that the RIAA's losses were completely artificial. Didn't the judge notice that the RIAA was claiming billions of dollars in damages, then settled for a couple thousand? That makes no fucking sense. This is a terrible injustice -- it's pathetic that it could even get started in the first place.
Re:Well, have you tried Libranet?
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In my opinion, usability also is a measure of how hard it is to install a package, recompile a kernel, etc.
I am not talking about usability for people who need nothing more than vi, find, and grep to manipulate their system. My mother doesn't care about installing packages or recompiling kernels. She, like many other users, wants a system that behaves in an intuitive way, and just works the way it's expected to work. RedHat has pulled that off quite nicely. Not to mention that in an ideal system, you don't have to install packages yourself or recompile the kernel (especially the latter). With RedHat9, everything my mother's system needed was right on the three discs. The kernel didn't need recompiled because it was all modular. Nevertheless, these still are not usability issues my mother is concerned with. What is a usability issue is that the menus were cleanly arranged -- programs she would use where there. The user interface is consistent, beyond just look and feel but also organization, and so on. RedHat 9's environment felt a lot like MacOS X's environment insofar as its clean, elegant features.
I haven't even gotten into how much better apt-get is.
I am a Debian user and have been for years now. Debian is the only distro that I would ever use and ever recommend to other technically minded people. However, after wrestling with boring, default Debian packages for the desktop environment and other annoyances that just would not work (truetype in Mozilla for instance) I found RedHat was far better suited to the task of being a desktop distribution. Most everything I needed worked out of the box, many things I never got quite right in Debian. As for installing things like Flash, that's 3rd party software and it's an annoyance on any platform.
Libranet is nothing special outside vanilla Debian, so that makes it even more irrelevant in this case.
Yet another failure. There's so many "desktop distros" out there that completely miss the point. This appears to be, like in most cases, a simple packing of sources straight from KDE, GNOME, etc. That's not how you create a good desktop distribution.
Desktop environments such as GNOME and KDE are like reference implimentations. They demonstrate the technology they've created. They show one way it could be used to create a usable environment. I argue that they are not necessarily meant to fall directly into the hands of end users. The reason for this is that the coders are not user interface specialists, they're technologists. They have little talent for creating a system grandma can use. Case in point: look at the default GNOME 2 environment from the project and look at how RedHat reworked it. Out of the box, GNOME 2 is almost completely unusable in my opinion whereas on RedHat 9, it's excellent.
RedHat, in my opinion, have got it right. I recently tried installing RedHat 9 on my mom's new system and I will never look back at other distros for desktop purposes. They took technologies provided by KDE and GNOME and put them together in such a way that serious consideration was given to usability! They didn't just package up the source trees and say: "Here! Linux for the desktop!" They created a tightly integrated environment with simplified menus, a good theme, powerful but understandable tools for configuration, and all that. Once again: it's not just a blind repackaging.
If we want Linux to move to the desktop, there needs to be more effort towards making these environments really usable. They are currently designed by techies for techies and that just does not cut it. So in this respect, Libranet is not much better (save installation tools) than default Debian or any other distro that gives no thought to the big picture.
There aren't enough polys in those boobs. Boobs don't really turn me on if they look like geometric figures. We need NURBS man, do you know what I'm saying?
And it appears with their recent activity (which compromises a trial) they are going to start this on a larger scale.
I apologize for sounding selfish and I hope those who will bear the brunt of these lawsuits will forgive me. I must say that this is indeed a good thing. There will be an initial sacrifice on the part of The People in this case, but the long term result will be positive.
This eliminates the single point of failure we've seen with Napster. If these guys are forced to go after the users, it will take them a lot longer to accomplish their goals. Instead of taking a sledge hammer to a P2P network, they will be forced to chizel away, one scrape at a time. But there's still more.
The RIAA/MPAA/IP-Obsessed-Co. will spend bundles of money on these lawsuits. It is not cheap if you're the plaintiff. This increase in their costs will cause them to raise the prices of their product. Consumers will note this increase and more will resort to piracy. It's a feedback loop.
On top of that, the more frivilous lawsuits they engage in, the less favor they will hold with the courts. Like it or not, a judge's decision is influenced by his personal feelings. If you piss off the judge, expect him less likely to rule in your favor unless the letter of the law absolutely dictates it. Otherwise, many things are up to her interpretation. The more of a fuss the RI/MPAA make, they will be perceived more and more as a nuisance.
If the government begins to make motions that encryption should be forbidden or removed from the hands of civilians, we're in serious trouble. It will be one of the final death blows to democracy as we know (knew?) it today. When encryption is outlawed, it will mark the end of privacy in the United States. Then things get really bad.
Re:Here's a few basics.
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802.11 Security
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MAC Authentication is virtually useless, though, in a large orginization. Imagine Fred in marketing gets a new laptop, or new PCMCIA card, and has to spend 3 weeks twiddling his thumbs while some giant confused IT department circlejerks around adding the MAC to the list.
Security is usually inconvenient, but it doesn't have to be too inconvenient. A wireless AP on a DMZ, with only the ability to VPN into the real network is a good solution.
Well, I can say two things here. If they aren't going to concern themselves with security, then they will not get security. It's just that simple. Security does not just happen. You don't get it in a box. It's not one or two mouse clicks. It's thinking about architecture, the pieces involved, and then actually implimenting it. This is very obvious at the company where I work -- everyone except me expected security to happen and it hasn't at all. We just couldn't be troubled with it. Sad. As for a confused IT department... if they have that much trouble adding a MAC address to an authentication list, they need removed and replaced. You don't let unauthorized machines on your network.
You do not really need an indepth guide to secure your wireless network. The basics regarding security in this regard are fairly obvious because they have a strong relationship with wired equivalents.
MAC authentication: this is one of the most obvious ways to increase your wireless security. If you deny all machines except those explicitly allowed, you lock out everyone who has not been authorized from using the network. Bear in mind, this does not prohibit sniffing, but this is crutial to making sure your network isn't being pirated. Many wired networks do the same thing. This is analogous to locking your doors so people can't walk in and plug into your network, so this is clearly a first line. This will also help prevent unauthorized to your AP's management software.
Use secure/encrypted protocols: I don't care if you're on a wireless network or not, you should always use ssh over telnet, SSL web sessions, and other secure or encrypted protocols if the data are sensitive (as they always are in the case of remote access). You would not send your root password unencrytped over a wired network, so of course you should not send it unencrypted over your wireless network.
Lock down your AP: I have encountered so many APs that have wide open management consoles. If an attacker can gain control of your AP, she can make life miserable. If you can, make your AP's configuration available only over a wired connection and utilize it's access controls.
There you have it. Three things, and you have strong security. Really the principles are fundamentally the same as a wired network. The difference in this case is the wires are in the air. Why security principles are not easily translated by most network maintainers is beyond me. With a wired network, it takes more work, but just about anyone can still sniff packets. With a wired network, someone can still plug in and use your line, again with more work. And with a wired network, if someone can get to your managed switch/router, they can wreak havoc.
Of course with security, always remember the basics. If you don't have a secure foundation, everything else is going to be weak.
Then how come Windows still comes on one CD, while Redhat comes on four?
The Windows CD includes just an operating system. RedHat includes the operating system, a complete development environment, three office suites, two desktop environments, lots of server software, and so on and so forth. Three CDs for RedHat 9. Let's see how this breaks down into Microsoft products:
Windows - 1 CD (sometimes 2) - $400 Office - 2 CDs - $600 IIS - 1 CD - $(not sure) Exchange - 1 CD - $(not sure) VisualStudio - 5-6 CDs - $1,000
That list is hardly exhaustive. So, what you get on 3 discs from RedHat, you can get on a minimum of 10 discs from Microsoft. Oh, RedHat 9 purchased costs about 99$ (you can also get it free, sans support). The software from Microsoft costs about $2,000 total without support.
This past year, I was accepted into Carnegie Mellon'sSchool of Computer Science.
It has been a remarkable experience that I would like
to share with the community. Here's an account of my
experience.
Week 1, Sunday: I moved in today. My roommate, a sophomore CS
student, had already moved in two
days before me. The floor is already completely covered with garbage.
He also smells. I think he
might be gay too. He's already asked me if I like the color he painted
his toenails. This should be
interesting. I am almost completely settled in. Techno music is playing
in every room in every floor
of my dorm. There are computers and other types of trash out in the
common areas. What a mess. Tomorrow,
I am going to go sign up to get my network connection.
Week 1, Monday: I got hooked up to the CMU network today! I jacked
into the network, only to find
that the hostname and address assigned to me were colliding with
another system. I'll just increment
the network numbers a few times. I am really eager to get on.
Week 1, Tuesday: I am still looking for a free IP address. Can't
anybody here properly configure
their systems?
Week 1, Friday: I finally found a free IP! It's mine! You
sons of bitches can't have it,
I found it, I keep it, it's mine! To hell with all of you! Head hurts
really bad. I've slowly been
developing a headache since I first arrived. Everywhere I look there
are these Lucent Technologies
wireless access points. I wonder if that's the problem.
Week 1, Saturday: I sat down at my computer today. My desktop wall
paper is now the goatse.cx
guy. Pleasant. Scattered over every directory on my C: drive are
thousands, possibly millions, of files
titled "J00AR30WN3DBITCH-phj33r-" and then some random hacker's name.
Don't these people have lives?
Maybe they need laid or something. It'd take days to clean this out.
I mentioned to my roommate
that I needed to reinstall Windows, and immediately he jumped up and
shouted: "NO! Do NOT use Windows!"
Suddenly, two dozen other guys (all of them possibly homosexuals)
appeared at the door, each touting
an operating system called Linux. Half of them got into a fight over
which was better, Debian, RedHat,
Slackware, and a bunch of others I couldn't recognize. Some kid who
appeared to not have showered
since he was born was touting "Linux From Scratch," saying that only
losers used pre-made distros.
A crowd of people in the back kept quiet about how I'd be sorry if I used
Linux instead of BSD on the
network. Who the fuck are these people? Classes start next week. Hope
I have my computer working so
I can do my assignments.
Week 3, Friday: People are still trying to get Linux to work on my
system. They keep telling my
that my hardware sucks. We go through about four or five distributions
a day. Every now and then,
I notice a little devil on my screen. Stickers for every of these
distributions have been plastered on
my case. Suddenly, my room stinks a lot more with these people in here.
I ask them why they never
shower, and the usual response is something along the lines of "showering
is like rebooting" and "I don't
want to lose my uptime."
Week 3, Saturday: There's a troop of men running naked in a circle
around McGill Hall. I am not
even going to ask.
Week 4, Wednesday: Linux is FINALLY working on my computer! I have
a pretty slick desktop too.
I think I might like this. I can finally work in my room instead of the
labs, although considering
the every increasing layer of garbage on the floor...
Week 4, Thursday: My computer flashes messages about how I am
"0WNX0RED" and how I should "PHJ33R"
whoever and how "L4MEX0R" I am for having an insecure box. A kid
suggests we reinstall Linux after
discovering about 17 rootkits.
Week 5, Friday: Someone got BSD working on my computer. I wonder
if this will last. The s
WineX 3.0 no longer plays the games that 2.1 did. GTA3 and StarCraft no longer run and WC3 seems to be much worse. So, I don't really see much improvement. Anyone have any suggestions as to why GTA3 doesn't work (that's my favorite;)?
So, would someone care to explain why you wouldn't just use NetBSD instead of trying to run a Linux environment with a NetBSD kernel?
What are you talking about!? Seriously! We're talking about a packaging system. This has nothing to do with Linux. Linux is a kernel. Debian is a packaging system with some fine tools like apt. This is basically a mechanism for doing Debian packaging on NetBSD, which includes networked distribution of binaries, real easy upgrading, rollbacks, etc. Please, RTFA!
As if the Iraqi people were not burried in oppression, now we're going to mire them up in US patent and IP nonsense. By the time we're through, the people will never have a foothold to get any technological endeavor off the ground. They'll be forever burried by our stupid laws. Of course, bad patent & IP laws are better than being murdered by your government, it's still kind of a sinister trade. The Iraqi people have no idea what we may be getting them into -- until they try to make any significant advances in the global technology industry. Someone explain to me how this isn't colonization?
My personal experience with Ogg is that it takes forever to rip a CD using the format.
Ogg is an audio encoding format. It has nothing to do with ripping. Christ, who moderates here?
I personally don't know why this is (perhaps just a problem with the software I was using?) but
Perhaps it's your CD-ROM. Some CD-ROMs make it difficult to extract audio, and so the ripping software has to do plenty of magic to make this work. Read this page to learn something. See the section Like Pulling Teeth.
...for when I argue against "Debian sucks because it's Linux" *BSD people. Debian is a "universal" operating system (well, let's say "packaging system") -- it's is not strictly Linux. Debian != Linux
On this topic, I remember reading a while back about a Debian FreeBSD project. Anyone know the status of that?
I remember Lindows being heralded as a Linux distribution that could run Windows applications out of the box. Since then, I believe any attempts at doing this have been removed. Perhaps I am incorrect, but I imagine this is a widely held misconception. Is the commercial version of Lindows bundled with CodeWeavers CrossOver Office/Plugin? If not, what's the point of the Lindows moniker? I've definitely found RedHat 9 to be a much more up-to-date/mature desktop distro, so where is the Lindows edge? Why not make some licensing deals so that out of the box, users can at least runs some of the basics?
I imagine if he did, there'd be some sort of huge lawsuit for copyright infringement or intellectual property theft or something along those lines. Pretty soon there'll be royalty fees and you're not allowed to look at it without paying admission... this is a bad idea.:)
Nobody gives a flying fuck about some backwater hick state full of losers and kooks like your father. So please, shut the fuck up and spare us stories about Tennessee... I think if everyone else here had our way, it'd have been nuked a long time ago....
your an asshole dude...
It's "you're" which is contracted "you are", not "your" which is posessive. Jesus Christ you dumb fuck! I may be an asshole, but at least I have some fucking grammar skills beyond that of a 2nd grader. Are you from Tennessee by chance?
There is something truly artistic about this thread. I admire the poster's talent and multiple personality disorder. It seems to me that trolling is indeed an art. To capture the attention of the moderators requires you to be more than just annoying... it requires a certain kind of cleverness. Most stupid people generally do not aquire such attention.
To the moderators that wasted points moderating this down, you are the fool(s) with egg on your face(s). Those points could have gone to positive conversation. Instead, your were mindlessly suckered into wasting your valuable points on some trolls. Morons. I blame the moderators for the unbalanced signal:noise ratio on Slashdot.
Allow me to paraphrase...
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Your post was written with too much insight and intelligence for most/. readers to properly enjoy or understand. Allow me to offer this abridged version for the general/. public...
While Linus is TEH G0DX0R, Natelie Portman would agree with GPL friendly DRM. Evil DRM used by sucky Microsoft will die and Netcraft confirms it. Don't worry, no hot grits down your PANTS over this one.
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that the RIAA's losses were completely artificial. Didn't the judge notice that the RIAA was claiming billions of dollars in damages, then settled for a couple thousand? That makes no fucking sense. This is a terrible injustice -- it's pathetic that it could even get started in the first place.
In my opinion, usability also is a measure of how hard it is to install a package, recompile a kernel, etc.
I am not talking about usability for people who need nothing more than vi, find, and grep to manipulate their system. My mother doesn't care about installing packages or recompiling kernels. She, like many other users, wants a system that behaves in an intuitive way, and just works the way it's expected to work. RedHat has pulled that off quite nicely. Not to mention that in an ideal system, you don't have to install packages yourself or recompile the kernel (especially the latter). With RedHat9, everything my mother's system needed was right on the three discs. The kernel didn't need recompiled because it was all modular. Nevertheless, these still are not usability issues my mother is concerned with. What is a usability issue is that the menus were cleanly arranged -- programs she would use where there. The user interface is consistent, beyond just look and feel but also organization, and so on. RedHat 9's environment felt a lot like MacOS X's environment insofar as its clean, elegant features.
I haven't even gotten into how much better apt-get is.
I am a Debian user and have been for years now. Debian is the only distro that I would ever use and ever recommend to other technically minded people. However, after wrestling with boring, default Debian packages for the desktop environment and other annoyances that just would not work (truetype in Mozilla for instance) I found RedHat was far better suited to the task of being a desktop distribution. Most everything I needed worked out of the box, many things I never got quite right in Debian. As for installing things like Flash, that's 3rd party software and it's an annoyance on any platform.
Libranet is nothing special outside vanilla Debian, so that makes it even more irrelevant in this case.
Yet another failure. There's so many "desktop distros" out there that completely miss the point. This appears to be, like in most cases, a simple packing of sources straight from KDE, GNOME, etc. That's not how you create a good desktop distribution.
Desktop environments such as GNOME and KDE are like reference implimentations. They demonstrate the technology they've created. They show one way it could be used to create a usable environment. I argue that they are not necessarily meant to fall directly into the hands of end users. The reason for this is that the coders are not user interface specialists, they're technologists. They have little talent for creating a system grandma can use. Case in point: look at the default GNOME 2 environment from the project and look at how RedHat reworked it. Out of the box, GNOME 2 is almost completely unusable in my opinion whereas on RedHat 9, it's excellent.
RedHat, in my opinion, have got it right. I recently tried installing RedHat 9 on my mom's new system and I will never look back at other distros for desktop purposes. They took technologies provided by KDE and GNOME and put them together in such a way that serious consideration was given to usability! They didn't just package up the source trees and say: "Here! Linux for the desktop!" They created a tightly integrated environment with simplified menus, a good theme, powerful but understandable tools for configuration, and all that. Once again: it's not just a blind repackaging.
If we want Linux to move to the desktop, there needs to be more effort towards making these environments really usable. They are currently designed by techies for techies and that just does not cut it. So in this respect, Libranet is not much better (save installation tools) than default Debian or any other distro that gives no thought to the big picture.
There aren't enough polys in those boobs. Boobs don't really turn me on if they look like geometric figures. We need NURBS man, do you know what I'm saying?
Sensory perceptions crosss YOU
And it appears with their recent activity (which compromises a trial) they are going to start this on a larger scale.
;-)
I apologize for sounding selfish and I hope those who will bear the brunt of these lawsuits will forgive me. I must say that this is indeed a good thing. There will be an initial sacrifice on the part of The People in this case, but the long term result will be positive.
This eliminates the single point of failure we've seen with Napster. If these guys are forced to go after the users, it will take them a lot longer to accomplish their goals. Instead of taking a sledge hammer to a P2P network, they will be forced to chizel away, one scrape at a time. But there's still more.
The RIAA/MPAA/IP-Obsessed-Co. will spend bundles of money on these lawsuits. It is not cheap if you're the plaintiff. This increase in their costs will cause them to raise the prices of their product. Consumers will note this increase and more will resort to piracy. It's a feedback loop.
On top of that, the more frivilous lawsuits they engage in, the less favor they will hold with the courts. Like it or not, a judge's decision is influenced by his personal feelings. If you piss off the judge, expect him less likely to rule in your favor unless the letter of the law absolutely dictates it. Otherwise, many things are up to her interpretation. The more of a fuss the RI/MPAA make, they will be perceived more and more as a nuisance.
Of course, I could be totally wrong on this.
If the government begins to make motions that encryption should be forbidden or removed from the hands of civilians, we're in serious trouble. It will be one of the final death blows to democracy as we know (knew?) it today. When encryption is outlawed, it will mark the end of privacy in the United States. Then things get really bad.
MAC Authentication is virtually useless, though, in a large orginization. Imagine Fred in marketing gets a new laptop, or new PCMCIA card, and has to spend 3 weeks twiddling his thumbs while some giant confused IT department circlejerks around adding the MAC to the list.
Security is usually inconvenient, but it doesn't have to be too inconvenient. A wireless AP on a DMZ, with only the ability to VPN into the real network is a good solution.
Well, I can say two things here. If they aren't going to concern themselves with security, then they will not get security. It's just that simple. Security does not just happen. You don't get it in a box. It's not one or two mouse clicks. It's thinking about architecture, the pieces involved, and then actually implimenting it. This is very obvious at the company where I work -- everyone except me expected security to happen and it hasn't at all. We just couldn't be troubled with it. Sad. As for a confused IT department... if they have that much trouble adding a MAC address to an authentication list, they need removed and replaced. You don't let unauthorized machines on your network.
- MAC authentication: this is one of the most obvious ways to increase your wireless security. If you deny all machines except those explicitly allowed, you lock out everyone who has not been authorized from using the network. Bear in mind, this does not prohibit sniffing, but this is crutial to making sure your network isn't being pirated. Many wired networks do the same thing. This is analogous to locking your doors so people can't walk in and plug into your network, so this is clearly a first line. This will also help prevent unauthorized to your AP's management software.
- Use secure/encrypted protocols: I don't care if you're on a wireless network or not, you should always use ssh over telnet, SSL web sessions, and other secure or encrypted protocols if the data are sensitive (as they always are in the case of remote access). You would not send your root password unencrytped over a wired network, so of course you should not send it unencrypted over your wireless network.
- Lock down your AP: I have encountered so many APs that have wide open management consoles. If an attacker can gain control of your AP, she can make life miserable. If you can, make your AP's configuration available only over a wired connection and utilize it's access controls.
There you have it. Three things, and you have strong security. Really the principles are fundamentally the same as a wired network. The difference in this case is the wires are in the air. Why security principles are not easily translated by most network maintainers is beyond me. With a wired network, it takes more work, but just about anyone can still sniff packets. With a wired network, someone can still plug in and use your line, again with more work. And with a wired network, if someone can get to your managed switch/router, they can wreak havoc.Of course with security, always remember the basics. If you don't have a secure foundation, everything else is going to be weak.
Then how come Windows still comes on one CD, while Redhat comes on four?
The Windows CD includes just an operating system. RedHat includes the operating system, a complete development environment, three office suites, two desktop environments, lots of server software, and so on and so forth. Three CDs for RedHat 9. Let's see how this breaks down into Microsoft products:
Windows - 1 CD (sometimes 2) - $400
Office - 2 CDs - $600
IIS - 1 CD - $(not sure)
Exchange - 1 CD - $(not sure)
VisualStudio - 5-6 CDs - $1,000
That list is hardly exhaustive. So, what you get on 3 discs from RedHat, you can get on a minimum of 10 discs from Microsoft. Oh, RedHat 9 purchased costs about 99$ (you can also get it free, sans support). The software from Microsoft costs about $2,000 total without support.
That's the difference.
This past year, I was accepted into Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science. It has been a remarkable experience that I would like to share with the community. Here's an account of my experience.
Week 1, Sunday: I moved in today. My roommate, a sophomore CS student, had already moved in two days before me. The floor is already completely covered with garbage. He also smells. I think he might be gay too. He's already asked me if I like the color he painted his toenails. This should be interesting. I am almost completely settled in. Techno music is playing in every room in every floor of my dorm. There are computers and other types of trash out in the common areas. What a mess. Tomorrow, I am going to go sign up to get my network connection.
Week 1, Monday: I got hooked up to the CMU network today! I jacked into the network, only to find that the hostname and address assigned to me were colliding with another system. I'll just increment the network numbers a few times. I am really eager to get on.
Week 1, Tuesday: I am still looking for a free IP address. Can't anybody here properly configure their systems?
Week 1, Friday: I finally found a free IP! It's mine! You sons of bitches can't have it, I found it, I keep it, it's mine! To hell with all of you! Head hurts really bad. I've slowly been developing a headache since I first arrived. Everywhere I look there are these Lucent Technologies wireless access points. I wonder if that's the problem.
Week 1, Saturday: I sat down at my computer today. My desktop wall paper is now the goatse.cx guy. Pleasant. Scattered over every directory on my C: drive are thousands, possibly millions, of files titled "J00AR30WN3DBITCH-phj33r-" and then some random hacker's name. Don't these people have lives? Maybe they need laid or something. It'd take days to clean this out. I mentioned to my roommate that I needed to reinstall Windows, and immediately he jumped up and shouted: "NO! Do NOT use Windows!" Suddenly, two dozen other guys (all of them possibly homosexuals) appeared at the door, each touting an operating system called Linux. Half of them got into a fight over which was better, Debian, RedHat, Slackware, and a bunch of others I couldn't recognize. Some kid who appeared to not have showered since he was born was touting "Linux From Scratch," saying that only losers used pre-made distros. A crowd of people in the back kept quiet about how I'd be sorry if I used Linux instead of BSD on the network. Who the fuck are these people? Classes start next week. Hope I have my computer working so I can do my assignments.
Week 3, Friday: People are still trying to get Linux to work on my system. They keep telling my that my hardware sucks. We go through about four or five distributions a day. Every now and then, I notice a little devil on my screen. Stickers for every of these distributions have been plastered on my case. Suddenly, my room stinks a lot more with these people in here. I ask them why they never shower, and the usual response is something along the lines of "showering is like rebooting" and "I don't want to lose my uptime."
Week 3, Saturday: There's a troop of men running naked in a circle around McGill Hall. I am not even going to ask.
Week 4, Wednesday: Linux is FINALLY working on my computer! I have a pretty slick desktop too. I think I might like this. I can finally work in my room instead of the labs, although considering the every increasing layer of garbage on the floor...
Week 4, Thursday: My computer flashes messages about how I am "0WNX0RED" and how I should "PHJ33R" whoever and how "L4MEX0R" I am for having an insecure box. A kid suggests we reinstall Linux after discovering about 17 rootkits.
Week 5, Friday: Someone got BSD working on my computer. I wonder if this will last. The s
Wait a minute here, I am confused. How could you not have your own distro, I mean, it seems that everyone else does.
True, but I was hoping for some kind of performance benefit or fewer bugs...
WineX 3.0 no longer plays the games that 2.1 did. GTA3 and StarCraft no longer run and WC3 seems to be much worse. So, I don't really see much improvement. Anyone have any suggestions as to why GTA3 doesn't work (that's my favorite ;)?
So, would someone care to explain why you wouldn't just use NetBSD instead of trying to run a Linux environment with a NetBSD kernel?
What are you talking about!? Seriously! We're talking about a packaging system. This has nothing to do with Linux. Linux is a kernel. Debian is a packaging system with some fine tools like apt. This is basically a mechanism for doing Debian packaging on NetBSD, which includes networked distribution of binaries, real easy upgrading, rollbacks, etc. Please, RTFA!
As if the Iraqi people were not burried in oppression, now we're going to mire them up in US patent and IP nonsense. By the time we're through, the people will never have a foothold to get any technological endeavor off the ground. They'll be forever burried by our stupid laws. Of course, bad patent & IP laws are better than being murdered by your government, it's still kind of a sinister trade. The Iraqi people have no idea what we may be getting them into -- until they try to make any significant advances in the global technology industry. Someone explain to me how this isn't colonization?
I was about to smack this poster down, but you did it with a condescending tone that I cannot match. Thank you!
My personal experience with Ogg is that it takes forever to rip a CD using the format.
Ogg is an audio encoding format. It has nothing to do with ripping. Christ, who moderates here?
I personally don't know why this is (perhaps just a problem with the software I was using?) but
Perhaps it's your CD-ROM. Some CD-ROMs make it difficult to extract audio, and so the ripping software has to do plenty of magic to make this work. Read this page to learn something. See the section Like Pulling Teeth.
...for when I argue against "Debian sucks because it's Linux" *BSD people. Debian is a "universal" operating system (well, let's say "packaging system") -- it's is not strictly Linux. Debian != Linux
On this topic, I remember reading a while back about a Debian FreeBSD project. Anyone know the status of that?
Your devotion to that sad religion has not given you the clairvoyance to...
oh nevermind...
=)
I remember Lindows being heralded as a Linux distribution that could run Windows applications out of the box. Since then, I believe any attempts at doing this have been removed. Perhaps I am incorrect, but I imagine this is a widely held misconception. Is the commercial version of Lindows bundled with CodeWeavers CrossOver Office/Plugin? If not, what's the point of the Lindows moniker? I've definitely found RedHat 9 to be a much more up-to-date/mature desktop distro, so where is the Lindows edge? Why not make some licensing deals so that out of the box, users can at least runs some of the basics?
Please, all of you, just STOP IT! I cannot take any more StarWars references like these! :)
I imagine if he did, there'd be some sort of huge lawsuit for copyright infringement or intellectual property theft or something along those lines. Pretty soon there'll be royalty fees and you're not allowed to look at it without paying admission... this is a bad idea. :)
Nobody gives a flying fuck about some backwater hick state full of losers and kooks like your father. So please, shut the fuck up and spare us stories about Tennessee... I think if everyone else here had our way, it'd have been nuked a long time ago. ...
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your an asshole dude
It's "you're" which is contracted "you are", not "your" which is posessive. Jesus Christ you dumb fuck! I may be an asshole, but at least I have some fucking grammar skills beyond that of a 2nd grader. Are you from Tennessee by chance?
There is something truly artistic about this thread. I admire the poster's talent and multiple personality disorder. It seems to me that trolling is indeed an art. To capture the attention of the moderators requires you to be more than just annoying... it requires a certain kind of cleverness. Most stupid people generally do not aquire such attention.
To the moderators that wasted points moderating this down, you are the fool(s) with egg on your face(s). Those points could have gone to positive conversation. Instead, your were mindlessly suckered into wasting your valuable points on some trolls. Morons. I blame the moderators for the unbalanced signal:noise ratio on Slashdot.
Your post was written with too much insight and intelligence for most /. readers to properly enjoy or understand. Allow me to offer this abridged version for the general /. public...
While Linus is TEH G0DX0R, Natelie Portman would agree with GPL friendly DRM. Evil DRM used by sucky Microsoft will die and Netcraft confirms it. Don't worry, no hot grits down your PANTS over this one.