This man is an activist! What the hell is our government smoking? The man's wife died, which probably had an effect on his life and goals. Since when is a political statement grounds for federal charges? What will be next - will I br imprisoned for life without trial in solitary for burning a flag?
Who else here thinks the government has gone too far? Is there no way to stop this insanity?
GNOME is becoming more like KDE every day...
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It seems to me that with this roadmap, Gnome is planning on becoming the swiss army knife that KDE is. That is the exact reason why I do *not* use KDE. Gnome in its current incarnation (2.6) as well as the last several versions have appealed to me because they provide just the right amount of eye candy.
I am not particularly an X fan. I don't go for the shiny point and click thing because its just another layer separating the user from the system. Hence, I often have maybe a dozen terminal windows upen spanned across my 4 desktops.
That's not to say that X doesn't have its virtues. I wouldn't want to use Lynx as my sole browser, for the Web really does have some neat interactive and graphical content. However, things like IRC, News, and even P2P filesharing really don't need a GUI. Oh sure, I use X-Chat, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate Epic. And I actually really like Pine.
How would you like it if you could do realtime management of email on your computer from anywhere? And I mean anywhere. Run the email client you use at home from school, work, your mobile phone, etc? To do that, you need a client that can run in a terminal. This includes Mutt and Pine (amongst others). Hell, I even use (http://www.idokorro.com) idokorro mobile ssh to access my box from my car!
That said, everything has its place. But making Gnome into KDE is not the right way to go. If this happens, I will probably keep a backup of version 2.6 on CD somewhere and downgrade any new version from that my distro ships.
The point is that the code will be available to the public. What you miss in your argument is this: there will only ever be one Java. Oh, there may be forks - e.g. "Mike's Java" or "Raymond's Java" - but that is what they'll be -- forks. The write-once run-everywhere magic will *not* go away as long as you stick to the official tree. In that regards, people become more free to do what they want with their time and energies. If you don't like a fork, just use the official version from cvs. Is that so hard?
"I think it's odd that they think it's your God-given right to reverse-engineer your car, but not your XBox. Why aren't the automakers bashing these third-party code readers over the head with the DMCA while they still can?"
Don't you get it? Laws are not driven by the public interests these days. They are driven by the political forces that give the most money to their constituents. If the issue affects a lot of people's bottom lines, it gets fast-tracked through congress by the special interest groups. What does Joe Rich Boy care if his DVDs are encrypted or his Xbox can't be modded if he can watch movies on his DVD player or play games on his xbox?
Come on, wake up and smell the coffee. The same is true of the police if you think about it.
Whatever its reasons for doing this, the end result is that Linux gets a big boost from it. If IBM has its own agenda, more power to them - after all, they are a for-profit company. What do they get in return for expending so many resources with so little return? I'd do the same thing in their shoes.
All/. readers know that Windows is insecure, possibly by design. Why, then, are people surprised when a Windows box can't stay up long enough to get patched? If these people are smart enough to install Windows, they should be smart enough to have the various service packs' network install somewhere close at hand.
E.g.: Windows XP Service Pack 1a http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloa ds/s ervicepacks/sp1/network.asp
Further, anyone who puts a Windows box (patched or not) on a direct internet connection is insane. Buy a router or (if you have the knowledge) secure a Linux/*BSD box and route your net through it with NAT.
I live in San Diego and was one of the guinea pigs in the last vote. Although there was no "start" button, the machines had all the hallmarks of Windows... the buttons and navigation system, the data entry fields, everything. The interface was basic, just a few colors, radio buttons, and text boxes (much like one of those demo machines with IE in full-screen mode). There was a card reader/writer on the side that you stuck your card into. They were actually quite large too, perhaps twice the size of a standard laptop and looked to be quite heavy.
The part that really scared me was that you just put your card in the machine and take it out when you're done. There is no physical change on the card itself to indicate that anything was written to it. It is one of those smart-card type things, not the magstripe kind. There should be, at a minimum, a changed color on the outside when data is written, and in a perfect world there would be some sort of e-ink or lcd on it that displayed your choices when you took it out.
Based on all this, how am I supposed to know that my vote was cast? Even if the data was written to the card and there was a vote cast, how am I to know that the data written to the card is the same data I entered? Why is there no paper receipt? I really hope these machines are premanently banned. They really do scare me.
As a taxpaying citizen, I am appalled by this move. It is my dollar that is paying for this system, and each day it seems more and more that I am distanced from control over how my country works. Was this how the Framers intended our country to be?
My girlfriend is Japanese. She went back to Japan recently for her brother's wedding, and upon her return she had to go through this procedure. She has a green card. It saddens and sickens me what this country does in the name of preventing terrorism.
Now I wasn't around for kernel 1.x, but I certainly have extensive experience with 2.4 and now 2.6. I even used distros back in the day that were based on 2.0 and 2.2. I cannot believe how far Linux has come - just take (for example) Gnome. I used to use the console alone because the two main WMs - Gnome and KDE - were klunky and not very usable. The text rendered horribly even at higher resolutions.
In addition, with the recently added hotplug functionality it is no longer necessary to know the exact specs for your hardware in some cases - it is automatically detected and supported.
It still has a ways to go though. Second-generation hardware is still not supported well enough yet - for example, ACPI doesn't work properly on my A7N8X Dlx. The system randomly crashes with it enabled and generates a ton of interrupt errors.
I am really quite impressed with the new functionality of the 2.6 series kernels. I think I'll go off and upgrade to 2.6.2 now...
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Please contact the server administrator, webmaster and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
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jeez. I do so much work on the command line, and I have to start X just to view the web these days. I really hate the prevalence of flash- and java- based sites which have no text-only view.
I work for an unnamed ISP on the West coast of America. Recently I was in their colo room and happened to notice a new server, a Cobalt RAQ. Being a curious person, I ran nmap on it and found that it was not firewalled and had 10 or 15 services running on it. Not knowing what all of them were, I started telnetting to unknown ports, one of which simply dumped me into a root shell. Surprise, surprise! I grabbped a copy of/etc/shadow and sent it to my supervisors along with how I broke into the machine (albeit accidentally). The next day I came in to find out that I was 2 inches away from being fired and the only reason I kept my job was because I was friends with my department supervisor. Jesus. Talk about people being afraid. Perhaps I should simply release the IP address of this machine anonymously on the internet with a copy of the port scan so that they will fix their problem. But do be careful, even with the best of intentions you are liable to be hung out to dry these days, even by people you consider to be your "friends".
I was just referring to the number of companies that I have seen over the years try to get to space and then just fall off the radar... I don't hear anything about them. I wish I could remember the name, there was this one space plane program I saw on TV years ago that never seems to have panned out.
I'm glad somebody finally got somewhere with this. We'll see where it heads.
it seems to me that this has been tried so many times before. I really hope this works, and if it does it may bring affordable spaceflight to the masses within a few decades. but I'm not holding my breath.
Slashdot Mirror
I am trying to get the actual challenge file, but for the moment I have the 180k instructions pdf mirrored here:
http://www.css-auth.com/google/
If/When I get the challenge file I will put it up there.
That's funny. My laptop doesn't have a 4D-powered NVIDIA chip in it, but it used to do that all the time when I had Windows on it. Go figure.
This man is an activist! What the hell is our government smoking? The man's wife died, which probably had an effect on his life and goals. Since when is a political statement grounds for federal charges? What will be next - will I br imprisoned for life without trial in solitary for burning a flag?
Who else here thinks the government has gone too far? Is there no way to stop this insanity?
It seems to me that with this roadmap, Gnome is planning on becoming the swiss army knife that KDE is. That is the exact reason why I do *not* use KDE. Gnome in its current incarnation (2.6) as well as the last several versions have appealed to me because they provide just the right amount of eye candy.
I am not particularly an X fan. I don't go for the shiny point and click thing because its just another layer separating the user from the system. Hence, I often have maybe a dozen terminal windows upen spanned across my 4 desktops.
That's not to say that X doesn't have its virtues. I wouldn't want to use Lynx as my sole browser, for the Web really does have some neat interactive and graphical content. However, things like IRC, News, and even P2P filesharing really don't need a GUI. Oh sure, I use X-Chat, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate Epic. And I actually really like Pine.
How would you like it if you could do realtime management of email on your computer from anywhere? And I mean anywhere. Run the email client you use at home from school, work, your mobile phone, etc? To do that, you need a client that can run in a terminal. This includes Mutt and Pine (amongst others). Hell, I even use (http://www.idokorro.com) idokorro mobile ssh to access my box from my car!
That said, everything has its place. But making Gnome into KDE is not the right way to go. If this happens, I will probably keep a backup of version 2.6 on CD somewhere and downgrade any new version from that my distro ships.
The point is that the code will be available to the public. What you miss in your argument is this: there will only ever be one Java. Oh, there may be forks - e.g. "Mike's Java" or "Raymond's Java" - but that is what they'll be -- forks. The write-once run-everywhere magic will *not* go away as long as you stick to the official tree. In that regards, people become more free to do what they want with their time and energies. If you don't like a fork, just use the official version from cvs. Is that so hard?
From the post:
"I think it's odd that they think it's your God-given right to reverse-engineer your car, but not your XBox. Why aren't the automakers bashing these third-party code readers over the head with the DMCA while they still can?"
Don't you get it? Laws are not driven by the public interests these days. They are driven by the political forces that give the most money to their constituents. If the issue affects a lot of people's bottom lines, it gets fast-tracked through congress by the special interest groups. What does Joe Rich Boy care if his DVDs are encrypted or his Xbox can't be modded if he can watch movies on his DVD player or play games on his xbox?
Come on, wake up and smell the coffee. The same is true of the police if you think about it.
Because such a signal gain is illegal for unlicensed bands / users. This is an FCC mandated rule that all WAP manufacturers must adhere to.
Whatever its reasons for doing this, the end result is that Linux gets a big boost from it. If IBM has its own agenda, more power to them - after all, they are a for-profit company. What do they get in return for expending so many resources with so little return? I'd do the same thing in their shoes.
All /. readers know that Windows is insecure, possibly by design. Why, then, are people surprised when a Windows box can't stay up long enough to get patched? If these people are smart enough to install Windows, they should be smart enough to have the various service packs' network install somewhere close at hand.
a ds/s ervicepacks/sp1/network.asp
E.g.:
Windows XP Service Pack 1a
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downlo
Further, anyone who puts a Windows box (patched or not) on a direct internet connection is insane. Buy a router or (if you have the knowledge) secure a Linux/*BSD box and route your net through it with NAT.
Is that so hard?
I live in San Diego and was one of the guinea pigs in the last vote. Although there was no "start" button, the machines had all the hallmarks of Windows... the buttons and navigation system, the data entry fields, everything. The interface was basic, just a few colors, radio buttons, and text boxes (much like one of those demo machines with IE in full-screen mode). There was a card reader/writer on the side that you stuck your card into. They were actually quite large too, perhaps twice the size of a standard laptop and looked to be quite heavy.
The part that really scared me was that you just put your card in the machine and take it out when you're done. There is no physical change on the card itself to indicate that anything was written to it. It is one of those smart-card type things, not the magstripe kind. There should be, at a minimum, a changed color on the outside when data is written, and in a perfect world there would be some sort of e-ink or lcd on it that displayed your choices when you took it out.
Based on all this, how am I supposed to know that my vote was cast? Even if the data was written to the card and there was a vote cast, how am I to know that the data written to the card is the same data I entered? Why is there no paper receipt? I really hope these machines are premanently banned. They really do scare me.
As a taxpaying citizen, I am appalled by this move. It is my dollar that is paying for this system, and each day it seems more and more that I am distanced from control over how my country works. Was this how the Framers intended our country to be?
My girlfriend is Japanese. She went back to Japan recently for her brother's wedding, and upon her return she had to go through this procedure. She has a green card. It saddens and sickens me what this country does in the name of preventing terrorism.
I can just see the day when Donald Trump patents his signature expression--
Me: So, boss, what did you call me in for?
Pointy-Haired boss: You're fired!
Donald Trump: That'll be $35, please
Me: haha!
Err that was a typo. I'm going to upgrade to *2.6.4* since it was released yesterday.
Now I wasn't around for kernel 1.x, but I certainly have extensive experience with 2.4 and now 2.6. I even used distros back in the day that were based on 2.0 and 2.2. I cannot believe how far Linux has come - just take (for example) Gnome. I used to use the console alone because the two main WMs - Gnome and KDE - were klunky and not very usable. The text rendered horribly even at higher resolutions.
In addition, with the recently added hotplug functionality it is no longer necessary to know the exact specs for your hardware in some cases - it is automatically detected and supported.
It still has a ways to go though. Second-generation hardware is still not supported well enough yet - for example, ACPI doesn't work properly on my A7N8X Dlx. The system randomly crashes with it enabled and generates a ton of interrupt errors.
I am really quite impressed with the new functionality of the 2.6 series kernels. I think I'll go off and upgrade to 2.6.2 now...
because There Is No Tails
..."And he came in wielding this huge wad of 20's and a microwave transmitter!!..."
I, for one, welcome our machine overlords. Welcome to the Source!
Well, I don't know about you, but:
http://shop.sco.com/caldera/gsummary.jsp:
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The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, webmaster and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Apache/1.3.14 Server at shop.sco.com Port 80
Bah. A SCO employee contributed infringing code? I doubt it, but maybe they did it on purpose just so they could litigate...
but hey this is way cool. well done!
jeez. I do so much work on the command line, and I have to start X just to view the web these days. I really hate the prevalence of flash- and java- based sites which have no text-only view.
I work for an unnamed ISP on the West coast of America. Recently I was in their colo room and happened to notice a new server, a Cobalt RAQ. Being a curious person, I ran nmap on it and found that it was not firewalled and had 10 or 15 services running on it. Not knowing what all of them were, I started telnetting to unknown ports, one of which simply dumped me into a root shell. Surprise, surprise! I grabbped a copy of /etc/shadow and sent it to my supervisors along with how I broke into the machine (albeit accidentally). The next day I came in to find out that I was 2 inches away from being fired and the only reason I kept my job was because I was friends with my department supervisor. Jesus. Talk about people being afraid. Perhaps I should simply release the IP address of this machine anonymously on the internet with a copy of the port scan so that they will fix their problem. But do be careful, even with the best of intentions you are liable to be hung out to dry these days, even by people you consider to be your "friends".
I was just referring to the number of companies that I have seen over the years try to get to space and then just fall off the radar... I don't hear anything about them. I wish I could remember the name, there was this one space plane program I saw on TV years ago that never seems to have panned out. I'm glad somebody finally got somewhere with this. We'll see where it heads.
it seems to me that this has been tried so many times before. I really hope this works, and if it does it may bring affordable spaceflight to the masses within a few decades. but I'm not holding my breath.