10 hrs if i remember correctly... The Red Team's bot, Sandstorm, won the qualifier be cause it has some of the best sensors. I would be pissed to not have any other bot to prove I was better than.
Very interesting, although I'ven never been much for hardware firewalls. I grab an old machine, load it up with Slackware 9.1, and custom-configure the netfilter/iptables rules. I's a lot more versitile, and it's not just a firewall. It can be expanded to run every server known to man, such as ssh for remote control, or FreeS/WAN, for VPN.
Take note! The original article says "see this previous post." Since everything you write is automatically copyrighted, they are infringing on their own copyright by posting a repeat story highlighting the fact that facts are about to become copyrightable, and therefore copyrighting the fact. Oh, what a tangled web wew weave....
"Spelling was corrected! Do not correct my spelling. Search for "porn porn"
Results 1-15 of about 348 containing "pornporn""
The spell checker removed the space and searched for popnporn, not porn porn. Hmm.... You'd think, if M$ had such a commitment to internet purity, that they'd stop the developers from stuffing the spellcheck database with smut...
Come now... Aiming a large caliber weapon at a WEBSITE's head and pulling the trigger is bad enough. You don't want to slashdot Radioshack, now do you?
Um... anyone using.tar.gz (or.tgz) is either using (USUALLY, I'M GENERALIZING) *nix, which comes with a bz2 util too, or WinZip, which will decompress both. (It won't make either type, but it'll decompress them.) So, use the most technologically advanced format.
Because of our shitty rockets. No, really. 9 out of 10 times (probably more) they work as they are supposed to, but what happens when the rocket explodes in the upper atmosphere? Chernobyl all over again.
>and a really substandard user interface at this point.
Umm... KDE? Besides, that's why 2004 WILL BE the year for desktop linux and isn't ALREADY the year for desktop linux.
IMO, once WINE gets to a stable point(when it will run nearly all user-friendly windows programs without bugs) and some user-friendly help gets added to KDE (I doubt end users want to read HTML man pages) I think we can start raiding malls and distributing free cds.
The court will reject anything different than their standard paper size. Usually letter or legal. Maybe they're using string theory or something and saying that the info is in the entropy of a black hole.
"Your Honor, we came up with all the info requested, but I wouldn't advise looking at it without a REALLY big jetpack handy!"
--
I typed this by hand. Ha! You can't tell, can you? Am I telling the truth? You decide!
Of course the *TRON family is not a singular OS... that would be like saying that all POSIX-compliant OSes were one, or that all *NIXes are one. I can't count the differences between Linux and System V, for example. But the article speaks of iTRON, clearly an individual member of this family.
However, GNU/Linux is an OS. The kernel is the OS, as the motherboard is the PC. The rest of the "OS" is made up of programs. The only sense in which Linux can be considered a "family" is the different kernel versions. Obviously, since the source code is open, people can compile modified, and perhaps incompatible, versions of the kernel, and in this sense it is a "family", but the Linux kernel is an OS in and of itself.
Windows is a different story, however. 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, 98SE, and Me are all different shells for the DOS kernel. NT (all versions), 2000, and XP all run on the NT kernel. (I do not know whether minor changes were made to the kernel between versions of NT or not.) Anyhow, the fragmentation and choice of a severely underpowered kernel for the major portion of the OS line are further reasons that Bill Gates is an idiot.
First off, I would like to congratulate you on such a refreshing perspective on capitalism vs. other economic systems. The best possible Communist society is filled with happiness, love, and concern for your common man, with the government coordinating it all. In contrast, the highest form of Capitalism is full of greedy, squabbling businessmen, trying to rip each other off, with the government making everyone to play fair. Socialism is capitalism where everyone succeeds, whether they fail or not. Capitalism is the only one that works in the real world, however, because human nature puts your own survival first, instead of the survival of the race.
Now that I've covered that, Linux is not any of the above. Linux breaks the rules. More specifically, technology breaks the rules.
In a capitalist sense, linux should not exist, because price is indicitive of relative worth.
And why is price is indicitive of relative worth? Certainly because of supply and demand. If something is worth a lot, you would not wish to part with it, and would only do so for a relatively large amount of money. However, if I could copy it freely, I would give it away freely, because I could still keep my own. Intellectual Property (TM) is an attempt to extend the logical framework of capitalism into the technological realm, where there is infinite supply. It is fundamentally illogical to extend a conceptual framework bases on supply and demand into a realm in which this concept does not exist. Open Source Software beats capitalism at its own game, providing an environment in which both capitalists and communists can cooperate. Capitalists help themselves out by contributing their software for others to improve, and communists help everyone at the same time. YAY FOR OSS!!!
The rain in Spain is mainly on the plain.
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IMHO, Copying Windows or any other peice of software is free speech. What if M$ wrote books? If you read the book to a friend over the phone, he will be less likely to buy the book. If you give a friend a copy of Windows, he is less likely to buy it, too; is reducing a company's potential income a crime? If M$ really wants to prevent piracy, "Activation" is the answer, but act like AOL and distribute the software free. I would not mind if all proprietary software was Shareware. Charge your $199 or whatever after installation. And if somebody breaks the activation scheme, write a better one, don't sue them. Have it automatically update before the first bootup or something. But don't sue us because your product is bad or we can break something we already own.
True, but all of this can happen on the Internet too. Just replace the RF waves with wires. I do agree that this is an utopian plan, my point is that it is not technically infeasable. In the Ad Hoc Net, there would be a whole host of relays to connect through next to B. Maybe D, E, or F would do it. This situation is akin to P2P networks -- How many Kazaa users is it going to take that have turned off sharing to wash out the system? I only connect (through K-Lite) to Kazza for about 30 min a week, and it still works. People can just use another relay after that. E, who logs all packets, can be equated to Wolverine, the FBI email/IM/web page filter that checks for terrorist and criminal activity online. The solution is the same -- SSL, PGP, GPG, or another encryption "solution". F can just eat his own dust -- a reload will use a different relay. G is a problem on both wireless and wired. Think DDOS attack. This effect is also caused by excess 2.4 Ghz band phones, maybe even high-tension wires. Even though these people have no legal relation to you, there would be alternatives available, even if you have to walk down the street to get them.
Duh.
Eraserewind is proposing that there be a global ad-hoc WiFi network where every device connected functions as both a client and a router. Example: Users A, B, and C are in a WiFi ad-hoc network. A is out of range of C, but both A and C are in range of B. So A sends a packet for C to B, and B routes it on to C. Expand this to a global scale, and you get basically the internet without wires. You do not need to purchase bandwidth for WiFi. Wires cost money, and so companies put them down and charge you to use them. Radio waves do not, so anyone can hook up without paying a company. The equipment still costs money. Eraserewind has a good idea, and I think more people should recognise that he is not advocating a world without money.
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10 hrs if i remember correctly... The Red Team's bot, Sandstorm, won the qualifier be cause it has some of the best sensors. I would be pissed to not have any other bot to prove I was better than.
Very interesting, although I'ven never been much for hardware firewalls. I grab an old machine, load it up with Slackware 9.1, and custom-configure the netfilter/iptables rules. I's a lot more versitile, and it's not just a firewall. It can be expanded to run every server known to man, such as ssh for remote control, or FreeS/WAN, for VPN.
What exactly IS this new substance? I for one have never heard of it...
Take note! The original article says "see this previous post." Since everything you write is automatically copyrighted, they are infringing on their own copyright by posting a repeat story highlighting the fact that facts are about to become copyrightable, and therefore copyrighting the fact. Oh, what a tangled web wew weave....
"Spelling was corrected! Do not correct my spelling. Search for "porn porn" Results 1-15 of about 348 containing "pornporn""
The spell checker removed the space and searched for popnporn, not porn porn. Hmm.... You'd think, if M$ had such a commitment to internet purity, that they'd stop the developers from stuffing the spellcheck database with smut...
Come now... Aiming a large caliber weapon at a WEBSITE's head and pulling the trigger is bad enough. You don't want to slashdot Radioshack, now do you?
:-)
Might get us classed as terrorists
What, PGP signatures? Been using those for years...
Only problem comes when people say, "WTF is that extra crap in your email?"
Um... anyone using .tar.gz (or .tgz) is either using (USUALLY, I'M GENERALIZING) *nix, which comes with a bz2 util too, or WinZip, which will decompress both. (It won't make either type, but it'll decompress them.) So, use the most technologically advanced format.
Well, we had the Monkeys, the Beatles, and the Byrds, why not the Hamsters?
:-)
It needs a misspelling... Hamstyrs, perhaps?
Because of our shitty rockets. No, really. 9 out of 10 times (probably more) they work as they are supposed to, but what happens when the rocket explodes in the upper atmosphere? Chernobyl all over again.
Utter FUD. No data to back it up either. The size of the Sun is so utterly large to make our _entire planet_ totally worthless in comparison.
>and a really substandard user interface at this point.
Umm... KDE? Besides, that's why 2004 WILL BE the year for desktop linux and isn't ALREADY the year for desktop linux.
IMO, once WINE gets to a stable point(when it will run nearly all user-friendly windows programs without bugs) and some user-friendly help gets added to KDE (I doubt end users want to read HTML man pages) I think we can start raiding malls and distributing free cds.
The court will reject anything different than their standard paper size. Usually letter or legal. Maybe they're using string theory or something and saying that the info is in the entropy of a black hole.
"Your Honor, we came up with all the info requested, but I wouldn't advise looking at it without a REALLY big jetpack handy!"
--
I typed this by hand. Ha! You can't tell, can you?
Am I telling the truth? You decide!
...It's shiny!
(No, really, KDE is shinier. Every new user I've talked to as a tech has preferred KDE because it's more shiny.)
Of course the *TRON family is not a singular OS... that would be like saying that all POSIX-compliant OSes were one, or that all *NIXes are one. I can't count the differences between Linux and System V, for example. But the article speaks of iTRON, clearly an individual member of this family.
However, GNU/Linux is an OS. The kernel is the OS, as the motherboard is the PC. The rest of the "OS" is made up of programs. The only sense in which Linux can be considered a "family" is the different kernel versions. Obviously, since the source code is open, people can compile modified, and perhaps incompatible, versions of the kernel, and in this sense it is a "family", but the Linux kernel is an OS in and of itself.
Windows is a different story, however. 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, 98SE, and Me are all different shells for the DOS kernel. NT (all versions), 2000, and XP all run on the NT kernel. (I do not know whether minor changes were made to the kernel between versions of NT or not.) Anyhow, the fragmentation and choice of a severely underpowered kernel for the major portion of the OS line are further reasons that Bill Gates is an idiot.
And if it fails, maybe half of the Open Source Community's hard work is irretrevibly lost to Big Business... Much too high stakes...
First off, I would like to congratulate you on such a refreshing perspective on capitalism vs. other economic systems. The best possible Communist society is filled with happiness, love, and concern for your common man, with the government coordinating it all. In contrast, the highest form of Capitalism is full of greedy, squabbling businessmen, trying to rip each other off, with the government making everyone to play fair. Socialism is capitalism where everyone succeeds, whether they fail or not. Capitalism is the only one that works in the real world, however, because human nature puts your own survival first, instead of the survival of the race. Now that I've covered that, Linux is not any of the above. Linux breaks the rules. More specifically, technology breaks the rules.
In a capitalist sense, linux should not exist, because price is indicitive of relative worth.
And why is price is indicitive of relative worth? Certainly because of supply and demand. If something is worth a lot, you would not wish to part with it, and would only do so for a relatively large amount of money. However, if I could copy it freely, I would give it away freely, because I could still keep my own. Intellectual Property (TM) is an attempt to extend the logical framework of capitalism into the technological realm, where there is infinite supply. It is fundamentally illogical to extend a conceptual framework bases on supply and demand into a realm in which this concept does not exist. Open Source Software beats capitalism at its own game, providing an environment in which both capitalists and communists can cooperate. Capitalists help themselves out by contributing their software for others to improve, and communists help everyone at the same time. YAY FOR OSS!!!
The rain in Spain is mainly on the plain. The right to read the above sentence is granted to you only by this License Agreement. By reading the sentence, you agree to only read it once and prevent anyone else from reading it. Violation of this license agreement will result in immediate arrest by the FBI and an unfair trial controlled entirely by our squadrons of overpaid lawyers.
IMHO, Copying Windows or any other peice of software is free speech. What if M$ wrote books? If you read the book to a friend over the phone, he will be less likely to buy the book. If you give a friend a copy of Windows, he is less likely to buy it, too; is reducing a company's potential income a crime? If M$ really wants to prevent piracy, "Activation" is the answer, but act like AOL and distribute the software free. I would not mind if all proprietary software was Shareware. Charge your $199 or whatever after installation. And if somebody breaks the activation scheme, write a better one, don't sue them. Have it automatically update before the first bootup or something. But don't sue us because your product is bad or we can break something we already own.
True, but all of this can happen on the Internet too. Just replace the RF waves with wires. I do agree that this is an utopian plan, my point is that it is not technically infeasable. In the Ad Hoc Net, there would be a whole host of relays to connect through next to B. Maybe D, E, or F would do it. This situation is akin to P2P networks -- How many Kazaa users is it going to take that have turned off sharing to wash out the system? I only connect (through K-Lite) to Kazza for about 30 min a week, and it still works. People can just use another relay after that. E, who logs all packets, can be equated to Wolverine, the FBI email/IM/web page filter that checks for terrorist and criminal activity online. The solution is the same -- SSL, PGP, GPG, or another encryption "solution". F can just eat his own dust -- a reload will use a different relay. G is a problem on both wireless and wired. Think DDOS attack. This effect is also caused by excess 2.4 Ghz band phones, maybe even high-tension wires. Even though these people have no legal relation to you, there would be alternatives available, even if you have to walk down the street to get them.
Duh. Eraserewind is proposing that there be a global ad-hoc WiFi network where every device connected functions as both a client and a router. Example: Users A, B, and C are in a WiFi ad-hoc network. A is out of range of C, but both A and C are in range of B. So A sends a packet for C to B, and B routes it on to C. Expand this to a global scale, and you get basically the internet without wires. You do not need to purchase bandwidth for WiFi. Wires cost money, and so companies put them down and charge you to use them. Radio waves do not, so anyone can hook up without paying a company. The equipment still costs money. Eraserewind has a good idea, and I think more people should recognise that he is not advocating a world without money.