Lovely. I use 52% to keep all of my cdrom images on HD so I can keep the originals as backups! (no more trawling through a stack of frisbies, just mount the one I want off a big hd). Can ClonyXXL or something else diagnose a CD as being StarForce?
Incidentally, I remember something to the effect that modifying a system without the user's permission is a criminal offence in the UK? Anyone know if this is true (fellow brits?).
The real irony is it's *worse* than you know! Here I am in Athens GR and not only are the internet news feeds of the BBC, CBC ABC (australia) etc mostly blanked out, but there are at least two FM stations here who rebroadcast BBC WS! One on 87.7 from about 2.a.m. local to 6.a.m and another which comes and goes on 104.4... Hmm. Neither appears on the BBC web site so I can only assume they are doing this illegally...
Just woke up so my eyesight hasn't gotten right yet, but I have a beautiful LOS to that blimp here from my office/home across to Mount Hymettus. Wandered to the balcony. Yep, we could frag it...
...what isn't imperfect. I live with it comfortably, with no RSI or anything else. Why squander brain power on yet another weird device? If you really are sitting there pounding away at 100wpm all day then what kind of coding bot are you anyway? (and are you thinking about what you're coding?)
It's far too late to educate anyone about the merits of a new device that replaces an old device wot works. Try convincing the Brits or US that metric is a good idea? 3/8" bolts on the ISS (yuk). (and I'm old enough to remember (ouch) don't want to comment...).
Perhaps the open source world needs to discuss what we ought to play with (gee: i have this neat idea for photographing emperor penguins...) rather than the old well worn stuff. Try a sci fi style workshop maybe?
sidenote: Wagtails wag their tails in order to create turbulence. Prove me wrong.
Well. The CNN article seems like a blatent plug for SAIC. Since I live here (and have done for a long time) I'll comment.
1. The blimp only works when there is no wind. That doesn't happen a lot given the heat driven wind from the local geography (the attic plain is surrounded by mountains a la LA). Today and yesterday we didn't have any wind so I could have got some great shots of the blimp (why no markings eh?)... Too damn hot without that wind. Hope it picks up otherwise we'll see some horribly dehydrated athletes...
2. I don't know if/. people saw it, but there was a big fuss about the non delivery of the SAIC led consortium's C4 integration software. Maybe it only got reported in the local athens press, but from what I can gather it was "yet another big (software) project turns rotten". I'll try to go back in time to check and post if I can nail that one...
3. I'm more worried about the 'net' staying intact locally. We just had yet another "net brownout". Panic. The worst terrorist scenario is in your mind. If you combine rumours of an attack with an internet brownout then you'd get much more fear than any real attack. What are our brothers from the NSA/CIA/MI56 going to do there? Shoot OTE (the local PTT). Now *there's* an idea.
4. They make a lot of laws here. Most get broken. Greeks are inherently libertarian. The only rule seems to be A: don't do drugs B: don't do violence. Other than that you can ignore the "Sons of Oedipus" because they are just like red lights on roads - designed to be ignored.
4a. OOPS. The wind just came back and bit our flying patch cables... Oh - I can see the copper Hey: It still works... (should I check for the blimp?)
5. More seriously, all of the noise about potential hits on the olympics masks more disturbing trends in privacy both online and off. I could mention the UK police database of genetic info as one that bothers me. I'm sure slashdotters know of others...
Sorry for big delay. Brains work slower here @ 33 C in Athens GR. (grin). You are of course right if you take Vulcan logic as pure Boolean logic. But of course it isn't that. They *say* logical but
they mean "sensible to me". This is negotiable.
It's more akin to a belief system which can be explained by the harshness of the world they live on. Screw up and you're going to die. Therefore
everything (just like my father's view) is "prioritized").
Vulcan's are just *shit* scared of emotion because of what it *did* to them. It's hot, and everyone loses their temper over trivial things... You can't afford mistakes ergo you have to be logical.
Almost like Dune - there can't be a heck of a lot
of water on this hotter world than earth...
But imagine growing up in that world. They aren't
programmed robots - so it must be societal conditioning. Hmm. Stories. There are 15e9 and counting (let lose an SF workshop and JMS and it would spin more magic than loom...
I won't bore you. I trawled google and everything2
and wikipedia and got bored. Nobody seems to know
where Sargon's world is?
Last gasp of an imaginative thought. The schism
between Romulans and Vulcans is akin to 1st/2nd
foundation.... (grins and cackles).
Thanks for your thoughts
I won't read this. Seriously. Do we have to read another how wonderful the world is story or simply
live with "Hey we survived the bad stuff"....
I know it's August, but heck:
1. We don't need patting on the back. Linux is one part (read that carefully) of any serious designer/developers tapestry.
2. It doesn't *add* anything to know that open source is *kewl* (especially here). Except for the
youngsters... Even (cough) I had a copy of UCSD source from all versions up to IV.21 (grin).
We all know this. Open source good, Closed source bad. Oink Oink Oink.
Reasoned articles please. Otherwise my Cretan friends cousin from the Mafia will visit you...
Let's get this straight. Slow doesn't mean reliable and quick doesn't mean unsafe.
At least until you get to the extremes...
How do they propose to come up with any sort of metric which claims to know how safe a driver you are? By speed? When and where?
I don't drive but it seems to me that this is as nutty as IQ as an intelligence metric.. Great for the lion tamer wannerbees but horrid for anyone else.
In a city environment, how (and upon what rational
evidence) are they going to tell who is crazy and who deserves a special bonus?
Hmm. Corruption. We've got it...
Oh well, whatever small shred of credibility the star trek universe has left will only be amusing to Dr. Who fans... Blame the Dalek+Borg conspiracy of 2929
Why on earth don't they do a series seen from a non earth perspective e.g. the Vulcan's (starting with the split with Romulus?). Sigh. No, that would be too *deep* maybe?
(Or sack everybody, start with a fresh cast and give it to JMS...).
Prob a full XP + SP2 CD image... But er. Why can't they learn the concept of binary diffs a la.RTPatch?
I'm still going to wait a couple of weeks at least to see whether they have to release an SP2a before commiting to this - at least it would be good to know what scenarios it breaks in (aside from old pirate keys)....
No big rush , even the script kiddies are on holiday:-).
Uh. Doom 3 is probably out. HL2 we cannot speculate about. The unreal engine has shown good longevity and moddability so you go figure. I don't see anyone queueing up yet and in any case do we yet have a nethack mod or a dungeon keeper or . Nope? Just more stinking mod's to make you look like alice cooper on acid? Oh he is ? Not even a good research trick or joke (like psdoom?). Nope. Boring. Really. (runs off and runs UT classic and DA-fastfoodwar as a DM).
You shouldn't fear installing anything because it might hose your pristine UT. It isn't like you have to reinstall XP. Unreal in all forms is very light footprint in terms of stamping over the reg etc.
My own sys has UT classic (reinstalled from scratched CD's don't ask how) and many other things and *not* by the usual install. Mine has maps stolen from the DA mod and much other stuff simply because I thought it was a fun idea.
It works. It's written by people who don't like f*king with your registry or anything else. You copy the maps to the maps dir, the music to the music dir etc. and if you don't like them, trash them...
Not at all painful. Not at all what you'd expect. But then again UT never is...
(Right now I think I could fall in love with onslaught - if only I'd not decided to use a 1.5G P4 with 32MB card as my engineering+programming box...). Still my colleague isn't here so I can borrow *his* machine. Ah. The pleasures of living in one's own office... Just hope my Cretan friend doesn't notice the cig ash and (shit) burn mark and (shit) dent (???) in the machine... Oh my god, he's going to kill me. (Didn't happen).
Are we really talking about understanding or assuming? Remember that teaching implies a bond of trust between student and teacher...
Assuming is clearly bad. What next - teach the kids about the rightness of software patents?
GA's tend to produce programs which out slimy hack the ultimate slimy hacker. They exploit areas we don't even know are slimy hacks. But this makes them horribly fragile - the same program *won't* do well if the input params change.
I like GA's. But they are no substitute for the painful process of writing real programs painfully.
One day when we have "computers" (read 10K+ nodes parallel processing with terabyte memory) we will idly fiddle with these things to hose people in deathmatches...
If it was so similar or even subtly different why would you consider it *less* than you. The whole point of replicants is that they are *slaves*. Slavery is alive and well despite centuries of fighting it.
Personally, I'm all in favour of alienness in my life. It's why I live here in Greece. It isn't the UK or US. (we also have better food).
If you're looking for a slave (presumably of the sexual variety) then since your'e a slash dotter you ought to be able to code one...
Yeah, this is an amusing joke. But sooner or later some evil minded script kiddie will do this in a more
harmful way. But hey: if you *have* a net, then
presumably you could *see* it happening by having
a sniffer running full time on that old dustbin linux
hacky box you keep around?
libpcap + some python scripts +
(python for dynamically using human intel to figure whats good/bad right now).
Someone research this (because it's serious -
traffic analysis stuff maybe?). I'd guess the
NSA knows about these things, but they don't
come here except to watch (perverts?).
Does being a hacker imply an absence of social responsibility (you want script kiddies with nukes?). I know a lot of us (not me) are libertarians but I don't read that as meaning
totally lacking awareness (quite the opposite).
We should be careful people. Not everyone is as
innocent as ESR, RMS, Bruce, Tim etc... (not even
CowboyNeal:-)).
Oh, and how the heck do you *REMOVE* packets?
Is there an way of making an IP Cookie Monster?
The only good red team is in a UT match.
Um. I'd reckon 100-120 is the most I tolerate, but I'm no fascist. So long as you can read a co-workers code (and not laugh too much) what's the problem?
80 columns is a sicko leftover of old Hollerith punch cards.
Meaningful var names are great, but uh: IHaveToThinkUpThisStinkinVarNameSoImGoingToPissOff EveryOne (case sensitive of course) (AARRGGH!).
If you don't have the brainpower to *format* your code as you think then you shouldn't be programming.
Remember, you're likely to be the poor sucker who has to debug this schizoid mess 10 years later if it's engineered well..
Every "shop" has it's own rules, and it isn't such a big deal to conform (even if they think the GNU rules are good and believe in the great gods K&R (first edition)).
Really, this stuff is a non issue. Tabs vs. spaces is a far more evil one. Along with the more modern "how do I teach this F*King IDE that I don't indent that way" (mixing auto gend code with my style makes me scream). Anyone know how to persuade Vizual Studio to change its manners?
Er. Id haven't released the Quake 3 engine yet...
I think John is going to wait a while (he might want
to win that X prize thingy you know (grins)).
But I don't understand *why* anyone wants such advanced engines when no one seems to know how to truly exploit the old ones (blatent flamebait).
(I'm still waiting for a first person Dungeon Keeper or Nethack... (that's a hint)).
Sure does. But it would make an interesting pastime
to consider exactly how many beer cans you'd have
to stack to get to the same altitude....
Tower of Babel indeed. Try the "Tower of slashdot"
Let's not factor in the mere issue that Rutan's "Scaled Composites" has gotten a lot of publicity.
Hmm. How much is *that* worth? Remember, this is the same guy who created "Voyager"...
Street cred matters if you're a small engineering outfit...
(Even if Burt *loses*, he got to 100K first. Chalk up
another. Don't think that man has *heard* the word quit).
Do not sneer at the Canadian attempt. 30 years or so ago most people would snigger about hot air balloons.
While you have Burt Rutan in the U.S. We have Don Cameron in the U.K. They have a lot in common.
Especially great engineering taste...
Imagine going to your bank manager and saying you want to make balloons?
Well. I graduated from Bristol (where Cameron's outfit started I think - I have fond memories of
a disused (church?) in Cotham and one van)) in the early 80's and I can tell you that nobody, repeat *NOBODY* is going
to know what will happen until it's done.
Hey, maybe John Carmack will get there.
Personally, my bet (I don't bet) is on Burt.
But seriously I'd guess that *this* X-prize doesn't advance affordable space flight much?
So when do they define the next one (the one that separates the men from the boys)?
Slashdot Mirror
Humph. So we don't celebrate some guy who tried to blow up parliament every 5th Nov ? (ok, he prob didn't though...).
I don't think so (It still had the same name when
I went past their office on Syngrou Ave. (Athens GR))
ten minutes ago...
(Olympic airways is the national airline here in Greece).
Lovely. I use 52% to keep all of my cdrom images on
HD so I can keep the originals as backups!
(no more trawling through a stack of frisbies, just
mount the one I want off a big hd). Can ClonyXXL or
something else diagnose a CD as being StarForce?
Incidentally, I remember something to the effect that
modifying a system without the user's permission is a
criminal offence in the UK? Anyone know if this is true (fellow brits?).
..than the slashdot article (a previous article had the groklaw link). Read the pdf (it's pretty clear even though IANAL).
:
I do hope groklaw posts SCO's reply to this. It should be an entertaining read...
To sum up for the lazy
if gpl_invalid():
scoHasViolatedIBMCopyright = True
else:
scoHasViolatedGPL = True
if scoHas... OR scoHas..(elided):
HeadExplodes()
The real irony is it's *worse* than you know! Here I am in Athens GR and not only are the internet news feeds of the BBC, CBC ABC (australia) etc mostly blanked out, but there are at least two FM stations here who rebroadcast BBC WS! One on 87.7 from about 2.a.m. local to 6.a.m and another which comes and goes on 104.4... Hmm. Neither appears on the BBC web site so I can only assume they are doing this illegally ...
Just woke up so my eyesight hasn't gotten right yet, but I have a beautiful LOS to that blimp here
from my office/home across to Mount Hymettus.
Wandered to the balcony. Yep, we could frag it...
Pass the rocket launcher alice!
...what isn't imperfect. I live with it comfortably,
with no RSI or anything else. Why squander brain power on yet another weird device? If you really are sitting there pounding away at 100wpm all day then what kind of coding bot are you anyway?
(and are you thinking about what you're coding?)
It's far too late to educate anyone about the merits of a new device that replaces an old device wot works. Try convincing the Brits or US that metric is a good idea? 3/8" bolts on the ISS (yuk). (and I'm old enough to remember (ouch) don't want to comment...).
Perhaps the open source world needs to discuss what we ought to play with (gee: i have this neat
idea for photographing emperor penguins...) rather
than the old well worn stuff. Try a sci fi style
workshop maybe?
sidenote: Wagtails wag their tails in order to create turbulence. Prove me wrong.
Well. The CNN article seems like a blatent plug for SAIC. Since I live here (and have done for a long time) I'll comment.
/. people saw it, but there was a big fuss about the non delivery of the SAIC led consortium's C4 integration software. Maybe it only got reported in the local athens press, but from what I can gather it was "yet another big (software) project turns rotten". I'll try to go back in time to check and post if I can nail that one...
1. The blimp only works when there is no wind. That doesn't happen a lot given the heat driven wind from the local geography (the attic plain is surrounded by mountains a la LA). Today and yesterday we didn't have any wind so I could have got some great shots
of the blimp (why no markings eh?)... Too damn hot
without that wind. Hope it picks up otherwise we'll see some horribly dehydrated athletes...
2. I don't know if
3. I'm more worried about the 'net' staying intact locally. We just had yet another "net brownout". Panic. The worst terrorist scenario is in your mind. If you combine rumours of an attack with
an internet brownout then you'd get much more fear
than any real attack. What are our brothers from
the NSA/CIA/MI56 going to do there? Shoot OTE (the local PTT).
Now *there's* an idea.
4. They make a lot of laws here. Most get broken.
Greeks are inherently libertarian. The only rule
seems to be A: don't do drugs B: don't do violence. Other than that you can ignore the "Sons of Oedipus" because they are just like red lights on roads - designed to be ignored.
4a. OOPS. The wind just came back and bit our flying patch cables... Oh - I can see the copper
Hey: It still works... (should I check for the blimp?)
5. More seriously, all of the noise about potential hits on the olympics masks more disturbing trends in privacy both online and off.
I could mention the UK police database of genetic
info as one that bothers me. I'm sure slashdotters
know of others...
Sorry for big delay. Brains work slower here @ 33 C in Athens GR. (grin). You are of course right if you take Vulcan logic as pure Boolean logic. But of course it isn't that. They *say* logical but they mean "sensible to me". This is negotiable. It's more akin to a belief system which can be explained by the harshness of the world they live on. Screw up and you're going to die. Therefore everything (just like my father's view) is "prioritized"). Vulcan's are just *shit* scared of emotion because of what it *did* to them. It's hot, and everyone loses their temper over trivial things... You can't afford mistakes ergo you have to be logical. Almost like Dune - there can't be a heck of a lot of water on this hotter world than earth... But imagine growing up in that world. They aren't programmed robots - so it must be societal conditioning. Hmm. Stories. There are 15e9 and counting (let lose an SF workshop and JMS and it would spin more magic than loom... I won't bore you. I trawled google and everything2 and wikipedia and got bored. Nobody seems to know where Sargon's world is? Last gasp of an imaginative thought. The schism between Romulans and Vulcans is akin to 1st/2nd foundation.... (grins and cackles). Thanks for your thoughts
I won't read this. Seriously. Do we have to read another how wonderful the world is story or simply live with "Hey we survived the bad stuff".... I know it's August, but heck: 1. We don't need patting on the back. Linux is one part (read that carefully) of any serious designer/developers tapestry. 2. It doesn't *add* anything to know that open source is *kewl* (especially here). Except for the youngsters... Even (cough) I had a copy of UCSD source from all versions up to IV.21 (grin). We all know this. Open source good, Closed source bad. Oink Oink Oink. Reasoned articles please. Otherwise my Cretan friends cousin from the Mafia will visit you...
Let's get this straight. Slow doesn't mean reliable and quick doesn't mean unsafe. At least until you get to the extremes... How do they propose to come up with any sort of metric which claims to know how safe a driver you are? By speed? When and where? I don't drive but it seems to me that this is as nutty as IQ as an intelligence metric.. Great for the lion tamer wannerbees but horrid for anyone else. In a city environment, how (and upon what rational evidence) are they going to tell who is crazy and who deserves a special bonus? Hmm. Corruption. We've got it...
Oh well, whatever small shred of credibility the star trek universe has left will only be amusing to Dr. Who fans...
Blame the Dalek+Borg conspiracy of 2929
Why on earth don't they do a series seen from a non earth perspective e.g. the Vulcan's (starting with
the split with Romulus?). Sigh. No, that would be too *deep* maybe?
(Or sack everybody, start with a fresh cast and give it to JMS...).
much more interesting if they found the missing episodes...
Prob a full XP + SP2 CD image... .RTPatch?
:-).
But er. Why can't they learn the concept of binary diffs a la
I'm still going to wait a couple of weeks at least to see whether they have to release an SP2a before commiting to this - at least it would be good to know what scenarios it breaks in (aside from old pirate keys)....
No big rush , even the script kiddies are on holiday
Uh. Doom 3 is probably out. HL2 we cannot speculate about. The unreal engine has shown good longevity and moddability so you go figure. I don't see anyone queueing up yet and in any case do we yet have a nethack mod or a dungeon keeper or . Nope? Just more stinking mod's to make you look like alice cooper on acid? Oh he is ? Not even a good research trick or joke (like psdoom?). Nope. Boring. Really. (runs off and runs UT classic and DA-fastfoodwar as a DM).
You shouldn't fear installing anything because it might hose your pristine UT. It isn't like you have to reinstall XP. Unreal in all forms is very light footprint in terms of stamping over the reg etc.
My own sys has UT classic (reinstalled from scratched CD's don't ask how) and many other things and *not* by the usual install. Mine has maps stolen from the DA mod and much other stuff simply because I thought it was a fun idea.
It works. It's written by people who don't like f*king with your registry or anything else. You copy the maps to the maps dir, the music to the music dir etc. and if you don't like them, trash them...
Not at all painful. Not at all what you'd expect. But then again UT never is...
(Right now I think I could fall in love with onslaught - if only I'd not decided to use a 1.5G P4 with 32MB card as my engineering+programming box...). Still my colleague isn't here so I can borrow *his* machine. Ah. The pleasures of living in one's own office... Just hope my Cretan friend doesn't notice the cig ash and (shit) burn mark and (shit) dent (???) in the machine... Oh my god, he's going to kill me. (Didn't happen).
Really - D.O.N.T. P.A.N.I.C
Are we really talking about understanding or assuming? Remember that teaching implies a bond of trust between student and teacher ...
Assuming is clearly bad. What next - teach the kids about the rightness of software patents?
GA's tend to produce programs which out slimy hack the ultimate slimy hacker. They exploit areas we don't even know are slimy hacks. But this makes them horribly fragile - the same program *won't* do well if the input params change.
I like GA's. But they are no substitute for the painful process of writing real programs painfully.
One day when we have "computers" (read 10K+ nodes
parallel processing with terabyte memory) we will
idly fiddle with these things to hose people in deathmatches...
I wish I had to eat these words (yummy letter e).
If it was so similar or even subtly different why would you consider it *less* than you. The whole point of replicants is that they are *slaves*. Slavery is alive and well despite centuries of fighting it.
Personally, I'm all in favour of alienness in my life.
It's why I live here in Greece. It isn't the UK or US. (we also have better food).
If you're looking for a slave (presumably of the sexual variety) then since your'e a slash dotter you ought to be able to code one...
Yeah, this is an amusing joke. But sooner or later some evil minded script kiddie will do this in a more harmful way. But hey: if you *have* a net, then presumably you could *see* it happening by having a sniffer running full time on that old dustbin linux hacky box you keep around? libpcap + some python scripts + (python for dynamically using human intel to figure whats good/bad right now). Someone research this (because it's serious - traffic analysis stuff maybe?). I'd guess the NSA knows about these things, but they don't come here except to watch (perverts?). Does being a hacker imply an absence of social responsibility (you want script kiddies with nukes?). I know a lot of us (not me) are libertarians but I don't read that as meaning totally lacking awareness (quite the opposite). We should be careful people. Not everyone is as innocent as ESR, RMS, Bruce, Tim etc... (not even CowboyNeal :-)).
Oh, and how the heck do you *REMOVE* packets?
Is there an way of making an IP Cookie Monster?
The only good red team is in a UT match.
Um. I'd reckon 100-120 is the most I tolerate, but
f EveryOne
:-)).
I'm no fascist. So long as you can read a co-workers
code (and not laugh too much) what's the problem?
80 columns is a sicko leftover of old Hollerith
punch cards.
Meaningful var names are great, but uh: IHaveToThinkUpThisStinkinVarNameSoImGoingToPissOf
(case sensitive of course) (AARRGGH!).
If you don't have the brainpower to *format* your
code as you think then you shouldn't be programming.
Remember, you're likely to be the poor sucker who has to debug this schizoid mess 10 years later if it's engineered well..
Every "shop" has it's own rules, and it isn't such
a big deal to conform (even if they think the GNU
rules are good and believe in the great gods K&R
(first edition)).
Really, this stuff is a non issue. Tabs vs. spaces
is a far more evil one. Along with the more modern
"how do I teach this F*King IDE that I don't
indent that way" (mixing auto gend code with
my style makes me scream). Anyone know how
to persuade Vizual Studio to change its manners?
(ok, it's a badly formatted posting
Er. Id haven't released the Quake 3 engine yet... I think John is going to wait a while (he might want to win that X prize thingy you know (grins)). But I don't understand *why* anyone wants such advanced engines when no one seems to know how to truly exploit the old ones (blatent flamebait). (I'm still waiting for a first person Dungeon Keeper or Nethack... (that's a hint)).
Only in Nigeria? (whoops: less than 20 seconds... Nice anti bot trick that)
Sure does. But it would make an interesting pastime to consider exactly how many beer cans you'd have to stack to get to the same altitude.... Tower of Babel indeed. Try the "Tower of slashdot"
Let's not factor in the mere issue that Rutan's "Scaled Composites" has gotten a lot of publicity. Hmm. How much is *that* worth? Remember, this is the same guy who created "Voyager"... Street cred matters if you're a small engineering outfit... (Even if Burt *loses*, he got to 100K first. Chalk up another. Don't think that man has *heard* the word quit).
Do not sneer at the Canadian attempt. 30 years or so ago most people would snigger about hot air balloons. While you have Burt Rutan in the U.S. We have Don Cameron in the U.K. They have a lot in common. Especially great engineering taste... Imagine going to your bank manager and saying you want to make balloons? Well. I graduated from Bristol (where Cameron's outfit started I think - I have fond memories of a disused (church?) in Cotham and one van)) in the early 80's and I can tell you that nobody, repeat *NOBODY* is going to know what will happen until it's done. Hey, maybe John Carmack will get there. Personally, my bet (I don't bet) is on Burt. But seriously I'd guess that *this* X-prize doesn't advance affordable space flight much? So when do they define the next one (the one that separates the men from the boys)?