I agree that we need a public people-controlled search-engine, and http://yacy.de/ is sadly the best P2P search engine there is right now. It is, sadly, a major fail as it is written in Java and brings the average desktop computer to it's knees just by doing whatever in the background. A good P2P engine would make a good alternative to the commercial search-engines. There really is no alternative to Google as of now, I've tried the alternatives and they are all epic failz & pure jokes.
If they are using IPv6, a MAC is part of the network address.
fixed that for you. and you probably want to "echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/*/use_tempaddr" and/or "ifconfig eth0 hw ether NEWMAC" if this troubles you.
SSDs are probably just fine for a root filesystem, but prices must go way down before it's anything near an alternative for music/movie collections. I suspend those harddrives after 10 seconds without use and don't mind or care about the hard drive speed, if it's fast enough to play HD movies then that's just fine and the only thing that really matters to me when buying harddrives is price per gigabyte. Harddrives will keep on selling until SSDs are cheaper pr. gigabyte and that is not about to happen any time soon.
- that is my point. Still in Gentoo the percentage doesn't arrive anywhere near 100% because we have genkernel (to generate config and build the kernel automatically).
I like genkernel, place your custom kernel config for the right version in/etc/kernels (just cp any old one), run genkernel --menuconfig for a quick look if there is anything new if you want and done. I use git-sources on my desktop and change kernel frequently and genkernel saves time when (ab)using a _custom_ kernel. And apparently "# CONFIG_RDS is not set"..
Of course, ISPs and data centers should convert to IP6 first. But come client side, I still think cell phones should be converted. A much more doable task in comparison to home use and SMB offices.
If major ISPs deploy IPv6 then homes and SMB offices get it almost automagically these days. I use a he.net tunnel at home and radvd to share it. Everybody who connects to the lan gets a IPv6 addy. No problem. It works on GNU/Linux boxes, Windows boxes, Mac boxes, whatever. Most people visiting don't know and don't care, but it works. If your ISP gives you your pre-configured equipment and you connect to it and it hands you a IPv6 addy then 99% of end-users are all set and we're done. Actually getting ISPs to deploy is the hard part, end users are not.
This will not help in the long run, we must all switch to IPv6 immediately or the Internet(s) is going to die. In other news, the sky is about to fall on our head. I've been (ab)using IPv6 for a decade so I can scp stuff between boxen using DNS, and absolutely nothing has changed regarding global deployment during that period - and I doubt it ever will
I like the trash example above. Your trashcan is not secure. Does that make it alright to dig through your trashcan and store the inventory of it in a database?
So the carriers in the US must have total control or their network is going to explode, eh? How is it that you can buy whatever device you want and connect it to whatever network you want here in Europe, eh? Why haven't the mobile networks in the EU exploded yet, then, eh?
If this is what happened, then I'm surprised that Timber Hill decided to make an issue of it. If I'd been that stupid, I probably wouldn't want to draw everyone's attention to it. I would put the loss (which is this case appears to have been kless than $70k) down to experience, fix my algorithm and move on.
It must be noted that TMB did not react or care at all. It was Oslo Stock Exchange (OSE) who made an issue of this and made The National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime in Norway (ØKOKRIM) take it to court. Timber Hill has made no comment, refused to appear in court and generally appear to want this to quietly go away.
Is it realistic to search for a complete office suite like MS Office? Wouldn't it make more sense to collect different applications that perform in their task the best? Like, Abiword is a contender to Word, Gnumeric to Excell, etc...
Abiword and Gnumeric are jokes compared to their competition provided by the office suite previously known as OpenOffice. They both had great potential 5-10 years ago, too bad they haven't changed much since then.
I read the summary as "Avast is loosing market share and are desperately trying to increase shareholder value". That is pretty how I read all the press-releases from anti-virus vendors who "discover" that "the virus" is being spread on the "Internets". BUY OUR PRODUCT OR YOUR COMPUTER IS GOING TO EXPLODE! Maby these viruses really are a big problem. I don't know and don't really care, I use GNU/Linux
I really wonder if any line exists that the Chinese government can cross that will result in action taken against them by other countries and their own citizens.
Norway, the country who hands out the peace price, covertly tortures citizens who talk about NATOs many false-flag terror operations. Norway is not alone. China can do as China pleases as long as the regimes in the west are scared that China will point the finger back at the west if they push too hard. Look at the situation with the Internet censorship in China, Chinas best argument for doing what they are doing is that "Well, other countries, like Denmark and Australia, also censors their Internets".
I recall really hoping that a new distributed file transfer protocol would become standard in browsers. For one thing, it could virtually eliminate large loads on smaller servers caused by flash crowds (more colloquially known as the slashdot effect).
Why does everyone seem to want everything to be in the fscking browser? Applications already grow to huge amounts of bloat until they can send mail. What is wrong with having the browser open filetypes in some preferred stand-alone application which does the job and does it well? I really don't see the point in having some poor joke of a BitTorrent client built into my web browser when there are so many good stand-alone apps readily available.
So get another ISP! There's always thousands of ISPs in all areas of the world. Competition ensures that at least some of them follow good practices. Get with the times, man.
Yeah. Right. Like anybody is willing to move to another continent to get a faster internet connection. You may not beware of this, but New Zealand and Australia are actually islands.
If you're being a firewall which blocks _outgoing_ connections then you're in some environment where you are not going to download any files whatsoever anyway, and you're probably better off using snail-mail. People with proxy-only access to the outside world are not relevant when it comes to downloading files beyond HTML.
Because Bittorrent has a reputation issue, for one. The MPAA and RIAA attack it and call it the reason they are losing money (instead of their failing business model).
Try running a perfectly legal BitTorrent tracker. You will find that the MPAA/RIAA criminals both DDOS your server and spam your ISP with DMCA crap regarding files you are not tracking and never heard of. They really dislike BitTorrent.
I like SIP because it is a open standard, and I do not use Skype because there is no free software which allows me to talk to those who are using it. If Facebook and Skype teams up then that will likely make it even more the de-facto standard like MSN is for IM and it will probably be the total nail in the coffin for SIP. I see this as very bad news indeed.
As far as I remember, one of the problems OpenOffice always had was that most of the developers were paid developers inside Sun who worked on OpenOffice full-time. I thought the code was kind of a mess and hard to decipher for anyone outside, so the project always fought for more volunteers, but could not get many. Has this changed?
It has been hard for anyone "outside" to contribute a long time, but for other reasons. Great patches have long been rejected upstream for no reason. If you look at http://www.documentfoundation.org/faq/ you see that "We want The Document Foundation to be open to code contributions from as many people as possible. We are delighted to announce that the enhancements produced by the Go-OOo team will be merged into LibreOffice, effective immediately. We hope that others will follow suit. ". This is a big and very important change of attitude. We can at minimum expect that all the currently available patches who are available but have been ignored by "OpenOffice.org" will be added to LibreOffice, and I hope and suspect more developers will contribute now that they can.
"One generation does not have the right to determine availability for ever.", eh? Helium, eh? Let us all form a circle and talk about how we should all help save the helium for our grandchildren and ignore that we already used up more than half the oil, plutonium and other important energy sources. And copper. And we are killing off a whole range of biological diversity. But let us all ignore that and talk about the helium.
Why not ask the kernel developers? Nah, I'm not just joking, don't ask those nutjobs anything, they'll just freak out and start yelling at you.
I've seen many similar statements, so there may be some truth to this, but my experience is that they give you a short-as-possible only-most-relevant question such as "Can you bisect?" or reply like "Patch rejected: missing signoff". It appears their time is very valuable or they have to pay $5 pr. typed letter.
This may be correct if you put up some IPv6 only website. If your DNS has both a A and AAAA record then a few percent will be visiting your (v4+)v6 website. Those visiting using IPv6 probably won't know, notice or care, and this is a good thing.
New software and hardware requirements. Patches, upgrades. All that good stuff. And right now that looks like an awful lot of work for relatively little benefit. Legacy hardware that might not be upgrade-able
Most (GNU/Linux) software has had full IPv6 support for many years now. Hardware isn't much of an issue unless you mean firmware which can not be updated on some hardware since hardware does ethernet frames and don't talk IPv4 or IPv6 anyway.
Plus, right now, NAT pretty much works. Yes, I know, it's an ugly hack...
I have used IPv6 for ages (since 2002 or something like that) and I use IPv6 mainly because it makes it easy to scp things around between boxes on my LAN and boxes on other LANs under my control. Sure, you can setup port forwarding and whatever but that quickly becomes a hassle if you have many boxen here and there. My websites are all IPv6 ready because I have the IPv6 setup anyway, as said, I mainly (ab)use it because I do find that my personal day to day life is simpler when all boxen I touch regularly have their own real (IPv6) IP.
http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead is a nice Exif Jpeg camera setting parser and thumbnail remover. Try it and get scared. Geotags are new, but the problem has been there for years. The "hidden" parts of images give away camera model, camera time, camera serial number and that is just the tip of the iceberg. Always open and save images in some editor such as GIMP before uploading them to the Internet(s). This is a good idea anwyay as viewers will generally be more happy if you crop the picture, perhaps adjust the color balance etc.
Summary: fetches page, renders to image, posts to Flickr or similar, and user views that
So, expect Flickr and similar to be blocked shortly.
I doubt countries who block parts of the Internet, such as Denmark and China, will start blocking every site who allows users to upload images. I also doubt any government will are much, if at all, about this because it requires some (other) way of getting the masses informed regarding what site/image they should go look at in order to get some secret text.
If Alice creates the anti-government document and wants Bob to read it then she is probably fine with embedding the picture in a picture which is then uploaded to any of the thousands of sites who allow people to read it if she already has some pre-arranged agreement with Bob regarding where the picture will be uploaded. However..
If Alice wants to publish the anti-government document document and she wants thousands+ to read it then just how would she go about getting the masses to read this using the hide-in-image option? eh?
There are already so many ways Alice can give a secret message to Bob and most of them do not involve computer technology.
This just seems dumb if Alice wants to publish something and she wants the masses to read it. China and Norway do not torture people for reading the wrong thing on the Internet, they torture people who publish something they don't like (such as information about NATOs false-flag terror operations).
Tor (torproject.org) still works in China as long as you use bridges and Tor works just fine with or without bridges in Norway. Publishers who want readership beyond their four hundred close friends are likely better off publishing their text using the Tor technology and those who have censored Internet access are also likely better off using Tor.
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I agree that we need a public people-controlled search-engine, and http://yacy.de/ is sadly the best P2P search engine there is right now. It is, sadly, a major fail as it is written in Java and brings the average desktop computer to it's knees just by doing whatever in the background. A good P2P engine would make a good alternative to the commercial search-engines. There really is no alternative to Google as of now, I've tried the alternatives and they are all epic failz & pure jokes.
in-q-tel knows what they are doing, just look how much personal information & profit they've gotten out of that facebook thing.. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/14/facebook
If they are using IPv6, a MAC is part of the network address.
fixed that for you. and you probably want to "echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/*/use_tempaddr" and/or "ifconfig eth0 hw ether NEWMAC" if this troubles you.
SSDs are probably just fine for a root filesystem, but prices must go way down before it's anything near an alternative for music/movie collections. I suspend those harddrives after 10 seconds without use and don't mind or care about the hard drive speed, if it's fast enough to play HD movies then that's just fine and the only thing that really matters to me when buying harddrives is price per gigabyte. Harddrives will keep on selling until SSDs are cheaper pr. gigabyte and that is not about to happen any time soon.
- that is my point. Still in Gentoo the percentage doesn't arrive anywhere near 100% because we have genkernel (to generate config and build the kernel automatically).
I like genkernel, place your custom kernel config for the right version in /etc/kernels (just cp any old one), run genkernel --menuconfig for a quick look if there is anything new if you want and done. I use git-sources on my desktop and change kernel frequently and genkernel saves time when (ab)using a _custom_ kernel. And apparently "# CONFIG_RDS is not set"..
Of course, ISPs and data centers should convert to IP6 first. But come client side, I still think cell phones should be converted. A much more doable task in comparison to home use and SMB offices.
If major ISPs deploy IPv6 then homes and SMB offices get it almost automagically these days. I use a he.net tunnel at home and radvd to share it. Everybody who connects to the lan gets a IPv6 addy. No problem. It works on GNU/Linux boxes, Windows boxes, Mac boxes, whatever. Most people visiting don't know and don't care, but it works. If your ISP gives you your pre-configured equipment and you connect to it and it hands you a IPv6 addy then 99% of end-users are all set and we're done. Actually getting ISPs to deploy is the hard part, end users are not.
This will not help in the long run, we must all switch to IPv6 immediately or the Internet(s) is going to die. In other news, the sky is about to fall on our head. I've been (ab)using IPv6 for a decade so I can scp stuff between boxen using DNS, and absolutely nothing has changed regarding global deployment during that period - and I doubt it ever will
The Internet is not Secure.
I like the trash example above. Your trashcan is not secure. Does that make it alright to dig through your trashcan and store the inventory of it in a database?
So the carriers in the US must have total control or their network is going to explode, eh? How is it that you can buy whatever device you want and connect it to whatever network you want here in Europe, eh? Why haven't the mobile networks in the EU exploded yet, then, eh?
If this is what happened, then I'm surprised that Timber Hill decided to make an issue of it. If I'd been that stupid, I probably wouldn't want to draw everyone's attention to it. I would put the loss (which is this case appears to have been kless than $70k) down to experience, fix my algorithm and move on.
It must be noted that TMB did not react or care at all. It was Oslo Stock Exchange (OSE) who made an issue of this and made The National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime in Norway (ØKOKRIM) take it to court. Timber Hill has made no comment, refused to appear in court and generally appear to want this to quietly go away.
Is it realistic to search for a complete office suite like MS Office? Wouldn't it make more sense to collect different applications that perform in their task the best? Like, Abiword is a contender to Word, Gnumeric to Excell, etc...
Abiword and Gnumeric are jokes compared to their competition provided by the office suite previously known as OpenOffice. They both had great potential 5-10 years ago, too bad they haven't changed much since then.
I read the summary as "Avast is loosing market share and are desperately trying to increase shareholder value". That is pretty how I read all the press-releases from anti-virus vendors who "discover" that "the virus" is being spread on the "Internets". BUY OUR PRODUCT OR YOUR COMPUTER IS GOING TO EXPLODE! Maby these viruses really are a big problem. I don't know and don't really care, I use GNU/Linux
I really wonder if any line exists that the Chinese government can cross that will result in action taken against them by other countries and their own citizens.
Norway, the country who hands out the peace price, covertly tortures citizens who talk about NATOs many false-flag terror operations. Norway is not alone. China can do as China pleases as long as the regimes in the west are scared that China will point the finger back at the west if they push too hard. Look at the situation with the Internet censorship in China, Chinas best argument for doing what they are doing is that "Well, other countries, like Denmark and Australia, also censors their Internets".
I recall really hoping that a new distributed file transfer protocol would become standard in browsers. For one thing, it could virtually eliminate large loads on smaller servers caused by flash crowds (more colloquially known as the slashdot effect).
Why does everyone seem to want everything to be in the fscking browser? Applications already grow to huge amounts of bloat until they can send mail. What is wrong with having the browser open filetypes in some preferred stand-alone application which does the job and does it well? I really don't see the point in having some poor joke of a BitTorrent client built into my web browser when there are so many good stand-alone apps readily available.
So get another ISP! There's always thousands of ISPs in all areas of the world. Competition ensures that at least some of them follow good practices. Get with the times, man.
Yeah. Right. Like anybody is willing to move to another continent to get a faster internet connection. You may not beware of this, but New Zealand and Australia are actually islands.
If you're being a firewall which blocks _outgoing_ connections then you're in some environment where you are not going to download any files whatsoever anyway, and you're probably better off using snail-mail. People with proxy-only access to the outside world are not relevant when it comes to downloading files beyond HTML.
Because Bittorrent has a reputation issue, for one. The MPAA and RIAA attack it and call it the reason they are losing money (instead of their failing business model).
Try running a perfectly legal BitTorrent tracker. You will find that the MPAA/RIAA criminals both DDOS your server and spam your ISP with DMCA crap regarding files you are not tracking and never heard of. They really dislike BitTorrent.
I like SIP because it is a open standard, and I do not use Skype because there is no free software which allows me to talk to those who are using it. If Facebook and Skype teams up then that will likely make it even more the de-facto standard like MSN is for IM and it will probably be the total nail in the coffin for SIP. I see this as very bad news indeed.
As far as I remember, one of the problems OpenOffice always had was that most of the developers were paid developers inside Sun who worked on OpenOffice full-time. I thought the code was kind of a mess and hard to decipher for anyone outside, so the project always fought for more volunteers, but could not get many. Has this changed?
It has been hard for anyone "outside" to contribute a long time, but for other reasons. Great patches have long been rejected upstream for no reason. If you look at http://www.documentfoundation.org/faq/ you see that "We want The Document Foundation to be open to code contributions from as many people as possible. We are delighted to announce that the enhancements produced by the Go-OOo team will be merged into LibreOffice, effective immediately. We hope that others will follow suit. ". This is a big and very important change of attitude. We can at minimum expect that all the currently available patches who are available but have been ignored by "OpenOffice.org" will be added to LibreOffice, and I hope and suspect more developers will contribute now that they can.
"One generation does not have the right to determine availability for ever.", eh? Helium, eh? Let us all form a circle and talk about how we should all help save the helium for our grandchildren and ignore that we already used up more than half the oil, plutonium and other important energy sources. And copper. And we are killing off a whole range of biological diversity. But let us all ignore that and talk about the helium.
Why not ask the kernel developers? Nah, I'm not just joking, don't ask those nutjobs anything, they'll just freak out and start yelling at you.
I've seen many similar statements, so there may be some truth to this, but my experience is that they give you a short-as-possible only-most-relevant question such as "Can you bisect?" or reply like "Patch rejected: missing signoff". It appears their time is very valuable or they have to pay $5 pr. typed letter.
Nobody will be visiting you v6 website
This may be correct if you put up some IPv6 only website. If your DNS has both a A and AAAA record then a few percent will be visiting your (v4+)v6 website. Those visiting using IPv6 probably won't know, notice or care, and this is a good thing.
New software and hardware requirements. Patches, upgrades. All that good stuff. And right now that looks like an awful lot of work for relatively little benefit. Legacy hardware that might not be upgrade-able
Most (GNU/Linux) software has had full IPv6 support for many years now. Hardware isn't much of an issue unless you mean firmware which can not be updated on some hardware since hardware does ethernet frames and don't talk IPv4 or IPv6 anyway.
Plus, right now, NAT pretty much works. Yes, I know, it's an ugly hack...
I have used IPv6 for ages (since 2002 or something like that) and I use IPv6 mainly because it makes it easy to scp things around between boxes on my LAN and boxes on other LANs under my control. Sure, you can setup port forwarding and whatever but that quickly becomes a hassle if you have many boxen here and there. My websites are all IPv6 ready because I have the IPv6 setup anyway, as said, I mainly (ab)use it because I do find that my personal day to day life is simpler when all boxen I touch regularly have their own real (IPv6) IP.
http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead is a nice Exif Jpeg camera setting parser and thumbnail remover. Try it and get scared. Geotags are new, but the problem has been there for years. The "hidden" parts of images give away camera model, camera time, camera serial number and that is just the tip of the iceberg. Always open and save images in some editor such as GIMP before uploading them to the Internet(s). This is a good idea anwyay as viewers will generally be more happy if you crop the picture, perhaps adjust the color balance etc.
Summary: fetches page, renders to image, posts to Flickr or similar, and user views that So, expect Flickr and similar to be blocked shortly.
I doubt countries who block parts of the Internet, such as Denmark and China, will start blocking every site who allows users to upload images. I also doubt any government will are much, if at all, about this because it requires some (other) way of getting the masses informed regarding what site/image they should go look at in order to get some secret text.
If Alice creates the anti-government document and wants Bob to read it then she is probably fine with embedding the picture in a picture which is then uploaded to any of the thousands of sites who allow people to read it if she already has some pre-arranged agreement with Bob regarding where the picture will be uploaded. However..
If Alice wants to publish the anti-government document document and she wants thousands+ to read it then just how would she go about getting the masses to read this using the hide-in-image option? eh?
There are already so many ways Alice can give a secret message to Bob and most of them do not involve computer technology.
This just seems dumb if Alice wants to publish something and she wants the masses to read it. China and Norway do not torture people for reading the wrong thing on the Internet, they torture people who publish something they don't like (such as information about NATOs false-flag terror operations).
Tor (torproject.org) still works in China as long as you use bridges and Tor works just fine with or without bridges in Norway. Publishers who want readership beyond their four hundred close friends are likely better off publishing their text using the Tor technology and those who have censored Internet access are also likely better off using Tor.