FYI, The Matrix, after being run through DeCSS and stored on disk, is 6.3 GB. This includes all chapters and intro movies (including the menus that you might not even think were movies, but they are).
This would be great if the country code system actually worked. Here in the US, each subdomain of the.us has to be indiviually assigned to two different people; one the techie, the other an official government representative.
I live in a town with a population of 4000, and I'm one of 2 people here that knows how to run a nameserver. So when I wanted a me.city.state.us, I had to set up the server, find a government representative willing to listen to a nerdie teenager, fill out a (paper) registration form, sign it in upteen places, and fax it. And this was after filling out the online form 5 times before they were satisfied with the information I'd provided. I actually went a little far in my description of the process. I had to stop at the 'find a government representative', because I had no idea who to talk to, and those I asked could have cared less. So I stuck to my.net domain, thank you very much.
Maybe its different in other counties, but its pretty worthless in the US.
Domain Name: K.COM Registrar: REGISTER.COM, INC. Whois Server: whois.register.com Referral URL: www.register.com Name Server: No nameserver Updated Date: 12-feb-2000
Organization: Reserved Domain (ICANN) Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330 Marina del Rey, CA 92092 US Phone: 310-823-9358 Fax..: 310-823-8649 Email: res-dom@iana.org
Domain Name: K.COM Created on..............: Wed, Dec 01, 1993 Expires on..............: Fri, Dec 07, 2001 Record last updated on..: Fri, Jun 02, 2000
Its the same for all [a-z].[com|net|org] domain names. No nameserver, no way to get the mail, and I would hope that ICANN wouldn't find some covert way to read spam.
There are so many reasons for young kids to learn to use computers, its no surprise they are so far ahead of everyone else.
Communication. Everyone's got ICQ, AIM, or IRC. You're not cool unless you talk to your friends on the Internet.
School. If you know how to browse, you know how to cheat on research reports. All of your friends do it, so you want to learn how.
Peer Pressure. You don't want to be the only person in your circle of friends who doesn't know how to use computers. And you want to keep up with the latest trends. Your friend emails you about some new site or program, you get it. If you want something to talk about the next day, you learn as much as you can. You might try other similar programs and learn about them.
Jobs. Don't kid yourself. Kids are smarter than they seem. They know a good job when they see one. Gee, I can sit in front of a computer screen for 8 hours a day and get paid four times what the mechanic does, or the gardener, or my parents!
Dumb movies. Hackers probably inspired more than a few wanna-be's to learn about computers. Of course, if they got far enough in their studies, they probably found out that what's real is more exciting than the movies.
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I think 3D screens are great, and will probably be everywhere someday, but first there needs to be a good 3D input system. The best thing we have now is joysticks, because they have x/y, and a bit of z because the joystick tilts.
Here is my idea for a good 3D input device:
Two boxes, one for each hand. Inside the boxes is a glove-like device to support your hand. The glove has elastic sensors attached to the walls that can sense which way you move your hand. The elasticity of the sensor strings naturally positions your hand in the middle of the box, so you can be completely relaxed when not in action.
Each box's output would be kept separate (great for first person combat games), which doubles the possible combination of posititons you can attain (get your mind out of the gutter:). If you were playing a flying sim, you could put a joystick inside the box, and grab it as if it were in the plane you're flying. The joystick itself would provide no input to the game, but would make the gameplay more realistic.
This same "elastic box idea" TM could be applied to other parts of your body, including feet, arms, legs, or even individual fingers. Heck, you could have all of the above, and then a box around your whole body.
I think this would dramatically improve gameplay and make 3D monitors (or glasses, or rooms) alot more viable.
If your company requires legal stuff, of course you should put it in/etc/issue. Unless it only pertains to logged in users, in which case you can just add it to the logon message (adding an echo in/etc/profile works well for bash).
Some other things to stay away from are:
Displaying OS/Distro/Kernel version. This only encourages crackers and gives them a place to start. There are other ways to obtain that info, though (HTTP/Port scanning)
Hardware info. If a cracker sees a sweet machine, he/she will try harder to get access.
Network info/topology. "We are hooked into the local T3 network in the CS department at Foobar U in Cambridge, UK". Gives crackers a place to start (once again, this info can be obtained elsewhere)
Advertisements. No one wants to see ads
Bragging about the machine's security.
Some things you should have:
A system name. 'mail' or 'web' is fine, but everyone loves characters from books, films, ect.
System status notes. A "We were down last night from 8-12" is a nice notice to have for regular users. Just don't let it get outdated
Humor. Funny is good. ASCII art the size of an xterm window is not.
I read this story in the Wall Street Journal about the political conflict in Zimbabwe. Basically, there was this guy who rebelled against the oppressive government and its leader, Mugabe. The guy ended up losing the fight, and switched to business instead.
He started a cell phone provider, and it now has somewhere around 80% market share in Zimbabwe (really, how many cell phone providers can there be?).
And as it was time for presidential elections to be held, guess what started popping up on all of the cell phones? Political messages endorsing the revolutionary candidate. It started as a message from one user to another, and it kept getting passed along until everyone in the country with a cell phone had gotten the message.
The guy who owns the company claims not to have started it, but he certainly didn't do anything to stop it, even if it was taking up his network's bandwidth.
I would post a link, but the WSJ is for-pay-only, sorry.
Definitely OpenProjects is the best for Linux/open source.
There are channels devoted to almost every topic, and alot of individual projects have channels set up there, such as #jabber and #livid.
As of this moment, there are almost 1000 users on 31 servers, including one of the faster servers, irc.linux.com.
The best channel for newbie help is #linuxhelp(50), but #linpeople(80) is chock full of gurus for the harder stuff (if you can ever get them on topic:) #debian is always the most popular, with 123 now.
Basically, if you can ask a question about Linux, someone there can answer it.
Oh, and did I mention the/. crew is usually in #slashdot (Emmett and CowboyNeal almost always)
Numeric keypads are fairly common, especially in school settings and accounting firms. My teacher has one for his laptop that lets him enter scores faster. One of the nice things about separate numeric keypads is that a lot of them come with styling and contours that are a lot easier on the wrists than the standard keypads.
If the security agents really do have to get a warrant to read your e-mail, then this shouldn't be a problem. Since you're not in Britain, you aren't a British citizen (I'm assuming), and therefore the British government probably can't issue a search warrant for you.
Just a thought
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I just love when site operators get a bunch of hits, but it doesn't matter because they are using IIS. Guess this is why new startups with low capital should use free software.
HTTP 403.15 - Forbidden: Client Access Licenses exceeded Internet Information Services
Technical Information (for support personnel)
Background: The server you are attempting to access has exceeded its Client Access License limit.
But where does 'compensation' stop? Metallica has to rake in the dough BIG time. Every friend I have has at least 3 Metallica shirts, Metallica posters, all of the Metallica CDs (including the total rip offs like Garage Inc. which is basically selling their old stuff over again).
Don't get me wrong. I'm a huge Metallica fan (or was). But I think what the other posters were trying to say is that the information should be free. Give away the music, and make money from the real stuff (shirts, posters, concerts).
If what all of the artists say is true, they don't make jack after the record company, their agent, publicist, ect take their cuts from the price of a CD. If so, they will still be fabulously rich, and we will all get to enjoy their music. For free.
yeah, its very easy to do, but I doubt Talk City is that stupid.
remember, they're using closed source properietary software, and they control both the server and client software. Thus for them, IRC is no longer a set protocol, and can be expanded (or limited) as much as they want.
What they should do to prevent other clients from connecting is to have the client create a complex hash out of the user's nick and send it to the server for comparision and verification. Anyone can trace packets sent to and from the server, but with a hash, it would be very hard to make another client act the same way.
Of course, this idea falls apart a bit when you consider that their IRCd is actually Open Source (GPL), unless they made it from scratch, which is unlikely.
Before it was at propaganda.themes.org, it was at propaganda.system12.com, which is 404'd too. system12.com has the default Apache page. Its still registered under the name Propaganda, with nameservers at VA Linux, so who knows what its status is..
For those who missed it, Bowie had an IRC chat after he turned over the project. I couldn't find complete logs, so here is my copy of his speech:
Bowie| I'll make this short and sweet.. I dont like long drawley boring thank yous, and theres much fun to be had..:) Rahga| Annoucements from Bowie, followed by punch an pie! Bowie| 10 months ago..I sat down on the corner of Park and Speedway infront of a Subway restaraunt royally pissed off. Bowie| Just rampantly pissed. Bowie| Met up with my best friend for lunch that day, and talked about what the hell I was gonna do.. I needed something to occupy myself with. Bowie| That guy is Nach0, by the way./msg him and tell him he kicks royal carpeted and jeweled ass. Bowie|...anyway..:) Bowie| Bri said to me.. Bowie| "You know...You should just pick one thing and do it." Bowie| "Cuz if you dont.." Bowie| "...You're gonna forget what its like to complete anything." Bowie| And so I did.:) Bowie| Propaganda was originally launched on a 56K modem with a dynamic IP host..Every 8 hours, the IP would chnace because i'd get kicked off my ISP, and the DNS would have to propogate before anyone could get on the site. Bowie| I worked, and I worked, and I worked. Bowie| Got a lucky break for Christmas last year.. Rob and Hemos (who doesnt suck) announced the opening of my site, which kept the Tx light on my modem locked solid for 3 days straight.:) Bowie| Well, to sum it up.. Bowie| 14 volumes, 730+ images, a quarter of a million visitors and an estimate *half billion* tiles in distribution later...... Bowie| (yes, 500,000,000 tiles plus) Bowie| its time for me to stop.:) Bowie| Give somebody else a chance. Bowie| Pass the tradition along..:) Bowie| While Propaganda is still my project..and always will be my little pet.. the creative control behind the project is now in the hands of Naru Sundar at CalTech..Asmodean to many of you.:) Bowie| I wouldnt dare hand over the project if I felt it was going to suck the instant I let it go. I've seen that happen..trust me.:) Bowie| This aint the case.:) You're gonna se *alot* of new things come out of Propaganda soon, and the tradition will continue.:) Bowie| That 730 figure should top out over a thousand before the end of the year..hehe Bowie| Anyway.. Bowie| I know i'm forgetting alot of people...Rob, Hemos, Scoop, Trae, David and all the other guys at t.o/VA who've helped me.. Bri, Kristen, my folks. Bowie| Its the community that makes it work, not me. Bowie| Thanks a shitload, guys.:) Its been one hell of a run.:) Bowie| Nuff with the smalltalk. Lets see some goodies.:)
They were supposed to gain the confidence of other students if they saw any signs of depression etc. Any hint of depression and they would turn over their fellow students. They were trained in how to do this.... Peer behavior narcs in high schools is a very scary thought to me.
When I first read this article, I thought it was a terrible thing, and I honestly was glad to be a geek and a non-conformist. I was sure that if something like this happened in my school, I would fight it to the end.
But after reading this post, I realized that the same thing had happened in my school, and I was a big part of it! What first hit me was the term 'peer counselor'. In 8th grade, I was chosen by the school's administration, along with about 10 others, to be a peer counselor. We were trained a bit about suicide and depression, and how to deal with troubled kids. It all seemed innocent enough, and I really liked helping the kids.
What the counselors, who taught the class, told us, was that we were the "in-between" step for students. Students that were having problems and didn't feel comfortable talking to teachers about their problems would request a session with a peer counselor, perhaps by name. We were told to help them as best as we could, and if we thought they were a possible danger to themselves or others, we were to tell the administration about it. We were spies!
Luckily, I never had a case where I had to 'tattle' on anyone, and I think the program as a whole was a success, but only because the peer counselors were an exceptional group of misfits, which I'm isn't what the administration was hoping for. Now that I think about it, those chosen were all in the 'in crowd'. All jocks and preps, if you will, but of the free thinking type.
Anyways, thanks for posting your experiences with this; it has made me think alot about mine as well, and I might even have a talk with the counselors.
I've been thinking about this for a while now, specifically for uses in schools or offices.
I've never seen this on a large scale, but would it be feasble to have hardware to allow 50 keyboards, mice, monitors to be hooked into a Linux server, and have each one be running separately? So there could be 50 users with 50 different displays doing their office or school work.
Obviously, the server would have to be completely massive, which some kind of super video card system (128MBx2 SLI rig?). But it would still be less expensive than buying 50 whole computers, and it would be a ton easier to make upgrades to.
I might have misunderstood your question, but with a normal Linux machine, you can't have two different users using it at the same time on different monitors with different keyboards. I'm guessing that's what the card does. Probably has some keyboard ports and some kind of display switching.
With an official port of the newest version, I wonder what this will do to the Descent I and Descent II ports. Its always great to have the cool new stuff, but I honestly liked the first two better than the third.
The programmers have worked hard on these, and I'd hate to see them go to waste.
Slashdot Mirror
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I live in a town with a population of 4000, and I'm one of 2 people here that knows how to run a nameserver. So when I wanted a me.city.state.us, I had to set up the server, find a government representative willing to listen to a nerdie teenager, fill out a (paper) registration form, sign it in upteen places, and fax it. And this was after filling out the online form 5 times before they were satisfied with the information I'd provided. I actually went a little far in my description of the process. I had to stop at the 'find a government representative', because I had no idea who to talk to, and those I asked could have cared less. So I stuck to my .net domain, thank you very much.
Maybe its different in other counties, but its pretty worthless in the US.
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function checkCookie () {
var chek;
writeCookie ('mstrChck', 'hasyobrowsagotskillz');
chek = readCookie ('mstrChck');
if (chek != 'hasyobrowsagotskillz') return false;
else return true;
}
Looks like someone would rather have been hacking.
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Domain Name: K.COM
Registrar: REGISTER.COM, INC.
Whois Server: whois.register.com
Referral URL: www.register.com
Name Server: No nameserver
Updated Date: 12-feb-2000
Organization:
Reserved Domain
(ICANN) Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330
Marina del Rey, CA 92092
US
Phone: 310-823-9358
Fax..: 310-823-8649
Email: res-dom@iana.org
Domain Name: K.COM
Created on..............: Wed, Dec 01, 1993
Expires on..............: Fri, Dec 07, 2001
Record last updated on..: Fri, Jun 02, 2000
Its the same for all [a-z].[com|net|org] domain names. No nameserver, no way to get the mail, and I would hope that ICANN wouldn't find some covert way to read spam.
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Scene: Teen girl is sitting, writing into her diary.
"Dear Diary. Today I realized I'm worth more than my parents."
Its not a movie, but its got pictures from the original, so its more lively than just a script :)
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Don't they learn?
ZDNet story
Here is my idea for a good 3D input device:
Two boxes, one for each hand. Inside the boxes is a glove-like device to support your hand. The glove has elastic sensors attached to the walls that can sense which way you move your hand. The elasticity of the sensor strings naturally positions your hand in the middle of the box, so you can be completely relaxed when not in action.
Each box's output would be kept separate (great for first person combat games), which doubles the possible combination of posititons you can attain (get your mind out of the gutter :). If you were playing a flying sim, you could put a joystick inside the box, and grab it as if it were in the plane you're flying. The joystick itself would provide no input to the game, but would make the gameplay more realistic.
This same "elastic box idea" TM could be applied to other parts of your body, including feet, arms, legs, or even individual fingers. Heck, you could have all of the above, and then a box around your whole body.
I think this would dramatically improve gameplay and make 3D monitors (or glasses, or rooms) alot more viable.
How about giving:
Some other things to stay away from are:
Some things you should have:
He started a cell phone provider, and it now has somewhere around 80% market share in Zimbabwe (really, how many cell phone providers can there be?).
And as it was time for presidential elections to be held, guess what started popping up on all of the cell phones? Political messages endorsing the revolutionary candidate. It started as a message from one user to another, and it kept getting passed along until everyone in the country with a cell phone had gotten the message.
The guy who owns the company claims not to have started it, but he certainly didn't do anything to stop it, even if it was taking up his network's bandwidth.
I would post a link, but the WSJ is for-pay-only, sorry.
There are channels devoted to almost every topic, and alot of individual projects have channels set up there, such as #jabber and #livid.
As of this moment, there are almost 1000 users on 31 servers, including one of the faster servers, irc.linux.com.
The best channel for newbie help is #linuxhelp(50), but #linpeople(80) is chock full of gurus for the harder stuff (if you can ever get them on topic :) #debian is always the most popular, with 123 now.
Basically, if you can ask a question about Linux, someone there can answer it.
Oh, and did I mention the /. crew is usually in #slashdot (Emmett and CowboyNeal almost always)
Anyway, here are some links:
Genovation, Inc. numeric keypads
A long list from CNet (as low as $9!)
One of the most compact I've seen
and finally,
Ultra-Cheap numeric keypad from PCConcepts
Just a thought
HTTP 403.15 - Forbidden: Client Access Licenses exceeded
Internet Information Services
Technical Information (for support personnel)
The server you are attempting to access has exceeded its Client Access License limit.
Microsoft Support
But where does 'compensation' stop? Metallica has to rake in the dough BIG time. Every friend I have has at least 3 Metallica shirts, Metallica posters, all of the Metallica CDs (including the total rip offs like Garage Inc. which is basically selling their old stuff over again).
Don't get me wrong. I'm a huge Metallica fan (or was). But I think what the other posters were trying to say is that the information should be free. Give away the music, and make money from the real stuff (shirts, posters, concerts).
If what all of the artists say is true, they don't make jack after the record company, their agent, publicist, ect take their cuts from the price of a CD. If so, they will still be fabulously rich, and we will all get to enjoy their music. For free.
remember, they're using closed source properietary software, and they control both the server and client software. Thus for them, IRC is no longer a set protocol, and can be expanded (or limited) as much as they want.
What they should do to prevent other clients from connecting is to have the client create a complex hash out of the user's nick and send it to the server for comparision and verification. Anyone can trace packets sent to and from the server, but with a hash, it would be very hard to make another client act the same way.
Of course, this idea falls apart a bit when you consider that their IRCd is actually Open Source (GPL), unless they made it from scratch, which is unlikely.
Before it was at propaganda.themes.org, it was at propaganda.system12.com, which is 404'd too. system12.com has the default Apache page. Its still registered under the name Propaganda, with nameservers at VA Linux, so who knows what its status is..
Bowie| I'll make this short and sweet.. I dont like long drawley boring thank yous, and theres much fun to be had.. :) /msg him and tell him he kicks royal carpeted and jeweled ass. ...anyway.. :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) You're gonna se *alot* of new things come out of Propaganda soon, and the tradition will continue. :) :) Its been one hell of a run. :) :)
Rahga| Annoucements from Bowie, followed by punch an pie!
Bowie| 10 months ago..I sat down on the corner of Park and Speedway infront of a Subway restaraunt royally pissed off.
Bowie| Just rampantly pissed.
Bowie| Met up with my best friend for lunch that day, and talked about what the hell I was gonna do.. I needed something to occupy myself with.
Bowie| That guy is Nach0, by the way.
Bowie|
Bowie| Bri said to me..
Bowie| "You know...You should just pick one thing and do it."
Bowie| "Cuz if you dont.."
Bowie| "...You're gonna forget what its like to complete anything."
Bowie| And so I did.
Bowie| Propaganda was originally launched on a 56K modem with a dynamic IP host..Every 8 hours, the IP would chnace because i'd get kicked off my ISP, and the DNS would have to propogate before anyone could get on the site.
Bowie| I worked, and I worked, and I worked.
Bowie| Got a lucky break for Christmas last year.. Rob and Hemos (who doesnt suck) announced the opening of my site, which kept the Tx light on my modem locked solid for 3 days straight.
Bowie| Well, to sum it up..
Bowie| 14 volumes, 730+ images, a quarter of a million visitors and an estimate *half billion* tiles in distribution later......
Bowie| (yes, 500,000,000 tiles plus)
Bowie| its time for me to stop.
Bowie| Give somebody else a chance.
Bowie| Pass the tradition along..
Bowie| While Propaganda is still my project..and always will be my little pet.. the creative control behind the project is now in the hands of Naru Sundar at CalTech..Asmodean to many of you.
Bowie| I wouldnt dare hand over the project if I felt it was going to suck the instant I let it go. I've seen that happen..trust me.
Bowie| This aint the case.
Bowie| That 730 figure should top out over a thousand before the end of the year..hehe
Bowie| Anyway..
Bowie| I know i'm forgetting alot of people...Rob, Hemos, Scoop, Trae, David and all the other guys at t.o/VA who've helped me.. Bri, Kristen, my folks.
Bowie| Its the community that makes it work, not me.
Bowie| Thanks a shitload, guys.
Bowie| Nuff with the smalltalk. Lets see some goodies.
When I first read this article, I thought it was a terrible thing, and I honestly was glad to be a geek and a non-conformist. I was sure that if something like this happened in my school, I would fight it to the end.
But after reading this post, I realized that the same thing had happened in my school, and I was a big part of it! What first hit me was the term 'peer counselor'. In 8th grade, I was chosen by the school's administration, along with about 10 others, to be a peer counselor. We were trained a bit about suicide and depression, and how to deal with troubled kids. It all seemed innocent enough, and I really liked helping the kids.
What the counselors, who taught the class, told us, was that we were the "in-between" step for students. Students that were having problems and didn't feel comfortable talking to teachers about their problems would request a session with a peer counselor, perhaps by name. We were told to help them as best as we could, and if we thought they were a possible danger to themselves or others, we were to tell the administration about it. We were spies!
Luckily, I never had a case where I had to 'tattle' on anyone, and I think the program as a whole was a success, but only because the peer counselors were an exceptional group of misfits, which I'm isn't what the administration was hoping for. Now that I think about it, those chosen were all in the 'in crowd'. All jocks and preps, if you will, but of the free thinking type.
Anyways, thanks for posting your experiences with this; it has made me think alot about mine as well, and I might even have a talk with the counselors.
I've never seen this on a large scale, but would it be feasble to have hardware to allow 50 keyboards, mice, monitors to be hooked into a Linux server, and have each one be running separately? So there could be 50 users with 50 different displays doing their office or school work.
Obviously, the server would have to be completely massive, which some kind of super video card system (128MBx2 SLI rig?). But it would still be less expensive than buying 50 whole computers, and it would be a ton easier to make upgrades to.
Has anyone done something similar?
Just a guess really
The programmers have worked hard on these, and I'd hate to see them go to waste.