Damn. Hopefully someone will put a fairly significant spanner in the works between now and then. Much as I would love to see it realised as a movie, noone is going to sell me on the idea of Mos Def as Ford Prefect
The original BBC productions were practically an auditory orgasm thanks to the fine work of the (now disbanded) Radiophonic Workshop, so I'll be wanting to capture from a slightly better source than RealAudio, to get the full effect.
Thus I shall be:
1. recording from digital cable to minidisc 2. capturing audio from the minidisc using KDE's fine audio utilities (from which I could quite easily capture straight from the stream, without add ons, you can record the output to the soundcard) 3. encoding to Ogg Vorbis and/or mp3
and Robert's a close relative
I realise there will be a slight loss of quality as it will be encoded twice (once as ATRAC3, and then to the final format) but I can show my wife how to use the minidisc deck (I'm away from home ATM) so I'll have to live with it.
If you point your browser in the direction of http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4 and fire up your horribly proprietary RealPlayer, Hitchhikery goodness shall be yours.
A HH fan friend of mine in the States has already done a test run, and has commented on how clear the stream sounds.
Thank God the Olympics are over, or all net listeners would be SOL.
You're a dick. Well, that's a snap judgement, but you're clearly not a systems administrator, neither have you had any experience of Windows systems in the workplace.
I, on the other hand, have, and of Linux desktops in the workplace. The users on the systems I administer certainly do not have administrative priviledges on their machines, and yet viruses manage to successfully infect said Windows machines (2000 Pro, 2000 Server and XP Pro) and propagate to others.
Huge swathes of the OS are left completely unprotected to users, including many areas of the Windows directory. For example it's entirely possible for a user with low priviledges to download Putty and save it straight into the System32 directory. I know this because I do it on every Windows machine I touch.
The "security model" you speak of does not seem to be too effective.
The problem is that Windows is built upon years of software having free reign across the machine, to the point where denying write access to the Windows directory for anyone but Administrators (which is the first thing I would do to secure a system) will break various bits of software.
Windows does not have a proper user based security model, and to create one would break so many bits of proprietary software (everything from the utility to get data off your GPS watch to Sage Accounts) that there would be a massive outcry. Just witness all the so called "problems" with XP Service Pack 2.
Not going to happen in our lifetime. Or at least our lunchtime.
As Evolution, Kontact (KDE's groupware suite, encorporating Kmail) and Thunderbird vie for desktop supremacy new features will be developed, and copied, and theoretically you will start seeing the same technologies popping up in at least the top three dominant mail clients (and web browsers) on the Linux platform. Once you get common technologies, that's when virus writers have something to target that they know will be common across their userbase (or at least a large part of it). That's the situation that has led to so many exploits for Windows software, and the potential is that exploits for Linux software could be developed and could spread.
However, because of the security model of Linux (ie. each user only has write access to his own files) the furthest any worm or virus will be able to spread is to that user's files and directories. So, wipe the user and restore from backup, and your virus woes are dealt with.
As long as the security model for Linux remains unchanged, this will be the case, and viruses and worms, while probably becoming more frequent, will never be able to do significant damage to a machine.
THIS is why Linux is less susceptible to viruses. The arguement that it's a more obscure platform only holds water up to a point.
Is it me, or do I see a post from you about This Not Being News "every fucking day"?
As amazing as it may seem to you, there are people visiting Slashdot who are IT professionals. Some of those, like myself, even work with Open Source. So, to these people (and me) every news story painting either Microsoft or Linux in a negative or positive light is relevant, and important.
We need to know what FUD we've got to fight tomorrow, and which of these stories we can download and save in our Show to Clients folder.
Am I the only one who's getting pissed off with someone saying "How is this news" to EVERY bloody article that gets posted?
notice there was no mention of MacOSX- of which the same could be said
Not really. MacOS's market share has stayed fairly constant for the past howevermanyyears, and, much as the Mac loving faithful would hate to hear this, has always been viewed as a niche operating system. Linux's market share, on the other hand, is definitely increasing, and Linux is also in the public eye more because by many it is viewed as competition for Microsoft, or at least potentially so.
(hm. A slashdot post with a comment about Apple that could be interpreted as negative. -5 Flamebait here I come)
Um... Novell and IBM's linux endeavours are heavily intertwined. IBM donated $50M to Novell to facilitate the purchase of SuSE. This, in fact, is exactly the kind of news IBM wants to hear.
XP Pro is XP Home with extra bits. The only difference between Home and Pro are things like IIS, which (fairly obviously) is included in Professional, but not Home. In fact, with a little kludging, you can add it XP Home.
Correct me if I'm wrong here but merely sending an HTML formatted message containing the image would be enough to infect most Windows users, since both Hatemail and Outhouse automatically render HTML emails and download external image links.
(PS. For moderators. Hating M$ products does not make me a troll and I will not expurgate myself for fear of being modded down)
One, it wouldn't work. Two, if it could work (which it couldn't) the guy had to be pretty confident of his wiring ability. Afterall, if a self fitted alarm goes wrong, worst thing that happens is you get a little deaf. Three, if this story is not the sad little musings of a deranged geek and is actually real, then the guy should count himself lucky that the device was never put to use, assuming of course that like most of us he doesn't like seeing prison bars from the inside.
They drain it and sell it to mobile bloodbanks. Seriously, haven't you ever woken up feeling all anaemic and seen your cat and dog counting out fivers?
Let me spell it out for you. Dalnet, frequently DDoSed. This guy, paying people to arrange DDoS attacks on competitors. Therefore Dalnet sells Satellite TVs. See? Joke. Funny? No. Flamebait? I don't think so.
There is no point in this, because without the support from AOL you might as well use any other dialup account. Some of them may even provide support for Linux users.
AOL will never support Linux. Or at least, not until the market share breaks 10%, and probably not even then.
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blah blah yadda yadda NOT ENOUGH blah blah blah
Damn. Hopefully someone will put a fairly significant spanner in the works between now and then. Much as I would love to see it realised as a movie, noone is going to sell me on the idea of Mos Def as Ford Prefect
Oh no we don't. We celebrate BST - British Silly Time.
The original BBC productions were practically an auditory orgasm thanks to the fine work of the (now disbanded) Radiophonic Workshop, so I'll be wanting to capture from a slightly better source than RealAudio, to get the full effect.
Thus I shall be:
1. recording from digital cable to minidisc
2. capturing audio from the minidisc using KDE's fine audio utilities (from which I could quite easily capture straight from the stream, without add ons, you can record the output to the soundcard)
3. encoding to Ogg Vorbis and/or mp3
and Robert's a close relative
I realise there will be a slight loss of quality as it will be encoded twice (once as ATRAC3, and then to the final format) but I can show my wife how to use the minidisc deck (I'm away from home ATM) so I'll have to live with it.
that's babelfish.
If you point your browser in the direction of http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4 and fire up your horribly proprietary RealPlayer, Hitchhikery goodness shall be yours.
A HH fan friend of mine in the States has already done a test run, and has commented on how clear the stream sounds.
Thank God the Olympics are over, or all net listeners would be SOL.
Yup, Synaptics rock my black-and-beige socks. I love the edge scrolling on my Tosh laptop trackpad - and fully supported under Linux too.
Yes, I'm not denying that at all. However, Apple's market share has not increased significantly since the days of the first iMacs.
You're a dick. Well, that's a snap judgement, but you're clearly not a systems administrator, neither have you had any experience of Windows systems in the workplace.
I, on the other hand, have, and of Linux desktops in the workplace. The users on the systems I administer certainly do not have administrative priviledges on their machines, and yet viruses manage to successfully infect said Windows machines (2000 Pro, 2000 Server and XP Pro) and propagate to others.
Huge swathes of the OS are left completely unprotected to users, including many areas of the Windows directory. For example it's entirely possible for a user with low priviledges to download Putty and save it straight into the System32 directory. I know this because I do it on every Windows machine I touch.
The "security model" you speak of does not seem to be too effective.
Um, you mean like Administrator?
The problem is that Windows is built upon years of software having free reign across the machine, to the point where denying write access to the Windows directory for anyone but Administrators (which is the first thing I would do to secure a system) will break various bits of software.
Windows does not have a proper user based security model, and to create one would break so many bits of proprietary software (everything from the utility to get data off your GPS watch to Sage Accounts) that there would be a massive outcry. Just witness all the so called "problems" with XP Service Pack 2.
Not going to happen in our lifetime. Or at least our lunchtime.
As Evolution, Kontact (KDE's groupware suite, encorporating Kmail) and Thunderbird vie for desktop supremacy new features will be developed, and copied, and theoretically you will start seeing the same technologies popping up in at least the top three dominant mail clients (and web browsers) on the Linux platform. Once you get common technologies, that's when virus writers have something to target that they know will be common across their userbase (or at least a large part of it). That's the situation that has led to so many exploits for Windows software, and the potential is that exploits for Linux software could be developed and could spread.
However, because of the security model of Linux (ie. each user only has write access to his own files) the furthest any worm or virus will be able to spread is to that user's files and directories. So, wipe the user and restore from backup, and your virus woes are dealt with.
As long as the security model for Linux remains unchanged, this will be the case, and viruses and worms, while probably becoming more frequent, will never be able to do significant damage to a machine.
THIS is why Linux is less susceptible to viruses. The arguement that it's a more obscure platform only holds water up to a point.
Is it me, or do I see a post from you about This Not Being News "every fucking day"?
As amazing as it may seem to you, there are people visiting Slashdot who are IT professionals. Some of those, like myself, even work with Open Source. So, to these people (and me) every news story painting either Microsoft or Linux in a negative or positive light is relevant, and important.
We need to know what FUD we've got to fight tomorrow, and which of these stories we can download and save in our Show to Clients folder.
Am I the only one who's getting pissed off with someone saying "How is this news" to EVERY bloody article that gets posted?
Not really. MacOS's market share has stayed fairly constant for the past howevermanyyears, and, much as the Mac loving faithful would hate to hear this, has always been viewed as a niche operating system. Linux's market share, on the other hand, is definitely increasing, and Linux is also in the public eye more because by many it is viewed as competition for Microsoft, or at least potentially so.
(hm. A slashdot post with a comment about Apple that could be interpreted as negative. -5 Flamebait here I come)
Um ... Novell and IBM's linux endeavours are heavily intertwined. IBM donated $50M to Novell to facilitate the purchase of SuSE. This, in fact, is exactly the kind of news IBM wants to hear.
XP Pro is XP Home with extra bits. The only difference between Home and Pro are things like IIS, which (fairly obviously) is included in Professional, but not Home. In fact, with a little kludging, you can add it XP Home.
... it's called http://www.uptime-project.net/.
... you think?
Correct me if I'm wrong here but merely sending an HTML formatted message containing the image would be enough to infect most Windows users, since both Hatemail and Outhouse automatically render HTML emails and download external image links.
(PS. For moderators. Hating M$ products does not make me a troll and I will not expurgate myself for fear of being modded down)
Hardware Abstraction Layer cos we all know how well that worked in Windows NT
One, it wouldn't work. Two, if it could work (which it couldn't) the guy had to be pretty confident of his wiring ability. Afterall, if a self fitted alarm goes wrong, worst thing that happens is you get a little deaf. Three, if this story is not the sad little musings of a deranged geek and is actually real, then the guy should count himself lucky that the device was never put to use, assuming of course that like most of us he doesn't like seeing prison bars from the inside.
They drain it and sell it to mobile bloodbanks. Seriously, haven't you ever woken up feeling all anaemic and seen your cat and dog counting out fivers?
... or instead, you could get it from totalrekall.co.uk. The developers Open Sourced the product. The Kompany no longer control it.
Let me spell it out for you. Dalnet, frequently DDoSed. This guy, paying people to arrange DDoS attacks on competitors. Therefore Dalnet sells Satellite TVs. See? Joke. Funny? No. Flamebait? I don't think so.
Dalnet's a Satellite TV retailer? Who knew?
There is no point in this, because without the support from AOL you might as well use any other dialup account. Some of them may even provide support for Linux users.
AOL will never support Linux. Or at least, not until the market share breaks 10%, and probably not even then.