Oh, but you've heard nothing yet. First listen to the #Frodo of the nine fingers and hear Frodo crying for God on the slope of Mt. Doom like a real yankee... quite an experience, seeing movies like that.
Oh, but if you think the Hobbit was awful, and you haven't seen the other animated Tolkien movie of Jules Bass, the Return of the King, then you haven't seen anything yet.
Now that was an absolutely horrible experience. I wathced it with couple of friends about a year ago, and we instantly ran out of beer. The most wannabe-Tolkien freak of us actually ran away in the middle of the movie, she simply could not stand it any longer.
Even if linux is shown to violate SCO's IP, ar the end users liable?
No. AFAIK, the copyright law only applies to redistibution.
However, I'm not US citizen and I'm definitely not a lawyer, so please correcy if I'm wrong. But so far I've understand that suing end users is only FUD.
But the uid of your ex-root account is still 0, even if you've renamed it to be justAnotherAccountName. Correct me if I'm wrong, but AFAIK this is enough for most root kits to exploit the vulns.
Sorry for being unspecific, but I meant those "games you buy at retail on carts" - they are the special "N-gage only" games this whole post is all about. You're talking about the whole ecosystem, but that's different.
You hit the point. The only interesting thing from the consumer point of view is, how the regular CD tracks on the discs are "encrypted". Nobody is never really interested of the "protected" content, people only want to find a way around the possible restrictions, so that they can rip the CDA tracks off and create a new, noncrippled disc from them.
And if the regular tracks are completely un"protected", well - then people will use and rip the disc just as they would do with normal discs.
It's a symmetric encryption system and your password is being used as a key to encrypt your home directory. If somebody were to boot single user and change your user's password then login they'd just get an error because the new password couldn't unencrypt your home directory.
Well, that was exactly the information I was looking for! Thank you.:)
I used to use this with Jaguar - but actually, I'm still using it, because I don't trust FileVault. As it uses your login passwd I assume somebody (the one who just stole your laptop...) could circumvent it by booting single user mode and resetting your password. Does anyone here know whether this is possible or not?
And no, OpenFW passwd does not protect against booting to single user mode - you can reset it by altering the amount of system RAM - easy, as you can't enforce physical security with a laptop - and then resetting PRAM three times (press Command+PR and boot)
I'd like to use FileVault, if I just could trust it, as it would be more convenient than my current setup.
Interesting, how often I will hear this, when I mention about my mouse... this is just some sort of anti-MS FUD (not that I like MS, but I neither like any kind of FUD). They didn't just make drivers for Macs, but the mouse itself does follow the BT spec - and it must follow, as their own BT dongle has a standard CSR chip onboard. I've actually used the dongle W2k with 3rd party drivers (but not with mouse - W2k does not support BT HID's), although MS itself only provides drivers for WXP.
Hell, a friend of mine who is a BlueZ developer made it work under Debian with his iBook, and he said it was not any great hassle. The mouse is just in undiscoverable mode by default - you have to press the connect channel button at the bottom of the mouse to make it to be discoverable for a moment to pair it with your box. What MS has crippled, is the setup of the mouse under WXP, which does not require pressing that button, but still finds the mouse.
The lack of Nokia support I was referring to was mostly related to lack of GPRS modem scripts - luckily some googling helped me to find third party ones (Apple doesn't have them, either).
I'm aware of the features you mentioned. I have used BT file transfer quite often to transfer images I've taken with phone's camera to my Mac, but the 3GPP files I've made and transferred to the phone have, for some unknown reason, failed to play, and iSync has some limitations, which are greatly reducing its usability for me.
My point was, however, that Bluetooth rocks - at least for me.
I have a 12" Apple PBook with internal BT. I can wake it anywhere I'm moving with it, and then just connect to the net with my Nokia 3650 via "USB Bluetooth Modem" - without taking the phone off of my pocket. And MS BT mouse is rather nice piece of hardware, too.
All this just works, without tweaking (except what comes to Nokia's nonexistent Mac support). Tell any good reason why wouldn't it be popular?
I unfortunately updated 'Quicktime' and downloaded the iTunes for windows as well. Now I notice in my processes a iPosService.exe is running and can't get it to terminate. I don't even own an iPod so this process is just taking up memory.
I feel sick every time I see someone complaining about some trivial software usage problem on/. and finally blaming "it's all software's fault", only to tell everyone that just like some average Joe, they have not even attempted to find a solution by themselves - in this case, for example, by googling for ipodservice.exe. I did, and that is what I found behind the second link:
"How to stop the iPodservice.exe:
Go to your control panel > Administrative Tools > Open Services > Find iPodService.exe and right click on it. Stop the service and set it from Auto or manual whichever its on to Disabled. This will keep it from starting and attacking CPUs and killing god or whatever it does."
I can add to that that to do the trick you must be logged on with administrative rights.
I think it's better to ensure the absolute reliability in situations like this, whatever the OS is. But of course, Linux should make this task a lot easier comparing to Redmond stuff.
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The one slide that describes everything is available here. ;-)
(Converted to PDF, though. Distributed under these terms.)
Oh, but you've heard nothing yet. First listen to the #Frodo of the nine fingers and hear Frodo crying for God on the slope of Mt. Doom like a real yankee... quite an experience, seeing movies like that.
Oh, but if you think the Hobbit was awful, and you haven't seen the other animated Tolkien movie of Jules Bass, the Return of the King, then you haven't seen anything yet.
Now that was an absolutely horrible experience. I wathced it with couple of friends about a year ago, and we instantly ran out of beer. The most wannabe-Tolkien freak of us actually ran away in the middle of the movie, she simply could not stand it any longer.
No, because they aren't U.S. citizens, but in this case, she is a citizen of PRC. AFAIK, U.S. does not hold it's own citizens in Guantanamo Bay.
That said, it is not that I accept the treatment of prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay - I definitely don't, and I'm not U.S. citizen either.
I have dealt with this rootkit for nearly 4 months when it first appeared ...you forgot to post as AC. FBI is on the way.
Even if linux is shown to violate SCO's IP, ar the end users liable?
No. AFAIK, the copyright law only applies to redistibution.
However, I'm not US citizen and I'm definitely not a lawyer, so please correcy if I'm wrong. But so far I've understand that suing end users is only FUD.
Just disable topic "Caldera"
/. editors could upgrade that topic title to be "SCO"
FWIW,
Would it be feasible to carry minerals by aeroplanes? No, it wouldn't, unless they're extremely valuable minerals.
Much less it's feasible to carry them from space, as space travelling is yet much more expensive than flying.
But the uid of your ex-root account is still 0, even if you've renamed it to be justAnotherAccountName. Correct me if I'm wrong, but AFAIK this is enough for most root kits to exploit the vulns.
Why would Microsoft license a company that distributes software that is a DIRECT competitor to their Server software?
Ever heard about it?
Yes, they'd better have a license for Amazon's patent, otherwise Amazon will subpoena them. ;-)
Sorry for being unspecific, but I meant those "games you buy at retail on carts" - they are the special "N-gage only" games this whole post is all about. You're talking about the whole ecosystem, but that's different.
So nokia didn't do anything special with their hardware, it's just a standard J2ME system?
No, it's a standard Series 60 platform - AFAIK the programs are coded with C/C++ but not Java.
Sure, the OS also supports J2ME, but the commercial games are hardly coded with it.
You hit the point. The only interesting thing from the consumer point of view is, how the regular CD tracks on the discs are "encrypted". Nobody is never really interested of the "protected" content, people only want to find a way around the possible restrictions, so that they can rip the CDA tracks off and create a new, noncrippled disc from them.
And if the regular tracks are completely un"protected", well - then people will use and rip the disc just as they would do with normal discs.
It's a symmetric encryption system and your password is being used as a key to encrypt your home directory. If somebody were to boot single user and change your user's password then login they'd just get an error because the new password couldn't unencrypt your home directory.
:)
Well, that was exactly the information I was looking for! Thank you.
I used to use this with Jaguar - but actually, I'm still using it, because I don't trust FileVault. As it uses your login passwd I assume somebody (the one who just stole your laptop...) could circumvent it by booting single user mode and resetting your password. Does anyone here know whether this is possible or not?
And no, OpenFW passwd does not protect against booting to single user mode - you can reset it by altering the amount of system RAM - easy, as you can't enforce physical security with a laptop - and then resetting PRAM three times (press Command+PR and boot)
I'd like to use FileVault, if I just could trust it, as it would be more convenient than my current setup.
Microsoft is not evil, they're just greedy
Sorry, but IMHO blatant greediness == evil.
Interesting, how often I will hear this, when I mention about my mouse... this is just some sort of anti-MS FUD (not that I like MS, but I neither like any kind of FUD). They didn't just make drivers for Macs, but the mouse itself does follow the BT spec - and it must follow, as their own BT dongle has a standard CSR chip onboard. I've actually used the dongle W2k with 3rd party drivers (but not with mouse - W2k does not support BT HID's), although MS itself only provides drivers for WXP.
Hell, a friend of mine who is a BlueZ developer made it work under Debian with his iBook, and he said it was not any great hassle. The mouse is just in undiscoverable mode by default - you have to press the connect channel button at the bottom of the mouse to make it to be discoverable for a moment to pair it with your box. What MS has crippled, is the setup of the mouse under WXP, which does not require pressing that button, but still finds the mouse.
The support was added in OS 10.2.5, and Apple also has an article how to make it work (and another for keyboard).
The lack of Nokia support I was referring to was mostly related to lack of GPRS modem scripts - luckily some googling helped me to find third party ones (Apple doesn't have them, either).
I'm aware of the features you mentioned. I have used BT file transfer quite often to transfer images I've taken with phone's camera to my Mac, but the 3GPP files I've made and transferred to the phone have, for some unknown reason, failed to play, and iSync has some limitations, which are greatly reducing its usability for me.
My point was, however, that Bluetooth rocks - at least for me.
I have a 12" Apple PBook with internal BT. I can wake it anywhere I'm moving with it, and then just connect to the net with my Nokia 3650 via "USB Bluetooth Modem" - without taking the phone off of my pocket. And MS BT mouse is rather nice piece of hardware, too.
All this just works, without tweaking (except what comes to Nokia's nonexistent Mac support). Tell any good reason why wouldn't it be popular?
I unfortunately updated 'Quicktime' and downloaded the iTunes for windows as well. Now I notice in my processes a iPosService.exe is running and can't get it to terminate. I don't even own an iPod so this process is just taking up memory.
/. and finally blaming "it's all software's fault", only to tell everyone that just like some average Joe, they have not even attempted to find a solution by themselves - in this case, for example, by googling for ipodservice.exe. I did, and that is what I found behind the second link:
I feel sick every time I see someone complaining about some trivial software usage problem on
"How to stop the iPodservice.exe:
Go to your control panel > Administrative Tools > Open Services > Find iPodService.exe and right click on it. Stop the service and set it from Auto or manual whichever its on to Disabled. This will keep it from starting and attacking CPUs and killing god or whatever it does."
I can add to that that to do the trick you must be logged on with administrative rights.
Hell, I had to told that and I'm running a Mac!
But I think that it'll certainly be interesting what will happen next with RedHat.
Now, when SuSE is aquired, I don't think RH will be independent forever.
But who'd it be, I dare not say. According to the press release, it seems IBM's is going with Novell, at least for now.
I want to know when I can use Clippy in native Linux.
Now.
kinda brings a new meaning to "blue screen of death".
Well, using Linux brings a whole new meaning to kernel PANIC then:
1. Computer kernel panic
2. Suit malfunction
3. Human "kernel" panic
I think it's better to ensure the absolute reliability in situations like this, whatever the OS is. But of course, Linux should make this task a lot easier comparing to Redmond stuff.
The "old" (non-DVI) 12" AluBooks, like mine, were also able to have only up to 640 MB of RAM.
So you're right only, if you compare to new 12"DVI PBook