I'd have to say it's genuine. If you scan through the DailyKos website, you'll find linked references to where the Administration was _really_ trying to keep a lid on it. They were at least able to get it so that it wasn't shown until late on Friday - and that's been this administration's deal all the time - anything "bad for the administration" comes out late on Friday, when most people aren't watching the evening news, and its impact is lessened by Monday morning.
My old laptop had simliar specs. I ran blackbox wm on it, which was nice and speedy. It's simple, fast and no frills. Blackbox+ half a dozen themes is about a 250k package,and you don't waste overhead on needless eyecandy. For file management, I discovered XFE (formerly XWC) - it's lean, fast, and as frilled as you need it to be, short of goofy html backgrounds and such. Opera for browsing all the way - low overhead and fast. Mutt for email. If I was still using that same machine, I'd try out Xfce4 on it. I hadn't discovered that wm at that time, but I bet it runs great on those specs. I'd still stick with XFE and Opera though.
I have not tested Vector yet, but my experiences with KDE 3.3 on Gentoo and SuSE on my Homebox (a PIII-866 with 384MB) haven't been too well. Really? Methinks you need to optimize your compile settings or something, or use a better vid card. Perhaps you're running a ton of services that you needn't? The Debian Sid Laptop (HP Omnibook 6000) that I'm typing this on runs KDE more than splendidly. The only major tweaking I've done is a custom kernel.
Specs: $ cat/proc/cpuinfo |grep name model name : Pentium III (Coppermine) $ cat/proc/cpuinfo |grep MHz cpu MHz : 696.986 $ cat/proc/meminfo |grep MemTotal MemTotal: 386124 kB $ lspci |grep VGA 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64) $ dpkg -l kdelibs4 |grep ii ii kdelibs4 3.3.0-2 KDE core libraries
Debian's biggest strength, and some would argue biggest weakness, is the Debian Policy. Take a look at Manoj Srivastava's superb essay on Debian Policy for more info. It's well worth the read.
As did Carlson and Begala.
If you'll notice, Stewart didn't even mention the book. HE didn't even TRY to bring up his book.
Only Carlson and Begala brought up the book - in lame attempts to switch the focus off of Stewart calling them out on the carpet for the godawful job they do. They'd lost their normal control over their own show and were desperately trying to get it back.
Obviously, they failed miserably.
Yes, Stewart only runs a comedy show, but if he is so serious about the media asking the candidates real questions, why did he make his Kerry interview so lame and softballish? He had the opportunity to really ask, not the set-up-and-trap-em type questions, but to make him say clearly all the things they want to avoid. (emphasis mine)
You answered your own question there. Stewart also answered the question himself:
CARLSON: You had John Kerry on your show and you sniff his throne and you're accusing us of partisan hackery?
STEWART: Absolutely.
CARLSON: You've got to be kidding me. He comes on and you...
STEWART: You're on CNN. The show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls.
No, I can't give you hard statistics, I was speaking from my own experiences with things like Quicken, MS Office, and various games (Diablo 2, RTCW, etc.). Cripes, Microsoft alone has a LIST OF THEIR OWN GAMES that require admin rights _just to use_.
If the user isn't using IE and isn't running a server (such as httpd), then it's quite unlikely that anything bad will happen. Unless someone specifically targets the machine and scans for all activated services, etc, and launches an attack against an un-patched vulnerability.
I would be brave enough to state that a Win2k / WinXP / Win2003 is just as secure as UNIX / FreeBSD / OSX, if: -
* The user using the machine doesn't have admin rights,
Since about 90-99% of all software, including games, require admin access just to be used, you're SOL there.
* Windows and related networking software is kept up-to-date,
Even if it is, that's no guarantee. History has shown us that Microsoft likes to keep things under wraps until 1)they issue a patch, sometimes months/years after something's been brought to their attention or 2) someone goes public with PoC code or a working exploit
* Doesn't use IE / related mail product.
So, don't use the very hallmarks of Microsoft's networking suite, half of which is "directly tied to the OS".
So, what you're saying is that once you're on a fully secured Microsoft Windows machine, about the only thing you can do is use notepad.
If ANYONE here really cares about security their on Bugtraq anyways.
Except that these days, bugtraq is usually a day behind and seems to think that security news ceases to exist on weekends. Ahh, the beauty of a corporate buy-out.
The Full-Disclosure list is much more timely.
First off, a hearty thank you! In The Beginning Was The Command Line was what initially got me to try Linux back in 1998 - I wanted a free tank!:o)
Second... It would sem that your father was a big inspiration for Command Line. What has inspired you for your other works? I've always been fascinated by the inspirations of an author's particular works, as they usually give a deeper insight to the work than just the included text.
...I contend that we cannot consider ANY third party candidate to be truly serious about running for President until they have run for AND WON a race wherein the votes cast were made from a statewide race (i.e. senator, governor, state attorney general, etc.)...
Perhaps, instead of spewing forth useless opinionated drivel, you should read the Constitution of the United States and see what the requirements for office are.
Article II, Section I of the Constitution offers the following three requirements for becoming president of the United States:
The candidate must be at least 35 years old.
The candidate must be a natural-born U.S. citizen.
The candidate must have resided in the U.S. for at least 14 years at the time of the election.
About a million years ago, back in 1992, MTV was actually partially reasponible for getting the 1st President Bush out of office.
Way back then, the USA had been involved a war in the Middle East. The folks fighting it weren't quite aware of actually who they were fighting for. At that time, a young politician from Arkansas came to light, and MTV went all out - personal interviews, polls to their audience, even a personal audience with said candidate, with questions from the audience. Sure not all the questions were relevant (boxers or briefs?), but the candidate was brought directly to the audience by a fairly major force in their lives - in terms they could relate to. A young candidate being brought to a young voting constituency in a way that had never been seen before. That candidate's opposition basically shrugged that audience off... and paid the price.
MTV was pretty big back then, but back then they also actually showed videos too. MTV news actually consisted of something more than just record release party announcements. Kurt Loder actually seemed like a real, authoritative, news anchor - or at least sincere one - not some snotty kid in glasses and a t-shirt with a microphone.
The Rock The Vote campaign they (co)sponsored back then was amazingly effective. It brought a huge voting population onto the scene, which would normally be apathetic, and tried to educate them - at least to some extent, even if it was one-sided. These days it's half-hearted at best. Recycled slogans with little or nothing to back them up.
I can almost understand why the younger folks are more apathetic these days. I remember a time when I really thought people with important titles, important positions, and who made important decisions were people to be respected and listened to. Now it seems more and more evident the world is a global high school for super rich men with unlimited resources to fling poo at each other, and the only thing we little bitty humans can do is say... "Damn. It smells like shit in here."
How about how many Linux distros that StarOffice, OOo, or Firefox are included with? How many times have those distros been downloaded? Are those numbers even considered? Are the ftp mirrors of the original archives and distro archives counted? They certainly add to the soup, as it were.
Your 25+ downloads seem to pale in comparison when you actually consider the scale of "uncounted" downloads.
"My main objection, as I've stated in another reply, was that our current regulatory and cultural environment conditioned me not to expect a strip show in the middle of the superbowl. If our church knew that tits were on the menu, we would not have had a Superbowl party. I hope you can appreciate, despite our differing premises, this point."
I can't understand your point. You complain about a "strip show" yet, your church will condone the mass viewing of 22 men who hit each other so hard that they have to wear body armor, literally, beating each other bloody over a leather ball. Yet, your church condones said beating, interspersed with advertisements for drugs that give four hour erections? And you have the audacity to complain about a tit-flash?
Eat me. Seriously. And the sanctimonious horse you rode in on.
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I held the trunk on my old '77 Buick Century on with duct tape for almost 2 years you insensitive clod!
g3t 0ff |\/|y l4\/\/n!!!~!!111oneone!!tilde!!!!omgwtfbbq!!
I'd be happy if they'd shut the hell up long enough to drive
I don't know about the legal aspects of it, but it's already being done regardless. It's called a Guerilla Drive-In
I'd have to say it's genuine. If you scan through the DailyKos website, you'll find linked references to where the Administration was _really_ trying to keep a lid on it. They were at least able to get it so that it wasn't shown until late on Friday - and that's been this administration's deal all the time - anything "bad for the administration" comes out late on Friday, when most people aren't watching the evening news, and its impact is lessened by Monday morning.
My old laptop had simliar specs. I ran blackbox wm on it, which was nice and speedy. It's simple, fast and no frills. Blackbox+ half a dozen themes is about a 250k package,and you don't waste overhead on needless eyecandy.
For file management, I discovered XFE (formerly XWC) - it's lean, fast, and as frilled as you need it to be, short of goofy html backgrounds and such. Opera for browsing all the way - low overhead and fast. Mutt for email.
If I was still using that same machine, I'd try out Xfce4 on it. I hadn't discovered that wm at that time, but I bet it runs great on those specs. I'd still stick with XFE and Opera though.
I have not tested Vector yet, but my experiences with KDE 3.3 on Gentoo and SuSE on my Homebox (a PIII-866 with 384MB) haven't been too well.
/proc/cpuinfo |grep name /proc/cpuinfo |grep MHz /proc/meminfo |grep MemTotal
/etc/rc3.d/
Really? Methinks you need to optimize your compile settings or something, or use a better vid card. Perhaps you're running a ton of services that you needn't? The Debian Sid Laptop (HP Omnibook 6000) that I'm typing this on runs KDE more than splendidly. The only major tweaking I've done is a custom kernel.
Specs:
$ cat
model name : Pentium III (Coppermine)
$ cat
cpu MHz : 696.986
$ cat
MemTotal: 386124 kB
$ lspci |grep VGA
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64)
$ dpkg -l kdelibs4 |grep ii
ii kdelibs4 3.3.0-2 KDE core libraries
Current Running Services:
$ ls
S10sysklogd S20apmd S20makedev S89cron S20cupsys S99rmnologin
S11klogd S20autofs S20no-ip S99kdm S99stop-bootlogd
S20acpid S20ifplugd S20ssh S99linuxlogo
and ugly and his mother wears army boots.
/kicks self for not reading the entire thread
Link to article was previously posted here.
Debian's biggest strength, and some would argue biggest weakness, is the Debian Policy.
Take a look at Manoj Srivastava's superb essay on Debian Policy for more info. It's well worth the read.
Lesbian GNU/Linux
;o)
I thought he was going to be pushing his new book
As did Carlson and Begala.
If you'll notice, Stewart didn't even mention the book. HE didn't even TRY to bring up his book.
Only Carlson and Begala brought up the book - in lame attempts to switch the focus off of Stewart calling them out on the carpet for the godawful job they do. They'd lost their normal control over their own show and were desperately trying to get it back.
Obviously, they failed miserably.
Yes, Stewart only runs a comedy show, but if he is so serious about the media asking the candidates real questions, why did he make his Kerry interview so lame and softballish? He had the opportunity to really ask, not the set-up-and-trap-em type questions, but to make him say clearly all the things they want to avoid. (emphasis mine)
You answered your own question there. Stewart also answered the question himself:
CARLSON: You had John Kerry on your show and you sniff his throne and you're accusing us of partisan hackery?
STEWART: Absolutely.
CARLSON: You've got to be kidding me. He comes on and you...
STEWART: You're on CNN. The show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls.
No, I can't give you hard statistics, I was speaking from my own experiences with things like Quicken, MS Office, and various games (Diablo 2, RTCW, etc.). Cripes, Microsoft alone has a LIST OF THEIR OWN GAMES that require admin rights _just to use_.
If the user isn't using IE and isn't running a server (such as httpd), then it's quite unlikely that anything bad will happen. Unless someone specifically targets the machine and scans for all activated services, etc, and launches an attack against an un-patched vulnerability.
/years after something's been brought to their attention or 2) someone goes public with PoC code or a working exploit
I would be brave enough to state that a Win2k / WinXP / Win2003 is just as secure as UNIX / FreeBSD / OSX, if: -
* The user using the machine doesn't have admin rights,
Since about 90-99% of all software, including games, require admin access just to be used, you're SOL there.
* Windows and related networking software is kept up-to-date,
Even if it is, that's no guarantee. History has shown us that Microsoft likes to keep things under wraps until 1)they issue a patch, sometimes months
* Doesn't use IE / related mail product.
So, don't use the very hallmarks of Microsoft's networking suite, half of which is "directly tied to the OS".
So, what you're saying is that once you're on a fully secured Microsoft Windows machine, about the only thing you can do is use notepad.
No thanks.
If ANYONE here really cares about security their on Bugtraq anyways.
Except that these days, bugtraq is usually a day behind and seems to think that security news ceases to exist on weekends. Ahh, the beauty of a corporate buy-out.
The Full-Disclosure list is much more timely.
The 'Liberal Media' is only as liberal as the giant corporations that own it.
"I'm John Kerry and I approved this message."
sheesh
You sir, are correct! :P~~~~
I can only offer the excusethat I'm not yet used to typing on my laptop all the time yet.
First off, a hearty thank you! In The Beginning Was The Command Line was what initially got me to try Linux back in 1998 - I wanted a free tank! :o)
Second...
It would sem that your father was a big inspiration for Command Line. What has inspired you for your other works? I've always been fascinated by the inspirations of an author's particular works, as they usually give a deeper insight to the work than just the included text.
...I contend that we cannot consider ANY third party candidate to be truly serious about running for President until they have run for AND WON a race wherein the votes cast were made from a statewide race (i.e. senator, governor, state attorney general, etc.)...
Perhaps, instead of spewing forth useless opinionated drivel, you should read the Constitution of the United States and see what the requirements for office are.
Article II, Section I of the Constitution offers the following three requirements for becoming president of the United States:
The candidate must be at least 35 years old.
The candidate must be a natural-born U.S. citizen.
The candidate must have resided in the U.S. for at least 14 years at the time of the election.
About a million years ago, back in 1992, MTV was actually partially reasponible for getting the 1st President Bush out of office.
Way back then, the USA had been involved a war in the Middle East. The folks fighting it weren't quite aware of actually who they were fighting for. At that time, a young politician from Arkansas came to light, and MTV went all out - personal interviews, polls to their audience, even a personal audience with said candidate, with questions from the audience. Sure not all the questions were relevant (boxers or briefs?), but the candidate was brought directly to the audience by a fairly major force in their lives - in terms they could relate to. A young candidate being brought to a young voting constituency in a way that had never been seen before. That candidate's opposition basically shrugged that audience off... and paid the price.
MTV was pretty big back then, but back then they also actually showed videos too. MTV news actually consisted of something more than just record release party announcements. Kurt Loder actually seemed like a real, authoritative, news anchor - or at least sincere one - not some snotty kid in glasses and a t-shirt with a microphone.
The Rock The Vote campaign they (co)sponsored back then was amazingly effective. It brought a huge voting population onto the scene, which would normally be apathetic, and tried to educate them - at least to some extent, even if it was one-sided. These days it's half-hearted at best. Recycled slogans with little or nothing to back them up.
I can almost understand why the younger folks are more apathetic these days. I remember a time when I really thought people with important titles, important positions, and who made important decisions were people to be respected and listened to. Now it seems more and more evident the world is a global high school for super rich men with unlimited resources to fling poo at each other, and the only thing we little bitty humans can do is say...
"Damn. It smells like shit in here."
...but if you were a multi-millionaire, $100K may seem a pretty small price tag for the opportunity to do something truly unique like this...
Except for the fact that every other multi-millionaire will be able to do it too, so it won't actually be truly unique.
How about how many Linux distros that StarOffice, OOo, or Firefox are included with? How many times have those distros been downloaded? Are those numbers even considered? Are the ftp mirrors of the original archives and distro archives counted? They certainly add to the soup, as it were. Your 25+ downloads seem to pale in comparison when you actually consider the scale of "uncounted" downloads.
"My main objection, as I've stated in another reply, was that our current regulatory and cultural environment conditioned me not to expect a strip show in the middle of the superbowl. If our church knew that tits were on the menu, we would not have had a Superbowl party. I hope you can appreciate, despite our differing premises, this point."
I can't understand your point.
You complain about a "strip show" yet, your church will condone the mass viewing of 22 men who hit each other so hard that they have to wear body armor, literally, beating each other bloody over a leather ball. Yet, your church condones said beating, interspersed with advertisements for drugs that give four hour erections? And you have the audacity to complain about a tit-flash?
Eat me.
Seriously.
And the sanctimonious horse you rode in on.
...A poor quality in a journalist...
I believe that's the first time I've ever seen Dvorak referred to as a journalist.