I think I did something simple like pkg_add firefox, after setting PKG_PATH to what I thought was current, and it installed 1.5.0.7./usr/pkg/bin/firefox runs/usr/pkg/lib/firefox/firefox-bin, which is 91732 bytes.
When I installed it, it gave me a warning that the repository was for 3.0 when I had 3.0.1, but since I could not find a 3.0.1 repository on the netbsd ftp site, I figured it was a bogus warning.
I'm still struggling to run Firefox on NetBSD 3.0.1 on x86. I'm new to NetBSD though, so I could be doing something wrong. I get "Segmentation fault (core dumped) firefox" after 30 seconds of high cpu usage whenever I try to run it. Mozilla gets a little further, displaying its main window, then crashes in the same fashion. I can't explain it. I installed it via pkgsrc, but as I've said I'm new to NetBSD.
When I bought a Dell desktop about three years ago, it had no OS. I had to buy it from the "small business" section, which wasn't that big of a hassle. Additionally, all the Dell servers I've seen have no-OS as an option. I haven't paid the MS tax since '99.
There are a lot of stupid, noisy people out there, who would buy a no OS system when they really do intend to run Windows software, and then get pissed off when they learn that they now need to buy Windows at the retail price. People who want a no OS system (and pay the same price because no OS==no adware) are supposed to know where to find it, or shop elsewhere.
Serve your customers, not your own agenda. Promote open source because it usually really is the best, not because it's open source. Open source produces great software, but it takes time, and you've already admitted that winamp is still a better player for Windows users.
It's very likely that something will render you unconscious or otherwise impair your ability to call for help without killing you. A regular dead man's switch will not help in those cases.
What might work is something that requires you to push a button at regular intervals during daylight hours to verify that you're still alive and well.
The alternative might be to find someone to help care for your child. Easier said than done, I suppose.
If you're feeling like you could die at any moment, maybe you should address any health problems you might have, if any, and work to resolve any safety issues in your home, like slippery floors and showers, sharp corners, and such. And the McDougall diet gets a lot of good reviews from people who don't mind the boredom of healthy eating.
I suppose that when data theft is confirmed, a fine could be levied in proportion to the time it took between the actual theft and its publication. That would encourage companies to report probable thefts, if the threat of fine is severe enough, while allowing them to keep the less probable breaches secret.
If a tape is missing, how do they know if it's been stolen? If a system is infected with a general purpose trojan, how do they know the extent to which the data was compromised, or if anything was downloaded at all? There would be a lot of false alarms if companies had to alert customers every time there was a possibility of data theft.
But if you believe that sensitive data was probably stolen, then you should have to alert the people you believe were probably affected immediately. The only problem with this is that it's near impossible to write and enforce laws based on non-absolutes such as beliefs and probability, and it's in a company's best interest to keep such problems secret, pushing the envelope of minimal regulatory compliance to its extreme.
Of 29 of the top developers, 28 are opposed to the GPL3, and the other 1 doesn't care either way. And that's not counting whether they want to switch to it, but just whether or not they like it.
If you've ever driven through California along the I-5, you might notice that an enormous amount of air pollution is caused by the cattle industry. Methane is third major greenhouse gas, after water vapor and CO2. The ground water in many areas is undrinkable. I think livestock tax would go a long way to solving their problems.
But livestock taxes, gas taxes, and emission fines (that hurt poor people, who drive older cars) would negatively affect the governor's approval rating.
And a major component of city smog is ozone, which they would have even more of if they switched from gas cars to hybrid or electric. It's hard to blame car makers for that.
They're former Morning Musume members who go by the band name "Double You".
They haven't released anything this year because one of them was caught smoking at age 18, and the legal smoking age in Japan is 20. They work for "Hello! Project", and their boss is also their songwriter, so he can suspend/punish them like that.
A home user running Windows 98 on 1998/99 hardware won't be happy upgrading to a modern Linux distro designed for 2006 hardware and configured to run on 1998 hardware. They could max out their ram, upgrade their hard drives, and maybe even replace their noisy chainsaw/jet-engine cpu and case fans, but that'd all cost money, which any user still running win98 is dead set against.
If you don't mind spending money, you can get a relatively modern refurbished PC for under $200, that would be more than enough to run any OS you throw at it. Almost a year ago, I got an IBM NetVista with a 1.8ghz Celeron, 512mb ram, a 40gb HD, and a CDRW/DVD combo for about $200 from TigerDirect. Right now it's running Windows Server 2003 R2 enterprise edition. Heresy, I know, but I didn't give Microsoft a dime, and haven't since 2003, nor is it pirated, and my primary desktop runs Ubuntu. Right now I'm installing NetBSD on Virtual PC.
There's potential for turning those systems into thin clients, and you just replace them with real thin clients when they finally give up the ghost.
Banks have no way to stop foolish customers from falling into phishing traps. They could try to recover the money, but ultimately it's the customer's fault. The bank is not at fault, apart from some not using SSL on their login page to prove their identity, which customers never bother to verify anyways, and there's very little the bank can do to remedy it, unless the FDIC is willing to foot the bill.
The web server authorized access to those files. It wasn't manipulated to do anything it wasn't designed or configured to do. They had permission. Blame the server admin for giving it to them. It's unreasonable to expect someone to get additional written or verbal permission for every url they visit without clicking a link, especially considering that every major browser lets you edit the current url by just typing in the address bar. Some browsers, such a Konqueror, even have an "up" button in the toolbar to ascend to the parent directory. If I'm using Konqueror (I do pretty often), and I click the "up" button on a website, am I a criminal hacker?
And who makes recordings of themselves saying things they don't want anyone else to hear and then posts them on a public web server anyways?
After a bit of checking, we have a 2000 server with the patch, and it has a number of compressed files, but none of the compressed files that were updated since the patch are roughly a multiple of 4k and mostly uncompressible, the two other requirements for corruption.
As a matter of policy, Microsoft generally doesn't fix bugs in already released software, with the exceptions of publicly known security flaws (and then only once a monthg), service packs (notice WinME has had zero service packs), and $50 hotfixes. Since Microsoft now depends on returning customers more than new customers, and their customers have little chance of switching vendors, they have every motivation to make older versions as unpalatable as possible.
I personally haven't seen any files corrupted though. We'd see much more than a few newsgroup postings if this was a widespread problem.
In the time it takes to create a browsershield signature, perhaps they could fix the vulnerability.
This would probably help for dealing with unpatched vulnerabilities in third party activex controls, which Microsoft can't update themselves. They're not exploited that often though, because only a few are really popular. And it takes less work to test a new signature than a new build, and less bandwidth to distribute.
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I think I did something simple like pkg_add firefox, after setting PKG_PATH to what I thought was current, and it installed 1.5.0.7. /usr/pkg/bin/firefox runs /usr/pkg/lib/firefox/firefox-bin, which is 91732 bytes.
When I installed it, it gave me a warning that the repository was for 3.0 when I had 3.0.1, but since I could not find a 3.0.1 repository on the netbsd ftp site, I figured it was a bogus warning.
I'm still struggling to run Firefox on NetBSD 3.0.1 on x86. I'm new to NetBSD though, so I could be doing something wrong. I get "Segmentation fault (core dumped) firefox" after 30 seconds of high cpu usage whenever I try to run it. Mozilla gets a little further, displaying its main window, then crashes in the same fashion. I can't explain it. I installed it via pkgsrc, but as I've said I'm new to NetBSD.
It takes an extraordinary amount of misplaced faith to claim that a complex operating system is uncrashable apart from driver bugs.
//will cause a BSOD
for(;;) printf("Hung up\t\b\b\b\b\b\b");
A fork bomb will also do it. There are countless ways to crash XP.
When I bought a Dell desktop about three years ago, it had no OS. I had to buy it from the "small business" section, which wasn't that big of a hassle. Additionally, all the Dell servers I've seen have no-OS as an option. I haven't paid the MS tax since '99.
There are a lot of stupid, noisy people out there, who would buy a no OS system when they really do intend to run Windows software, and then get pissed off when they learn that they now need to buy Windows at the retail price. People who want a no OS system (and pay the same price because no OS==no adware) are supposed to know where to find it, or shop elsewhere.
Serve your customers, not your own agenda. Promote open source because it usually really is the best, not because it's open source. Open source produces great software, but it takes time, and you've already admitted that winamp is still a better player for Windows users.
It's very likely that something will render you unconscious or otherwise impair your ability to call for help without killing you. A regular dead man's switch will not help in those cases.
What might work is something that requires you to push a button at regular intervals during daylight hours to verify that you're still alive and well.
The alternative might be to find someone to help care for your child. Easier said than done, I suppose.
If you're feeling like you could die at any moment, maybe you should address any health problems you might have, if any, and work to resolve any safety issues in your home, like slippery floors and showers, sharp corners, and such. And the McDougall diet gets a lot of good reviews from people who don't mind the boredom of healthy eating.
I suppose that when data theft is confirmed, a fine could be levied in proportion to the time it took between the actual theft and its publication. That would encourage companies to report probable thefts, if the threat of fine is severe enough, while allowing them to keep the less probable breaches secret.
If a tape is missing, how do they know if it's been stolen? If a system is infected with a general purpose trojan, how do they know the extent to which the data was compromised, or if anything was downloaded at all? There would be a lot of false alarms if companies had to alert customers every time there was a possibility of data theft.
But if you believe that sensitive data was probably stolen, then you should have to alert the people you believe were probably affected immediately. The only problem with this is that it's near impossible to write and enforce laws based on non-absolutes such as beliefs and probability, and it's in a company's best interest to keep such problems secret, pushing the envelope of minimal regulatory compliance to its extreme.
I was careful not to say the top 29. But the people who vote in any election are only the people who want to express their opinion.
Of 29 of the top developers, 28 are opposed to the GPL3, and the other 1 doesn't care either way. And that's not counting whether they want to switch to it, but just whether or not they like it.
I never would have expected such a landslide.
If you've ever driven through California along the I-5, you might notice that an enormous amount of air pollution is caused by the cattle industry. Methane is third major greenhouse gas, after water vapor and CO2. The ground water in many areas is undrinkable. I think livestock tax would go a long way to solving their problems.
But livestock taxes, gas taxes, and emission fines (that hurt poor people, who drive older cars) would negatively affect the governor's approval rating.
And a major component of city smog is ozone, which they would have even more of if they switched from gas cars to hybrid or electric. It's hard to blame car makers for that.
Disclaimer: I don't live in California anymore.
They're former Morning Musume members who go by the band name "Double You".
They haven't released anything this year because one of them was caught smoking at age 18, and the legal smoking age in Japan is 20. They work for "Hello! Project", and their boss is also their songwriter, so he can suspend/punish them like that.
You wouldn't want anyone to know if you're into this.
A home user running Windows 98 on 1998/99 hardware won't be happy upgrading to a modern Linux distro designed for 2006 hardware and configured to run on 1998 hardware. They could max out their ram, upgrade their hard drives, and maybe even replace their noisy chainsaw/jet-engine cpu and case fans, but that'd all cost money, which any user still running win98 is dead set against.
If you don't mind spending money, you can get a relatively modern refurbished PC for under $200, that would be more than enough to run any OS you throw at it. Almost a year ago, I got an IBM NetVista with a 1.8ghz Celeron, 512mb ram, a 40gb HD, and a CDRW/DVD combo for about $200 from TigerDirect. Right now it's running Windows Server 2003 R2 enterprise edition. Heresy, I know, but I didn't give Microsoft a dime, and haven't since 2003, nor is it pirated, and my primary desktop runs Ubuntu. Right now I'm installing NetBSD on Virtual PC.
There's potential for turning those systems into thin clients, and you just replace them with real thin clients when they finally give up the ghost.
If you buy aggressively DRM'd media, they'll find yourself having to buy it again, break the law, or go without when it stops working years later.
Banks have no way to stop foolish customers from falling into phishing traps. They could try to recover the money, but ultimately it's the customer's fault. The bank is not at fault, apart from some not using SSL on their login page to prove their identity, which customers never bother to verify anyways, and there's very little the bank can do to remedy it, unless the FDIC is willing to foot the bill.
Oddly, visiting that link locks up Opera 9.01 on my system, even with flash disabled.
The web server authorized access to those files. It wasn't manipulated to do anything it wasn't designed or configured to do. They had permission. Blame the server admin for giving it to them. It's unreasonable to expect someone to get additional written or verbal permission for every url they visit without clicking a link, especially considering that every major browser lets you edit the current url by just typing in the address bar. Some browsers, such a Konqueror, even have an "up" button in the toolbar to ascend to the parent directory. If I'm using Konqueror (I do pretty often), and I click the "up" button on a website, am I a criminal hacker?
And who makes recordings of themselves saying things they don't want anyone else to hear and then posts them on a public web server anyways?
After a bit of checking, we have a 2000 server with the patch, and it has a number of compressed files, but none of the compressed files that were updated since the patch are roughly a multiple of 4k and mostly uncompressible, the two other requirements for corruption.
As a matter of policy, Microsoft generally doesn't fix bugs in already released software, with the exceptions of publicly known security flaws (and then only once a monthg), service packs (notice WinME has had zero service packs), and $50 hotfixes. Since Microsoft now depends on returning customers more than new customers, and their customers have little chance of switching vendors, they have every motivation to make older versions as unpalatable as possible.
I personally haven't seen any files corrupted though. We'd see much more than a few newsgroup postings if this was a widespread problem.
Vote in the primaries.
In the time it takes to create a browsershield signature, perhaps they could fix the vulnerability.
This would probably help for dealing with unpatched vulnerabilities in third party activex controls, which Microsoft can't update themselves. They're not exploited that often though, because only a few are really popular. And it takes less work to test a new signature than a new build, and less bandwidth to distribute.
It's the holy grail of all user interface design.
Terrorists don't use their real names when they enter the country, just like they don't bring stuff to airports that they know we'll check for.
All they're really searching for are people with arab names.
Hard drives are cheap, especially if you're only backing up 30gb.