When writing for Windows did you ever consider how the program would work under WINE?
Lots of people think that WINE is bad, but if (as you and others say) we're stuck with Windows only games, wouldn't compatibility with WINE on Linux == Linux support? At least for marketing purposes?
Unfortunately the American people have been cowed by the.GOV and the media too much to actually decide upon the time to use those arms.
Someone got onto the Whitehouse lawn and started waving a gun around? OMG! Thank the tooth fairy that the police caught/shot them!
But why was that person there? Were they attempting to assassinate a political figure, or were they shouting "If you think censorship is wrong come stand with me!"?
I'm quite militant about anything that FORCES people to be morally responsible when they drive
I couldn't agree more. Irresponsible drivers are a menace on the roads.
I won't mention here why this subject grabs me so hard, but suffice to say I drive professionally.
I don't think speed kills. I believe that not paying attention is the problem. Running red lights is inexcusable. Being incapacitated because of drugs (legal or otherwise) should be punished much more harshly.
The fact is that people who are underconfident behind the wheel need to take stricter tests so that they won't go out when they can't cope, and those who are overconfident should be shown what can go wrong when the machine they are operating doesn't react the way they expect it to, or exceeds their ability to handle.
Too many people shouldn't be on the road, but are. There are a lot of people like myself who just want to get from A to B without getting behind and idiot going too slow, or having an idiot behind them who doesn't drive to the conditions of the road and/or has a car incapable of performing safely at the speeds they are travelling at.
Traffic police and speed cameras take nothing into account, they are both taxation devices aimed at motorists. One because it is an unfeeling, unreasonable, non-caring machine that doles out penalties to anyone unlucky enough to be moving down a road with no houses anywhere near, no matter what time of day or night it is, road conditions not taken into account, driving record of the person in charge of the vehicle notwithstanding; the other is a camera on a pole.
I hate traffic cops. Park in a pub car park and stop the drunken twats getting in their cars after a skin full of ale. Pull people over for driving erratically, ignoring road markings, being a hazard to other road users (including pedestrians); but leave me and those like me alone. Speeding is not a reason to deprive someone of their licence, unless they have too much speed and not enough ability, restraint or control.
note: If you get caught 30mph over the speed limit in the UK you could get an instant ban from driving. If you are doing 1 to 29mph over the posted limit you get 3 'points' and a £60 fine. If you get 12 points your licence is invalid until you drop to 11 or less. Points take 4 years to be removed from your licence. There have been cases of people getting 4 tickets in one journey.
Not only that, but the postcode of the business creating that plate has to be incorporated into the plate at manufacture.
This is law. Without that (from 01 plates onwards (2001 started with xx01 xxx, then xx51 xxx for the latter half of the year, xx02, xx52 etc)) you will fail either an official MOT (roadworthiness test by approved agent, required by law) or the free ones given by the rectum stretchers that pull you over for having a headlight out.
To go one step further (towards trolldom unfortunately), doesn't gOS fit the bill better than Windows did?
gOS 3 Gadgets instantly launches Google Gadgets for Linux on startup, introducing over 100,000 possible iGoogle and Google Gadgets to the desktop.
Google Documents, Calendar, and Mail launch in Mozilla Prism windows to closer resemble desktop applications.
Google _everything_ links right there on the desktop.
I'll get modded down for dissing a Linux distro, but I'm not knocking the OS, I've been running it as my primary OS for some years. Currently on Gentoo. I have installed gOS for several people.
I'm quite happy to download a PDA playable version (mine runs at 640x480, 5").
Once I've seen it, and if the movie is any good, I'll take my wife to the cinema to see it full size and with better sound than I have at home.
The MAFIAA are putting out such utter crap these days and paying their media shills to hype it so high that I don't trust any reviews. Without a preview I'm not going to waste hard earned cash on a possible lemon.
This is what really arses me off about MS and their licensing schemes.
Millions of licenses sold that will never be used, just so that companies can continue their support contracts, but people have to steal/cheat/pirate their own copies to get WindowsUpdate.
If you, or someone you know has these damn things sitting around, give them away. Ebay the silly stickers off for postage and let's get rid of some of those machines that we all created a few years ago that haven't had an update since SP1.
What, you never used FCKGW when you upgraded someone from 95/98/ME?
Not only would it be good for consumers, but it would also help MS's image as far as security goes.
I'm not a Windows user, but I have several legal key stickers. I had more, but I wrote the details down off them (every character) and taped the info to a few computers that I built.
People will crack WEP for a laugh, map a network, laugh at the names of devices on it and if they don't have a decent moral compass, go further and find stuff out about their neighbours just like they did when cordless phones came out.
For those kids on my lawn, £15 would get you a scanner that gave you access to every phone call made within a 2 mile radius, and people did listen in. They even made movies about it [citation needed].
This is either utter ignorance, or a mediocre troll (in the nicest way, of course).
Firstly, get rid of this idea of a "standard password". Get PasswordHasher and use your NEW standard password to access some highly complex passwords at no extra brain power.
Next, your next door neighbour can't plug into your router from their sofa if you use a cable and see you moving home pr0n between your laptop and your desktop.
If you're using WiFi then all that lovely data could be shared with them, if they have a sniffer program running and your network key.
Other things that go over your network in plain text that could be sniffed by your neighbour: Notice the httpS:// on Slashdot.org? Me neither. Your password would have been in a packet that they sniffed. Same for any site you visit. URLs to your bank, your fave pr0n sites, the software you're using and which versions. If they are as good as me (and I'm not even that good at this crap), they could wait for your browser to look for an update, have an already altered version of the last update with a backdoor in it, hijack the DNS request and punt you a file that rootkits your box. If your post wasn't a troll, you might need this: Rootkit.
Seriously, why do you think everyone talks about wireless security as if it was important? Are you the only one that is "in the know" and they are all wrong?
Exceptions do apply. NX, VPNs, SSH, and other encryption can be sent over totally open WiFi because the encryption is done before stuff hits the network card.
I mean, who in their right mind would call a PC without an operating system bricked? Just because you have to put a floppy in to install an MBR and command environment (a la the 3 DOS install disks from yesteryear) a bricked system?
Compare that to running an operating system like DOS on an old Athlon that didn't have a big enough heatsink/fan, no ACPI or 'hlt' commands built in, and the processor overheating to the point of literally burning itself up.
Sorry for being pedantic, but you never know when someone reading this post might want to intelligently ask for help installing Linux on their router or upgrade their WindowsMobile PDA.
Once the distro installer has finished it would attempt to boot the system to the graphical login. If the login screen came up it would save the state of the machine to a fast loading RAM image that GRUB could directly inject to RAM.
Reading ~100MB of system should take seconds on any machine, and the code area taken up by the GRUB routine could be overwritten with a memory offset command embedded in the first few bytes of the image.
Once the image is in RAM the execution starts up again immediately waiting for your login details.
Of course, hardware would have to be hashed to make sure that the image was still compatible with the machine and that the disk hadn't been moved to a different one. Upgrading the hardware or the kernel, software updates et cetera would require the image to be resaved, but those are easily achieved.
Taking into account the size of the image, I guess that someone could code the installer to compile the kernel with the modules the system uses built in. Maybe as a function of the exit procedure. "Optimise load time - warning! This will take quite some time"
Basically I guess what I'm saying is something like a hibernate file, but one that is rarely changed and only contains the system, not the applications running in a session.
IBM T22 here. Suspend to RAM and disk work fine and even bring the wifi up on resume.
Info:
openSUSE 11, KDE 3.5, KNetworkManager, KPowersave
b43 kernel driver for PCMCIA Linksys WPC54G
Kernel 2.6.26.5 (current stable from kernel.org)
Sidenote:
b43 was a godsend. The old bcm43xx wouldn't run the card for me, had to blacklist it and use ndiswrapper. That needed rmmod and modprobe in a script to bring back up. With this driver I can use the card for aircrack-ng properly.
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That would be my number one annoyance with Ubuntu (and Xandros on my EEE).
How long before malware for Linux includes the word "sudo" in front of rootkit installation?
Doing something as root should have a reminder that you're doing something dangerous, not a shortcut.
When writing for Windows did you ever consider how the program would work under WINE?
Lots of people think that WINE is bad, but if (as you and others say) we're stuck with Windows only games, wouldn't compatibility with WINE on Linux == Linux support? At least for marketing purposes?
Unfortunately the American people have been cowed by the .GOV and the media too much to actually decide upon the time to use those arms.
Someone got onto the Whitehouse lawn and started waving a gun around? OMG! Thank the tooth fairy that the police caught/shot them!
But why was that person there? Were they attempting to assassinate a political figure, or were they shouting "If you think censorship is wrong come stand with me!"?
Maybe you forgot to emerge it?
~ $ eix dev-util/git
* dev-util/git
Available versions: 1.5.1.6 1.5.3.7-r1 ~1.5.3.8 1.5.4.5 ~1.5.5.3 ~1.5.5.3-r1 ~1.5.5.4 ~1.5.6.1 ~1.5.6.2 ~1.5.6.3 1.5.6.4 ~1.5.6.5 ~1.6.0 ~1.6.0.1 ~1.6.0.2 ~1.6.0.3 ~1.6.0.4 ~1.6.0.4-r1 ~1.6.0.4-r2 1.6.0.6 {bash-completion cgi curl cvs doc elibc_uclibc emacs gtk iconv mozsha1 perl ppcsha1 subversion threads tk vim-syntax webdav xinetd}
Homepage: http://git.or.cz/
Description: GIT - the stupid content tracker, the revision control system heavily used by the Linux kernel team
Will it still be stupid now that Perl uses it I wonder?
For the extra $150, Dell will throw in the free Virtual Desktop Manager to go with your copy of XP.
I'm quite militant about anything that FORCES people to be morally responsible when they drive
I couldn't agree more. Irresponsible drivers are a menace on the roads.
I won't mention here why this subject grabs me so hard, but suffice to say I drive professionally.
I don't think speed kills. I believe that not paying attention is the problem. Running red lights is inexcusable. Being incapacitated because of drugs (legal or otherwise) should be punished much more harshly.
The fact is that people who are underconfident behind the wheel need to take stricter tests so that they won't go out when they can't cope, and those who are overconfident should be shown what can go wrong when the machine they are operating doesn't react the way they expect it to, or exceeds their ability to handle.
Too many people shouldn't be on the road, but are. There are a lot of people like myself who just want to get from A to B without getting behind and idiot going too slow, or having an idiot behind them who doesn't drive to the conditions of the road and/or has a car incapable of performing safely at the speeds they are travelling at.
Traffic police and speed cameras take nothing into account, they are both taxation devices aimed at motorists. One because it is an unfeeling, unreasonable, non-caring machine that doles out penalties to anyone unlucky enough to be moving down a road with no houses anywhere near, no matter what time of day or night it is, road conditions not taken into account, driving record of the person in charge of the vehicle notwithstanding; the other is a camera on a pole.
I hate traffic cops. Park in a pub car park and stop the drunken twats getting in their cars after a skin full of ale. Pull people over for driving erratically, ignoring road markings, being a hazard to other road users (including pedestrians); but leave me and those like me alone. Speeding is not a reason to deprive someone of their licence, unless they have too much speed and not enough ability, restraint or control.
note: If you get caught 30mph over the speed limit in the UK you could get an instant ban from driving. If you are doing 1 to 29mph over the posted limit you get 3 'points' and a £60 fine. If you get 12 points your licence is invalid until you drop to 11 or less. Points take 4 years to be removed from your licence. There have been cases of people getting 4 tickets in one journey.
Not only that, but the postcode of the business creating that plate has to be incorporated into the plate at manufacture.
This is law. Without that (from 01 plates onwards (2001 started with xx01 xxx, then xx51 xxx for the latter half of the year, xx02, xx52 etc)) you will fail either an official MOT (roadworthiness test by approved agent, required by law) or the free ones given by the rectum stretchers that pull you over for having a headlight out.
Replying here because it should be up at the top. Sorry.
In the UK we have cameras that face towards you, taking a picture of the driver that will be used as evidence if you say "I wasn't driving".
Take advantage of this while you can.
gOS 3 Gadgets instantly launches Google Gadgets for Linux on startup, introducing over 100,000 possible iGoogle and Google Gadgets to the desktop.
Google Documents, Calendar, and Mail launch in Mozilla Prism windows to closer resemble desktop applications.
Google _everything_ links right there on the desktop.
I'll get modded down for dissing a Linux distro, but I'm not knocking the OS, I've been running it as my primary OS for some years. Currently on Gentoo. I have installed gOS for several people.
Second time I have seen someone mention "Axe"
Just for us Brits, Axe is the US branding of Lynx.
I'm quite happy to download a PDA playable version (mine runs at 640x480, 5").
Once I've seen it, and if the movie is any good, I'll take my wife to the cinema to see it full size and with better sound than I have at home.
The MAFIAA are putting out such utter crap these days and paying their media shills to hype it so high that I don't trust any reviews. Without a preview I'm not going to waste hard earned cash on a possible lemon.
This is what really arses me off about MS and their licensing schemes.
Millions of licenses sold that will never be used, just so that companies can continue their support contracts, but people have to steal/cheat/pirate their own copies to get WindowsUpdate.
If you, or someone you know has these damn things sitting around, give them away. Ebay the silly stickers off for postage and let's get rid of some of those machines that we all created a few years ago that haven't had an update since SP1.
What, you never used FCKGW when you upgraded someone from 95/98/ME?
Not only would it be good for consumers, but it would also help MS's image as far as security goes.
I'm not a Windows user, but I have several legal key stickers. I had more, but I wrote the details down off them (every character) and taped the info to a few computers that I built.
Every time I think of someone from Slashdot on a date I imagine this:
...
I put on my robe and wizard hat
Oh do give me a break.
People will crack WEP for a laugh, map a network, laugh at the names of devices on it and if they don't have a decent moral compass, go further and find stuff out about their neighbours just like they did when cordless phones came out.
For those kids on my lawn, £15 would get you a scanner that gave you access to every phone call made within a 2 mile radius, and people did listen in. They even made movies about it [citation needed].
[Citation Needed]
Can you list the people you're referencing here please?
The newer kernels have b43 and b43-legacy.
My WPC54G (Linksys, BCM4318, PCMCIA) used to need ndiswrapper, but now works just peachy with b43.
Even Aircrack-ng works like a charm.
Here ya go.
http://rafb.net/p/qIBTWx15.html
I get 29 from 2.6.27.2
Forget banning oxygen, the real killer is Dihydrogen Monoxide!
Nah.
Most of us have installed at least one Greasemonkey script for XKCD.
Doesn't matter what they were saying, according to the best minds in the world, it can all be fixed with a nice meal.
This is either utter ignorance, or a mediocre troll (in the nicest way, of course).
Firstly, get rid of this idea of a "standard password". Get PasswordHasher and use your NEW standard password to access some highly complex passwords at no extra brain power.
Next, your next door neighbour can't plug into your router from their sofa if you use a cable and see you moving home pr0n between your laptop and your desktop.
If you're using WiFi then all that lovely data could be shared with them, if they have a sniffer program running and your network key.
Other things that go over your network in plain text that could be sniffed by your neighbour: Notice the httpS:// on Slashdot.org? Me neither. Your password would have been in a packet that they sniffed. Same for any site you visit. URLs to your bank, your fave pr0n sites, the software you're using and which versions. If they are as good as me (and I'm not even that good at this crap), they could wait for your browser to look for an update, have an already altered version of the last update with a backdoor in it, hijack the DNS request and punt you a file that rootkits your box. If your post wasn't a troll, you might need this: Rootkit.
Seriously, why do you think everyone talks about wireless security as if it was important? Are you the only one that is "in the know" and they are all wrong?
Exceptions do apply. NX, VPNs, SSH, and other encryption can be sent over totally open WiFi because the encryption is done before stuff hits the network card.
What, really "bricked" or just needing a reflash?
I mean, who in their right mind would call a PC without an operating system bricked? Just because you have to put a floppy in to install an MBR and command environment (a la the 3 DOS install disks from yesteryear) a bricked system?
Compare that to running an operating system like DOS on an old Athlon that didn't have a big enough heatsink/fan, no ACPI or 'hlt' commands built in, and the processor overheating to the point of literally burning itself up.
Sorry for being pedantic, but you never know when someone reading this post might want to intelligently ask for help installing Linux on their router or upgrade their WindowsMobile PDA.
I picture something like that, but further.
Once the distro installer has finished it would attempt to boot the system to the graphical login. If the login screen came up it would save the state of the machine to a fast loading RAM image that GRUB could directly inject to RAM.
Reading ~100MB of system should take seconds on any machine, and the code area taken up by the GRUB routine could be overwritten with a memory offset command embedded in the first few bytes of the image.
Once the image is in RAM the execution starts up again immediately waiting for your login details.
Of course, hardware would have to be hashed to make sure that the image was still compatible with the machine and that the disk hadn't been moved to a different one. Upgrading the hardware or the kernel, software updates et cetera would require the image to be resaved, but those are easily achieved.
Taking into account the size of the image, I guess that someone could code the installer to compile the kernel with the modules the system uses built in. Maybe as a function of the exit procedure. "Optimise load time - warning! This will take quite some time"
Basically I guess what I'm saying is something like a hibernate file, but one that is rarely changed and only contains the system, not the applications running in a session.
Under openSUSE 11 I found this setting at:
/etc/sysconfig Editor -> Network -> General -> IP_TCP_SYNCOOKIES
YaST2 -> System ->
I don't remember messing with this setting, so my bet is that openSUSE defaults to on.
IBM T22 here. Suspend to RAM and disk work fine and even bring the wifi up on resume.
Info:
openSUSE 11, KDE 3.5, KNetworkManager, KPowersave
b43 kernel driver for PCMCIA Linksys WPC54G
Kernel 2.6.26.5 (current stable from kernel.org)
Sidenote:
b43 was a godsend. The old bcm43xx wouldn't run the card for me, had to blacklist it and use ndiswrapper. That needed rmmod and modprobe in a script to bring back up. With this driver I can use the card for aircrack-ng properly.