Then why not just statically link your non-system libraries???
Then again, it probably does not have multiple copies of the same library as you say. I imagine they detect identical files, and just make hard links on the filesystem.
I have another idea: Why not just append a version number to a library's file name. when the program is executed, the dynamic linker loads the correct version. Oh wait, this is how Linux works.
The reason the devices cost $16,000 versus $0.50 is because someone is bribing the officials in charge of acquiring the devices. I obviously have no proof of this, but I'd say it's a pretty good theory given the culture. It certainly happens here on occasion, but we're *much* more beholden to actual proof of ability and less likely to have corruption when purchasing such expensive tools.
On occasion? Ha, that is the funniest thing I have ever heard.
Yes, the politicians here would be smacked down if they flagrantly allow tools to be used which don't work, but the government here does certainly pay high amounts of money for 50 cent items.
In fact, people at the store usually pay nine, ten or even twenty dollars or more for an item which costs 50 cents (or less) to make. Spoiled people don't shop around for bargains, so the retailers get away for it.
Really, the related problem in the US today is self-righteousness. Most of the people here think they can run everyone else's lives better than people running their own lives. From what I've seen, the opposite is true.
Self-righteous spoiled bastards ruin other people's lives by cluelessly interfering to "help," and when it goes south or negatively effects other people, they just place the blame on someone else or say the policy needs to be "tweaked." While some people do screw up their own lives, most people run their own lives just fine.
Many people for the Iraq war justify it by saying we are helping the Iraqis. Perhaps the war did help them, but is keeping troops there really helpful now? Do we have a reason for staying? No matter if there was justification for Iraq (though lying about WMDs was "unacceptable" as the politicians say.), it seems having troops there is interfering with their right to run their own lives, and wasting lots of our resources.
Let them take care of the terrorists in their country themselves. I would like to add I think our troops are doing a great job, but I think it would be better for them to do something else. In fact, with China's aggressive moves and problems on the southern border, I would be more comfortable if they were home, to be honest.
If anyone bothered to think about how the machine works, it is clearly a nervousness detector, not a "lie" detector. If someone becomes nervous when they answer a question, the examiner marks it as a "lie."
For example, if you take a person from a sexually repressed society, and the examiner asks them if they had sex today, the machine would probably detect it as a "lie." If someone has an anxiety disorder or just have high stakes in the test, most, if not all, of the questions will probably be flagged as "lies."
The main problem (besides the fact they are used in the first place) is that apparently, most "lie" detector examiners are incompetent idiotic (or possibly deceptive) bastards. That, and half the idiots on the planet think those machines actually detect lies.
If used properly, I suppose in some cases it may help steer an investigation in the correct direction. But, more likely it would just paint a target on anyone who has certain types of psychological problems. (and possibly physical ones too)
You really think that will work? They probably pay hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars per month for hosting. They also have armies of lawyers Assuming they aren't running their own servers, their hosting provider will laugh at those takedowns. They probably laugh at legitimate DMCA takedowns.
At most you will annoy them with a flood of requests. They will probably then try to sue anyone who sent the requests. Even if they didn't win, they would probably bankrupt your associates with lawyer fees. In fact, they'd probably have you and your associates charged with a crime.
The rules are different for large companies. They made it that way. Why do you think the US economy is becoming so centralized on them?
Really, quite a few of the big players are parasites on society. They provide the smallest amount of service for the highest price they can manipulate. You can't win playing their game.
The only way to "win" is to cut them out of your life by not using or buying their products (as much as possible), and try to keep them from getting laws passed where you are required to give them money.
Laws against sending false DMCA complaints with serious consequences are needed. They also must be enforced. In fact, I would imagine there are already laws against sending such fraudulent documents, but apparently the FBI just says, "they are just making money, so they aren't doing anything wrong." Just like many idiots on slashdot.
Car jackers are just doing it to make money, does this mean they aren't doing anything wrong? All right! I just found the perfect excuse to tell the judge! "I wasn't doing anything wrong standing outside Natalie Portman's shower with some hot grits. It was all part of a scheme to make money!"
Here's what I propose: start a group that issues indiscriminate take-down notices...
Apparently, you haven't been paying attention. This has been happening frequently since the DMCA passed. It would certainly appear multiple companies are just using bots to send take down notices. If a filename on your server matches one of their products, they send a notice.
Do we really need to dig out all those old slashdot stories? OpenOffice being "mistaken" for MS Office. The professor who made his own music, but had a similar name to some singer.
Then there were also the stories where some company / religious org / person wanted to silence someone, so they used the DMCA. etc...
Maybe you should read up on slashdot history. This is nothing new. You should've seen the deal with the SSSCA. Luckily, quite a few computer companies smacked it down. Will the entertainment "industry" succeed in screwing us this time? Who knows.
No. What you are talking about is a trojan horse, not a virus. Trojans are programs someone tricked the user into running: trojans are not self-replicating. You did get it partly correct. As you said, worms transmit themselves through the network. Usually through security holes in the target systems.
A virus spreads by infecting parts of files/disks, and when those files/disks are carried to another system, the virus can spread to the new computer. A boot sector virus puts itself into the area the BIOS loads and executes on startup.
Executable viruses hide themselves into another file (such as an.exe installer), and will infect another system if the new system runs the file. They will also reinfect a system you just cleaned if you mistakingly save an infected file and run it after the cleaning.
Malware can be both a virus and a worm and a trojan, though it seems most people these days just call everything a virus--including trojan horse programs.
Except most people in backwards towns think they are normal. If they thought they were odd, then most of them would start questioning their actions, and they would become more reasonable.
You, like far too many people, are really bad at math. 36months * cost of your plan + $99 (or $49) is much much greater than $100. They are not charging you only $99 for that phone. The real cost is mixed in with your service bill. No wonder the cell phone cartel is raping us in the ass.
Just change the context to cars and ask that question. There are plenty of old car shows floating around. Saw one the other day. Some people like antiques and vintage technology.
If I were you, I'd be looking for a way to hook up a flash card to the Performa. lowendmac seems to have the right ideas. Looking around, there appears to be at least one company selling those types of adapters--I got good hits on a search with Acard (though google wants to "correct" the search). This device from reactivedata may be what you are looking for.
I don't know, hearing the drive grind away may be what you are missing, but this would make the computer work...maybe you could make a recording of old hard drives on CD and play it while you are at the computer?
I wonder if using USB may be easier. I seem to remember buying a PCMCIA USB adapter for my mother's laptop a few years ago. It looks like newegg still carries them.
The install process may still require a boot floppy, but after boot, a usb cdrom or flash card should work, assuming the floppy's kernel isn't too old. Then again, if the laptop has Win95/98 on it, dropping to DOS and using loadlin to boot the install could work...
Remember, 486 machines predate the advent of DMA transfers, so you'll be sucking up all of your (already very limited) CPU just to manage disk activity.
This is a total load of crap. Even of the 8088 IBM compatible computers, most (if not all) had DMA chips. I learned assembly programming on IBM compatibles before 486s were in regular use, and all the IBM compatible computers had DMA chips. As best as I recall, the only PCs which didn't have DMA chips were early IBM and compatibles, the 8-bit 6502 based computers (Atari, Apple, Commodore), early Macintosh, and maybe the Atari ST and Amiga. I could be wrong in they may have had DMA chips, but I know later computers did have them. Here is an article about old 8088 computers and DRAM refreshing.
About using a 486 and X: you obviously know nothing about this. I used a 100MHz 486 with 16MB of RAM from 1996 to about 2000 or 2001, and it ran X okay. When I say "okay", I mean okay for me. Current "fast" computers with KDE or Gnome are not okay for me: they run slow. Yes, Mozilla had problems, but it certainly was not slower than browsing with current "fast" computers. This guy wants to run Dillo. He will be just fine. Dillo is fast even on a 486.
Yes, I did have problems with swap storms. Mostly if I opened too many windows in Mozilla (or a heavy page), or if I tried to edit a big photo (larger than a resolution than probably around 1500x1500) in GIMP. However with more ram, this won't be as much a problem (I think the submission said 24 MB).
You must be using a different version of blackbox than I do. As I remember, blackbox was just fine on my 486 I don't recall it being slow, though I mostly used fvwm. Blackbox was certainly snappy on my 500 MHz K6. I know because the fvwm project degenerated into a buggy mess with fvwm2 and didn't seem to have the features I needed anymore, so I used blackbox quite a bit. I don't really like blackbox because of the way it is set up, but it isn't slow.
In fact, if you compared blackbox on a 486 running against KDE or Gnome on a "fast" modern computer, I doubt you could tell the difference in response speed. If anything the Knome computer would be slower. I think blackbox had a delay setting for accessibility, but so do Gnome, KDE and MSWin. Maybe you had that turned on? Blackbox Configuration wiki session.autoRaiseDelay: look down in section 2.4.8
It may require using an older X binary (better lock it out of the internet with -nolisten tcp and such), it will probably also require compiling a custom 2.4 kernel, but I don't see the big problem. What is with all the naysayers?
I for one think it is idiotic to edit what the interviewee said. Even with grammar corrections, who is to say you won't accidentally change the subtle meaning of what they said?
I say you did it the right way, and should not listen to grammar Nazi trolls. Grammar and spelling only really matter when it would cause someone to misunderstand something.
Sometimes it is a problem for Open Source. gcc "2.96" for example. A distro took an experimental version of gcc, called it "2.96" (the previous version was 2.95.x) and released it in their distribution. This version of gcc had a number of serious problems and incompatibilities with other versions of gcc.
This caused quite a few headaches. If you ever see a version of gcc marked 2.96, DO NOT use it. It is screwed up.
This is partly why I don't like to use distros who modify projects. Yeah, they may improve the crap script kiddie ones, or the ones written by universities where they are based on sound concepts, but were programmed by non-programmers--scientists and the like.
But, many of the very popular core projects are written by programming experts who are the best in their field. For example OpenSSL and Debian: did the maintainer really think he was more of a cryptography programming expert than the OpenBSD guys? No frakking way!
Professor Ariely describes some experiments which demonstrated something he calls 'arbitrary coherence.' Basically it means that once you contemplate a decision or actually make a decision, it will heavily influence your subsequent decisions. That's the coherence part. Your brain will try to keep your decisions consistent with previous decisions you have made.
They are just stuck on Microsoft, and no argument or proof is going to change their mind.
Or Acer is using this to negotiate a better deal with Microsoft and doesn't care whether Android succeeds or not. I'm beginning to think Asus did the same thing. Why would they use such crappy distros if they were serious. I am not a big fan of Ubuntu, but it is far more polished than Xandros or apparently Android are.
Most of the apps in the "Android Marketplace" were free? They probably did come from apt-get. Apt-get has plenty of GUI front ends. I don't understand your "user unfriendliness" comment. You just tell it what you want. If you want to install the superkitten package, you would type "apt-get install superkitten" You only think it is hard because Microsoft marketing says so.
Anyway, "user unfriendly" is a subjective term and varies depending upon the user. I had two strokes, and the constant pop-ups and nonsensical messages (among other things) of the MS/KNOME consortium is VERY user unfriendly to me.
Funny, if they didn't require the "special keys", you'd claim apt-get was insecure and just anyone could root your box by using DNS poisoning.
You only need to add repositories if your distro doesn't supply the program you want. If you wish to manually add programs, you put them in/usr/local. From what I have seen, this is what most source tarballs do by default.
Just like if your Magic Marketplace(tm) didn't have what you want, you would... what? Oh, I see. You define the Magic Marketplace(tm) as what you want. Okay.
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Then why not just statically link your non-system libraries???
Then again, it probably does not have multiple copies of the same library as you say. I imagine they detect identical files, and just make hard links on the filesystem.
I have another idea: Why not just append a version number to a library's file name. when the program is executed, the dynamic linker loads the correct version. Oh wait, this is how Linux works.
On occasion? Ha, that is the funniest thing I have ever heard.
Yes, the politicians here would be smacked down if they flagrantly allow tools to be used which don't work, but the government here does certainly pay high amounts of money for 50 cent items.
In fact, people at the store usually pay nine, ten or even twenty dollars or more for an item which costs 50 cents (or less) to make. Spoiled people don't shop around for bargains, so the retailers get away for it.
Really, the related problem in the US today is self-righteousness. Most of the people here think they can run everyone else's lives better than people running their own lives. From what I've seen, the opposite is true.
Self-righteous spoiled bastards ruin other people's lives by cluelessly interfering to "help," and when it goes south or negatively effects other people, they just place the blame on someone else or say the policy needs to be "tweaked." While some people do screw up their own lives, most people run their own lives just fine.
Many people for the Iraq war justify it by saying we are helping the Iraqis. Perhaps the war did help them, but is keeping troops there really helpful now? Do we have a reason for staying? No matter if there was justification for Iraq (though lying about WMDs was "unacceptable" as the politicians say.), it seems having troops there is interfering with their right to run their own lives, and wasting lots of our resources.
Let them take care of the terrorists in their country themselves. I would like to add I think our troops are doing a great job, but I think it would be better for them to do something else. In fact, with China's aggressive moves and problems on the southern border, I would be more comfortable if they were home, to be honest.
If anyone bothered to think about how the machine works, it is clearly a nervousness detector, not a "lie" detector. If someone becomes nervous when they answer a question, the examiner marks it as a "lie."
For example, if you take a person from a sexually repressed society, and the examiner asks them if they had sex today, the machine would probably detect it as a "lie." If someone has an anxiety disorder or just have high stakes in the test, most, if not all, of the questions will probably be flagged as "lies."
The main problem (besides the fact they are used in the first place) is that apparently, most "lie" detector examiners are incompetent idiotic (or possibly deceptive) bastards. That, and half the idiots on the planet think those machines actually detect lies.
If used properly, I suppose in some cases it may help steer an investigation in the correct direction. But, more likely it would just paint a target on anyone who has certain types of psychological problems. (and possibly physical ones too)
You really think that will work? They probably pay hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars per month for hosting. They also have armies of lawyers Assuming they aren't running their own servers, their hosting provider will laugh at those takedowns. They probably laugh at legitimate DMCA takedowns.
At most you will annoy them with a flood of requests. They will probably then try to sue anyone who sent the requests. Even if they didn't win, they would probably bankrupt your associates with lawyer fees. In fact, they'd probably have you and your associates charged with a crime.
The rules are different for large companies. They made it that way. Why do you think the US economy is becoming so centralized on them?
Really, quite a few of the big players are parasites on society. They provide the smallest amount of service for the highest price they can manipulate. You can't win playing their game.
The only way to "win" is to cut them out of your life by not using or buying their products (as much as possible), and try to keep them from getting laws passed where you are required to give them money.
Laws against sending false DMCA complaints with serious consequences are needed. They also must be enforced. In fact, I would imagine there are already laws against sending such fraudulent documents, but apparently the FBI just says, "they are just making money, so they aren't doing anything wrong." Just like many idiots on slashdot.
Car jackers are just doing it to make money, does this mean they aren't doing anything wrong? All right! I just found the perfect excuse to tell the judge! "I wasn't doing anything wrong standing outside Natalie Portman's shower with some hot grits. It was all part of a scheme to make money!"
Apparently, you haven't been paying attention. This has been happening frequently since the DMCA passed. It would certainly appear multiple companies are just using bots to send take down notices. If a filename on your server matches one of their products, they send a notice.
Do we really need to dig out all those old slashdot stories? OpenOffice being "mistaken" for MS Office. The professor who made his own music, but had a similar name to some singer.
Then there were also the stories where some company / religious org / person wanted to silence someone, so they used the DMCA. etc...
Maybe you should read up on slashdot history. This is nothing new. You should've seen the deal with the SSSCA. Luckily, quite a few computer companies smacked it down. Will the entertainment "industry" succeed in screwing us this time? Who knows.
Proven?
No. What you are talking about is a trojan horse, not a virus. Trojans are programs someone tricked the user into running: trojans are not self-replicating. You did get it partly correct. As you said, worms transmit themselves through the network. Usually through security holes in the target systems.
A virus spreads by infecting parts of files/disks, and when those files/disks are carried to another system, the virus can spread to the new computer. A boot sector virus puts itself into the area the BIOS loads and executes on startup.
Executable viruses hide themselves into another file (such as an .exe installer), and will infect another system if the new system runs the file. They will also reinfect a system you just cleaned if you mistakingly save an infected file and run it after the cleaning.
Malware can be both a virus and a worm and a trojan, though it seems most people these days just call everything a virus--including trojan horse programs.
Except most people in backwards towns think they are normal. If they thought they were odd, then most of them would start questioning their actions, and they would become more reasonable.
You didn't make them into a beowulf cluster? What kind of slashdot user are you???
You, like far too many people, are really bad at math. 36months * cost of your plan + $99 (or $49) is much much greater than $100. They are not charging you only $99 for that phone. The real cost is mixed in with your service bill. No wonder the cell phone cartel is raping us in the ass.
Just change the context to cars and ask that question. There are plenty of old car shows floating around. Saw one the other day. Some people like antiques and vintage technology.
If I were you, I'd be looking for a way to hook up a flash card to the Performa. lowendmac seems to have the right ideas. Looking around, there appears to be at least one company selling those types of adapters--I got good hits on a search with Acard (though google wants to "correct" the search). This device from reactivedata may be what you are looking for. I don't know, hearing the drive grind away may be what you are missing, but this would make the computer work...maybe you could make a recording of old hard drives on CD and play it while you are at the computer?
I wonder if using USB may be easier. I seem to remember buying a PCMCIA USB adapter for my mother's laptop a few years ago. It looks like newegg still carries them.
The install process may still require a boot floppy, but after boot, a usb cdrom or flash card should work, assuming the floppy's kernel isn't too old. Then again, if the laptop has Win95/98 on it, dropping to DOS and using loadlin to boot the install could work...
This is a total load of crap. Even of the 8088 IBM compatible computers, most (if not all) had DMA chips. I learned assembly programming on IBM compatibles before 486s were in regular use, and all the IBM compatible computers had DMA chips. As best as I recall, the only PCs which didn't have DMA chips were early IBM and compatibles, the 8-bit 6502 based computers (Atari, Apple, Commodore), early Macintosh, and maybe the Atari ST and Amiga. I could be wrong in they may have had DMA chips, but I know later computers did have them. Here is an article about old 8088 computers and DRAM refreshing.
About using a 486 and X: you obviously know nothing about this. I used a 100MHz 486 with 16MB of RAM from 1996 to about 2000 or 2001, and it ran X okay. When I say "okay", I mean okay for me. Current "fast" computers with KDE or Gnome are not okay for me: they run slow. Yes, Mozilla had problems, but it certainly was not slower than browsing with current "fast" computers. This guy wants to run Dillo. He will be just fine. Dillo is fast even on a 486.
Yes, I did have problems with swap storms. Mostly if I opened too many windows in Mozilla (or a heavy page), or if I tried to edit a big photo (larger than a resolution than probably around 1500x1500) in GIMP. However with more ram, this won't be as much a problem (I think the submission said 24 MB).
You must be using a different version of blackbox than I do. As I remember, blackbox was just fine on my 486 I don't recall it being slow, though I mostly used fvwm. Blackbox was certainly snappy on my 500 MHz K6. I know because the fvwm project degenerated into a buggy mess with fvwm2 and didn't seem to have the features I needed anymore, so I used blackbox quite a bit. I don't really like blackbox because of the way it is set up, but it isn't slow.
In fact, if you compared blackbox on a 486 running against KDE or Gnome on a "fast" modern computer, I doubt you could tell the difference in response speed. If anything the Knome computer would be slower. I think blackbox had a delay setting for accessibility, but so do Gnome, KDE and MSWin. Maybe you had that turned on? Blackbox Configuration wiki session.autoRaiseDelay: look down in section 2.4.8
It may require using an older X binary (better lock it out of the internet with -nolisten tcp and such), it will probably also require compiling a custom 2.4 kernel, but I don't see the big problem. What is with all the naysayers?
Paralegal? I thought companies used spam bots to send DMCA notices.
You are correct. From openssl.org:
Sorry for the misinformation.
I for one think it is idiotic to edit what the interviewee said. Even with grammar corrections, who is to say you won't accidentally change the subtle meaning of what they said?
I say you did it the right way, and should not listen to grammar Nazi trolls. Grammar and spelling only really matter when it would cause someone to misunderstand something.
Sometimes it is a problem for Open Source. gcc "2.96" for example. A distro took an experimental version of gcc, called it "2.96" (the previous version was 2.95.x) and released it in their distribution. This version of gcc had a number of serious problems and incompatibilities with other versions of gcc.
This caused quite a few headaches. If you ever see a version of gcc marked 2.96, DO NOT use it. It is screwed up.
This is partly why I don't like to use distros who modify projects. Yeah, they may improve the crap script kiddie ones, or the ones written by universities where they are based on sound concepts, but were programmed by non-programmers--scientists and the like.
But, many of the very popular core projects are written by programming experts who are the best in their field. For example OpenSSL and Debian: did the maintainer really think he was more of a cryptography programming expert than the OpenBSD guys? No frakking way!
Unless, of course, you accidentally set off the tilt bit.
Yes, MS DOS and MS Windows were such flops.
No, I think so many users insistence on MS products has to do with another slashdot story: The Science of Irrational Decisions.
They are just stuck on Microsoft, and no argument or proof is going to change their mind.
Or Acer is using this to negotiate a better deal with Microsoft and doesn't care whether Android succeeds or not. I'm beginning to think Asus did the same thing. Why would they use such crappy distros if they were serious. I am not a big fan of Ubuntu, but it is far more polished than Xandros or apparently Android are.
Most of the apps in the "Android Marketplace" were free? They probably did come from apt-get. Apt-get has plenty of GUI front ends. I don't understand your "user unfriendliness" comment. You just tell it what you want. If you want to install the superkitten package, you would type "apt-get install superkitten" You only think it is hard because Microsoft marketing says so.
Anyway, "user unfriendly" is a subjective term and varies depending upon the user. I had two strokes, and the constant pop-ups and nonsensical messages (among other things) of the MS/KNOME consortium is VERY user unfriendly to me.
Funny, if they didn't require the "special keys", you'd claim apt-get was insecure and just anyone could root your box by using DNS poisoning.
You only need to add repositories if your distro doesn't supply the program you want. If you wish to manually add programs, you put them in /usr/local. From what I have seen, this is what most source tarballs do by default.
Just like if your Magic Marketplace(tm) didn't have what you want, you would... what? Oh, I see. You define the Magic Marketplace(tm) as what you want. Okay.
The above poster was offended you weren't using his "one true" Operating System(tm).