When I first read these types of articles, I usually think,
that's outrageous, he didn't do anything, the code was
already leaked, now the poor sap has a conviction for something
trivial.
Then I realize, hey, I'd NEVER post stolen code or offer stolen code for sale on my website.
Its friggin stupid. Its obviously stolen and obviously illegal
and completely traceable to me. I'd expect to have the FBI
knocking on my door if I did something so stupid. Like many criminals,
this guy didn't cause any real harm but completely lacks judgement.
Now he'll suffer a bit for it.
TFA describes many ways in which Vista will be more secure
by design than the security-patched XP. For example,
more attention to user privileges, sandboxing IE, a firewall
that looks at outgoing traffic, integrated spyware checking.
I could pretty much care less about Vista until the games
I want to play won't run on anything else, but you can't
doubt that M$ will be paying more attention to security
in the fundamental design of Vista than they did in XP.
While it seems good for business to cluster all its
activity into one campus, the effect on the employee
personal life is terrible. Spending three hours
commuting for eight hours of work, for example.
I personally don't believe an employee is most effective
working alone from home, but working in smaller satelite
offices is probably the right answer.
Actually, if they are smart, they'll do the opposite. This is a huge opportunity for the cable companies, who don't have a vested interest to hold the voip down.
Lets not forget Comcast sells phone service over cable too. And Verizon FIOS is gearing up to sell TV. All infomation pipes are converging, which you'd think would be good for the consumer.
At 12 years old, your standards are low. I used to love
Buck Rogers (in the twenty-somethingth century). Recently
I taped an episode off cable and couldn't make it through
five minutes. Bad acting, bad effects, bad story. What
was I thinking?
UT checks to see if the firewall is open, but the act of checking
the firewall is something is doesn't have privileges to do.
Perhaps you don't have the Windows XP firewall (I don't know
if Win 2k has the firewall or not). Or perhaps its been fixed--
I stopped playing shortly after getting that response.
I use XP largely to play games, and find that even on games
that can be played in underprivileged mode, bugs pop up
more frequently. Just a couple nights ago I had a problem
with a Microsoft title (AOE3) and finally was able to net
connect when switching to an admin account. The developers
simply don't test in this mode enough.
Here's a response from Atari when I complained about having
to play UT2004 in my admin account. You can't win when this
is they don't even consider this a bug:
From: Tech4
Subject: RE: Unreal Tournament 2004 - Windows XP : USA :
This game, like most of its type, requires Full admin access to play, and
can often conflict with third party software such as firewalls or virus
scanners. We recommend disabling those items when the game is in use, and
turning them back on afterwards.
MarkL
Atari Support
www.atarisupport.com
It takes me maybe two to eight hours to listen
and write the sheet music for a song using Lilypond
for other band members to use. No, it isn't my
original song, I'm just writing down notes on how to play
it. Now someone is telling me its illegal to do this.
How long before they arrest us for playing the songs
in our garage? What is the end goal? To destroy
our interest in music altogether?
I have an iRiver music player that I use constantly. But
it doesn't do video (at least not out of the box). I have
a Sharp Zaurus that does play video, but it takes some
time consuming transcoding and doesn't have much storage.
But with the vPod, finally, I can watch video on the go
like I used to listen to music. I can catch up on my TV
while jogging and mountain biking, mowing the lawn, painting
the house, driving to work. Even while at work!
I use bitlbee, an IRCd that talks to the major
IM networks in text format. Access this in
irssi (any tty irc client will do). Leave it
running 24/7 on a server in a dtach (or screen)
instance. Attach to it from anywhere on earth. See in the logs the time your
buddies came and went, and any messages you missed. Chat from one machine,
move to another and continue the conversation.
At home on my LAN, I run the trigger script,
and have it play sounds on all my PCs in the
house when I get a message.
A similar thing happened when I bought my Sharp Zaurus
SL-5600 near its end of life. They ran out of the
buggy PXA250 processors and started shipping the last
units with the improved PXA255. It was even marked on
the box, but since most people mail-ordered the units
it was a crap-shoot what you got. I got the old unit,
and was a bit disappointed even though I did get what
I paid for. I suspect Mac Mini buyers who don't get
the lucky upgrade will feel the same way. They may
even return their units and try again.
Personally, outdated attitudes about gender and SUV/trucks like yours
I'm not exactly sure what you're talking about, but I don't own a truck because it has anything to do with gender. I drive my truck because a yard of bark mulch, or my dirtbike, or my racebike, or 24 sheets of drywall didn't fit into my Civic
My pride comment was because I didn't want to give anyone the impression I was one of the hundreds of kids pimping out Civics because they think they are a race car
say the civic gets 30mpg, and the prius 60mpg (this is really giving the prius to much credit,
My gasoline Civic gets 44 mpg highway cruising at 80 mph (I track it, and it drops to 36-38 in the winter). By no stretch of
the imagination is it a car a grown man should be proud of, but when I was shopping for a 500-mile/week commuter to back up my weekend pickup truck, the math didn't point towards buying a hybrid.
I follow slackware-current, so I guess as of today I am running 10.2. I find the development (-current) version of Slackware more stable than the "enterprise" distros I am forced to use at work.
Anyways, I thought I'd mention that this is the first official release of Slackware in which there is no Gnome. Patrick has (perhaps wisely) left Gnome to be an add-on supported by 3rd parties.
My company didn't use Windows 98 (or ME) at all. They stuck with 95 until the obvious benefits of Windows 2000 (and now XP) were mainstream. I haven't read about one feature in Vista that would compell them to upgrade a thousand or more PCs. They won't do it to give us more eye candy, or to raise the minimum system requirements.
I do a lot of metalworking and this is just the sort of case I would like. I can imagine machining matching aluminum cases for other things. But I do wince at the thought of spending over $200 on just
the box for your computer.
I don't like paying for access (I don't like paying for anything, I guess), but I have to admit that the Logan access is the first airport pay access I've run into that worked easily from Linux. They give you a password good for the day, but there's no client software so it appears to be MAC based. Simple. Dreadfully easy to hack I guess but they haven't left Mac and Linux users in the cold.
My favorite for cleaning up schematics for presentations is Canvas (was Deneba Canvas, now ACD?). About version 7 is when they incorporated the last feature I use. They are on version "X" now I believe (ooo, how original). Canvas 5 and 7 run under Crossover office with bugs and crashes but it is manageable. There was once a linux build of Canvas 7 but it used such out of date libraries I never tried it at the time.
We have a site license for Microsoft Visio too. It can do the job, but the lack of hotkeys for some common things is annoying (I recall Send to Back, Bring to Front being buried in pulldown menus). Visio is supported by Crossover office.
I've had a 5600 for a year and a half. Its not a great PDA (poor PIM apps), but it is an extremely useful little computer.
Using Excel, Word, Acrobat, Powerpoint, mplayer, korganizer are cool initially but all get old really fast on a little screen and thumb-board.
But Kismet, Opera, an OTP password generator, ssh, wake-on-lan are very useful tools to have in your pocket.
My biggest gripe with the little box is that it could have been a decent mp3 player (it supports ogg and wma too with plugins). But the UI on all the available media players sucks so bad, I had to buy a separate player. How trivial it could have been to make an ipod-like interface with the thumb cursor control on the Zaurus but instead they require use of the stylus.
For what its worth, I still use the Sharp ROM and find it stable, as well as supporting any software I want (cross-compiled on my desktop).
This guy is right on. I've used Apache for a couple years without trouble, but this week I tried to do some virtual host config and http https redirection or rewriting and I swear examples copied right from the manual didn't work.
I'm still configuring sendmail too, on a three-year old install. It mostly works, but its that last 5% of tweaking that is maddening.
Many hotels provide broadband access now (via ethernet in your room, and often WiFi in the lobby).
I used to balk at the price to use it, as I'm only checking my emails. But at the cost they charge for outgoing local phone calls, buying a night's worth of broadband is often cheaper than using your modem for 5 minutes.
Slashdot Mirror
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toor
Cue the hordes of homebrew PVR links...
When I first read these types of articles, I usually think, that's outrageous, he didn't do anything, the code was already leaked, now the poor sap has a conviction for something trivial.
Then I realize, hey, I'd NEVER post stolen code or offer stolen code for sale on my website. Its friggin stupid. Its obviously stolen and obviously illegal and completely traceable to me. I'd expect to have the FBI knocking on my door if I did something so stupid. Like many criminals, this guy didn't cause any real harm but completely lacks judgement. Now he'll suffer a bit for it.
TFA describes many ways in which Vista will be more secure by design than the security-patched XP. For example, more attention to user privileges, sandboxing IE, a firewall that looks at outgoing traffic, integrated spyware checking.
I could pretty much care less about Vista until the games I want to play won't run on anything else, but you can't doubt that M$ will be paying more attention to security in the fundamental design of Vista than they did in XP.
While it seems good for business to cluster all its activity into one campus, the effect on the employee personal life is terrible. Spending three hours commuting for eight hours of work, for example. I personally don't believe an employee is most effective working alone from home, but working in smaller satelite offices is probably the right answer.
Lets not forget Comcast sells phone service over cable too. And Verizon FIOS is gearing up to sell TV. All infomation pipes are converging, which you'd think would be good for the consumer.
At 12 years old, your standards are low. I used to love Buck Rogers (in the twenty-somethingth century). Recently I taped an episode off cable and couldn't make it through five minutes. Bad acting, bad effects, bad story. What was I thinking?
My favorite is "Your registry may need cleaning" when I'm using Solaris.
UT checks to see if the firewall is open, but the act of checking the firewall is something is doesn't have privileges to do. Perhaps you don't have the Windows XP firewall (I don't know if Win 2k has the firewall or not). Or perhaps its been fixed-- I stopped playing shortly after getting that response.
I use XP largely to play games, and find that even on games that can be played in underprivileged mode, bugs pop up more frequently. Just a couple nights ago I had a problem with a Microsoft title (AOE3) and finally was able to net connect when switching to an admin account. The developers simply don't test in this mode enough.
Here's a response from Atari when I complained about having to play UT2004 in my admin account. You can't win when this is they don't even consider this a bug:
From: Tech4 Subject: RE: Unreal Tournament 2004 - Windows XP : USA : This game, like most of its type, requires Full admin access to play, and can often conflict with third party software such as firewalls or virus scanners. We recommend disabling those items when the game is in use, and turning them back on afterwards. MarkL Atari Support www.atarisupport.comIt takes me maybe two to eight hours to listen and write the sheet music for a song using Lilypond for other band members to use. No, it isn't my original song, I'm just writing down notes on how to play it. Now someone is telling me its illegal to do this. How long before they arrest us for playing the songs in our garage? What is the end goal? To destroy our interest in music altogether?
I have an iRiver music player that I use constantly. But it doesn't do video (at least not out of the box). I have a Sharp Zaurus that does play video, but it takes some time consuming transcoding and doesn't have much storage.
But with the vPod, finally, I can watch video on the go like I used to listen to music. I can catch up on my TV while jogging and mountain biking, mowing the lawn, painting the house, driving to work. Even while at work!
Yep, this is going to be big for me.
I use bitlbee, an IRCd that talks to the major IM networks in text format. Access this in irssi (any tty irc client will do). Leave it running 24/7 on a server in a dtach (or screen) instance. Attach to it from anywhere on earth. See in the logs the time your buddies came and went, and any messages you missed. Chat from one machine, move to another and continue the conversation. At home on my LAN, I run the trigger script, and have it play sounds on all my PCs in the house when I get a message.
A similar thing happened when I bought my Sharp Zaurus SL-5600 near its end of life. They ran out of the buggy PXA250 processors and started shipping the last units with the improved PXA255. It was even marked on the box, but since most people mail-ordered the units it was a crap-shoot what you got. I got the old unit, and was a bit disappointed even though I did get what I paid for. I suspect Mac Mini buyers who don't get the lucky upgrade will feel the same way. They may even return their units and try again.
I'm not exactly sure what you're talking about, but I don't own a truck because it has anything to do with gender. I drive my truck because a yard of bark mulch, or my dirtbike, or my racebike, or 24 sheets of drywall didn't fit into my Civic
My pride comment was because I didn't want to give anyone the impression I was one of the hundreds of kids pimping out Civics because they think they are a race car
My gasoline Civic gets 44 mpg highway cruising at 80 mph (I track it, and it drops to 36-38 in the winter). By no stretch of the imagination is it a car a grown man should be proud of, but when I was shopping for a 500-mile/week commuter to back up my weekend pickup truck, the math didn't point towards buying a hybrid.
I believe they are all Roman gods, but probably of Greek origin.
Anyways, I thought I'd mention that this is the first official release of Slackware in which there is no Gnome. Patrick has (perhaps wisely) left Gnome to be an add-on supported by 3rd parties.
My company didn't use Windows 98 (or ME) at all. They stuck with 95 until the obvious benefits of Windows 2000 (and now XP) were mainstream. I haven't read about one feature in Vista that would compell them to upgrade a thousand or more PCs. They won't do it to give us more eye candy, or to raise the minimum system requirements.
I do a lot of metalworking and this is just the sort of case I would like. I can imagine machining matching aluminum cases for other things. But I do wince at the thought of spending over $200 on just the box for your computer.
I don't like paying for access (I don't like paying for anything, I guess), but I have to admit that the Logan access is the first airport pay access I've run into that worked easily from Linux. They give you a password good for the day, but there's no client software so it appears to be MAC based. Simple. Dreadfully easy to hack I guess but they haven't left Mac and Linux users in the cold.
We have a site license for Microsoft Visio too. It can do the job, but the lack of hotkeys for some common things is annoying (I recall Send to Back, Bring to Front being buried in pulldown menus). Visio is supported by Crossover office.
Using Excel, Word, Acrobat, Powerpoint, mplayer, korganizer are cool initially but all get old really fast on a little screen and thumb-board.
But Kismet, Opera, an OTP password generator, ssh, wake-on-lan are very useful tools to have in your pocket.
My biggest gripe with the little box is that it could have been a decent mp3 player (it supports ogg and wma too with plugins). But the UI on all the available media players sucks so bad, I had to buy a separate player. How trivial it could have been to make an ipod-like interface with the thumb cursor control on the Zaurus but instead they require use of the stylus.
For what its worth, I still use the Sharp ROM and find it stable, as well as supporting any software I want (cross-compiled on my desktop).
I'm still configuring sendmail too, on a three-year old install. It mostly works, but its that last 5% of tweaking that is maddening.
Many hotels provide broadband access now (via ethernet in your room, and often WiFi in the lobby). I used to balk at the price to use it, as I'm only checking my emails. But at the cost they charge for outgoing local phone calls, buying a night's worth of broadband is often cheaper than using your modem for 5 minutes.