What am I supposed to do when I irrepairably scratch my favorite DVD? Go buy another one? That's crap.
No, that's big big money for the movie industry. And here is the problem: the DVD copy software isn't the kind of piracy-enabler they'd like to make it out to be. The real threat with piracy comes from the people who put it online... which isn't what you do with this software. =b
BTW, I like the sig.;)
Re:Has NASA ever been Slashdotted?
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Brine on Mars?
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I can't help you with hardware, but I can attempt to do a little karma whoring with nmap (for fun and profit!)
Slightly edited (for brevity) transcript follows: <root@fennec> nmap -P0 -O marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov Starting nmap 3.48 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2004-02-20 14:34 EST Interesting ports on 198.5.148.7: (The 1640 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed) PORT STATE SERVICE 22/tcp open ssh 80/tcp open http 443/tcp open https Device type: general purpose Running: Linux 2.4.X|2.5.X OS details: Linux Kernel 2.4.0 - 2.5.20 Uptime 307.509 days (since Sat Apr 19 03:21:22 2003) TCP Sequence Prediction: Class=random positive increments Difficulty=5171621 (Good luck!) TCP ISN Seq. Numbers: 3223BDE5 331C8EB8 32C3FA5D 32C9082B 3251ECD7 32DC6A8B IPID Sequence Generation: All zeros
Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 11.963 seconds
Re:I'm going to go out on a limb here....
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Brine on Mars?
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No... but I can just envision the rover digging itself a Very Deep Hole as part of its Very Clever Trap in order to catch a heffalump^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H marlaphant.:)
Hmm, do I detect the acrid scent of mac zealotry? Which version of nmap are you using? Or maybe you just fudged the results. Hey, look, I can do that too!
Since you ask... I'm sorry that I cut this off to begin with, but when I ran nmap -P0 -O search.yahoo.com:
Starting nmap 3.48 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2004-02-18 10:06 EST
(The -P0 is necessary because the local university firewall blocks all incoming and outgoing pings.)
I don't own a Mac, and I don't know anyone who owns a Mac... and I haven't used a Mac since some Apple IIe machines in elementary and middle school. I run an IBM ThinkPad R40 slightly modified from the specs listed at that link: an 80 gigabyte hard drive with Fedora Core 1 currently installed.
Would anyone else with nmap care to confirm or deny my quick exploratory findings, for the benefit of npsimons (32752) and others who are all to quick to invent conspiracy theories implicating Mac-lovers?
You tard. Slashdot runs behind a load-balancing firewall. You didn't get near their webservers. You just ended up nmaping their router and probably got your IP shitlisted, too.
... then how come I'm still posting?:) In any case, I would be entirely unsurprised if I had just poked their firewall. Two of the suggested options for the OS type were, after all, "router" and "broadband router". And I don't really care that I didn't get their webservers... for the same reason that I disagree with the moderation on my post. It should be Funny, not interesting... a slightly padded Beowfulf cluster joke. =b
But we digress: mod me Offtopic, if you care to throw around the modpoints.
Interesting ports on slashdot.org (66.35.250.150): PORT STATE SERVICE 80/tcp open http Device type: PDA|broadband router|general purpose|router Running (JUST GUESSING) : Linux 2.4.X|2.5.X (93%), Siemens embedded (86%), Draytek embedded (85%), FreeSCO Linux 2.0.X (85%) Aggressive OS guesses: Linux 2.4.6 as on Sharp Zaurus PDA (93%), Siemens Speedstream 2602 DSL/Cable router (86%), Microsoft Xbox running Debian Linux 2.4.20 (86%), Draytek Vigor 2200e DSL router v2.1b (85%), FreeSCO 0.27 (Linux kernel 2.0.38) (85%), Linux kernel 2.2.16 (85%), Linux kernel 2.4.18 (x86) (85%), Linux Kernel 2.4.0 - 2.5.20 (85%), Linux Kernel 2.4.18 - 2.5.70 (X86) (85%), Linux Kernel 2.4.20 (85%) No exact OS matches for host (test conditions non-ideal).
All right, guys! Running Slashdot off your PDAs and XBoxen! Imagine a Beowulf cluster!:)
Warning: OS detection will be MUCH less reliable because we did not find at least 1 open and 1 closed TCP port Interesting ports on m1.search.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.117.133): (The 1656 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: filtered) PORT STATE SERVICE 80/tcp open http Device type: general purpose Running: Apple Mac OS X 10.1.X OS details: Apple Mac OS X 10.1.5
4 megabytes of memory should be enough for anyone!!!
err... wait a moment:)
Re:I though otherwise, so did my physics teacher.
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Well, it's easy enough. The guy can fly, right? He obviously has some sort of propulsive force which he can apply at will. And so if the momentum of a bullet would be pushing him back, he just leans forward a little higher.
IF it doesn't seem to make sense, devise a new mechanism by which it would. You may or may not find the need for a new pseudoscientific principle. Also, remember that even the most knowledgeable characters in a comic/etc are just people, and they are perfectly capable of making mistakes in their rationale, explanations, et cetera.
That could be because Linux users on the whole are smart enough that when they search for something, they a) go to other resources as well (Wikipedia!) and/or b) find what they're looking for the first time, rather than the fifth.:)
The company may be your only current customer, but there are always other customers out there. There's hardly a monopsony in the labor market these days. Now, admittedly it won't be simple to change employers...
Well, buddy, I don't know what your problems are exactly.... I think that every one of those things can be done in Linux with relative easy. My system (Fedora Core 1 right now) handled a USB printer out of the box, and HP is one of the best companies as far as Linux compatibility is concerned- Sane should probably be able to access the scanner with no trouble. As for the Palm, I don't own one but I know GNOME comes with a Palm Pilot connection utility or five, so I doubt it's a problem. Now, with a little twiddling of Samba, you can easily share files over standard network shares.
Now tell me, what model of parallell port printer do you have, and how do you connect to the Internet?
Have you ever asked for help from a local LUG or perhaps the #linux/#fedora/#redhat/etc channels on Freenode? That is good stuff right there.
Days? Weeks? Depends on what proportion of the time you'll spend doing this stuff.
This brings up another issue, however. You complain of documentation. Sometimes documentation is good, sometimes it's bad. But it's amazing how many people WILL NOT READ IT, no matter how easily it would answer their question. You lazy gits! (not you, reuger, the general lazy populace) THE INSTRUCTIONS ARE THERE FOR A REASON!
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No, that's big big money for the movie industry. And here is the problem: the DVD copy software isn't the kind of piracy-enabler they'd like to make it out to be. The real threat with piracy comes from the people who put it online... which isn't what you do with this software. =b
BTW, I like the sig. ;)
I can't help you with hardware, but I can attempt to do a little karma whoring with nmap (for fun and profit!)
Slightly edited (for brevity) transcript follows:
<root@fennec> nmap -P0 -O marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov
Starting nmap 3.48 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2004-02-20 14:34 EST
Interesting ports on 198.5.148.7:
(The 1640 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
PORT STATE SERVICE
22/tcp open ssh
80/tcp open http
443/tcp open https
Device type: general purpose
Running: Linux 2.4.X|2.5.X
OS details: Linux Kernel 2.4.0 - 2.5.20
Uptime 307.509 days (since Sat Apr 19 03:21:22 2003)
TCP Sequence Prediction: Class=random positive increments
Difficulty=5171621 (Good luck!)
TCP ISN Seq. Numbers: 3223BDE5 331C8EB8 32C3FA5D 32C9082B 3251ECD7 32DC6A8B
IPID Sequence Generation: All zeros
Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 11.963 seconds
No... but I can just envision the rover digging itself a Very Deep Hole as part of its Very Clever Trap in order to catch a heffalump^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H marlaphant. :)
Since you ask... I'm sorry that I cut this off to begin with, but when I ran nmap -P0 -O search.yahoo.com:
Starting nmap 3.48 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2004-02-18 10:06 EST
(The -P0 is necessary because the local university firewall blocks all incoming and outgoing pings.)
I don't own a Mac, and I don't know anyone who owns a Mac... and I haven't used a Mac since some Apple IIe machines in elementary and middle school. I run an IBM ThinkPad R40 slightly modified from the specs listed at that link: an 80 gigabyte hard drive with Fedora Core 1 currently installed.
Would anyone else with nmap care to confirm or deny my quick exploratory findings, for the benefit of npsimons (32752) and others who are all to quick to invent conspiracy theories implicating Mac-lovers?
In any case, I would be entirely unsurprised if I had just poked their firewall. Two of the suggested options for the OS type were, after all, "router" and "broadband router". And I don't really care that I didn't get their webservers... for the same reason that I disagree with the moderation on my post. It should be Funny, not interesting... a slightly padded Beowfulf cluster joke. =b
But we digress: mod me Offtopic, if you care to throw around the modpoints.
This is amusing... Nmap sez:
:)
Interesting ports on slashdot.org (66.35.250.150):
PORT STATE SERVICE
80/tcp open http
Device type: PDA|broadband router|general purpose|router
Running (JUST GUESSING) : Linux 2.4.X|2.5.X (93%), Siemens embedded (86%), Draytek embedded (85%), FreeSCO Linux 2.0.X (85%)
Aggressive OS guesses: Linux 2.4.6 as on Sharp Zaurus PDA (93%), Siemens Speedstream 2602 DSL/Cable router (86%), Microsoft Xbox running Debian Linux 2.4.20 (86%), Draytek Vigor 2200e DSL router v2.1b (85%), FreeSCO 0.27 (Linux kernel 2.0.38) (85%), Linux kernel 2.2.16 (85%), Linux kernel 2.4.18 (x86) (85%), Linux Kernel 2.4.0 - 2.5.20 (85%), Linux Kernel 2.4.18 - 2.5.70 (X86) (85%), Linux Kernel 2.4.20 (85%)
No exact OS matches for host (test conditions non-ideal).
All right, guys! Running Slashdot off your PDAs and XBoxen! Imagine a Beowulf cluster!
Warning: OS detection will be MUCH less reliable because we did not find at least 1 open and 1 closed TCP port
Interesting ports on m1.search.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.117.133):
(The 1656 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: filtered)
PORT STATE SERVICE
80/tcp open http
Device type: general purpose
Running: Apple Mac OS X 10.1.X
OS details: Apple Mac OS X 10.1.5
Yahoo's image results still seem to be done through Google...
You're right! Apparently you only have three!
I hear that it's the kernel in Fedora Core 2 test release 1.
Was that before or after the Lucifer detonation?
ALL THESE MOONS ARE YOURS... EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE.
Uhh, you do realize that Open Office has (partial but impressive) read and write support for Microsoft Office formats?
And Don Bluth, every so often! (He has a remarkably variable-quality portfolio... :)
No, they changed the name to Phoenix^H^H^H^H^H^H^HFirebird^H^H^H^HFox.
I don't have HTML viewing available... I use Pine, you insensitive clod!!! ;)
4 megabytes of memory should be enough for anyone!!!
:)
err... wait a moment
Well, it's easy enough. The guy can fly, right? He obviously has some sort of propulsive force which he can apply at will. And so if the momentum of a bullet would be pushing him back, he just leans forward a little higher.
IF it doesn't seem to make sense, devise a new mechanism by which it would. You may or may not find the need for a new pseudoscientific principle. Also, remember that even the most knowledgeable characters in a comic/etc are just people, and they are perfectly capable of making mistakes in their rationale, explanations, et cetera.
... and it's stuff like this which makes me glad that my school is an IBM cronie.
That could be because Linux users on the whole are smart enough that when they search for something, they a) go to other resources as well (Wikipedia!) and/or b) find what they're looking for the first time, rather than the fifth. :)
The company may be your only current customer, but there are always other customers out there. There's hardly a monopsony in the labor market these days. Now, admittedly it won't be simple to change employers...
Well, buddy, I don't know what your problems are exactly.... I think that every one of those things can be done in Linux with relative easy. My system (Fedora Core 1 right now) handled a USB printer out of the box, and HP is one of the best companies as far as Linux compatibility is concerned- Sane should probably be able to access the scanner with no trouble. As for the Palm, I don't own one but I know GNOME comes with a Palm Pilot connection utility or five, so I doubt it's a problem. Now, with a little twiddling of Samba, you can easily share files over standard network shares.
Now tell me, what model of parallell port printer do you have, and how do you connect to the Internet?
Have you ever asked for help from a local LUG or perhaps the #linux/#fedora/#redhat/etc channels on Freenode? That is good stuff right there.
Days? Weeks? Depends on what proportion of the time you'll spend doing this stuff.
This brings up another issue, however. You complain of documentation. Sometimes documentation is good, sometimes it's bad. But it's amazing how many people WILL NOT READ IT, no matter how easily it would answer their question. You lazy gits! (not you, reuger, the general lazy populace) THE INSTRUCTIONS ARE THERE FOR A REASON!
It's a pain to install software on Linux compared to Windows.
apt-get install foo
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
Still not happy? Hmm... Don't know if you'd go for Synaptic, but...
In a second set of proceedings, commissioners began considering what rules ought to apply to companies offering Internet space and software to enable computer users to send and receive telephone calls.
So where is the open source project for this one?
But this particular one is spreading rather quickly. Heck, I got a link for one of those earlier, and was thinking it was a virus.