Not really, a grid-lock type of enterence for food in to the cockpit. Have it so if you open it, you can't see in (to prevent orders such as CRASH HERE OR I SHOOT YOU)
" You write a program and make it freely available, including source code. Someone takes that program, makes a few changes and releases it as their own. You take legal action against them for "GPL violation" all you're really doing is being a prick. "
Actually they're being a prick.
You see, they took the code but failed to open source it.
We code our hearts out and open source something only to have someone steal it, enhance it, and then not release the code like we did?
That's pretty prickish to me. That's like 'Hey, cool, nice code, lets fix this, there, and there, BUY OUR PRODUCT (source not included) PROFIT!!!'
In this case, the original developers of the code can't apply the enhancements made to their code. That isn't fair, or morally acceptable.
Threatoning to sue them if they don't open source their product under the GPL swiftly isn't being a prick, it's only fair.
"Any idea how advanced Linux+ is? Right now I'm working on a certification a year. Last year was A+ this year is Network +. A+ was tough, but not that bad, networking was my weakest point."
From people in the #debian channel, and #mepis channels on freenode, they tell me LINUX+ is a joke. I asked if I'd have trouble passing it, they said if I've used Linux more than a year I'd be fine.
I've been using Linux since 2000, so I'm sure it will be a peice of cake.
I would say that the true problem is that nobody knows how to USE linux. I've been looking to go to a vocational school recently, and I can't find one that does anything more than Linux+.
I've desperately searched for one that does LPIC, but can't find any. As far as the Microsoft certifications go, they have it all (Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) -- Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) -- MSCE and a ton of others.)
Microsoft is pushing these certs in to schools to broaden awareness.
How many stuents do you think are going to get their Linux+? Now, if a student doesn't know what Linux is, what is the chances they're going to push the adoption of it in the company they work for?
"So what's the purpose of this? It's a waste of money and it will never benifit anyone. Why do people waste so much money on projects like this."
Actually, it DOES help with the goal of making cars that can drive themselves eventually. This could help lots of people who can't drive a car, or who wouldn't want to. Eventually leading to every car thats made being automatic.
That's a good thing, and it's not a waste of time. It's progress under the guise of a contest, to make it fun and competitive. There's nothing wrong with this.
" uh, do you want to check that? I just checked it on my laptop and there's nothing about changing the mac address in the advanced settings (both for my wireless pcmcia card and the inbuilt wired NIC)."
Try the ifconfig command. Its got a flag to change the MAC addr.
man ifconfig
If you're on Windows, tough luck. I'm sure there's a "3rd party" tool that could probably do the trick somewhere.
You can't OFFICIALLY spoof it, but you can spoof it at the network layer. It'll just identify through the network with a false MAC (which would get past mac filtering) but if you write a program to determine the MAC addr, there's no way to change what the program detects.
Sorry about double post -- school internet sucks, and when you get a 'THIS PAGE CANNOT BE DISPLAYED - reasons include: this site may not be functioning properly' you assume first post didn't go through.
Just hire a sidekick to take over while you're on vacation. Get a business partner. Share the wealth.
Either that, or don't go on vacation. Ever. Again.
You could get a satelite phone and have a server (monitoring the other servers) dial you and play a message if downtime happens. That's what a friend of mine did.
Its' free software which lets you publish and obtain information on the Internet without fear of censorship. To achieve this freedom, the network is entirely decentralized and publishers and consumers of information are anonymous. Without anonymity there can never be true freedom of speech, and without decentralization the network will be vulnerable to attack.
Communications by Freenet nodes are encrypted and are "routed-through" other nodes to make it extremely difficult to determine who is requesting the information and what its content is.
Users contribute to the network by giving bandwidth and a portion of their hard drive (called the "data store") for storing files. Unlike other peer-to-peer file sharing networks, Freenet does not let the user control what is stored in the data store. Instead, files are kept or deleted depending on how popular they are, with the least popular being discarded to make way for newer or more popular content. Files in the data store are encrypted to reduce the likelihood of prosecution by persons wishing to censor Freenet content.
Since this is underground type shit you could easily tap in to someones phoneline, splice the cables at a trunk and use a laptop to dial up (use a dialup account from the US or something, where it'd be impossible to warrent information out) Use proxy servers (encrypted) to do your deeds, then sign off, and leave the area.
This sounds overly complicated and not worth the hassle, but then again, if you want to post shit that is illegal in your country anyways, what business do you have doing it? Go to www.thiscountrysucks.com and post MY COUNTRY SUCKS... well I mean what type of info are these people talking about in the 'underground'?
I'd move out of the country if I were them. Why live in private bashing them when you could leave the borders and bash them in public? Nothing will ever change if you talk bad about your gov't in private.
Correction to my post above, after reading the article I learned a few facts.
The battery uses beta particles, so the problem of having 'lead housing the side of a, um, house' isn't an issue. Your microwave makes beta particles -- which can be stopped by a sheet of paper.
Still, disposal would be an issue and without proper regulation and control over disposal they wouldn't release them in prime time.
I also don't think people would understand that they're practically harmless, so they'd never take off. (Buying radioactive batteries? Do you know all the newspaper articeles that would be written after mom died while using her radioactive battery controlled remote?)
"I can imagine lots of applications for this new battery including my own laptop"
First off, the battery would be bigger than the laptop because it'd need LEAD housing, also lead is heavy, and isn't very portable. Also imagine going to the airport getting THAT Past security!
Even if it could be small/safe enough products like that would never make it to places such as your laptop due to people who wouldn't dispose of the batterys properly. How can you expect people to dispose nuclear waste properly when people don't even dispose used oil/car batteries properly?
"I'm not sure why there are still programs that expect you to reboot after install - sometimes I think , but that hasn't been a Windows problem for years. It's an aplication problem."
Then why do things like DirectX and Windows Update have to reboot? They don't modify anything like kernel32, so they shouldn't have to reboot. You might say because external DLLs are loaded by kernel32 which get updated, thus requiring reboot. However, on my Linux box when I update a kernel module, it doesn't require me to reboot.
It is an application problem, and the "the install developer just doesn't know any better" over at microsoft.
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Not really, a grid-lock type of enterence for food in to the cockpit. Have it so if you open it, you can't see in (to prevent orders such as CRASH HERE OR I SHOOT YOU)
" You write a program and make it freely available, including source code.
Someone takes that program, makes a few changes and releases it as their own.
You take legal action against them for "GPL violation" all you're really doing is being a prick.
"
Actually they're being a prick.
You see, they took the code but failed to open source it.
We code our hearts out and open source something only to have someone steal it, enhance it, and then not release the code like we did?
That's pretty prickish to me. That's like 'Hey, cool, nice code, lets fix this, there, and there, BUY OUR PRODUCT (source not included) PROFIT!!!'
In this case, the original developers of the code can't apply the enhancements made to their code. That isn't fair, or morally acceptable.
Threatoning to sue them if they don't open source their product under the GPL swiftly isn't being a prick, it's only fair.
" Darn, the T2 joke has already been made *thinks of other joke to get karma..*"
Actually, Humor karma doesn't go on your karma record. Check the faq about karma.
I saw the new starwars just today. Got the matinnae showing.
It's great, had a lot of fighting, lots of action, and emotion. I actually hate starwars and my brother drug me along, and, I actually liked it.
I wouldn't consider myself a fan now, but I'll be sure to see the next one when it comes out too.
I suggest everyone see this while it's in theatres cause it definately does it justice, and won't be as good on DVD.
Regards,
"Any idea how advanced Linux+ is? Right now I'm working on a certification a year. Last year was A+ this year is Network +. A+ was tough, but not that bad, networking was my weakest point."
/ /www.lpi.org/en/lpic.html&ei=s7SPQs_UOpzO4QGukJGFD A)
From people in the #debian channel, and #mepis channels on freenode, they tell me LINUX+ is a joke. I asked if I'd have trouble passing it, they said if I've used Linux more than a year I'd be fine.
I've been using Linux since 2000, so I'm sure it will be a peice of cake.
They also told me that I should get a real certification, LPIC (http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=1&q=http%3A
They said any real workplace would consider Linux+ a joke, and LPIC is a true show of your skills.
I would say that the true problem is that nobody knows how to USE linux. I've been looking to go to a vocational school recently, and I can't find one that does anything more than Linux+.
I've desperately searched for one that does LPIC, but can't find any. As far as the Microsoft certifications go, they have it all (Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) -- Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) -- MSCE and a ton of others.)
Microsoft is pushing these certs in to schools to broaden awareness.
How many stuents do you think are going to get their Linux+? Now, if a student doesn't know what Linux is, what is the chances they're going to push the adoption of it in the company they work for?
That's why this campaign is winning.
"besides... many hobbists don't even know you can install apache on windows..."
Then I wouldnt consider them a hobbiest. If computers were a hobby they should know more.
"the whore from Desperate Houswifes get bannged by a black,"
Why must you bring race in to the issue? I thought your points were credible until you brought race in to the issue.
BTW, I'm a white as #ffffff american here, but I don't appriciate anti inter-racial suggestions like that.
"So what's the purpose of this? It's a waste of money and it will never benifit anyone. Why do people waste so much money on projects like this."
Actually, it DOES help with the goal of making cars that can drive themselves eventually. This could help lots of people who can't drive a car, or who wouldn't want to. Eventually leading to every car thats made being automatic.
That's a good thing, and it's not a waste of time. It's progress under the guise of a contest, to make it fun and competitive. There's nothing wrong with this.
Look at the big picture.
" I think the point is that buying 1 new central server will be cheaper than buying hundreds of new desktops."
The point is, buying NO new desktops and just putting damn small linux on each of the machines is even cheaper still.
" uh, do you want to check that? I just checked it on my laptop and there's nothing about changing the mac address in the advanced settings (both for my wireless pcmcia card and the inbuilt wired NIC)."
Try the ifconfig command. Its got a flag to change the MAC addr.
man ifconfig
If you're on Windows, tough luck. I'm sure there's a "3rd party" tool that could probably do the trick somewhere.
You can't OFFICIALLY spoof it, but you can spoof it at the network layer. It'll just identify through the network with a false MAC (which would get past mac filtering) but if you write a program to determine the MAC addr, there's no way to change what the program detects.
Sorry about double post -- school internet sucks, and when you get a 'THIS PAGE CANNOT BE DISPLAYED - reasons include: this site may not be functioning properly' you assume first post didn't go through.
DUPE!
0 6/1526201&tid=160
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/
Why can't they use their search feature before posting?
This is a dupe. Refer to all previous posts in the http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/0 6/1526201&tid=160 article.
Stupid editors strike again.
Just hire a sidekick to take over while you're on vacation. Get a business partner. Share the wealth.
Either that, or don't go on vacation. Ever. Again.
You could get a satelite phone and have a server (monitoring the other servers) dial you and play a message if downtime happens. That's what a friend of mine did.
Check out http://freenet.sourceforge.net/
Its' free software which lets you publish and obtain information on the Internet without fear of censorship. To achieve this freedom, the network is entirely decentralized and publishers and consumers of information are anonymous. Without anonymity there can never be true freedom of speech, and without decentralization the network will be vulnerable to attack.
Communications by Freenet nodes are encrypted and are "routed-through" other nodes to make it extremely difficult to determine who is requesting the information and what its content is.
Users contribute to the network by giving bandwidth and a portion of their hard drive (called the "data store") for storing files. Unlike other peer-to-peer file sharing networks, Freenet does not let the user control what is stored in the data store. Instead, files are kept or deleted depending on how popular they are, with the least popular being discarded to make way for newer or more popular content. Files in the data store are encrypted to reduce the likelihood of prosecution by persons wishing to censor Freenet content.
Since this is underground type shit you could easily tap in to someones phoneline, splice the cables at a trunk and use a laptop to dial up (use a dialup account from the US or something, where it'd be impossible to warrent information out) Use proxy servers (encrypted) to do your deeds, then sign off, and leave the area.
This sounds overly complicated and not worth the hassle, but then again, if you want to post shit that is illegal in your country anyways, what business do you have doing it? Go to www.thiscountrysucks.com and post MY COUNTRY SUCKS... well I mean what type of info are these people talking about in the 'underground'?
I'd move out of the country if I were them. Why live in private bashing them when you could leave the borders and bash them in public? Nothing will ever change if you talk bad about your gov't in private.
Correction to my post above, after reading the article I learned a few facts.
The battery uses beta particles, so the problem of having 'lead housing the side of a, um, house' isn't an issue. Your microwave makes beta particles -- which can be stopped by a sheet of paper.
Still, disposal would be an issue and without proper regulation and control over disposal they wouldn't release them in prime time.
I also don't think people would understand that they're practically harmless, so they'd never take off. (Buying radioactive batteries? Do you know all the newspaper articeles that would be written after mom died while using her radioactive battery controlled remote?)
"I can imagine lots of applications for this new battery including my own laptop"
First off, the battery would be bigger than the laptop because it'd need LEAD housing, also lead is heavy, and isn't very portable. Also imagine going to the airport getting THAT Past security!
Even if it could be small/safe enough products like that would never make it to places such as your laptop due to people who wouldn't dispose of the batterys properly. How can you expect people to dispose nuclear waste properly when people don't even dispose used oil/car batteries properly?
"I'm not sure why there are still programs that expect you to reboot after install - sometimes I think , but that hasn't been a Windows problem for years. It's an aplication problem."
Then why do things like DirectX and Windows Update have to reboot? They don't modify anything like kernel32, so they shouldn't have to reboot. You might say because external DLLs are loaded by kernel32 which get updated, thus requiring reboot. However, on my Linux box when I update a kernel module, it doesn't require me to reboot.
It is an application problem, and the "the install developer just doesn't know any better" over at microsoft.
I remember the Santa Creuz Group, they were good people, before they sold themselves to the devil and became known as S.C.O.
Sigh, will there ever be an end to SCO's wraith?
Yes?
Well, that solves the claims mac users make when they say their OS is the most secure in the world.
Now it isn't!
"That's better than what can be said of many Linux distributions (I'm thinking Fedora Core 3 here). Same with OS X (I'm thinking Mac Mini here).
"
Of course you mention the most bloated peice of shit Linux distro for an example.
Perhaps you should try Damn Small Linux, and see if your opinion is the same.
The title is iCon because he is an Icon.
Get it? I don't see how it's suppose to make him look like a Con, because in that case it wouldn't have the i before it.