I have one in my Thinkpad T23 right now, along with the main battery and I get around 10 hours of life. Granted I'm running linux with aggressive harddrive spin down timings, somewhere around 10 minutes between spin ups if I'm not forcing the drive to spin up, and it doesnt much because I have a gig of RAM and I'm using 512MB ramdisks for music. I also have numerous other powersaving features like speed stepping, screen brightness etc.... The ultrabay battery rocks though, its the same capacity as the main battery and can be swapped out on a hardware suspend (which works in linux). I carry a spare and I'm mobile all day, hitting at least 10 Wireless APs. Sorry for the rant, but obviously not everyone needs a Super battery, there are solutions if you simply seek them. And I see it coming, for you desktop replacement laptop gamers, there are batteries the size of notebook coolers that last around 8-12 hours, expensive but you guys drop 3+ grand on a laptop to play games.
I'm actually writing custom wardriving software that will provide this functionality for linux....
basically you hook up a gps to your laptop, grab a mappack of the area, and it plots what is known from wigle.net it also functions as a kismet client if you feel like finding some of your own. It will plot what you find and optionally let you save the new aps to wigle.net email me at acidtonic -=At=- acidtonic (dot) homedns (dot) org for more info.
So just because they think swapping is going on they should automatically get access?
Bullshit
so if nasa playes music I wrote on the next space shuttle, can I tag along to make sure they dont abuse it?
I think if it's private, you having a copyright means nothing... can I get access to all private property in my area to make sure no one with portable cd players is listening to my music illegally?
I think its great to finally strip away the bull and finally get a true report of whats happened. We dont need words like malicious, evil or anything else like that in a news story. That show bias and is an obvious suggestion of whos in the right. Im not all saying hackers are good, but at least point out the other group who actually go out to bring in the bad guys.... or what about the "hackers" back from the homebrew computer club days... we owe alot to hackers and its great that finally we get an unbiased source from the neutral perspective
Im hearing everyone say how they would like a cluster that doesnt need cluster aware applications... Well check out openmosix. Its a simple kernel patch and userspace utilities that make a cluster that load balances any application.
Why does google have to do this? Their adoption of ANY email program will help sway people to use that service.... If something is widespread, people will follow, is google the first step?
I think the biggest problem is microsoft... They purposely try to lock everyone in by making everything as incompatible as they can. Then they go and release half ass tools that have half the functionality to make it appear as though they care.... where is the open standard docs for winfs... now that ntfs support for linux has reached a useable level they need to hurry up and lock us in again.... utter bullshit
I myself enjoy lock picking... sounds like yet another thing which will soon be illegal even to talk about...
I used to sit in study hall and pick my old gym lock (it had the keyhole on the back for teachers) by the end of the year I could pick any gym lock in about 10 seconds flat. Although I have ethics and never did anything with that talent, I will always be interested in something like this
Being a slackware guy myself, I still would very much like to inspect this branch when released....
I still think the less you have the more secure it is.... as long as what you have isnt bloated. Thats why in my opinion slackware is great on security.
So if this thing is more than one iso image ill be rather skeptical since debian tends to be a very large distro...
SCO is just digging, I wish they would either strike, or leave us the hell alone. Slander is what it's boiling down to. They need to get more sales and money and all they can do is talk shit about linux until someone figures out they have no case..... but the lose of sales from their bullshit will hurt other companies and they deserve to be sued back.... Anyone care to join in with Big Blue?
Nice idea, but I doubt it would work... Afterall, all the bugs M$ would leave in the VAPI32.dll would cause viruses to just overtake it, instead of competing for resources......
Im thinking this is a great improvement for linux in general...
If you have ever sat in on a dev channel on irc listening to people fight over where something should go on the filesystem, or where things should get installed to, then you will understand this is great milestone for developers.
Wow I been waiting quite some time for Slackware 10 to be released... Been with it since kernel 2.2.*
Its the only distro where I reboot only to upgrade.
There went my ~9 month uptime
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Logged in for the first time in over 11 years just to say the same thing.
Like one of these http://www.superwarehouse.com/p.cfm?08K8190&p=2657 29&CMP=IL18612
I have one in my Thinkpad T23 right now, along with the main battery and I get around 10 hours of life. Granted I'm running linux with aggressive harddrive spin down timings, somewhere around 10 minutes between spin ups if I'm not forcing the drive to spin up, and it doesnt much because I have a gig of RAM and I'm using 512MB ramdisks for music. I also have numerous other powersaving features like speed stepping, screen brightness etc.... The ultrabay battery rocks though, its the same capacity as the main battery and can be swapped out on a hardware suspend (which works in linux). I carry a spare and I'm mobile all day, hitting at least 10 Wireless APs. Sorry for the rant, but obviously not everyone needs a Super battery, there are solutions if you simply seek them. And I see it coming, for you desktop replacement laptop gamers, there are batteries the size of notebook coolers that last around 8-12 hours, expensive but you guys drop 3+ grand on a laptop to play games.
-AcidTonic-
I'm actually writing custom wardriving software that will provide this functionality for linux....
basically you hook up a gps to your laptop, grab a mappack of the area, and it plots what is known from wigle.net
it also functions as a kismet client if you feel like finding some of your own. It will plot what you find and optionally let you save the new aps to wigle.net email me at acidtonic -=At=- acidtonic (dot) homedns (dot) org for more info.
So just because they think swapping is going on they should automatically get access?
Bullshit
so if nasa playes music I wrote on the next space shuttle, can I tag along to make sure they dont abuse it?
I think if it's private, you having a copyright means nothing... can I get access to all private property in my area to make sure no one with portable cd players is listening to my music illegally?
MPAA Shut your mouth, and keep out
I think its great to finally strip away the bull and finally get a true report of whats happened. We dont need words like malicious, evil or anything else like that in a news story. That show bias and is an obvious suggestion of whos in the right. Im not all saying hackers are good, but at least point out the other group who actually go out to bring in the bad guys.... or what about the "hackers" back from the homebrew computer club days... we owe alot to hackers and its great that finally we get an unbiased source from the neutral perspective
Im hearing everyone say how they would like a cluster that doesnt need cluster aware applications... Well check out openmosix. Its a simple kernel patch and userspace utilities that make a cluster that load balances any application.
Nasa eh? well hopefully linux keeps this project from crashing, unlike the previous nasa work...
Why does google have to do this? Their adoption of ANY email program will help sway people to use that service.... If something is widespread, people will follow, is google the first step?
I think the biggest problem is microsoft... They purposely try to lock everyone in by making everything as incompatible as they can. Then they go and release half ass tools that have half the functionality to make it appear as though they care.... where is the open standard docs for winfs... now that ntfs support for linux has reached a useable level they need to hurry up and lock us in again.... utter bullshit
It's sad but I really think no one cares....
so maby it should say: nothing *interesting* to read here, move along
I myself enjoy lock picking... sounds like yet another thing which will soon be illegal even to talk about...
I used to sit in study hall and pick my old gym lock (it had the keyhole on the back for teachers) by the end of the year I could pick any gym lock in about 10 seconds flat. Although I have ethics and never did anything with that talent, I will always be interested in something like this
Being a slackware guy myself, I still would very much like to inspect this branch when released....
I still think the less you have the more secure it is.... as long as what you have isnt bloated. Thats why in my opinion slackware is great on security.
So if this thing is more than one iso image ill be rather skeptical since debian tends to be a very large distro...
Anyone here care to explain to someone not yet finished with higher level maths.....?
SCO is just digging, I wish they would either strike, or leave us the hell alone. Slander is what it's boiling down to. They need to get more sales and money and all they can do is talk shit about linux until someone figures out they have no case..... but the lose of sales from their bullshit will hurt other companies and they deserve to be sued back.... Anyone care to join in with Big Blue?
Nice idea, but I doubt it would work... Afterall, all the bugs M$ would leave in the VAPI32.dll would cause viruses to just overtake it, instead of competing for resources......
Switched lans still dont prevent overall network sniffing. Arp poisoning still works like a charm. Heres how it works:
1) Send the computer you wish to sniff's MAC Address as your own to the switch.
2) Now route all traffic you recieve with spoofed source addresses to the target machine. so it thinks the data came from the switch....
3) Enjoy sniffing on a switched lan.
There's programs to do this... I'll let the kiddies find them themselves.
Im thinking this is a great improvement for linux in general...
If you have ever sat in on a dev channel on irc listening to people fight over where something should go on the filesystem, or where things should get installed to, then you will understand this is great milestone for developers.
Judging by the screenshots, they are using Windows.
Wow I been waiting quite some time for Slackware 10 to be released... Been with it since kernel 2.2.* Its the only distro where I reboot only to upgrade. There went my ~9 month uptime