On the contrary, getting things to run in Wine is hard, because we cannot see what the code of the program and as such cannot recreate the perfect environment for it to run in easily.
Designing something to work in wine would be much easer, as you know what wine does, at what time, and with what resources.
In a way, writing a virus to exploit wine to plant a different Linux virus on the host, would be easier than using a worm to drop a trojan on a windows box... and that happens all the time.
I did a fresh install, and I had all kinds of interesting problems with X. Not Ubuntu's fault, it's mostly my hardware.
I have a laptop. To make a long story short, I had to configure X to ignore what the hardware told it, and set the primary display to read as a CRT (and put in the proper HSync and VSync rates), with no secondary. (The actual layout was the laptop panel on primary, crt on secondary... but the hardware wouldn't play nice that way.
I even had to go as far as disabling DDC.
Oh, then I had to add my internal sound card to the modprobe blacklists (mostly because Connexant rides the short bus) and then alter the Alsa/Modprobe configuration to remove my USB sound card from the section that "Prevents abnormal drivers from obtaining an index of 1" - because That was exactly what I wanted it to do!
Fortunatly Ubuntu is one of the ONLY distros around that includes Madwifi-NG by default and in-kernel. Why others don't, I don't really understand.
I prefer it to the floating adblock notification for every ad. Well, if it bothers you, turn it off. Sure, routers are more efficient, but an even smaller percentage of people have that kind of 'router' than the percentage of firefox users.
That's an interesting thought. What if everyone ignored the "plug pulling"? What exactly happens if people IGNORE what these "controlling" companies decide?
You know all those worms that are constantly slamming your router? Those arn't appearing out of thin air. Those are infected pre-sp2 machines sending them.
Judging from the amount of worm activity and the randomness of their IP selection... thats a very large amount machines.
They can probably get around it by requiring the user to link it on first startup. But I admit I don't really know what I'm talking about. I, for the most part, ignore licences.
Codemasters owns Flashpoint. the true advancement of Flashpoint is "Armed Assault" - you can find information, screenshots, and video (trailers) here: http://www.bistudio.com/games/ofaa.html
Don't make a mess of your shorts now... the game is friggin beautiful.
If only. You have to admit, outside of the benifits for *nix and friends, a public-domain of EVERY Microsoft product would be a kickass thing. Free and open MS office, all the dev tools, DirectX (practically falling out of the chair thinking of that being completely open), windows itself, and the ENTIRE WINDOWS DRIVER STACK. no more fighting with crappy vendors, ndiswrapper-like functionality for all!
Hmm, how do you advertise yourself? (looking into doing that myself (maybe a little more attempt to remove infection first) and was wondering the best way to go about getting business)
It's a good show, but the "amateur camera operator" technique drives me away. I just can't concentrate on the show itself - I'm one of those people who throw a CD out because of a single skip.
Perhaps they don't use that style any more, it's been a long time since I've given it another try.
They call that a war of attrition. And they are indeed loosing (big lawsuits against few people wont work, they need small lawsuits against teeming crowds).
But that's almost as impractical as SCO's lawsuit(s)
Next time you run out of ink, grab a knife and pop the circuit board off of the empty cartridge. Notice that it's not connected to anything?
It's just a counter. The only reliable (and cheap) way to measure remaining ink is to estimate how much ink goes on a page, and keep a tally of how many 'pages' remain.
Even if they could make cheap and reliable ink level sensors in the cartridge, why would they want to?
Any chance you could spare some of us some headaches, frustration, and vulnerability by posting a link to a sanitized version of your script? (sanatized = removing anything personal you wouldnt want public, like open ports)
Well, the solution is obviously to get rid of iPod style players and move back to the simpler ones that worked just like flash media.
DRM could still function - you could tie the serial number of the player to a key, and put the key in a "magic file" on the drive along with the media files. It just wouldn't be as transparent to the (standard, run of the mill) user. But then the programs that DO it could make it just as transparent. They don't NEED to know what the program is specifically doing.
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On the contrary, getting things to run in Wine is hard, because we cannot see what the code of the program and as such cannot recreate the perfect environment for it to run in easily.
Designing something to work in wine would be much easer, as you know what wine does, at what time, and with what resources.
In a way, writing a virus to exploit wine to plant a different Linux virus on the host, would be easier than using a worm to drop a trojan on a windows box... and that happens all the time.
I did a fresh install, and I had all kinds of interesting problems with X. Not Ubuntu's fault, it's mostly my hardware.
I have a laptop. To make a long story short, I had to configure X to ignore what the hardware told it, and set the primary display to read as a CRT (and put in the proper HSync and VSync rates), with no secondary. (The actual layout was the laptop panel on primary, crt on secondary... but the hardware wouldn't play nice that way.
I even had to go as far as disabling DDC.
Oh, then I had to add my internal sound card to the modprobe blacklists (mostly because Connexant rides the short bus) and then alter the Alsa/Modprobe configuration to remove my USB sound card from the section that "Prevents abnormal drivers from obtaining an index of 1" - because That was exactly what I wanted it to do!
Fortunatly Ubuntu is one of the ONLY distros around that includes Madwifi-NG by default and in-kernel. Why others don't, I don't really understand.
Hmm, whats that noise? A slightly thunderous applause sounding as if just over the horizon...
I prefer it to the floating adblock notification for every ad.
Well, if it bothers you, turn it off. Sure, routers are more efficient, but an even smaller percentage of people have that kind of 'router' than the percentage of firefox users.
No, it wasn't a virus for the iPod. It's a windows virus sitting on the iPod's filesystem.
Completely different beast.
That's an interesting thought. What if everyone ignored the "plug pulling"? What exactly happens if people IGNORE what these "controlling" companies decide?
You know all those worms that are constantly slamming your router? Those arn't appearing out of thin air. Those are infected pre-sp2 machines sending them.
Judging from the amount of worm activity and the randomness of their IP selection... thats a very large amount machines.
They can probably get around it by requiring the user to link it on first startup. But I admit I don't really know what I'm talking about. I, for the most part, ignore licences.
Or it could be linux using proprietary binary modules to talk to the Wii hardware and software... kinda like Nvidia is doing.
Codemasters owns Flashpoint. the true advancement of Flashpoint is "Armed Assault" - you can find information, screenshots, and video (trailers) here: http://www.bistudio.com/games/ofaa.html
Don't make a mess of your shorts now... the game is friggin beautiful.
Operation Flashpoint.
If only. You have to admit, outside of the benifits for *nix and friends, a public-domain of EVERY Microsoft product would be a kickass thing. Free and open MS office, all the dev tools, DirectX (practically falling out of the chair thinking of that being completely open), windows itself, and the ENTIRE WINDOWS DRIVER STACK. no more fighting with crappy vendors, ndiswrapper-like functionality for all!
Hmm, how do you advertise yourself? (looking into doing that myself (maybe a little more attempt to remove infection first) and was wondering the best way to go about getting business)
OK, 'commie' and 'bastard' are easy to understand. But what is 'pinko' supposed to mean?
That I understand, but when that technique is the ONLY ONE USED THE ENTIRE LENGTH OF THE SHOW there is a problem.
It's a good show, but the "amateur camera operator" technique drives me away. I just can't concentrate on the show itself - I'm one of those people who throw a CD out because of a single skip.
Perhaps they don't use that style any more, it's been a long time since I've given it another try.
no... Yahoo!
Click on something, then type the first few letters of the file. Examine what happens.
They call that a war of attrition. And they are indeed loosing (big lawsuits against few people wont work, they need small lawsuits against teeming crowds).
But that's almost as impractical as SCO's lawsuit(s)
Well, if you look closely you find that this patch is for Windows 2000 SP4 only, and all other versions of windows are not affected.
That does make a big difference, win2k is not MS' top priority.
Not that I condone their delay or lack of forsight, however.
Ubuntu is debian based as well.... so I guess debian is really the top dog.
Next time you run out of ink, grab a knife and pop the circuit board off of the empty cartridge. Notice that it's not connected to anything?
It's just a counter. The only reliable (and cheap) way to measure remaining ink is to estimate how much ink goes on a page, and keep a tally of how many 'pages' remain.
Even if they could make cheap and reliable ink level sensors in the cartridge, why would they want to?
Any chance you could spare some of us some headaches, frustration, and vulnerability by posting a link to a sanitized version of your script? (sanatized = removing anything personal you wouldnt want public, like open ports)
Well, the solution is obviously to get rid of iPod style players and move back to the simpler ones that worked just like flash media.
DRM could still function - you could tie the serial number of the player to a key, and put the key in a "magic file" on the drive along with the media files. It just wouldn't be as transparent to the (standard, run of the mill) user. But then the programs that DO it could make it just as transparent. They don't NEED to know what the program is specifically doing.
How is a fighter excort going to prevent someone inside the plane from blowing it up or otherwise making it go down?