Re:SCO sold Linux under GPL, how can they resind i
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My first Linux distro was Caldera OpenLinux eDesktop 2.4. It was RPM based, had the 2.2 kernel, and had a full CD of source code. I still have the CD. The box also had a URL to download the source. However, it did come with some commercial Linux software as well as stripped down versions of PartitionMagic and BootMagic.
Re:He Might Be Passe, But What He Is Doing Isn't
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This is borderline redundant, but run strings on a copy of FTP.EXE, the Windows command-line FTP utility, and you'll find this: (copied from Cygwin)
Jonathan@jaguar/ $ cd/cygdrive/d/WINDOWS/system32
Jonathan@jaguar/cygdrive/d/WINDOWS/system32 $ strings ftp.exe | grep Copyright @(#) Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California.
I can see a new DVD player case to defeat this. It's filled with something that won't react with the disc. You open one part of the airlock, put the DVD in, close it, put the DVD into the player with sealed gloves built into the case, then enjoy.
Instead of making the room argon and the people have their own air supply, why not give the DVD its own argon and leave the room air-filled?
If you want to be sending documents around to people who don't need to modify them, why not use PDF? Nearly all Windows users have Acrobat Reader, and on Linux we have xpdf, kghostscript, etc. OO can save as PDF with two clicks (one on the Save As PDF on the toolbar, then one for the OK button in the Save As box).
In the BOFH's machine room, re. why the boss wouldn't know the machine room
BOFH: How would he know that? He's not allowed in either area? Temp-Op: He's not allowed in here? BOFH: Of course not! He's management and this is a sensitive area, right? Just mention that you have a fat security budget and some phone-tap equipment to play with.
Disclaimer: I claim this as fair use of copyrighted material. This may not be word-for-word correct, though.
Should help on your Knoppix or other Unix-based box. Do this before you begin, and you have an effective CYA in case you screw something up.
Also, take a look at Microsoft's EFS documents. There's a Recovery certificate you can create. I could imagine storing one in a safe deposit box so that your executor can decrypt your documents after you die
Perhaps you will find this useful. It's about putting Linux in a Compaq iPaq Pocket PC. With enough mucking around, you might be able to make it run on your XDA.
Here's another idea: Once you're authenticated, you select a candidate and the machine prints a receipt, which goes into a window. If it's good, you push a lever so it goes into the counting box. If it's not, you push the lever the other way (kinda like your epiglottis) and the recipt falls into a shredder/high-head environment/vat of ink/other instrument of destruction and you start over
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I just tried to do that on my newly reinstalled Windows XP box and realized it was system.ini, not win.ini
Hope no one b0rked any boxen with that
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Add this to your Win.ini file under [386enh] to fix that:
ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1
I haven't noticed much difference, but try it and see if it helps you
If all you need is Web access, then you could netboot a sub-100MB image (Google for Damn Smal Linux, a 50MB knoppix-based distro) with PXE or equivalent and have the image mount user homedirs via NFS. If your net can handle it, it would work very nicely for patching (test a patch on a copy of an image, then use a script to copy it to your tFTP server at night). Otherwise, you could use a 64 or 128 MB CF card and IDE adapter to boot the boxes, storing user data and non-essential (rarely used) programs on the network.
If you feel like trying, read this. It's about packaging ActiveX controls. I'm sure you could take Firebird 0.7 (no installer, which makes it a bit easier) and packing an ActiveX with it. Of course, if you succed, post the result to/.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/components/ac ti vex/packaging.asp
Simple solution. We need a cell phone that suppors whitelisting. Maybe someone can implement a tool for Palm OS that restricts incoming calls to people in the address book. It's not perfect, but it would work for a lot of people
FC2 has not yet been released to the mirrors. This story is announcing that the.torrent is available for BitTorrent users. Otherwise, you have to wait until (IIRC) Tuesday to download it.
oh my Torvalds, no. I would hope that my beloved country has more sense than that. No offence to people of EU Member Countries (corrupt, Big Brother-loving suckers), but the EU has its fair share of problems. Software patents, EUCD, and more things that I can't even think about without being physically ill.
Go to $LOCAL_COMPUTER_STORE and buy yourself an El Cheapo NAT router, preferably sans wireless. Plug it in between your Internet connection and virgin computer. It's not perfect, but it should hold the fort until the updates go through
Come to think of it, these days, being behind your own NAT router is a Good Thing.
If you had curious, bored teenagers who played around with Xbox and their music collection (probably obtained from iTMS) a lot, and might enjoy an Xbox media center, would you introduce them to Xbox modding? The only way it is illegal is through the DMCA, and all of/. would probably agree that the DMCA is unconsitutional (as illegal as it gets). So I ask you, would YOU encourage this "illegal" behavior?
Or would you just move to Canada where it's legal.
My writing isn't exactly "barely legible", but my fine motor skills aren't the greatest either, and I can type over twice as fast as I can write, without hand cramps, so I will probably be supplied with a word processor from the school board. See if your school board has some program that you can be supplied with one. At the rate it's going, I should be getting an evaluation unit soon, and, if it works out, one will be in my hands by September (the start of high school for me). There is a lot of waiting to be done, but it can be worth it. Bottom line is, life isn't fair, but some people try to equalize it, and there is help out there. Here's a link to AlphaSmart, a company funded by ex-Apple engineers that supplies word processors for a lot of school boards (mine included)
AlphaSmart Education Home
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My first Linux distro was Caldera OpenLinux eDesktop 2.4. It was RPM based, had the 2.2 kernel, and had a full CD of source code. I still have the CD. The box also had a URL to download the source. However, it did come with some commercial Linux software as well as stripped down versions of PartitionMagic and BootMagic.
This is borderline redundant, but run strings on a copy of FTP.EXE, the Windows command-line FTP utility, and you'll find this: (copied from Cygwin)
/ /cygdrive/d/WINDOWS/system32
/cygdrive/d/WINDOWS/system32
Jonathan@jaguar
$ cd
Jonathan@jaguar
$ strings ftp.exe | grep Copyright
@(#) Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California.
There's your proof.
A racket scientist? Were you trying to get a job at SCO or MicroSoft?
I can see a new DVD player case to defeat this. It's filled with something that won't react with the disc. You open one part of the airlock, put the DVD in, close it, put the DVD into the player with sealed gloves built into the case, then enjoy.
Instead of making the room argon and the people have their own air supply, why not give the DVD its own argon and leave the room air-filled?
If you want to be sending documents around to people who don't need to modify them, why not use PDF? Nearly all Windows users have Acrobat Reader, and on Linux we have xpdf, kghostscript, etc. OO can save as PDF with two clicks (one on the Save As PDF on the toolbar, then one for the OK button in the Save As box).
No,it's not. Apple has a new codec called Apple Lossless, which might be rebranded FLAC (I don't know). But it's not AAC
dd and gzip works even better. Try this
# dd if=/dev/hd_to_backup | gzip -f >outputfile.dd.gz
I tried it with a Damn Small Linux HD install and a 300MB ext2 partition went into a 50MB gz file
In the BOFH's machine room, re. why the boss wouldn't know the machine room
BOFH: How would he know that? He's not allowed in either area?
Temp-Op: He's not allowed in here?
BOFH: Of course not! He's management and this is a sensitive area, right? Just mention that you have a fat security budget and some phone-tap equipment to play with.
Disclaimer: I claim this as fair use of copyrighted material. This may not be word-for-word correct, though.
#dd if=/dev/hda |gzip -f >/mnt/really_big_drive/client03062004.dd.gz
Should help on your Knoppix or other Unix-based box. Do this before you begin, and you have an effective CYA in case you screw something up.
Also, take a look at Microsoft's EFS documents. There's a Recovery certificate you can create. I could imagine storing one in a safe deposit box so that your executor can decrypt your documents after you die
Perhaps you will find this useful. It's about putting Linux in a Compaq iPaq Pocket PC. With enough mucking around, you might be able to make it run on your XDA.
http://mstempin.free.fr/linux-ipaq/
Here's another idea: Once you're authenticated, you select a candidate and the machine prints a receipt, which goes into a window. If it's good, you push a lever so it goes into the counting box. If it's not, you push the lever the other way (kinda like your epiglottis) and the recipt falls into a shredder/high-head environment/vat of ink/other instrument of destruction and you start over
I just tried to do that on my newly reinstalled Windows XP box and realized it was system.ini, not win.ini Hope no one b0rked any boxen with that
Add this to your Win.ini file under [386enh] to fix that:
ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1
I haven't noticed much difference, but try it and see if it helps you
If all you need is Web access, then you could netboot a sub-100MB image (Google for Damn Smal Linux, a 50MB knoppix-based distro) with PXE or equivalent and have the image mount user homedirs via NFS. If your net can handle it, it would work very nicely for patching (test a patch on a copy of an image, then use a script to copy it to your tFTP server at night). Otherwise, you could use a 64 or 128 MB CF card and IDE adapter to boot the boxes, storing user data and non-essential (rarely used) programs on the network.
Can't comment on NetWare though
I believe this is what you are looking for. Time to drag out the 12-bay server case from your basement!
If you feel like trying, read this. It's about packaging ActiveX controls. I'm sure you could take Firebird 0.7 (no installer, which makes it a bit easier) and packing an ActiveX with it. Of course, if you succed, post the result to /.
c ti vex/packaging.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/components/a
Simple solution. We need a cell phone that suppors whitelisting. Maybe someone can implement a tool for Palm OS that restricts incoming calls to people in the address book. It's not perfect, but it would work for a lot of people
To add to that. AlphaSmart makes two products. Here's a quick summary:
AlphaSmart 3000: Barebones word processor that will send things to a computer through a keyboard (PS/2 ot USB) cable.
Dana: Palm OS laptop with keyboard and 2 SD slots
FC2 has not yet been released to the mirrors. This story is announcing that the .torrent is available for BitTorrent users. Otherwise, you have to wait until (IIRC) Tuesday to download it.
oh my Torvalds, no. I would hope that my beloved country has more sense than that. No offence to people of EU Member Countries (corrupt, Big Brother-loving suckers), but the EU has its fair share of problems. Software patents, EUCD, and more things that I can't even think about without being physically ill.
Go to $LOCAL_COMPUTER_STORE and buy yourself an El Cheapo NAT router, preferably sans wireless. Plug it in between your Internet connection and virgin computer. It's not perfect, but it should hold the fort until the updates go through
Come to think of it, these days, being behind your own NAT router is a Good Thing.
#fdisk
Command: d
Partition to delete?1
Command: w
Doesn't sound like that much time and effort to me.
(I haven't used Linux fdisk in a while, so don't complain if the mockup is not perfect. It's to prove a point.)
If you had curious, bored teenagers who played around with Xbox and their music collection (probably obtained from iTMS) a lot, and might enjoy an Xbox media center, would you introduce them to Xbox modding? The only way it is illegal is through the DMCA, and all of /. would probably agree that the DMCA is unconsitutional (as illegal as it gets). So I ask you, would YOU encourage this "illegal" behavior?
Or would you just move to Canada where it's legal.
And in their spare time, they contribute to the OpenBSD Project .
My writing isn't exactly "barely legible", but my fine motor skills aren't the greatest either, and I can type over twice as fast as I can write, without hand cramps, so I will probably be supplied with a word processor from the school board. See if your school board has some program that you can be supplied with one. At the rate it's going, I should be getting an evaluation unit soon, and, if it works out, one will be in my hands by September (the start of high school for me). There is a lot of waiting to be done, but it can be worth it. Bottom line is, life isn't fair, but some people try to equalize it, and there is help out there. Here's a link to AlphaSmart, a company funded by ex-Apple engineers that supplies word processors for a lot of school boards (mine included) AlphaSmart Education Home