End users don't need to install or know much about Bitlbee, but to use it they they must be able to:
a) (install and) use a IRC client, OR
b) use a web browser
I've heard there is something called MIRC for Windows, apparently it's very simple. I've also heard Windows comes with something called Internet Explorer.
You can't just buy Gentoo Linux, debian or many other distributions for that matter. So even if you buy (out) RedHat, Novell and other (stock listed) companies you simply can not destroy those non-profit organisations.
How would you go about to bring GNU down, even if you were founded by the millions?
It's nice to know they actually have a "Microsoft's top Linux strategist".
And he has realized that "Linux is a different kind of opponent. It's not a company to bash, but a software movement with the backing of the entire tech industry.".
And this is why the Linux community is winning. We are more developers in the Linux scene, we are better skilled and higher motivated.
Understanding this, Microsoft should turn around and start providing Linux support and services as part of their portifolio. There is nothing
wrong with selling both Linux and Windows! Software is all about support, not the product, today anyways.
Bitlbee is a IRC gateway server. Basically it's a irc server where you can add IM accounts. The gateway gives you a "irc channel" with ALL your contacts, whatever they are using.
NOTE: The setup has TWO flaws:
1) You can not exchange files (no filetransfer).
2) Bitlbee does not support GPG encryption for secure commuciation (available in jabber clients like gjabber and psi).
Rule of thumb: Original IM providers clients are never the best choice.
I found the article very speculative and high-floating. "They will may make this much if this and that, the future may be very bright but then again who knows" and so on. I actually got the impression the author bought some stock, got cold feet and is looking to off it at a higher price - but now I am speculating.
I do understand the "they could make a ton of money by charging" theses, but then again Slashdot would automatically make trillions if they made it for-paying-members-ONLY and charged $100 for a membership. Or.. would they?
It's been quite a while since I made my site LinuxReviewsIPv6 Ready. This has made me look at the IPv6-ready Web Server list from time to time and sadly there is very few sites out there that are IPv6 capable.
It is nice to know Tor supports standard protocols like http://. But do you really believe those "Tor Ready!" websites will start popping up any time soon? I don't think so. The majority of todays websites do not validate, doesn't support IPv6 and many don't even render correctly in the majority of web browsers. Will Tor-Ready be prioritized higher by the average webmaster than these and other more serious issues?
I am also very skeptical to the bandwidth requirements and the latency. My Ipv6 connection gives me full bandwidth, but I do notice that connections going through the tunnel are, in fact, much more latent than normal native Ipv4 connections. So why would I prefer to visit some website using Tor when the real difference is a longer loading period? Yes, what the author says about low latency may be true. It may have less latency than alternatives, but do not try to tell me I won't notice significantly higher latency if I try to IRC through a TOR connection.
People are talking about Ipv6 becoming standard in 5-6 years, I will be amazed if tor still exists at that point in time and even more amazed if it's actually implemented on more than 0.0001% of the Internet's services.
As another comment said, get that lisence if you actually do open up CRT monitors and power supplies.
I do fix other peoples computers from time to time. Home computers. I never opened a CRT monitor. Because I do not know "electronics", I know computers. If the PSU breaks, I get a new PSU. The PC is "repaired", the PSU is broken.
So I don't get why you would need a paper saying you can do "high volate" (I belive that's why "not just anyone" was supposed to open av TV 50 years ago..). I don't. I do computers. If repairing PSUs is your thing, then do get that lisence. But wait, a PSU doesn't do playback and ANYONE can repair that, apparently, fixing a computer by replaceing a broken PSU, a square box you, as already stressed, DON'T open.. lol
I remember this box called IBM XT, it had like 640k RAM, 4.77 MHz horcepower and could do amazing things. My athlon 2k can do even more amazing things, and I'm very happy with the way prince pr. MHz has gone the last years.. and it just keeps on getting better and better! Excellent.
Constant death was a necessity in the days of video arcades... This is why I love MAME, the archade game emulator. You got unlimited funds.. just press a key, and play on. Instant death can also be avoided by saving games. It's all the 4500+ games you played as a child, only on your PC.
Google ads actually work. They's why they are present on all smaller websites, blogs etc, simply because authors see a small renevue by using them. So get used to it..
Does it really matter? You always get latest!
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· Score: 5, Informative
The strenght of Gentoo Linux
is that it does not really matter what version you are using. emerge sync and emerge -u world, wait a while and there: you are running the latest version. The install has not changed much, so this actually means nothing to us
Gentoo
users. You get the latest version whatever Live CD you use to install, only the pre-buildt GRP packages are different on new releases.
This is why you should try Gentoo today, it is excellent for both servers and desktops. Desktop users can choose to use the latest ("masked"), bleeding edge versions, while older stable packages should be preferred for production environments.
The Gentoo Portage tree has more packages in it's database than any other Linux distribution. The freedom to choose.
There is also a sweet front-end for Gentoo's portage called
porthole. It allows you to search through the package database from a GUI GTK interface. You can browse the portage database online to find out how much software is available without installing Gentoo.
"The first version of Unix was written by Dr Thompson for the PDP-7, a computer made by the Digital Equipment Corporation, which cost a mere $72,000, and came with eight kilobytes of memory, and a hard disk a bit smaller than a megabyte. " This was 30 years ago. I sure am glad a computer capable of running Linux can be bought for 1/100, or $720, these days...
Personally I don't use wildcards for any of my domains. I do frequently make new aliases that I only use one or two times just to provide sites who require a valid mail account with something, after I get the confirmation mails I remove them. And guess what? Many of these temporary, now invalid aliases recieve spam attempts - spam I would get if I used wildcards.
Personally I'd rather not get mail from people who are not smart enough to type my mail correctly...:)
Is Google Becoming too powerfull? After Yahoo stopped using Google as a seach backend in february their maked share did drop from 80% to 50% in the search marked, but I suspect they have gained on the competition since then.
I got gmail and I can't seem to get rid of the invites, everyone I know already has a gmail account. There are no stats on how many people actually have, or use, gmail available, but it does seem they already have a fair share of the webmail marked.
And their adsence has become the number one advertisment channel on the net, those ads seem to be on "all pages" now. Maby because it actually works better than other solutions, I checked out bidclicks the other day and found that their terms include a statement that they can refuse to pay you if less than 80% of the visitors originate from the US - and that's a pretty lame term for any website that doesn't offer very US specific content...
So now Google can a) seach your mail and know what topics you takl about, b) track what websites you visit using their adsence and now also index your images..
They have not been know to abuse this information, but the info they got on "everyone" now has potential to be used and abused in many ways..
I use gpg to sign (and encrypt when possible) my mail. This allows the reciever to verify that the mail was, in fact, signed by my gpg key. This does require the reciepent to verify that the key used is, in fact, mine.
gpg has been used for years and it works. I read in the article something about Instant Messages. Several Jabber clients, including PSI, can use gpg to "real-time" encrypt conversations.
Honestly, to me it sounds like reinventing the wheel. It is a very good idea, that's why it was done years ago.
It would be easy to make a php function that checks for a valid gpg key before accepting users, the same way a valid email address or toher means can be used. This, however, requires the audience to have gpg keys and demanding things from the audience tends to turn it away. This also applies to "Online ID Registry", a web service that requires me to sign up and configure some something I do not already use is a web service I'll skip.
Why would anyone want to listen to this anyway?
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Saturn Hailstorm
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· Score: 1, Funny
I doubt it will make the number #1 hitlists. Pictures and video are nice, sure, and Nasa is doing amazing things. But "the sound of space"? I'd rather listen to ABBA.
Microsoft and their development model is not a bad thing, it provides a great alternative. And there are commercial Linux distributions who provide the same level of support and hand-holding as Microsoft.
Software is all about support. When someone buys a piece of software they buy the support and the hand-holding. OpenOffice vs MS Office is not only a matter if how good the software is, it's also a questions of how good support and other extra value vendors are willing to add. And Open Source (re)sellers can provide a much higher level of support than others because they have little or no development costs.. all their clients money can go directly to providing that extra vaule...
The "Open Source Desktop", by that I mean the Linux kernel + Gnu tools + Gnome and/or KDE, has now matured to a level where it has become a real choice, or threat depending on perspective, to commercial alternatives. Goverments are looking into Linux and switching or using it as leverage to get a better price on commercial alternatives.
This is new. Not something that came overnight, though, it's something that's been happening for a while. Personally I've used Linux both as desktop and server OS for many years. But I am a "skilled", not average computer user. The big change is that Linux distributions and other OS software is now so user-friendly and complete that average joe can use it to get all his tasks done. And this is a big change.
When I found my lame parody of a website on the first page on Slashdot I instantly begged two nice people, igu and dvl666stn, to help me with the load. The site now has 3 A records all pointing to high bandwidth locations. The AAAA record for Ipv6 is pointed at yet another location. I assume the main URL can handle the current and even more load. The sites listed at mirrors on the first page would probably not be able to handle the current load on their own, as these URLs are not load balanced.
Thank you for pointing this out. I am sorry if I made my article misleading or wrong. This simply did not hit my mind. I assume "Using this exploit to crash Linux systems requires the (ab)user to have shell access or other means of uploading and running the program (like cgi-bin and FTP access)." covers this?
When I first stumbled upon this I had no idea how many system this actually works on: When I tested on my system, by chance of faith, nothing happened. I am using 2.4.26-rc3-gentoo. So I thought "no big deal". I now know my kernel seems to be the only version on this planet protected.
I then asked people on irc channels if anyone were willing to test this before compiling other kernels myself and I instantly got replies like "Works, took down free-shell provider #ali on EFNet". People who tested on their own systems also confermed crashes. I'm not sure if I cut&paste the phrase "lame free-shell provider" from my irc window or if I actually did type this myself.
I do not encourage hacking, doing so is bad whatever your target it.
Btw, the "l33t howto" is meant to be funny, you know.. a joke.
Slashdot Mirror
End users don't need to install or know much about Bitlbee, but to use it they they must be able to:
a) (install and) use a IRC client, OR
b) use a web browser
I've heard there is something called MIRC for Windows, apparently it's very simple. I've also heard Windows comes with something called Internet Explorer.
You can't just buy Gentoo Linux, debian or many other distributions for that matter. So even if you buy (out) RedHat, Novell and other (stock listed) companies you simply can not destroy those non-profit organisations.
How would you go about to bring GNU down, even if you were founded by the millions?
It's nice to know they actually have a "Microsoft's top Linux strategist".
And he has realized that "Linux is a different kind of opponent. It's not a company to bash, but a software movement with the backing of the entire tech industry.".
And this is why the Linux community is winning. We are more developers in the Linux scene, we are better skilled and higher motivated.
Understanding this, Microsoft should turn around and start providing Linux support and services as part of their portifolio. There is nothing wrong with selling both Linux and Windows! Software is all about support, not the product, today anyways.
My personal preference:
screen + aterm + irssi + bitlbee
Screen is a full screen window manager, keep something running on a server and detach/attach from anywayere
aterm is a nice terminal for X11.
irssi is a CLI irc client. Since Bitlbee acts as a normal IRC server, any IRC client can be used. Even CGI::IRC, there are several sites that allow you to use MSN/ICQ/JABBER/AIM/etc from a web page.
Bitlbee is a IRC gateway server. Basically it's a irc server where you can add IM accounts. The gateway gives you a "irc channel" with ALL your contacts, whatever they are using.
More: BitlBee Guide - Talk to msn, icq and jabber contacts using any IRC client.
NOTE: The setup has TWO flaws:
1) You can not exchange files (no filetransfer).
2) Bitlbee does not support GPG encryption for secure commuciation (available in jabber clients like gjabber and psi).
Rule of thumb: Original IM providers clients are never the best choice.
I found the article very speculative and high-floating. "They will may make this much if this and that, the future may be very bright but then again who knows" and so on. I actually got the impression the author bought some stock, got cold feet and is looking to off it at a higher price - but now I am speculating.
I do understand the "they could make a ton of money by charging" theses, but then again Slashdot would automatically make trillions if they made it for-paying-members-ONLY and charged $100 for a membership. Or.. would they?
It's been quite a while since I made my site LinuxReviews IPv6 Ready. This has made me look at the IPv6-ready Web Server list from time to time and sadly there is very few sites out there that are IPv6 capable.
It is nice to know Tor supports standard protocols like http://. But do you really believe those "Tor Ready!" websites will start popping up any time soon? I don't think so. The majority of todays websites do not validate, doesn't support IPv6 and many don't even render correctly in the majority of web browsers. Will Tor-Ready be prioritized higher by the average webmaster than these and other more serious issues?
I am also very skeptical to the bandwidth requirements and the latency. My Ipv6 connection gives me full bandwidth, but I do notice that connections going through the tunnel are, in fact, much more latent than normal native Ipv4 connections. So why would I prefer to visit some website using Tor when the real difference is a longer loading period? Yes, what the author says about low latency may be true. It may have less latency than alternatives, but do not try to tell me I won't notice significantly higher latency if I try to IRC through a TOR connection.
People are talking about Ipv6 becoming standard in 5-6 years, I will be amazed if tor still exists at that point in time and even more amazed if it's actually implemented on more than 0.0001% of the Internet's services.
As another comment said, get that lisence if you actually do open up CRT monitors and power supplies.
I do fix other peoples computers from time to time. Home computers. I never opened a CRT monitor. Because I do not know "electronics", I know computers. If the PSU breaks, I get a new PSU. The PC is "repaired", the PSU is broken.
So I don't get why you would need a paper saying you can do "high volate" (I belive that's why "not just anyone" was supposed to open av TV 50 years ago..). I don't. I do computers. If repairing PSUs is your thing, then do get that lisence. But wait, a PSU doesn't do playback and ANYONE can repair that, apparently, fixing a computer by replaceing a broken PSU, a square box you, as already stressed, DON'T open.. lol
I remember this box called IBM XT, it had like 640k RAM, 4.77 MHz horcepower and could do amazing things. My athlon 2k can do even more amazing things, and I'm very happy with the way prince pr. MHz has gone the last years.. and it just keeps on getting better and better! Excellent.
Constant death was a necessity in the days of video arcades... This is why I love MAME, the archade game emulator. You got unlimited funds.. just press a key, and play on. Instant death can also be avoided by saving games. It's all the 4500+ games you played as a child, only on your PC.
Google ads actually work. They's why they are present on all smaller websites, blogs etc, simply because authors see a small renevue by using them. So get used to it..
The strenght of Gentoo Linux is that it does not really matter what version you are using. emerge sync and emerge -u world, wait a while and there: you are running the latest version. The install has not changed much, so this actually means nothing to us Gentoo users. You get the latest version whatever Live CD you use to install, only the pre-buildt GRP packages are different on new releases.
..try Gentoo today! It's excellent.
This is why you should try Gentoo today, it is excellent for both servers and desktops. Desktop users can choose to use the latest ("masked"), bleeding edge versions, while older stable packages should be preferred for production environments.
The Gentoo Portage tree has more packages in it's database than any other Linux distribution. The freedom to choose.
There is also a sweet front-end for Gentoo's portage called porthole. It allows you to search through the package database from a GUI GTK interface. You can browse the portage database online to find out how much software is available without installing Gentoo.
"The first version of Unix was written by Dr Thompson for the PDP-7, a computer made by the Digital Equipment Corporation, which cost a mere $72,000, and came with eight kilobytes of memory, and a hard disk a bit smaller than a megabyte. " This was 30 years ago. I sure am glad a computer capable of running Linux can be bought for 1/100, or $720, these days...
Personally I don't use wildcards for any of my domains. I do frequently make new aliases that I only use one or two times just to provide sites who require a valid mail account with something, after I get the confirmation mails I remove them. And guess what? Many of these temporary, now invalid aliases recieve spam attempts - spam I would get if I used wildcards.
:)
Personally I'd rather not get mail from people who are not smart enough to type my mail correctly...
Is Google Becoming too powerfull? After Yahoo stopped using Google as a seach backend in february their maked share did drop from 80% to 50% in the search marked, but I suspect they have gained on the competition since then.
I got gmail and I can't seem to get rid of the invites, everyone I know already has a gmail account. There are no stats on how many people actually have, or use, gmail available, but it does seem they already have a fair share of the webmail marked.
And their adsence has become the number one advertisment channel on the net, those ads seem to be on "all pages" now. Maby because it actually works better than other solutions, I checked out bidclicks the other day and found that their terms include a statement that they can refuse to pay you if less than 80% of the visitors originate from the US - and that's a pretty lame term for any website that doesn't offer very US specific content...
So now Google can a) seach your mail and know what topics you takl about, b) track what websites you visit using their adsence and now also index your images..
They have not been know to abuse this information, but the info they got on "everyone" now has potential to be used and abused in many ways..
I use gpg to sign (and encrypt when possible) my mail. This allows the reciever to verify that the mail was, in fact, signed by my gpg key. This does require the reciepent to verify that the key used is, in fact, mine.
gpg has been used for years and it works. I read in the article something about Instant Messages. Several Jabber clients, including PSI, can use gpg to "real-time" encrypt conversations.
Honestly, to me it sounds like reinventing the wheel. It is a very good idea, that's why it was done years ago.
It would be easy to make a php function that checks for a valid gpg key before accepting users, the same way a valid email address or toher means can be used. This, however, requires the audience to have gpg keys and demanding things from the audience tends to turn it away. This also applies to "Online ID Registry", a web service that requires me to sign up and configure some something I do not already use is a web service I'll skip.
I doubt it will make the number #1 hitlists. Pictures and video are nice, sure, and Nasa is doing amazing things. But "the sound of space"? I'd rather listen to ABBA.
Gentoo > all.
You've got full conrtol.
You get optimized binaries compiled to meet your needs and demands. It's great.
You can never get enough. I've got a tiny /48 IPv6 prefix, that's 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 IPs, and I WANT MORE.
There is a total of 2^128, or 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,45 6 unique IPv6 adresses.
Isn't this enough?
Microsoft and their development model is not a bad thing, it provides a great alternative. And there are commercial Linux distributions who provide the same level of support and hand-holding as Microsoft.
Software is all about support. When someone buys a piece of software they buy the support and the hand-holding. OpenOffice vs MS Office is not only a matter if how good the software is, it's also a questions of how good support and other extra value vendors are willing to add. And Open Source (re)sellers can provide a much higher level of support than others because they have little or no development costs.. all their clients money can go directly to providing that extra vaule...
The "Open Source Desktop", by that I mean the Linux kernel + Gnu tools + Gnome and/or KDE, has now matured to a level where it has become a real choice, or threat depending on perspective, to commercial alternatives. Goverments are looking into Linux and switching or using it as leverage to get a better price on commercial alternatives. This is new. Not something that came overnight, though, it's something that's been happening for a while. Personally I've used Linux both as desktop and server OS for many years. But I am a "skilled", not average computer user. The big change is that Linux distributions and other OS software is now so user-friendly and complete that average joe can use it to get all his tasks done. And this is a big change.
When I found my lame parody of a website on the first page on Slashdot I instantly begged two nice people, igu and dvl666stn, to help me with the load. The site now has 3 A records all pointing to high bandwidth locations. The AAAA record for Ipv6 is pointed at yet another location. I assume the main URL can handle the current and even more load. The sites listed at mirrors on the first page would probably not be able to handle the current load on their own, as these URLs are not load balanced.
Thank you for pointing this out. I am sorry if I made my article misleading or wrong. This simply did not hit my mind. I assume "Using this exploit to crash Linux systems requires the (ab)user to have shell access or other means of uploading and running the program (like cgi-bin and FTP access)." covers this?
When I first stumbled upon this I had no idea how many system this actually works on: When I tested on my system, by chance of faith, nothing happened. I am using 2.4.26-rc3-gentoo. So I thought "no big deal". I now know my kernel seems to be the only version on this planet protected.
I then asked people on irc channels if anyone were willing to test this before compiling other kernels myself and I instantly got replies like "Works, took down free-shell provider #ali on EFNet". People who tested on their own systems also confermed crashes. I'm not sure if I cut&paste the phrase "lame free-shell provider" from my irc window or if I actually did type this myself.
I do not encourage hacking, doing so is bad whatever your target it.
Btw, the "l33t howto" is meant to be funny, you know.. a joke.
Assembly is great because you can kill any linux system you got ssh access to using assembly.