I was just about to post, "Are you keeping up with the Commodore!? Cause the Commodore is keeping up with you!" without even first looking at YouTube. I can't believe they could miss that one.
Yes, thanks. Much appreciated. Now shut up and get out of my way, I have computer hardware I want to use.
If you don't like binary drivers, fine. Don't buy the hardware. I bought a nVidia card with full knowldge and intent to use their binary drivers. I'll not have YOUR idealistic notions crippling MY system.
All you seem to be telling the World, is that you are willing to sacrifice security for functionality. Good for you. But nobody is trying to cripple your system through their ideals. It's your choice to cripple either security or functionality and you chose for YOU. I choose for me and having these issues and opinions brought forward is a part of what I use for my on-going consideration.
Meanwhile, other people are not you. Do you often feel that dialog can cripple your system? When the dialog is regarding freedom of choice?
Two situations could come of this: 1/ (likely) nVidia just keeps saying that writing graphics drivers is "too hard", they keep supplying and patching binary blob drivers and you are happy. 2/ (highly unlikely) nVidia caves in the pressure that thier paid customers should be exerting and release a fully functional open source driver (perhaps in addition to the binary blob) and you are still happy.
If open source mattered to you, I fail to see why you would not want and expect 2.
Except that Open Source isn't exploit free. OpenBSD had a root level exploit in 2000. Many applications that run on OpenBSD have had exploits in them including SSH.
Seems kind of harsh to bent all selfrightous over one exploit. I hope nVidia patches it soon.
Oh course not. But this is vindication that open source is better. You say that OpenBSD had a root level exploit in 2000? That's around SEVEN years ago.
Theo said that binary blobs were dangerous, because they can't be checked by anyone with the skill. And now he has been vindicated. I wouldn't call that or anyone pointing it out "self righteous".
Don't criticize this! It would be like criticising THE Church! And that could get you lightning bolts up your arse!
What ignoramus marked this as Troll?
You are obviously not aware that Nicholas Negroponte himself, of OLPC, claimed that, "I don't respond to such criticism. Because criticising this project is like criticising the church, or the Red Cross.".
I tried it about 6 months ago. The installation was unbelievably horrible - pretty much impossible. Complete waste of money. Never again.
It is quick and simple. Regardless of whether I am at my 17" Sony VAIO, Mac mini or the console port of a Sun at the end of a PSTN MODEM or console server somewhere else on this planet. Condensed, it goes something like this...
Boot a cdrom (or floppy, network, swap partition, file on a filesystem, etc), (I)nstall, (U)pgrade or (S)hell? IS YOUR DATA BACKED UP? Proceed with install? You will now initialize the disk(s) that OpenBSD will use. Partitions are made and formatted. Hostname is set. Network details are set. Password for root account is set. Sets are located, chosen and installed. Start sshd(8) by default? Start ntpd(8) by default? Do you expect to run the X Window System? What timezone are you in? CONGRATULATIONS! Your OpenBSD install has been successfully completed! To boot the new system, enter halt at the command prompt. Once the system has halted, reset the machine and boot from the disk.
# halt syncing disks... done halted
Program terminated {0} ok reset-all
OpenBSD now boots and much happiness is had by all. If I installed the x* sets, then at this stage if I log in and type 'startx', X typically just comes up at whatever my flatpanels native resolution is and the mouse is working too. Sometimes I'll have to setup X and the mouse, but very often not. Oh and if I have a wireless card, it is treated just like any other NIC.
There are apparently 28 occurances of LF's in an OpenBSD copy of "yes"...
I would like to clarify this statement. I don't really mean "LF's", instead what I mean is "bytes with a decimal value 10". Since a byte with a decimal value of 10 is only considered to be a line-feed if that byte is part of a string. Since it is an ASCII mapping from bytes (10 dec) to characters (LF). That mapping of course only coming into effect if a series of data is interpretted as a string. Not all bytes of 10 decimal are LF's.
I figured that it would be obvious that I beleived that, from the rest of what I had written. But I just wanted to clarify, since that sentence it technically wrong as it stands.
Consider trying to nuke all CR characters. There's no straightforward way to do this--while a binary regexp would be quite easy.
You say it would be easy, but before you said...
Anybody try doing regexes on binaries? They invariable muck up linefeed characters, no matter how I try to tell it not to.
These seem to contradict. Are you saying that if a binary regexp util existed, that it would then be easy? Also, do you want to remove CR's or LF's? I am not sure what you are trying to do. You must remove CR's or LF's from anywhere in a binary, or only in the text portions of a binary? You realise that in a portion of data which is considered to be a string, that an LF is represented by a byte with a decimal value of 10, while a CR is represented by a byte with a decimal value of 13? And you realise that byte values of 10 and 13 are going to be found scattered all around a binary, including in lots of areas which do not represent a string and are thus portions of executable code or otherwise data which that code will use? You will also be striping them out, damaging the binary. In fact, even if you do just strip out CR's or LF's from only the text portion of a binary, you are still likely to damage that binary for any number of various reasons. If it is executable, you may have shifted code and thus broken jumps. If it is just a data file, you may have broken the format. And if if is either of those, the file may be checksum protected and then fail to run because of the resulting change in checksum.
There are apparently 28 occurances of LF's in an OpenBSD copy of "yes"...
# cat/usr/bin/yes | tr -cd "\n"| wc -c
28
Yet counting the number of LF's which have passed through "strings" from "yes", shows that there are probably 8 occurances which are not part of a string...
# strings/usr/bin/yes | tr -cd "\n"| wc -c
20
What are you trying to achieve? If you want to modify text within a binary and can't get your hands on the source code, then you might be better off doing it by hand with a hex editor, as long as you are armed with the knowledge of how that binary file is formatted.
If all you want to do is get a copy of the strings out of a binary, but also remove CR's or LF's from the output, then can you not use "strings"?
Show the strings in a binary... # strings/usr/bin/yes
Show the strings in a binary and remove the LF's... # strings/usr/bin/yes | tr -d "\n"
Show the strings in a binary and replace the LF's with spaces, to make the text a little more readable... # strings/usr/bin/yes | tr "\n" " "
Sometimes I'd like to use the power of regexps while still thinking of the file as a binary.
How do you deal with non-text portions of the binary matching your regexps? Do you really want to filter text which is interspersed with what looks like noise, but without telling the filter what is text and what is noise?
Regexps can be a gamble at times as it is, for those who like to use them for everything. You've taken it to the next level!
It's funny that many of the auction that I have seen on eBay actually close higher then if you had bought it at a retail store.
Yes, I've been amazed to also see this happen. I tend to use Google to find the lowest prices if I'm looking to buy something and Google normally comes back with the same few local (30min drive max) vendors I buy from anyway. It seems that eBay items typically go for cheaper than the RRP you'd pay at $BIGNAME_MERCHANT_AT_THE_MALL, but often more expensive than the brand new item from the cheapy local asian computer shop, for example.
Obvious to say the least, but i can fairly well guarantee that the stingray that PIERCED HIS HEART was the bigger than the ones your grandpa hauled in on a handline. Hell, I've brought in stingrays on a handline, fortunately i wasn't in the water and they weren't nearly they big
I saw a news item years ago about a father and son who had been fishing from their small boat. The father pulled in a stingray and while getting it in the boat it stung his son in the chest. From memory he took his son to the hospital and the boy was soon released. However *days* later, the boy suddenly died.
I've been trying to find references to this with Google, but I've not found anything yet. Certainly a stingray with a 6 inch barb which can pierce right through to a mans heart is going to be a big one. I just wanted to point out that the smaller poisonous ones are still dangerous.
He has the gall to claim that users actually like to specify all burners by a 1980s-style set of three numbers, and that users actually like running the -scanbus option instead of just using/dev/burner (or/dev/white-sony-drive, etc.) for the name.
The three numbers are not forced though, are they? Under OpenBSD I just perform a cdrecord dev=/dev/rcd0c etc etc. Pointing cdrecord to the whole raw device of my burner.
He's much less likely to get killed by the animal he's the most familiar with, and which he learnt about from his father.
On the contrary. I believe people become complacent with dangers they have a great deal of experience with. You lose the edge off that complacency when you have a close call and then slowly over time it builds up again until the next close call. Then one day... it's more than a close call... it gets you good. I believe people tend to be overly careful with dangers they are unsure of.
People often are killed on the roads they know the best. The last long quiet road home, for example. Experienced electricians, electrocuted. Construction workers becoming careless... etc.
Did you see him play walking his baby by the waters edge where a croc is known to be. How is that for complacent?
Do you know this person? Do you know what they have achieved, their abilities and their future? Grow a sense of humour! Steve was a carricature of the Aussie larakin. He'd be making jokes like this now if he could.
When I heard about this on the news flash which interupted Blue Heelers, I thought, "I can just imagine the scene. Steve is molesting some poor stingray. He got belted in the chest with its tail and then he's gone up to the camera and said, 'CRIKEY! Look at that! This fella has got me right in the chest!'", while he bleeds for the camera.
I always figured that an animal would ultimately kill him. I always thought it would be a croc. I find it pretty amazing that a stingray got him. My grandfather used to catch them on a hand line from his dingy. He always warned me about their sting and I knew they'd killed people, but one of them against Steve? He'd probably be disappointed. I rekon he'd rather have "Eaten by a crocodile" on his tombstone.
I bought 7 CFL's at around $15 (AU) each 5 or 6 years ago and they are all still going great. A friend of mine told me (about 7 years ago) he has had Philips CFL's for more than 8 years in his home, with none failed.
Now in Sydney Australia, local councils and Energy Australia (through post offices) are giving boxes of CFL's (6) away for free.
Well, Wikipedia's comparison of the three distros, which as we know is not authoritative on anything. It shows OpenBDS without about 15% to NetBSD's 3% (rough numbers from memory).
For whatever this might be worth, Google Trends might show the level of interest between the 3 major BSD's.
Napster!? I was getting mp3s off of Usenet back in the day!
Pft, when I started downloading from the intarweb from home in 1991, I would have to dial in to my favourite UNIX BBS and submit a download request as a batch process which would be completed the next time that BBS connected to the net. A few days later I might have my little text file, if I was lucky. Getting swimsuit babes.gif files in 256 glorious colours and FidoNET email downloaded in.QWK packages was great. Those were the days. I'd dial-in, download my subscribed mail, hang up, read it, reply to it, then dial-up again to upload my replies.
I still remember seeing the Linux 0.9 stuff on the BBS' after that and wondering what it was.
Just take a look at the ID's of people posting. I thought that IDs 300000 where dead:
(etc).
I think this is the thread where I have seen the biggest quantity of low id posts =o).
Seems Old guys come out of their chairs to defend their lawn =oP
I think the "old guys" prefer mailing lists and the like, for the reduced noise. I use/. for a heads up and sometimes read and reply to comments, but mostly I try to avoid the waste of time which/. seems to have become. I think there are lots of these "old guys" reading but not bothering to argue politics with the mentally insane. The uninformed who think they have an axe to grind sometimes come into a BSD mailing list and then get frightened off.
During a large scale event (30,000+ people), my younger brother was seperated from my mother.
Some mobile phone technologies might be useless for you in that situation. Unless you get there early to reserve your place in the "connected to this cell" list.
In Sydney Australia, around Circular Quay close to New Years Eve, good luck getting any calls in or out through a GSM mobile phone. If you get there early to beat the crowd, your phone may just work all night. But if you stray out of the area or switch it off then on, you might find like I did, that you may as well switch your phone off for the night. You just gave up your position and it's not coming back any time soon.
I'd like to learn more about your likes and dislikes
I'm not interested in taking my apps with me, so I'll just tell you what I want. I want a thumbdrive with which I can:
1/ Encrypt/Decrypt with a small executable on the thumbdrive that does not need to be installed elsewhere or require admin privs. 2/ Sync the thumbdrive when I choose.
3/ Most importantly, these two things I want to be able to do between Windows and Mac OS X machines.
Linux, BSD and Solaris would be a huge bonus. If you build and support the Windows and OSX software and make it open source, Linux, BSD and Solaris will quickly follow and you won't have to support it. But I assume you're in the business of making money with software and have made U3 stand out by allowing people the ability to take their apps, configs and unfinished work with them. Since you sell software to hardware companies, I'm assuming you're not interested in making decent open source crypto/syncing software, since there are so many other companies doing crypto/sync already (badly). You thus might not stand out all that much, even if you did provide the only decent solution.
I personally would love to see a free light Windows app which can deal with Apple's (encrypted).dmg's in a simple manner. And then multi platform sync software to go with that.
Access your personal workspace wherever you go without lugging a laptop.. When you're done, simply unplug the U3 smart drive and walk away knowing that your personal information leaves with you.
That is impossible. The user either trusts the computer, or doesn't.
Very true. I mosty use OpenBSD (and OSX) and decided to set up a basic bootable OpenBSD (i386) install on my 4GB Corsair Flash Voyager, so that I could avoid spyware, software keyloggers and general walware on Internet cafe machines, etc, by booting my own OS (just text mode is fine for me). But the realisation that hardware keylogging keyboards and dongles are way to cheap and easy to get, made me not bother. That and the fact that I am yet to find a PC which actually will properly boot from a USB flash drive. My $5,000 VAIO does not and niether does my GF's $3,500 Thinkpad, even though it tries (not even DOS will boot after using Corsairs own "make bootable" util).
Fact is, like you say, I either trust the machine or I don't. Both situations negate the need for that benefit from U3 or even a persons own boot environment.
Frankly, this is a good thing. Floppies are shitty. They havent improved as a consumer technology since like 1987; they're prone to failure and painfully slow.
What happened in 1987 in the World of floppies? Verbatim started coating floppies in Teflon? Those were the days. Back when Verbatim were actually a decent brand.
BTW, most of the 5.25" and 3.5" floppies I have, going back to 1991 still work fine. But yes floppies suck. It always seems to be the most important disk that suddenly gives you the "this disk is not formatted, do you want to format it now?" message. I've also had thumb drives suddenly become completely devoid of a filesystem though (Apacer) and I always unmount and wait for the light to go out, before removing them (even though in XP you supposedly don't have to).
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I was just about to post, "Are you keeping up with the Commodore!? Cause the Commodore is keeping up with you!" without even first looking at YouTube. I can't believe they could miss that one.
Thank you for your stand against blobs.
Yes, thanks. Much appreciated. Now shut up and get out of my way, I have computer hardware I want to use.
If you don't like binary drivers, fine. Don't buy the hardware. I bought a nVidia card with full knowldge and intent to use their binary drivers. I'll not have YOUR idealistic notions crippling MY system.
All you seem to be telling the World, is that you are willing to sacrifice security for functionality. Good for you. But nobody is trying to cripple your system through their ideals. It's your choice to cripple either security or functionality and you chose for YOU. I choose for me and having these issues and opinions brought forward is a part of what I use for my on-going consideration.
Meanwhile, other people are not you. Do you often feel that dialog can cripple your system? When the dialog is regarding freedom of choice?
Two situations could come of this: 1/ (likely) nVidia just keeps saying that writing graphics drivers is "too hard", they keep supplying and patching binary blob drivers and you are happy. 2/ (highly unlikely) nVidia caves in the pressure that thier paid customers should be exerting and release a fully functional open source driver (perhaps in addition to the binary blob) and you are still happy.
If open source mattered to you, I fail to see why you would not want and expect 2.
Except that Open Source isn't exploit free.
OpenBSD had a root level exploit in 2000.
Many applications that run on OpenBSD have had exploits in them including SSH.
Seems kind of harsh to bent all selfrightous over one exploit. I hope nVidia patches it soon.
Oh course not. But this is vindication that open source is better. You say that OpenBSD had a root level exploit in 2000? That's around SEVEN years ago.
Theo said that binary blobs were dangerous, because they can't be checked by anyone with the skill. And now he has been vindicated. I wouldn't call that or anyone pointing it out "self righteous".
Don't criticize this! It would be like criticising THE Church! And that could get you lightning bolts up your arse!
n te_to_critic.html/ technology/tec314092006.html
What ignoramus marked this as Troll?
You are obviously not aware that Nicholas Negroponte himself, of OLPC, claimed that, "I don't respond to such criticism. Because criticising this project is like criticising the church, or the Red Cross.".
http://www.olpcnews.com/people/negroponte/negropo
http://www.vanguardngr.com/articles/2002/features
If you are ignorant, don't moderate.
Don't criticize this! It would be like criticising THE Church! And that could get you lightning bolts up your arse!
I tried it about 6 months ago. The installation was unbelievably horrible - pretty much impossible. Complete waste of money. Never again.
It is quick and simple. Regardless of whether I am at my 17" Sony VAIO, Mac mini or the console port of a Sun at the end of a PSTN MODEM or console server somewhere else on this planet. Condensed, it goes something like this...
Boot a cdrom (or floppy, network, swap partition, file on a filesystem, etc), (I)nstall, (U)pgrade or (S)hell? IS YOUR DATA BACKED UP? Proceed with install? You will now initialize the disk(s) that OpenBSD will use. Partitions are made and formatted. Hostname is set. Network details are set. Password for root account is set. Sets are located, chosen and installed. Start sshd(8) by default? Start ntpd(8) by default? Do you expect to run the X Window System? What timezone are you in? CONGRATULATIONS! Your OpenBSD install has been successfully completed! To boot the new system, enter halt at the command prompt. Once the system has halted, reset the machine and boot from the disk.
# halt
syncing disks... done
halted
Program terminated
{0} ok reset-all
OpenBSD now boots and much happiness is had by all. If I installed the x* sets, then at this stage if I log in and type 'startx', X typically just comes up at whatever my flatpanels native resolution is and the mouse is working too. Sometimes I'll have to setup X and the mouse, but very often not. Oh and if I have a wireless card, it is treated just like any other NIC.
How hard was that?
To those people, propaganda is just as effective a weapon as gullets.
I didn't realise gullets were used as weapons. I always thought they were used as targets to be cut or shot out.
There are apparently 28 occurances of LF's in an OpenBSD copy of "yes"...
I would like to clarify this statement. I don't really mean "LF's", instead what I mean is "bytes with a decimal value 10". Since a byte with a decimal value of 10 is only considered to be a line-feed if that byte is part of a string. Since it is an ASCII mapping from bytes (10 dec) to characters (LF). That mapping of course only coming into effect if a series of data is interpretted as a string. Not all bytes of 10 decimal are LF's.
I figured that it would be obvious that I beleived that, from the rest of what I had written. But I just wanted to clarify, since that sentence it technically wrong as it stands.
Consider trying to nuke all CR characters. There's no straightforward way to do this--while a binary regexp would be quite easy.
/usr/bin/yes | tr -cd "\n"| wc -c
/usr/bin/yes | tr -cd "\n"| wc -c
/usr/bin/yes
/usr/bin/yes | tr -d "\n"
/usr/bin/yes | tr "\n" " "
You say it would be easy, but before you said...
Anybody try doing regexes on binaries? They invariable muck up linefeed characters, no matter how I try to tell it not to.
These seem to contradict. Are you saying that if a binary regexp util existed, that it would then be easy? Also, do you want to remove CR's or LF's? I am not sure what you are trying to do. You must remove CR's or LF's from anywhere in a binary, or only in the text portions of a binary? You realise that in a portion of data which is considered to be a string, that an LF is represented by a byte with a decimal value of 10, while a CR is represented by a byte with a decimal value of 13? And you realise that byte values of 10 and 13 are going to be found scattered all around a binary, including in lots of areas which do not represent a string and are thus portions of executable code or otherwise data which that code will use? You will also be striping them out, damaging the binary. In fact, even if you do just strip out CR's or LF's from only the text portion of a binary, you are still likely to damage that binary for any number of various reasons. If it is executable, you may have shifted code and thus broken jumps. If it is just a data file, you may have broken the format. And if if is either of those, the file may be checksum protected and then fail to run because of the resulting change in checksum.
There are apparently 28 occurances of LF's in an OpenBSD copy of "yes"...
# cat
28
Yet counting the number of LF's which have passed through "strings" from "yes", shows that there are probably 8 occurances which are not part of a string...
# strings
20
What are you trying to achieve? If you want to modify text within a binary and can't get your hands on the source code, then you might be better off doing it by hand with a hex editor, as long as you are armed with the knowledge of how that binary file is formatted.
If all you want to do is get a copy of the strings out of a binary, but also remove CR's or LF's from the output, then can you not use "strings"?
Show the strings in a binary...
# strings
Show the strings in a binary and remove the LF's...
# strings
Show the strings in a binary and replace the LF's with spaces, to make the text a little more readable...
# strings
Sometimes I'd like to use the power of regexps while still thinking of the file as a binary.
How do you deal with non-text portions of the binary matching your regexps? Do you really want to filter text which is interspersed with what looks like noise, but without telling the filter what is text and what is noise?
Regexps can be a gamble at times as it is, for those who like to use them for everything. You've taken it to the next level!
Yes, they missed a . on page 102, paragraph 14.
There are only 5 paragraphs on page 102.
It's funny that many of the auction that I have seen on eBay actually close higher then if you had bought it at a retail store.
Yes, I've been amazed to also see this happen. I tend to use Google to find the lowest prices if I'm looking to buy something and Google normally comes back with the same few local (30min drive max) vendors I buy from anyway. It seems that eBay items typically go for cheaper than the RRP you'd pay at $BIGNAME_MERCHANT_AT_THE_MALL, but often more expensive than the brand new item from the cheapy local asian computer shop, for example.
Shop around! Google and haggle.
Obvious to say the least, but i can fairly well guarantee that the stingray that PIERCED HIS HEART was the bigger than the ones your grandpa hauled in on a handline. Hell, I've brought in stingrays on a handline, fortunately i wasn't in the water and they weren't nearly they big
I saw a news item years ago about a father and son who had been fishing from their small boat. The father pulled in a stingray and while getting it in the boat it stung his son in the chest. From memory he took his son to the hospital and the boy was soon released. However *days* later, the boy suddenly died.
I've been trying to find references to this with Google, but I've not found anything yet. Certainly a stingray with a 6 inch barb which can pierce right through to a mans heart is going to be a big one. I just wanted to point out that the smaller poisonous ones are still dangerous.
He has the gall to claim that users actually like to specify all burners by a 1980s-style set of three numbers, and that users actually like running the -scanbus option instead of just using /dev/burner (or /dev/white-sony-drive, etc.) for the name.
The three numbers are not forced though, are they? Under OpenBSD I just perform a cdrecord dev=/dev/rcd0c etc etc. Pointing cdrecord to the whole raw device of my burner.
He's much less likely to get killed by the animal he's the most familiar with, and which he learnt about from his father.
On the contrary. I believe people become complacent with dangers they have a great deal of experience with. You lose the edge off that complacency when you have a close call and then slowly over time it builds up again until the next close call. Then one day... it's more than a close call... it gets you good. I believe people tend to be overly careful with dangers they are unsure of.
People often are killed on the roads they know the best. The last long quiet road home, for example. Experienced electricians, electrocuted. Construction workers becoming careless... etc.
Did you see him play walking his baby by the waters edge where a croc is known to be. How is that for complacent?
No, someone died who did more than you EVER will!
Do you know this person? Do you know what they have achieved, their abilities and their future? Grow a sense of humour! Steve was a carricature of the Aussie larakin. He'd be making jokes like this now if he could.
When I heard about this on the news flash which interupted Blue Heelers, I thought, "I can just imagine the scene. Steve is molesting some poor stingray. He got belted in the chest with its tail and then he's gone up to the camera and said, 'CRIKEY! Look at that! This fella has got me right in the chest!'", while he bleeds for the camera.
I always figured that an animal would ultimately kill him. I always thought it would be a croc. I find it pretty amazing that a stingray got him. My grandfather used to catch them on a hand line from his dingy. He always warned me about their sting and I knew they'd killed people, but one of them against Steve? He'd probably be disappointed. I rekon he'd rather have "Eaten by a crocodile" on his tombstone.
I bought 7 CFL's at around $15 (AU) each 5 or 6 years ago and they are all still going great. A friend of mine told me (about 7 years ago) he has had Philips CFL's for more than 8 years in his home, with none failed.
Now in Sydney Australia, local councils and Energy Australia (through post offices) are giving boxes of CFL's (6) away for free.
Well, Wikipedia's comparison of the three distros, which as we know is not authoritative on anything. It shows OpenBDS without about 15% to NetBSD's 3% (rough numbers from memory).
For whatever this might be worth, Google Trends might show the level of interest between the 3 major BSD's.
Napster!? I was getting mp3s off of Usenet back in the day!
.gif files in 256 glorious colours and FidoNET email downloaded in .QWK packages was great. Those were the days. I'd dial-in, download my subscribed mail, hang up, read it, reply to it, then dial-up again to upload my replies.
Pft, when I started downloading from the intarweb from home in 1991, I would have to dial in to my favourite UNIX BBS and submit a download request as a batch process which would be completed the next time that BBS connected to the net. A few days later I might have my little text file, if I was lucky. Getting swimsuit babes
I still remember seeing the Linux 0.9 stuff on the BBS' after that and wondering what it was.
Oh the joys of being afraid of girls.
Wow, seems that BSD is OLD SCHOOL,
/. for a heads up and sometimes read and reply to comments, but mostly I try to avoid the waste of time which /. seems to have become. I think there are lots of these "old guys" reading but not bothering to argue politics with the mentally insane. The uninformed who think they have an axe to grind sometimes come into a BSD mailing list and then get frightened off.
Just take a look at the ID's of people posting. I thought that IDs 300000 where dead:
(etc).
I think this is the thread where I have seen the biggest quantity of low id posts =o).
Seems Old guys come out of their chairs to defend their lawn =oP
I think the "old guys" prefer mailing lists and the like, for the reduced noise. I use
During a large scale event (30,000+ people), my younger brother was seperated from my mother.
Some mobile phone technologies might be useless for you in that situation. Unless you get there early to reserve your place in the "connected to this cell" list.
In Sydney Australia, around Circular Quay close to New Years Eve, good luck getting any calls in or out through a GSM mobile phone. If you get there early to beat the crowd, your phone may just work all night. But if you stray out of the area or switch it off then on, you might find like I did, that you may as well switch your phone off for the night. You just gave up your position and it's not coming back any time soon.
I would like to make a romance inside of you!
Nnnnniccccccceeeee!!!!!!
I'd like to learn more about your likes and dislikes
.dmg's in a simple manner. And then multi platform sync software to go with that.
I'm not interested in taking my apps with me, so I'll just tell you what I want. I want a thumbdrive with which I can:
1/ Encrypt/Decrypt with a small executable on the thumbdrive that does not need to be installed elsewhere or require admin privs.
2/ Sync the thumbdrive when I choose.
3/ Most importantly, these two things I want to be able to do between Windows and Mac OS X machines.
Linux, BSD and Solaris would be a huge bonus. If you build and support the Windows and OSX software and make it open source, Linux, BSD and Solaris will quickly follow and you won't have to support it. But I assume you're in the business of making money with software and have made U3 stand out by allowing people the ability to take their apps, configs and unfinished work with them. Since you sell software to hardware companies, I'm assuming you're not interested in making decent open source crypto/syncing software, since there are so many other companies doing crypto/sync already (badly). You thus might not stand out all that much, even if you did provide the only decent solution.
I personally would love to see a free light Windows app which can deal with Apple's (encrypted)
Access your personal workspace wherever you go without lugging a laptop .. When you're done, simply unplug the U3 smart drive and walk away knowing that your personal information leaves with you.
That is impossible. The user either trusts the computer, or doesn't.
Very true. I mosty use OpenBSD (and OSX) and decided to set up a basic bootable OpenBSD (i386) install on my 4GB Corsair Flash Voyager, so that I could avoid spyware, software keyloggers and general walware on Internet cafe machines, etc, by booting my own OS (just text mode is fine for me). But the realisation that hardware keylogging keyboards and dongles are way to cheap and easy to get, made me not bother. That and the fact that I am yet to find a PC which actually will properly boot from a USB flash drive. My $5,000 VAIO does not and niether does my GF's $3,500 Thinkpad, even though it tries (not even DOS will boot after using Corsairs own "make bootable" util).
Fact is, like you say, I either trust the machine or I don't. Both situations negate the need for that benefit from U3 or even a persons own boot environment.
Frankly, this is a good thing. Floppies are shitty. They havent improved as a consumer technology since like 1987; they're prone to failure and painfully slow.
What happened in 1987 in the World of floppies? Verbatim started coating floppies in Teflon? Those were the days. Back when Verbatim were actually a decent brand.
BTW, most of the 5.25" and 3.5" floppies I have, going back to 1991 still work fine. But yes floppies suck. It always seems to be the most important disk that suddenly gives you the "this disk is not formatted, do you want to format it now?" message. I've also had thumb drives suddenly become completely devoid of a filesystem though (Apacer) and I always unmount and wait for the light to go out, before removing them (even though in XP you supposedly don't have to).