Since the article does mention Busy Box, I'll explain a little of what I know about it.
Busy Box is a collection of many common Unix shell utilities (sed, ln, ls, etc.). Each package has been scaled down in size and combined into one binary, BusyBox. BusyBox is often used on embedded Linux devices and distros, such as the Sharp Zaurus and the Linux Distro pdaXrom.
...I have to admit, they've made a lot of smart moves getting into the console industry. The original XBox faced many difficult challenges in gaining sales. However, they learned much from where things went wrong, and came out strong with the launch of the XBox 360. Perhaps their biggest advantage has been the availability of the XBox 360 at retailers during the times of Wii and PS3 shortages. Even if they haven't made a profit up to this point, the amount of market share they've picked up along the way leaves them with a very bright future.
Yes, you can make your own server from an old PC, but you'd still need to buy an access point and/or a switch - and if you're going to need a file/print/FTP/HTTP server, why not get one of these routers if it suits your needs? It would save you time, money, and energy, compared to purchasing and setting up separate machines (or even compared to setting up a single machine to perform all of these functions).
Agreed. It does seem pretty good given those points.
Technically you don't. The options I listed are open source firewall projects designed to run on old PC hardware.
The beauty of this ROUTER is that you don't need to leave a PC on for your downloads anymore. Or, at least you can leave your PC's cycles to do something else, be it gaming, Folding@Home, or whatever else.
Since Smoothwall and IPCop are bare bones 2.4 kernel Linux installs (m0n0wall is based on FreeBSD), they can be expanded to run nearly any software you like. The Smoothwall.org forums are full of ideas.
Not only that, but now you don't need to run your fileserver AND your Web server, since it's got a built-in fileserver and Web server. It also has a print server if you've got PCs dedicated for that.
Your arguments seem to be based around conflicting definitions of routers. Smoothwall has a built in file server (OpenSSH) and can be expanded to run nearly any file server of your choice with a little tinkering, also it runs its own Web server, and I'm sure there are add ons from the Smoothwall.org community for enabling a print server.
You have me wondering what exactly a "router" is, I feel a definition from a Cisco reseller would be appropriate:
"On the Internet, a router is a device or, in some cases, software in a computer, that determines the next network point to which a packet should be forwarded toward its destination. The router is connected to at least two networks and decides which way to send each information packet based on its current understanding of the state of the networks it is connected to. A router is located at any juncture of networks or gateway, including each Internet point-of-presence. A router is often included as part of a network switch.
A router creates or maintains a table of the available routes and their conditions and uses this information along with distance and cost algorithms to determine the best route for a given packet. Typically, a packet may travel through a number of network points with routers before arriving at its destination. An edge router is a router that interfaces with an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network. A b-router is a network bridge combined with a router."
Based on this definition, the Ausu router, and the Open Source projects I mentioned earlier, would be more like a hybrid multi function router.
Generally it's in the spirit of the Slashdot community to "do it yourself" if the alternative is available and easily accomplished. In this case, I'd rather expand my IPCop firewall than buy an expensive piece of hardware.
Personally, I see no point in running bittorrent on a router. Routers function best based on a model of simplicity. The more "features" they perform, the worse the performance will be in packet routing (what they were originally designed to do...).
Maybe this is too simple of an answer, but INSTALL A VERSION of unix/linux and get a BOOK!
Yeah... I'll partially agree with you. The best way to learn Linux is simply to play around with it at home. I'd recommend grabbing a mainstream distribution, usually anything ranking in the top 5 on http://distrowatch.com/ is a good place to start.
(What a waste of a article.)
As for this article being a waste, I hope it wont be. On this same topic, I'd like to know where to get education on Linux that looks good on a resume. Surely there's some better accreditation out there for one to earn other than "I've played around with Linux at home". Any ideas / suggestions?
You know, considering MS has filled thousands of patents these past couple of years. And also considering the shear number of ideas, people, companies, etc, that they've bought out... I wouldn't be too surprised if MS does pull a 360 and sues Lucent for infringing on some patent MS holds on a part of MPEG2 technology.
Further, like come on, MS has many lawyers looking into every possible legal issue that could come about from each product they release. If they didn't deal with this patent issue before releasing the XBox 360, then what ever research they did on it must have shown there was no point or these guys were no threat.
Why does it matter why he is doing this? I has hoping to read this topic and find a simple solution to implementing NFS on a Local Area Network under Linux.
An organization like Free Shell uses NFS for all user accounts and much of their core orginization.
If I could use NFS, I'd fill an older computer with hard drives so I could have a massive file server. I know Google has the answer, but you have to admit, if someone on slashdot had the answer, it'd be nicer to get it here, then dig through pages and pages of Google results.
This isn't the first time that a founder of a Linux distribution has left the project or taken a lessor role, but it certainly is surprising how the founder of the distribution was forced to leave.
Back in 2003 when I bought my cutting edge PC hardware, I was having little luck getting into the Linux world. I was a noob, with poorly supported hardware in Linux. Specifically a ICHR5 S-ATA controller on my ASUS motherboard. Slackware failed to boot, Fedora Core failed to boot, as did Debian. One distro did work however, and that was Mandrake. To this day Mandrake has had the best support for my hardware, with a consistently easy set up process. However, it was never the right distro for me.
When I finally got Fedora Core working I noticed many improvements over Mandrake. It just had a feel like it was more polished, more professional. Shortly after getting used to Fedora, I dropped it for Gentoo, and I've never looked back. ^_^
Any who, I hope Gael Duval gets things settled with Mandrake. It was his company, surely they should let him go on far better terms!
PS. This post doesn't have a point, but please feel free to mod me Underrated or Interesting.:-D
" or any of the BSDs can stand up to the challenge."
Want an answer? See freeshell.org. They've been offering free home account via SSH and telnet on a NetBSD server since 1987. Considering the place is still usable, I'll simply assume no one has hacked them.
I had been following the Advent Children movie information for quite some time after it was mentioned they were developing it. The AC movie suffered from delay after delay, to the extent of pushing the release back years.
Personally, I can not comprehend the business decision with the movie. The movie was released in North America online fully subtitled 2 days before the official release date by a fansub group. The actual release date two days later after the leaked and fully fansubbed copy, was sold in Japan containing no subtitles whatsoever.
There are a large number of FFVII fans like myself who could care less what language the movie is in as long as there are English subtitles. Had they choose to release the movie in North America with only subtitled on the same data as the Japan release date, I'm sure they would have had a huge success with sales. However, they made the insane mistake of releasing it first in Japan with no thought of the NA market. Within the first week alone of the DVD release on Bittorrent there were over 100,000 downloads.
So seriously, fuck the the English voice actors, there are hundreds of thousands of fans that don't give a shit about that, they only want another cool peice of SE to add to their collection.
I can tell you, you aren't the only one dealing with this issue. I've been a heavy computer user since 1995. Up until about the year 1999 I had 20/20 vision without glasses, then after learning of my addiction to freely available Japanese anime on top of increased usage, I developed a need for glasses with vision corrections of +225 / +200 as of currently. Still plenty of room to go for further deterioration.
My background aside, at this point in time, I can't say any of my speculation is solid fact, for I am not a doctor or optometrist. The best solution, simple, yet challenging would be to spend at most 45 minutes of every hour infornt of the computer, taking 15 minutes to simply rest your eyes doing something not in front of refresh rate laden light. (Watching TV is not good rest for the eyes!) Personally, I've been trying meditation, with my eyes closed.
Other things that help me (but not a perfect correlation) are soaking a cloth in cold water and laying it on my eyes. Visine eye drops. Wearing one of those Black Eye mask type things to sleep (side note on that: do you have LED's or a screen saver on in your bedroom? turn off your main light, and stand infornt of the LED or monitor, look at a wall and wave your hands. Looks a lot like a strobe light effect, doesn't it?). Another thing you can do is let in as much sun light as possible into your working room, making sure the monitor is positioned so to avoid direct reflection, then turning off all the lights in the room. Down side of this is, unless you're a day person, you wont have many useful working hours.
So, all of my above solutions have worked for me, but they are not a perfect be all end all solution. Some days they work, some days the ideas are useless. I'm looking forward to reading the comments on this topic for others experiences. It would be nice if someone has a more perfect solution, other than retreating to a Buddhist monastery where technology doesn't exist.:-P
I emailed Wikipedia inquiring about their creditability, and they sent me a good informative email, explining how hard they really are working to improve the realiability of their site.
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We have various tools to help contributors check new edits: we have a "recent
changes" page that lists new contributions, and "watch lists" which allow
editors to closely monitor pages they are interested in. The editing and
verification of the text works on the same open-source principle as other
aspects of the site with thousands of contributors visiting the site and
checking each other's edits. One of our most important policies is that
articles should be written from a "neutral point of view", which reduces the
problem of people adding their opinion rather than facts. This policy is
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About:
root-tail is a program that allows printing of text directly to the X11 root window wherever you choose, much like running rxvt with a pixmap background but without the hassle and with more features.
Some code I use with it (there's TONS of options):
Re:And the odds you'll be affected?
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A Flu Pandemic?
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You're choosing an arbitrary number, totally plucked from the air, and developing odds from there. Unless you can give sources, anyway.
You do have a good point, thanks. I have read estimates ranging from one million to one hundred million from experts reporting to CNN and BBC. As for the earth's population, I rounded a number from http://www.ibiblio.org/lunarbin/worldpop to two digits. And I do ignore many, many factors when pulling arbitrary numbers out of thin air for odds. I suppose my point was simply, life has enough worries as it is. I don't like being told by experts in their choosen feild that I have other things I need to panic over.
And the odds you'll be affected?
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A Flu Pandemic?
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The way this flu is reported is only to cause panic and get more money. Assuming the absoulte worse case senario of 100,000,000 (one hundred million deaths) the odds are 1 in 65 will be affected, given the current population of earth is ~ 6.5 billion. More realistically, a million deaths may happen, making the realistic odds 1 in 6,500.
My question to Slashdot, is can anyone offer odds of things happening as bad as this flu? Personally, I think dying from this flu would be much better than dying from an incurable form of bone cancer.
WolframTones works by taking simple programs from Wolfram's computational universe, and using music theory and Mathematica algorithms to render them as music. Each program in effect defines a virtual world, with its own special story--and WolframTones captures it as a musical composition.
Also, I think a lot of users go too far the other way -- so on one hand you have distribution zealots who loudly proclaim that theirs is better and yours clearly sucks, for any reason or none at all......
If you want an intelligent explanation to why there are Linux zealots, and why they will never go away, I'll give you one.
(Keep in mind, my entire explanation refers to people in general who are teenagers or young adults.)
Linux is a very difficult OS to learn; no one's born knowing how to use it. We all start out overwhelmed but as time goes on we learn. First the basics, then deeper and deeper features. After getting past the basics, and at the point where advanced commands (Ex. recompiling a program with --configure options to your preference) are common place in your using of the OS, and at the point where you have your own "LEET / 31337" desktop environment you have a sense of pride you've accomplished something not anybody can. In the recent years of accomplishing this, human nature takes hold. You have something others don't, you don't want others to be in the same 31337 class as you without going through the same challenges and hell you had to go through.
I'm only offering this as an alternative view point, I know some zealots are doing plenty to hurt Linux and nothing to help it. But I also know, some zealots such as myself have a sense of pride from the accomplishment of a nice Linux system.
I've been using this security setup for a while now. Smoothwall has this option available to advanced users. Basically, you configure your network to have Green + Orange + Red interfaces.
The Green interface is where you connect your standard LAN router/switch.
The Red is where you connect your WAN cable.
The Orange is the DMZ your servers go on.
The Green zone has full access to both Red and Orange.
The Red zone (outside traffic) is denied by default unless requested or allowed by port forwarding rules.
The Orange zone is completely denied access to the Green zone. Therefor if someone from the Red zone hacking your servers gains root access to your servers, they will not be able to access or see any of the computers on the Green zone.
If you're very network savvy, you could set this up for free in one weekend.
In Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada... over the past 5 years I have tried all 3 broadband ISP's available.
Videon (now Shaw) is a cable ISP: Speeds of 600KB/sec (kilobytes) are common on their ~5mbit (megabit) connection for roughly $40 a month. Reliability remains poor. At best you'll have 90% uptime each month. At worst 2 weeks no internet 1 week with internet. (At which point I canceled my account and never looked back). Shaw offers a free static IP based on current MAC address, however they limit monthly transfers to 50GB, anything downloaded over 50GB you may be subject to fees. Their TOS is very anti sharing.
Skyweb is a Satellite internet ISP. Uptime is poor, speeds are marginal. I stuck with them roughly one month, due to a rain storm causing massive downtime.
Finally, MTS is a DSL based ISP. Their speeds are competitive. Price is fair, roughly $45 a month. Uptime is 100% every month, unless they are doing maintenance which will lower uptime to 99.9% reliability. Speeds currently are 3mbit down. They are friendly with server hosting, however IP's are dynamic.
Because reliability is the only thing that matters to me:
This research must be done. Nanotechnology must exist. I personally, will at some point contribute my intellect to the research once I have a degree in a contributing field. And as far as experiments go, I would gladly give my life for this research.
I'm sure someone can provide us a link (I read it here on slashdot), there are theories, that I find to be logical, explaining how human beings will become inferior to current technology, leaving the only logical solution to be, merging ourselves as biological organisms with technology in order to maintain out superiority and dominance in this solar system.
Nanotechnology has the potential to cure all illnesses, cure all deceases, create super humans, and reverse death. I do not make these statements in the idiot sense, use your intellect, the possibilities are real.
Do harmful consequences exist? Yes. Are the worth it? I know they are, and anyone who has the slightest clue on the facts of what this research is capable of will agree. At the least, military will like the idea of cyborgs, and it will continue in that respect. But I know, one day, I will contribute to making this technology available to all of mankind.
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Since the article does mention Busy Box, I'll explain a little of what I know about it.
Busy Box is a collection of many common Unix shell utilities (sed, ln, ls, etc.). Each package has been scaled down in size and combined into one binary, BusyBox. BusyBox is often used on embedded Linux devices and distros, such as the Sharp Zaurus and the Linux Distro pdaXrom.
See the BusyBox About Page and the BusyBox FAQ for more information.
...I have to admit, they've made a lot of smart moves getting into the console industry. The original XBox faced many difficult challenges in gaining sales. However, they learned much from where things went wrong, and came out strong with the launch of the XBox 360. Perhaps their biggest advantage has been the availability of the XBox 360 at retailers during the times of Wii and PS3 shortages. Even if they haven't made a profit up to this point, the amount of market share they've picked up along the way leaves them with a very bright future.
Agreed. It does seem pretty good given those points.
You have me wondering what exactly a "router" is, I feel a definition from a Cisco reseller would be appropriate:
"On the Internet, a router is a device or, in some cases, software in a computer, that determines the next network point to which a packet should be forwarded toward its destination. The router is connected to at least two networks and decides which way to send each information packet based on its current understanding of the state of the networks it is connected to. A router is located at any juncture of networks or gateway, including each Internet point-of-presence. A router is often included as part of a network switch. A router creates or maintains a table of the available routes and their conditions and uses this information along with distance and cost algorithms to determine the best route for a given packet. Typically, a packet may travel through a number of network points with routers before arriving at its destination. An edge router is a router that interfaces with an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network. A b-router is a network bridge combined with a router."
Based on this definition, the Ausu router, and the Open Source projects I mentioned earlier, would be more like a hybrid multi function router.
Generally it's in the spirit of the Slashdot community to "do it yourself" if the alternative is available and easily accomplished. In this case, I'd rather expand my IPCop firewall than buy an expensive piece of hardware.
Personally, I see no point in running bittorrent on a router. Routers function best based on a model of simplicity. The more "features" they perform, the worse the performance will be in packet routing (what they were originally designed to do...).
What's so new about this? http://smoothwall.org/, http://ipcop.org/ and http://m0n0.ch/wall/ could easily be custimized to perform a similar function. Easy as installing a bittorrent application, and using SSH.
By the way, these 3 options happen to be free and upgradable.
You know, considering MS has filled thousands of patents these past couple of years. And also considering the shear number of ideas, people, companies, etc, that they've bought out... I wouldn't be too surprised if MS does pull a 360 and sues Lucent for infringing on some patent MS holds on a part of MPEG2 technology.
Further, like come on, MS has many lawyers looking into every possible legal issue that could come about from each product they release. If they didn't deal with this patent issue before releasing the XBox 360, then what ever research they did on it must have shown there was no point or these guys were no threat.
An organization like Free Shell uses NFS for all user accounts and much of their core orginization.
If I could use NFS, I'd fill an older computer with hard drives so I could have a massive file server. I know Google has the answer, but you have to admit, if someone on slashdot had the answer, it'd be nicer to get it here, then dig through pages and pages of Google results.
This isn't the first time that a founder of a Linux distribution has left the project or taken a lessor role, but it certainly is surprising how the founder of the distribution was forced to leave.
:-D
Back in 2003 when I bought my cutting edge PC hardware, I was having little luck getting into the Linux world. I was a noob, with poorly supported hardware in Linux. Specifically a ICHR5 S-ATA controller on my ASUS motherboard. Slackware failed to boot, Fedora Core failed to boot, as did Debian. One distro did work however, and that was Mandrake. To this day Mandrake has had the best support for my hardware, with a consistently easy set up process. However, it was never the right distro for me.
When I finally got Fedora Core working I noticed many improvements over Mandrake. It just had a feel like it was more polished, more professional. Shortly after getting used to Fedora, I dropped it for Gentoo, and I've never looked back. ^_^
Any who, I hope Gael Duval gets things settled with Mandrake. It was his company, surely they should let him go on far better terms!
PS. This post doesn't have a point, but please feel free to mod me Underrated or Interesting.
" or any of the BSDs can stand up to the challenge."
Want an answer? See freeshell.org. They've been offering free home account via SSH and telnet on a NetBSD server since 1987. Considering the place is still usable, I'll simply assume no one has hacked them.
I had been following the Advent Children movie information for quite some time after it was mentioned they were developing it. The AC movie suffered from delay after delay, to the extent of pushing the release back years.
Personally, I can not comprehend the business decision with the movie. The movie was released in North America online fully subtitled 2 days before the official release date by a fansub group. The actual release date two days later after the leaked and fully fansubbed copy, was sold in Japan containing no subtitles whatsoever.
There are a large number of FFVII fans like myself who could care less what language the movie is in as long as there are English subtitles. Had they choose to release the movie in North America with only subtitled on the same data as the Japan release date, I'm sure they would have had a huge success with sales. However, they made the insane mistake of releasing it first in Japan with no thought of the NA market. Within the first week alone of the DVD release on Bittorrent there were over 100,000 downloads.
So seriously, fuck the the English voice actors, there are hundreds of thousands of fans that don't give a shit about that, they only want another cool peice of SE to add to their collection.
My background aside, at this point in time, I can't say any of my speculation is solid fact, for I am not a doctor or optometrist. The best solution, simple, yet challenging would be to spend at most 45 minutes of every hour infornt of the computer, taking 15 minutes to simply rest your eyes doing something not in front of refresh rate laden light. (Watching TV is not good rest for the eyes!) Personally, I've been trying meditation, with my eyes closed.
Other things that help me (but not a perfect correlation) are soaking a cloth in cold water and laying it on my eyes. Visine eye drops. Wearing one of those Black Eye mask type things to sleep (side note on that: do you have LED's or a screen saver on in your bedroom? turn off your main light, and stand infornt of the LED or monitor, look at a wall and wave your hands. Looks a lot like a strobe light effect, doesn't it?). Another thing you can do is let in as much sun light as possible into your working room, making sure the monitor is positioned so to avoid direct reflection, then turning off all the lights in the room. Down side of this is, unless you're a day person, you wont have many useful working hours.
So, all of my above solutions have worked for me, but they are not a perfect be all end all solution. Some days they work, some days the ideas are useless. I'm looking forward to reading the comments on this topic for others experiences. It would be nice if someone has a more perfect solution, other than retreating to a Buddhist monastery where technology doesn't exist. :-P
About: root-tail is a program that allows printing of text directly to the X11 root window wherever you choose, much like running rxvt with a pixmap background but without the hassle and with more features.
Some code I use with it (there's TONS of options):
You do have a good point, thanks. I have read estimates ranging from one million to one hundred million from experts reporting to CNN and BBC. As for the earth's population, I rounded a number from http://www.ibiblio.org/lunarbin/worldpop to two digits. And I do ignore many, many factors when pulling arbitrary numbers out of thin air for odds. I suppose my point was simply, life has enough worries as it is. I don't like being told by experts in their choosen feild that I have other things I need to panic over.
The way this flu is reported is only to cause panic and get more money. Assuming the absoulte worse case senario of 100,000,000 (one hundred million deaths) the odds are 1 in 65 will be affected, given the current population of earth is ~ 6.5 billion. More realistically, a million deaths may happen, making the realistic odds 1 in 6,500.
My question to Slashdot, is can anyone offer odds of things happening as bad as this flu? Personally, I think dying from this flu would be much better than dying from an incurable form of bone cancer.
Dr. Stephen Wolfram has been doing a similar type of research using his "A New Kind of Science".
Wolfram Tones
WolframTones works by taking simple programs from Wolfram's computational universe, and using music theory and Mathematica algorithms to render them as music. Each program in effect defines a virtual world, with its own special story--and WolframTones captures it as a musical composition.
If you want an intelligent explanation to why there are Linux zealots, and why they will never go away, I'll give you one.
(Keep in mind, my entire explanation refers to people in general who are teenagers or young adults.)
Linux is a very difficult OS to learn; no one's born knowing how to use it. We all start out overwhelmed but as time goes on we learn. First the basics, then deeper and deeper features. After getting past the basics, and at the point where advanced commands (Ex. recompiling a program with --configure options to your preference) are common place in your using of the OS, and at the point where you have your own "LEET / 31337" desktop environment you have a sense of pride you've accomplished something not anybody can. In the recent years of accomplishing this, human nature takes hold. You have something others don't, you don't want others to be in the same 31337 class as you without going through the same challenges and hell you had to go through.
I'm only offering this as an alternative view point, I know some zealots are doing plenty to hurt Linux and nothing to help it. But I also know, some zealots such as myself have a sense of pride from the accomplishment of a nice Linux system.
I've been using this security setup for a while now. Smoothwall has this option available to advanced users. Basically, you configure your network to have Green + Orange + Red interfaces.
The Green interface is where you connect your standard LAN router/switch.
The Red is where you connect your WAN cable.
The Orange is the DMZ your servers go on.
The Green zone has full access to both Red and Orange.
The Red zone (outside traffic) is denied by default unless requested or allowed by port forwarding rules.
The Orange zone is completely denied access to the Green zone. Therefor if someone from the Red zone hacking your servers gains root access to your servers, they will not be able to access or see any of the computers on the Green zone.
If you're very network savvy, you could set this up for free in one weekend.
The real joke is that Canada is far ahead of the US when it comes to broadband speeds and availability...
In Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada... over the past 5 years I have tried all 3 broadband ISP's available.
Videon (now Shaw) is a cable ISP: Speeds of 600KB/sec (kilobytes) are common on their ~5mbit (megabit) connection for roughly $40 a month. Reliability remains poor. At best you'll have 90% uptime each month. At worst 2 weeks no internet 1 week with internet. (At which point I canceled my account and never looked back). Shaw offers a free static IP based on current MAC address, however they limit monthly transfers to 50GB, anything downloaded over 50GB you may be subject to fees. Their TOS is very anti sharing.
Skyweb is a Satellite internet ISP. Uptime is poor, speeds are marginal. I stuck with them roughly one month, due to a rain storm causing massive downtime.
Finally, MTS is a DSL based ISP. Their speeds are competitive. Price is fair, roughly $45 a month. Uptime is 100% every month, unless they are doing maintenance which will lower uptime to 99.9% reliability. Speeds currently are 3mbit down. They are friendly with server hosting, however IP's are dynamic.
Because reliability is the only thing that matters to me:
Shaw receives 0/10
Skyweb 1/10
MTS 10/10
This research must be done. Nanotechnology must exist. I personally, will at some point contribute my intellect to the research once I have a degree in a contributing field. And as far as experiments go, I would gladly give my life for this research.
I'm sure someone can provide us a link (I read it here on slashdot), there are theories, that I find to be logical, explaining how human beings will become inferior to current technology, leaving the only logical solution to be, merging ourselves as biological organisms with technology in order to maintain out superiority and dominance in this solar system.
Nanotechnology has the potential to cure all illnesses, cure all deceases, create super humans, and reverse death. I do not make these statements in the idiot sense, use your intellect, the possibilities are real.
Do harmful consequences exist? Yes. Are the worth it? I know they are, and anyone who has the slightest clue on the facts of what this research is capable of will agree. At the least, military will like the idea of cyborgs, and it will continue in that respect. But I know, one day, I will contribute to making this technology available to all of mankind.
IBM continues to be a major supporter of Open Source.
I still have to wonder about their intentions. Do Sony and IBM truly believe the Cell will be the replacement for Intel and AMD based chips?
After following the instruction I received in my IM Window, I downloaded the virus, and tried to run it. It wouldn't open!
I decided to look at the source code with the command "LAN358102:~ haxor$ cat myprofile\@hotmail.com | head"
Result: MZP???@?? ?!?L?!??This program must be run under Win32 $7PELv?A?
*sigh* When will virus writers start to consider people who use other platforms?
I don't even live in the US, but just to be safe, I think I'll chmod my entire file system 700.
Or, better yet, chmod 733 everything! You can write and execute, but you can't know what anything is! Buhahaha, it's a fool proof plan.