"That's not encrytion; I just make it do that to impressed newbies."
Or:
"This is not the Matrix. This is a special program, the sole purpose of which... is to frighten new recruits."
I had no idea that printing could be done with control characters. Sorry.
I suppose that means that in theory, opening a binary that you think is plaintext can print stuff...
Would it work over a telnet connection or does it filter out weird characters?
I wonder if anyone has ever made a file that prints meaningfull text or ASCII art when viewed rather than run...
Sorry about that. That shouldn't happen. It never happened to me (on Linux 2.4 and 2.6, printer managed by CUPS). It should just print characters from the random device to the terminal, so random text and symbols appear. It can sometimes flip the terminal over into extended ASCII, like trying to view a binary file as text, but you can always CTRL+C and type reset.
I think that the cursor changing to a block and the extended ASCII are the result of control characters being output, but I don't know of any that print stuff...
What kind of Unix are you using? Were you root?
I'm sorry, I assumed everyone knew what it did, and this genuinely wasn't intended to do anything bad.
Yeah, don't tell them. I love the way people respect and fear me just because I use bash and cmd.exe.
Seriously, some people are very impressed by CLIs. Especially green ones. Try "cat/dev/urandom" on a green terminal to make dummies think you are doing real work...
I for one don't want a Firefox monopoly. I would like to see the web written in W3C compliant XHTML and CSS, so that any W3C compliant browser works. Then even MSIE can continue to exist, but it will be forced to be standard compliant or people won't use it.
That must be amongst the rudest AC comments ever to reach +5, Insightful on/., and it well and truly deserves the honour.
Congratulations, and I'm sorry that my own mod points timed out a few hours ago.
I guess the fact that this AC didn't get modded -1, Troll like anyone else talking like that shows that we are, almost unanimously, really, really pissed off at the state of the web.
From MSN groups: MSN Chat is not currently compatible with your Internet browser and/or computer operating system. [...] We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. We hope you'll be joining the fun on MSN Chat soon!
(This is the result of writing things in ActiveX when they would work in Java. IANAL, but isn't breaking websites on competing OSs anticompetitive?)
IE will display the correct URL but will go to a hacked copy of the site while the user is unaware.
Not just IE! If the malware can edit the hosts file, it could make www.amazon.com point to a phishing site for everything on the system (IE, Firefox, even "ping"). Messing with the hosts file is quite a common adware trick, to allow banner ads on sites to be taken over I would guess.
It is not really true that "format c:" will destroy a modern Windows installation, even as admin. I have actually tried this on a laptop that screwed up after Service Pack 2, and you are not allowed to format without unmounting, and you can't unmount the system drive. Sorry to spoil an old threat/joke.
It probably worked in DOS or Win9X, and that started the myth.
Just to prove that I'm not trolling to make people try it out, there's an article about it here, which basically says that while format c: doesn't work, "del/F/S/Q *" does (it doesn't format, but it does remove all files). That's "del/F/S/Q *", slashdotters. Remember it. Change old jokes to include it, and run it if you see a Windows machine.
Clearly a lot of/.ers have started downloading XFld (the XFCE live demo - basically Knoppix with XFCE 4.2) many using the torrent. If you are one of the majority who aren't uploading at all, could you PLEASE learn how to open port 6881?
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Gnome != GTK
I use KDE, and have GTK installed because I use GTK apps, but I have no Gnome installation.
What are you going to run from the pen drive anyway? Most non-KDE X11 apps use GTK now (it's not just for Gnome programs like QT is for KDE apps).
The above must look quite like a lot of acronyms connected by grammar...
Actually, lets go into "the immorality of forcibly taking from one person to give to another".
Do you consider it to be immoral to tax people and then fund a police force with the money, for example? After all, that would be discrimination against people who pay taxes but could defend themselves from criminals without police help.
Nuclear powered rockets aren't a good idea because radioactive exhaust goes into the atmosphere and kills people. Even if you launch in the middle of a desert, much of it will be realeased at high altitude and spread like fallout.
Unless you are talking about a some other kind of nuclear rocket, that wasn't abandoned in the 70s when researchers decided they were too dangerous to build?
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Only 2 problems: buggy if you select another tab in Firefox (not really their fault), and how the hell do you jump to halfway through the clip?
I don't know if it even works under Wine. I think it might even need Crossover Office, which isn't free, even as in beer.
.mov, but they sometimes don't support all formats of Quicktime files.
There are Linux players for
Don't quite understand that, but it looks like russian roulette...
Disadvantage: lack of strange matrix-ish characters they haven't seen before.
Advantage: Much more meaningful appearance due to the lack of spaces.
"That's not encrytion; I just make it do that to impressed newbies."
Or:
"This is not the Matrix. This is a special program, the sole purpose of which... is to frighten new recruits."
I had no idea that printing could be done with control characters. Sorry.
I suppose that means that in theory, opening a binary that you think is plaintext can print stuff...
Would it work over a telnet connection or does it filter out weird characters?
I wonder if anyone has ever made a file that prints meaningfull text or ASCII art when viewed rather than run...
Sorry about that. That shouldn't happen. It never happened to me (on Linux 2.4 and 2.6, printer managed by CUPS). It should just print characters from the random device to the terminal, so random text and symbols appear. It can sometimes flip the terminal over into extended ASCII, like trying to view a binary file as text, but you can always CTRL+C and type reset.
I think that the cursor changing to a block and the extended ASCII are the result of control characters being output, but I don't know of any that print stuff...
What kind of Unix are you using? Were you root?
I'm sorry, I assumed everyone knew what it did, and this genuinely wasn't intended to do anything bad.
Yeah, don't tell them. I love the way people respect and fear me just because I use bash and cmd.exe.
/dev/urandom" on a green terminal to make dummies think you are doing real work...
Seriously, some people are very impressed by CLIs. Especially green ones. Try "cat
I for one don't want a Firefox monopoly. I would like to see the web written in W3C compliant XHTML and CSS, so that any W3C compliant browser works. Then even MSIE can continue to exist, but it will be forced to be standard compliant or people won't use it.
That must be amongst the rudest AC comments ever to reach +5, Insightful on /., and it well and truly deserves the honour.
Congratulations, and I'm sorry that my own mod points timed out a few hours ago.
I guess the fact that this AC didn't get modded -1, Troll like anyone else talking like that shows that we are, almost unanimously, really, really pissed off at the state of the web.
From MSN groups:
MSN Chat is not currently compatible with your Internet browser and/or computer operating system. [...] We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. We hope you'll be joining the fun on MSN Chat soon!
(This is the result of writing things in ActiveX when they would work in Java. IANAL, but isn't breaking websites on competing OSs anticompetitive?)
Ignite the web!
IE will display the correct URL but will go to a hacked copy of the site while the user is unaware.
Not just IE! If the malware can edit the hosts file, it could make www.amazon.com point to a phishing site for everything on the system (IE, Firefox, even "ping"). Messing with the hosts file is quite a common adware trick, to allow banner ads on sites to be taken over I would guess.
It is not really true that "format c:" will destroy a modern Windows installation, even as admin. I have actually tried this on a laptop that screwed up after Service Pack 2, and you are not allowed to format without unmounting, and you can't unmount the system drive. Sorry to spoil an old threat/joke.
/F /S /Q *" does (it doesn't format, but it does remove all files). That's "del /F /S /Q *", slashdotters. Remember it. Change old jokes to include it, and run it if you see a Windows machine.
It probably worked in DOS or Win9X, and that started the myth.
Just to prove that I'm not trolling to make people try it out, there's an article about it here, which basically says that while format c: doesn't work, "del
I had assumed that that wasn't an option in stock Knoppix. Why did they make a special XFCE version then?
Thats not XFCE!
Thats the XFCE live demo, the XFCE version of Knoppix. Also quite cool, but it's not XFCE for installing on your main distro.
Clearly a lot of /.ers have started downloading XFld (the XFCE live demo - basically Knoppix with XFCE 4.2) many using the torrent. If you are one of the majority who aren't uploading at all, could you PLEASE learn how to open port 6881?
Gnome != GTK
I use KDE, and have GTK installed because I use GTK apps, but I have no Gnome installation.
What are you going to run from the pen drive anyway? Most non-KDE X11 apps use GTK now (it's not just for Gnome programs like QT is for KDE apps).
The above must look quite like a lot of acronyms connected by grammar...
Why do they have an annual 2004 timeline?
You'd think they would do other years sometimes, like 2003, maybe just after the end of the year 2003 or something...
Actually, lets go into "the immorality of forcibly taking from one person to give to another".
Do you consider it to be immoral to tax people and then fund a police force with the money, for example? After all, that would be discrimination against people who pay taxes but could defend themselves from criminals without police help.
WTF are those use flags near the bottom of the bugzilla page?
I think you are allowed to just say USE="*"
If you want the binaries to be slower than RPMs...
BTW where did you get vegetarian parmesan?
Most parmesan seems to be made with calf rennet.
Wow... That sounds much more interesting than a bigger/smaller/faster/"with better something" device.
Can you post the recipe? I'm sure the mods won't bother modding you down, they'll save the points for politics or vi/emacs.
Maybe an actuall TB would merit the front page, but this is just slashvertising.
Protected presumably by no one knowing where in the registry the list is kept yet...
So, what you're saying is that programming languages should be hard enough that stupid people can't write in them?
--Disclaimer: although I don't actually hate VB, it annoys me too. I don't really mean the above.
Nuclear powered rockets aren't a good idea because radioactive exhaust goes into the atmosphere and kills people. Even if you launch in the middle of a desert, much of it will be realeased at high altitude and spread like fallout.
Unless you are talking about a some other kind of nuclear rocket, that wasn't abandoned in the 70s when researchers decided they were too dangerous to build?