No antivirus on the Windows also leads to "lead to stronger botnets and ID theft". My personal GNU/Linux "other choices" does not help me when I am under attack by zombie botnets. If Microsoft would simply prevent those who are have illegitimate Windows copies from using the Internet, or simply prevent them from using them at all, then that would be great for the rest of us who are (ab)using the Internets. Half-assed attempts at encouraging people to pay for their product by withholding those parts of the software who make having Windows-users on the Internet bearable for the rest of us is just bad.
From the article, "The HYDRA technology, as it is called, is a combination of hardware (in the form of a dedicated chip) and software (a driver that sits between the OS and DirectX)", I can't wait for this software technology to be available for GNU/Linux. But.. something tells me it will take a while as never ATI and NVidia chips can not even do 3D using free software as of today and support seems to be years away. And yes, I know, there is some unstable proprietary binary blob available for my ATI card which can do 3D, but it is immoral to use that and it is actually so slow on 2D (which to me is more important) compared to the free "radeon" driver that it's ridiculous.
Has anyone at the (evil) EastLink corporation actually considered dragging cables to the nice folks in Victoria Harbour? Bulk fiber cable is not that expensive and does provide higher transfer rates at lower latencies.
My then-really-expensive Chieftec case for my home desktop now houses it's third motherboard. I had to replace the ATX PSU with a ATX2 PSU the last time I changed motherboard, but I did NOT have to replace the case. I see absolutely no reason to throw away a good PC case ever, unless they change the ATX standard and I seriously doubt will be done within the next 20 years. Why would they do that? Would a cardboard box survive that long?
One more little detail. The last time I changed motherboard/CPU was because the PC turned off and there was smoke emanating from the motherboard when I opened the case. I wonder how well cardboard would have handled that little incident, specially if I were not in front of the computer at the time?
I do not consider OpenSolaris future safe until we get a few forks. Now there is The OpenSolaris and it's future depends on just one (evil) corporation. If one GNU/Linux distribution dies a horrible death then it is of no importance since there are dozens of other BNU/Binux (with a B) distributions. If Bubuntu dies then that does not stop Bedora or Bentoo from carrying forward. I'll take a look at OpenSolaris when there's at minimum 3 variants of it being developed.
I have the ATI Radeon HD 3300 technology and it can't even do OpenGL, even 2D EXA acceleration was something one could only dream of until very recently. I have heard that there is this binary blob for Radeon cards floating around, but I am NOT about to use such immoral and very questionable things. Dear AMD and the folks at ATI you assimilated, make the xorg radeon and radeonhd drivers actually work with the cards you already released or at minimum share more useful documentation before you go around sending out press-releases who say that you supposedly can do something new and impressive -- specially when we all know that it will take years, if ever, before your shiny new technology can be used on Linux-based variants of the GNU operating system.
split is actually GNU, part of the GNU coreutils. It should also be mentioned that the manual document indicates Torbjorn Granlund and Richard M. Stallman involvement with making the split technology.
Using 'regular' Linux filesystems like ext keeps the permissions, but may require using the superuser when switching machines (as the UIDs are different).
It sounds to me that the Question is not what filesystem to (ab)use, but how to make the files on the USB technology appear to belong to the same (ab)user on both/all boxen. Simply give yourself the same UID on both/all boxen and you are done.
usermod -u 1000 youruser
chown -R youruser:users/home/youruser
man usermod and man chown for additional information.
The latency incurred by pulse audio is horrendous, for youtube or movies that's fine, for gaming it's questionable, for music production it's nasty. These days completely removing pulseaudio and getting it all going again is quite an effort.
My athlon2k system recently failed and fetched a pentium3 633mhz from the basement and installed Ubuntu on it to use while I waited for my new desktop box. Ubuntu insists on running everything through pulseaudio by default. I was shocked to find that this box had problems playing xvid movies and ran top. There pulseaudio was, using 20% CPU and it insisted on doing that even when I ran mplayer -ao alsa. Removing this junk allowed mplayer to play xvid videos smoothly. Perhaps those who have rare old soundcards without hardware mixing and do not want to setup alsa's dmix benefit, who knows, but I do know I did not. Perhaps pulseaudios insane CPU usage is less of a problem with modern hardware, but there is no soundcard made this century that I know of who does not do hardware mixing, so why anyone would want this junk -- specially installed by default on a distro -- is beyond my understanding.
Comeback, eh? That will be temporary, at best. Most of the ore which is left is so low-grade that it is hardly worth mining it. The US is way passed peak uranium and relies on imports. Those countries who do export are running out and will soon stop doing so. The Nuclear Power Industry simply has no long-term future.
Yes, NVIDiAs propietary nvidia driver really is better than ATIs propietary fglrx driver - which sucks.
However, it must be mentioned that both the free xorg radeon and radeonhd drivers perform better than ATIs propietary driver in 2D (while the 3D support is poor) and that the obfuscated xorg nv driver for nvidia is redicilous.
If you are using GNU/Linux and you are fine with propietary drivers the nvidia is probably the best choice. Intel and ATI are way better choices if you are not.
Norsk Rikskringkasting (NRK) is financed through a "license" which they can by law charge everyone who owns a televison set or other equipment which is able to get TV broadcasts.
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They have been trying to claim a whole range of ludicrous things in order to demand license fees from more people than those who are listed as TV owners in their database for years.
NRK actually tried to claim that everyone who owns a telephone also has a television and asked for permission to demand that everyone registered with a telephone pays the TV license. They were, luckily, denied when they tried that one. Now they are trying to claim that everyone who owns a computer can view their content and should pay a television license.
NRK setting up a BitTorrent tracker does look like a good thing - at first glance. But do not get fooled: This is all about getting a new Norwegian law which would say that everyone who owns computer technology must pay NRK a yearly fee. It is that simple. This is all about the money. That they use BitTorrent is in itself a good thing. Their motives are absolutely not.
You can bypass DNS censorship by running your own nameservers or by using OpenDNS or other open DNS servers who allow anyone to do recursive lookups.
Bypassing DNS-censorship is easy.
They have, as I understand the local law (I live in Sweden), not broken any local laws.
I am not entirely sure if they have violated some EU law or not.
The international pressure to find them guilty seems to be huge, so they may be convicted regardless of there being no violation of any local law.
I find it really disturbing that they will probably be found guilty due to immense international pressure from governments and corporations, it sets a very dangerous precedence if you can get tried and convicted without having done anything illegal if enough powerful entities think that what you are doing should be illegal in your country.
CueCat, QT, it's just a fancy barcode. Except that Microsoft can charge everyone who uses or implements their version of the barcode. Reinventing the wheel IS profitable. This is ODF vs OOXML all over again except that this time there is no open format available as an alternative. Hackers should get right on making an open fancy-barcode standard, and where oh where is RMS on this issue?
The IP could be traced, eh? I guess they should have used https://www.torproject.org/ to do those edits... if Tor users are not blocked from creating users at the moment, which is frequently is. "We traced those edits to some IP in China which happens to be a Tor server, now what do we do?"
Statutory rape? Of a 17 year old? I am glad I live in a country where it is legal to have sex with 15 year old girls and it is up to the girl to decide if it was rape or conceptual sex. I am glad that there is no such thing as statutory rape in this country.
The US DMCA laws generate huge amounts of spam to people in Europe from people in the US who falsely believe countries like Sweden are states in the US Epmire. The people in the US who have such a failed understanding of geography send spam who refer to some DMCA law they have in the US and claim that the good people in Europe should care about what it says and even send spam with threats about "legal action" which will be taken if the US DMCA, which does not apply at all, is not followed. DMCA-like laws in Canada would obviously be a very bad thing as that could add to the already huge amounts of DMCA-related spam the people in Europe get from accross the pound.
I distribute video using BitTorrent because that allows me to distribute video in very high quality. It is also my preference when viewing Internet video. Why insist on making the users view video files in their web browser? I personally prefer to view videos using a video player (mplayer/xine/vlc/etc) and I even download videos from web video sites like youtube (youtube-dl) and view them this way. Streaming in good quality does not scale well, and it does not work well with many software combinations (different OS, web browsers, etc). Most users seem to know how to download a video file using BitTorrent, so why not use that standard? If you really want to allow users to stream videos then give them a low quality flash video (like YouTube) and offer them to download a high-quality MPEG4 ("divx")/DVD ISO video file. This would allow those who prefer to view videos in their browsers to do so while also allowing people like me to download and view the high-quality version at my leisure. I do not think high-quality web browser viewed streaming video is possible, so consider the next best thing, low quality streaming with the option of downloading a high quality version.
I refuse to accept the Adobe Flashplayer license and therefore use Swfdec v0.7.4 (which is better than the only free alternative, GNU Gnash).
The demo did (like too much other advanced flash content) not work as expected. Not that this is any reason to accept the Adobe license, YouTube and Dailymotion videos show and I do not really need the clipboard hijack "features".
Are the ruling elite in Italy afraid that the people there will learn that the European Union is a utterly corrupt fascist state by watching any of the many completely legal documentaries about it which are available there? Would they have the people in Italy believe that using BitTorrent is somehow illegal when it is perfectly clear that it is a LEGAL protocol? Yes, some sites do mix Copyright-restricted material with completely free content. The TorrentChannel does NOT, but it does have documentaries critical of the EU. Will they block that next? Why are Italy trying to censor the Internet? Good thing there's the https://www.torproject.org/ which the poor people in Italy can and should use to access all the legal content at TPB. Other people should use it too, covert torture for spreading the "wrong" information is all too common within the NATO alliance these days.
CACert has been supported by Opera for a long, long time. StartCom is not supported by Opera, nor is it supported by Konqueror. I personally prefer CACert over StartCom, so does the CCC, Indimedia and a whole lot of others.
I briefly looked at StartCom SSL again just now. I read the FAQ. "Validations of domain names and email addresses are valid for 30 days. After the 30 days they must be revalidated.". The unverified CACerts expire after 6 months, that is so short that all the work of keeping certificates up to date almost makes it not worth it. 30 days? I would not do anything but verify domain names. Yeah, I use CaCert SSL on 12 sites. All it costs is time and 1 IP pr SSL host, so why not.
My ADSL connection is 2.5Mbit out, 23Mbit in. It was 0.5Mbit/8Mbit until the local telco reciently upgraded some central. I can not send as much out as I take in, nor can most other Internet users. Thus; live video streaming will simply not work as long as the large majority simply can't send as much video out as they require in in order to view the video.
It really does not matter that it takes longer to download than it takes to view the video when viewing television series from tv-channels like eztv, which is why BitTorrent is so popular.
This BitTorrent streaming idea is great in theory and it will work great if we upgrade all end-user connections, backbones and so on. The future will be great! But I do not think the tubes are ready just yet.
I do not need to imagine. The Norwegian government did this to me 2005-2006. I had to flee to Sweden. Norway is part of the NATO alliance and they do not accept that citizens talk about NATOs false-flag operations.
And do not expect "magneto helmet" to help you. This technology is only a small extremely horrible part of the torture program they target "bad" citizens with. If you are targeted with this then your only real choice is to get your passport, find a country which is not in a deep military alliance with your government, get enough cash to get there and get out. Just go.
I was covertly tortured using this technology in Norway because I refused to shut up about NATOs many false-flag terror operations. I got enough of it after half a year and fled to Sweden. It was hard to give up my whole life, my friends, my family, everything - but it was worth it to have this gruesome torture stop. The "Ray Gun" mentioned in the article is new. The technology is old and it has been used for covert torture within the NATO allience for too many years.
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No antivirus on the Windows also leads to "lead to stronger botnets and ID theft". My personal GNU/Linux "other choices" does not help me when I am under attack by zombie botnets. If Microsoft would simply prevent those who are have illegitimate Windows copies from using the Internet, or simply prevent them from using them at all, then that would be great for the rest of us who are (ab)using the Internets. Half-assed attempts at encouraging people to pay for their product by withholding those parts of the software who make having Windows-users on the Internet bearable for the rest of us is just bad.
From the article, "The HYDRA technology, as it is called, is a combination of hardware (in the form of a dedicated chip) and software (a driver that sits between the OS and DirectX)", I can't wait for this software technology to be available for GNU/Linux. But.. something tells me it will take a while as never ATI and NVidia chips can not even do 3D using free software as of today and support seems to be years away. And yes, I know, there is some unstable proprietary binary blob available for my ATI card which can do 3D, but it is immoral to use that and it is actually so slow on 2D (which to me is more important) compared to the free "radeon" driver that it's ridiculous.
Has anyone at the (evil) EastLink corporation actually considered dragging cables to the nice folks in Victoria Harbour? Bulk fiber cable is not that expensive and does provide higher transfer rates at lower latencies.
My then-really-expensive Chieftec case for my home desktop now houses it's third motherboard. I had to replace the ATX PSU with a ATX2 PSU the last time I changed motherboard, but I did NOT have to replace the case. I see absolutely no reason to throw away a good PC case ever, unless they change the ATX standard and I seriously doubt will be done within the next 20 years. Why would they do that? Would a cardboard box survive that long?
One more little detail. The last time I changed motherboard/CPU was because the PC turned off and there was smoke emanating from the motherboard when I opened the case. I wonder how well cardboard would have handled that little incident, specially if I were not in front of the computer at the time?
I do not consider OpenSolaris future safe until we get a few forks. Now there is The OpenSolaris and it's future depends on just one (evil) corporation. If one GNU/Linux distribution dies a horrible death then it is of no importance since there are dozens of other BNU/Binux (with a B) distributions. If Bubuntu dies then that does not stop Bedora or Bentoo from carrying forward. I'll take a look at OpenSolaris when there's at minimum 3 variants of it being developed.
I have the ATI Radeon HD 3300 technology and it can't even do OpenGL, even 2D EXA acceleration was something one could only dream of until very recently. I have heard that there is this binary blob for Radeon cards floating around, but I am NOT about to use such immoral and very questionable things. Dear AMD and the folks at ATI you assimilated, make the xorg radeon and radeonhd drivers actually work with the cards you already released or at minimum share more useful documentation before you go around sending out press-releases who say that you supposedly can do something new and impressive -- specially when we all know that it will take years, if ever, before your shiny new technology can be used on Linux-based variants of the GNU operating system.
split is actually GNU, part of the GNU coreutils. It should also be mentioned that the manual document indicates Torbjorn Granlund and Richard M. Stallman involvement with making the split technology.
Using 'regular' Linux filesystems like ext keeps the permissions, but may require using the superuser when switching machines (as the UIDs are different).
It sounds to me that the Question is not what filesystem to (ab)use, but how to make the files on the USB technology appear to belong to the same (ab)user on both/all boxen. Simply give yourself the same UID on both/all boxen and you are done. /home/youruser
usermod -u 1000 youruser
chown -R youruser:users
man usermod and man chown for additional information.
The latency incurred by pulse audio is horrendous, for youtube or movies that's fine, for gaming it's questionable, for music production it's nasty. These days completely removing pulseaudio and getting it all going again is quite an effort.
My athlon2k system recently failed and fetched a pentium3 633mhz from the basement and installed Ubuntu on it to use while I waited for my new desktop box. Ubuntu insists on running everything through pulseaudio by default. I was shocked to find that this box had problems playing xvid movies and ran top. There pulseaudio was, using 20% CPU and it insisted on doing that even when I ran mplayer -ao alsa. Removing this junk allowed mplayer to play xvid videos smoothly. Perhaps those who have rare old soundcards without hardware mixing and do not want to setup alsa's dmix benefit, who knows, but I do know I did not. Perhaps pulseaudios insane CPU usage is less of a problem with modern hardware, but there is no soundcard made this century that I know of who does not do hardware mixing, so why anyone would want this junk -- specially installed by default on a distro -- is beyond my understanding.
Comeback, eh? That will be temporary, at best. Most of the ore which is left is so low-grade that it is hardly worth mining it. The US is way passed peak uranium and relies on imports. Those countries who do export are running out and will soon stop doing so. The Nuclear Power Industry simply has no long-term future.
Yes, NVIDiAs propietary nvidia driver really is better than ATIs propietary fglrx driver - which sucks. However, it must be mentioned that both the free xorg radeon and radeonhd drivers perform better than ATIs propietary driver in 2D (while the 3D support is poor) and that the obfuscated xorg nv driver for nvidia is redicilous. If you are using GNU/Linux and you are fine with propietary drivers the nvidia is probably the best choice. Intel and ATI are way better choices if you are not.
Norsk Rikskringkasting (NRK) is financed through a "license" which they can by law charge everyone who owns a televison set or other equipment which is able to get TV broadcasts. c They have been trying to claim a whole range of ludicrous things in order to demand license fees from more people than those who are listed as TV owners in their database for years.
NRK actually tried to claim that everyone who owns a telephone also has a television and asked for permission to demand that everyone registered with a telephone pays the TV license. They were, luckily, denied when they tried that one. Now they are trying to claim that everyone who owns a computer can view their content and should pay a television license.
NRK setting up a BitTorrent tracker does look like a good thing - at first glance. But do not get fooled: This is all about getting a new Norwegian law which would say that everyone who owns computer technology must pay NRK a yearly fee. It is that simple. This is all about the money. That they use BitTorrent is in itself a good thing. Their motives are absolutely not.
You can bypass DNS censorship by running your own nameservers or by using OpenDNS or other open DNS servers who allow anyone to do recursive lookups. Bypassing DNS-censorship is easy.
They have, as I understand the local law (I live in Sweden), not broken any local laws. I am not entirely sure if they have violated some EU law or not. The international pressure to find them guilty seems to be huge, so they may be convicted regardless of there being no violation of any local law. I find it really disturbing that they will probably be found guilty due to immense international pressure from governments and corporations, it sets a very dangerous precedence if you can get tried and convicted without having done anything illegal if enough powerful entities think that what you are doing should be illegal in your country.
CueCat, QT, it's just a fancy barcode. Except that Microsoft can charge everyone who uses or implements their version of the barcode. Reinventing the wheel IS profitable. This is ODF vs OOXML all over again except that this time there is no open format available as an alternative. Hackers should get right on making an open fancy-barcode standard, and where oh where is RMS on this issue?
The IP could be traced, eh? I guess they should have used https://www.torproject.org/ to do those edits... if Tor users are not blocked from creating users at the moment, which is frequently is. "We traced those edits to some IP in China which happens to be a Tor server, now what do we do?"
Statutory rape? Of a 17 year old? I am glad I live in a country where it is legal to have sex with 15 year old girls and it is up to the girl to decide if it was rape or conceptual sex. I am glad that there is no such thing as statutory rape in this country.
The US DMCA laws generate huge amounts of spam to people in Europe from people in the US who falsely believe countries like Sweden are states in the US Epmire. The people in the US who have such a failed understanding of geography send spam who refer to some DMCA law they have in the US and claim that the good people in Europe should care about what it says and even send spam with threats about "legal action" which will be taken if the US DMCA, which does not apply at all, is not followed. DMCA-like laws in Canada would obviously be a very bad thing as that could add to the already huge amounts of DMCA-related spam the people in Europe get from accross the pound.
I distribute video using BitTorrent because that allows me to distribute video in very high quality. It is also my preference when viewing Internet video. Why insist on making the users view video files in their web browser? I personally prefer to view videos using a video player (mplayer/xine/vlc/etc) and I even download videos from web video sites like youtube (youtube-dl) and view them this way. Streaming in good quality does not scale well, and it does not work well with many software combinations (different OS, web browsers, etc). Most users seem to know how to download a video file using BitTorrent, so why not use that standard? If you really want to allow users to stream videos then give them a low quality flash video (like YouTube) and offer them to download a high-quality MPEG4 ("divx")/DVD ISO video file. This would allow those who prefer to view videos in their browsers to do so while also allowing people like me to download and view the high-quality version at my leisure. I do not think high-quality web browser viewed streaming video is possible, so consider the next best thing, low quality streaming with the option of downloading a high quality version.
I refuse to accept the Adobe Flashplayer license and therefore use Swfdec v0.7.4 (which is better than the only free alternative, GNU Gnash). The demo did (like too much other advanced flash content) not work as expected. Not that this is any reason to accept the Adobe license, YouTube and Dailymotion videos show and I do not really need the clipboard hijack "features".
Are the ruling elite in Italy afraid that the people there will learn that the European Union is a utterly corrupt fascist state by watching any of the many completely legal documentaries about it which are available there? Would they have the people in Italy believe that using BitTorrent is somehow illegal when it is perfectly clear that it is a LEGAL protocol? Yes, some sites do mix Copyright-restricted material with completely free content. The TorrentChannel does NOT, but it does have documentaries critical of the EU. Will they block that next? Why are Italy trying to censor the Internet? Good thing there's the https://www.torproject.org/ which the poor people in Italy can and should use to access all the legal content at TPB. Other people should use it too, covert torture for spreading the "wrong" information is all too common within the NATO alliance these days.
CACert has been supported by Opera for a long, long time. StartCom is not supported by Opera, nor is it supported by Konqueror. I personally prefer CACert over StartCom, so does the CCC, Indimedia and a whole lot of others.
I briefly looked at StartCom SSL again just now. I read the FAQ. "Validations of domain names and email addresses are valid for 30 days. After the 30 days they must be revalidated.". The unverified CACerts expire after 6 months, that is so short that all the work of keeping certificates up to date almost makes it not worth it. 30 days? I would not do anything but verify domain names. Yeah, I use CaCert SSL on 12 sites. All it costs is time and 1 IP pr SSL host, so why not.
My ADSL connection is 2.5Mbit out, 23Mbit in. It was 0.5Mbit/8Mbit until the local telco reciently upgraded some central. I can not send as much out as I take in, nor can most other Internet users. Thus; live video streaming will simply not work as long as the large majority simply can't send as much video out as they require in in order to view the video.
It really does not matter that it takes longer to download than it takes to view the video when viewing television series from tv-channels like eztv, which is why BitTorrent is so popular.
This BitTorrent streaming idea is great in theory and it will work great if we upgrade all end-user connections, backbones and so on. The future will be great! But I do not think the tubes are ready just yet.
I do not need to imagine. The Norwegian government did this to me 2005-2006. I had to flee to Sweden. Norway is part of the NATO alliance and they do not accept that citizens talk about NATOs false-flag operations. And do not expect "magneto helmet" to help you. This technology is only a small extremely horrible part of the torture program they target "bad" citizens with. If you are targeted with this then your only real choice is to get your passport, find a country which is not in a deep military alliance with your government, get enough cash to get there and get out. Just go.
I was covertly tortured using this technology in Norway because I refused to shut up about NATOs many false-flag terror operations. I got enough of it after half a year and fled to Sweden. It was hard to give up my whole life, my friends, my family, everything - but it was worth it to have this gruesome torture stop. The "Ray Gun" mentioned in the article is new. The technology is old and it has been used for covert torture within the NATO allience for too many years.