If your site gets listed on slashdot or indexed by google, you're toast.
A good way to not get trivially spammed is to write your e-mail address on an image (jpg, png, whatever) and *not* provide a mailto: link with it. It's kind of painful for people who want to mail you (no point & click and MUA opens), but again, it would probably discourage some people that send flames as well.
You could as well supply your PGP key only, but that's even more painful as most people don't have PGP. When (and if) they add your key to their keyring, your e-mail address will show up and then people can happily send you mail. In practice this doesn't work very well.
It's probably because Slackware 9.0 recently came out and RedHat doesn't want people to think that "Linux version 9.0" is better than "8.1". AVN (Advanced Version Numbering) is a commonly known RedHat PR tehnique.
What about Palladium or TCPA? Trusted computing blah blah. They want to enforce that on us. Why? Because they are incapable to come up with a secure OS. So they want to enforce secutiry through hardware.
Hey Microsoft (Intel & others). I will *never* but a computer with TCPA or Palladium. I'd rather buy Dragon chip powered computers from China.
Wake up. Users are not that stupid.
Two wrongs don't make a right. Grow up. Start thinking.