Maybe alt.binaries.anime.vomitsex.with.anal.cows.moo.moo.moo has gone inactive and stopped being carried by most newsgroups, but there were tons of sexy pictures there you wanted. You could still obtain these from this service, whereas many other servers have probably long ago deleted this and any other posts older than a week.
Anyway, other than the TCP checksum, are there any other protocols out there that do something more computationally intense to the data before returning it?
An interesting idea is the hijacking of authorization sections of secure protocols, dispatching authentication requests based on a public/private key pair you are trying to hack, to thousands of servers and the one that returns a successful result must have been given the correct key pair.
Of course, I'm fairly certain most widespread secure protocols can't be used like this, but one or two of the less common ones might have a loophole... but then again, if they're less common, resources would be scarce, and you're better off trying to crack things on your own.
Normally I don't "feed the trolls," but this person has stated a few of his opinions as fact, which is one of man's most infamous fallacies. Nothing personal against the author of the comment, but I feel I need to address some of the issues presented...
Note: I don't profess that everything below is proven or easily-demonstrated fact. In fact, just to say right out, all of this is my opinion, but I feel my points are practical and easily applicable to many members of the Linux-using community.
"It seems to me that if the Open Source community was half as strong as they profess, there would be ample software that they would *rather* use on Linux
than Windows. "
Exactly.
I use Linux, and I've found good GPL programs that I've even found preferable over Windows programs. You don't hear me complaining about a lack of programs for Linux; the only game I play [besides simple things like mines, sol, same, tetris, and the like] is Quake II, which Linux runs without a hitch.
Now to address some of the points raised...
The most common webpage-reading-problem under UNIX is actually because of the way MS Word converts things to HTML (namely, *incorrectly* -- it does not adhere to the publicized HTML standards.)
And TrueType is actually... (yes, you guessed it) Macintosh technology! (details here) True, the fonts may be from Windows... although there's plenty of free TT fonts out there, and I use those for TT work [which I've done all of... once? hah], not the ones shipped by MS.
I don't dual boot, I don't use emulators, and I do plenty of meaningful work. I use things like AbiWord, LaTeX, vi, PHP, perl, ICON, gcc, Spice and the like to do what I need to do, which includes word processing, network administration, electrical circuit design, and programming in several languages.
Crappy browser? Lynx isn't crappy. It's incapable, sure... but if you want more capabilities, there's a spinoff project that adds all sorts of crazy features to lynx, called links -- it's like IE without graphics.
And if you want the graphics, there's always galeon, Konqueror, Netscape, Mozilla, or Opera...
I haven't gone back to Windows. Maybe that means I'm not an actual member of the community, hah!:)
And I frequently find it's easier to use Linux boot disks to fix DOS and Windows machines, due to the plethora of disk and MBR utilities available for free for Linux that fit easily on a floppy or two along with a few necessary boot files.
Oh yes, and before I forget, I'm not saying any of this to piss anybody off. I just want you to know that Linux works for me. Maybe I *am* an oddball [very likely true;)] but I *do* use Linux successfully.
What if God is closer to.. a mathematical concept? Or a fact?
The only things we know about God are bits and pieces of stories transcribed and translated thousands of times over thousands of years. How close are they to the original meaning?
Suppose God says the Bible is true, knowing that we will argue and in that find our own truth.
I often use these analogies myself when trying to determine if a computer crime is really a criminal act or not, as everybody has their own opinion about what is okay on the Internet....
So I definitely agree with your line of thinking. Plus, it's a public webserver, for crying out loud: You were already invited to tour most of the premises!
True, West may have poked and prodded more than necessary, but why does the company think it's more important to jail a nosy Samaritan than it is to actually fix their own unsecured property?
Exactly right. I obtained an SGI without the OS CD's and without the full compiler packages installed, and I managed to get gcc to work on it to compile things... but it is sort of new for these two to be shipped together as a mainstream (?) product.
IIS has a lot of very important bening uses. It's what you put on your honeypot servers to disguise your real webservers so as to lure DoS attacks towards the IIS machines:)
Why else are people rushing to buy 1.7 Ghz processors?
For text editing, my 386/25 with 3M of ram was fine (its even better now, with 7M of ram) and for compiling, a P60 (overclocked to 66) with 24M of ram was about all I needed. Superb small network server: K6/233 with 64M of ram.
But now that I use java programs, I'm barely scraping by on a Celeron-633 with 192M of RAM!
I don't see the point in abandoning C/C++. Sure, Java has its advantage: all platforms (except Windows2000, mwahahah) can run the code, which means closed-source programs don't have to be re-compiled for new platforms. But for most things, closed-source sucks, unless you need a very advanced, comprehensive package for one specific application; in that case, why slow those packages down by making them java? Chances are, you want that package to be as fast as possible! And most likely, you're going to be using it on a specialized platform anyway....
What I'd like to see are *real* hardware java CPU's. *Then*, java wil be a viable option. But it isn't yet, not for most things, anyway.
Honestly, I haven't seen more than one or two good reviews come out of JonKatz's mouth.. err.. hands in the last few months. Are mainstream movies really that bad, or is he a pessimist? I think it would be preferable if slashdot did reviews and ratings by the type of poll segfault uses, where users can give something a rating on a scale of one to ten; then we can have people's actual opinions averaged (and possibly also with standard deviation so we can see the amount of variance). It could also be broken down into categories, perhaps; "Rating by persons having seen film", "Projected rating by persons having read reviews", "Projected rating by persons having seen previews". Anyway, just my $.02. Apologies for the troll-sounding introduction.
Actually, it's the other way around, I've noticed.
I burned a CD designed for multisession only and hence didn't allow you to burn the TOC in the normal place (?). My computer read it just fine, but my CD player refused to see any tracks...
What he means is that people often have certain aspects of themselves which are made public (ever been in the paper for any sort of award, for example?). Supposing someone was interested in discussing one of those aspects, they could look up your name in the white pages and politely give you a ring, being curteous and appropriate, including calling only during times when they don't expect your business to be uninterruptible, such as in the afternoon, as long as its not around dinner time.
My view on the whole WHOIS issue: sometimes it's useful to find who to contact when you need to talk to the administrator of a website. I'm afraid that if WHOIS is gone, stupid porn companies, with a renewed sense of anonymity, will being a fresh bombardment of inboxes with spam.
(Yes, yes, I know, filters, but no filter is perfect unless you want to lock yourself into a completely limited group of associates.)
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Aha! Didn't think of that. True, very true. But P-code's use is, as far as I know, mostly insignificant today. [Icon has a decent following, and of course Java is inescapably gargantuan.] Pascal isn't a "modern" langauge in most people's eyes. I think that's more what I was talking about.
I'm just saying.. Icon kicks Java's sorry little butt and nobody seems to realize that..;)
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I dunno, my 386/25Mhz/3M/90M [no coprocessor] can do everything but X or 3d games...
Anyway, other than the TCP checksum, are there any other protocols out there that do something more computationally intense to the data before returning it?
An interesting idea is the hijacking of authorization sections of secure protocols, dispatching authentication requests based on a public/private key pair you are trying to hack, to thousands of servers and the one that returns a successful result must have been given the correct key pair.
Of course, I'm fairly certain most widespread secure protocols can't be used like this, but one or two of the less common ones might have a loophole... but then again, if they're less common, resources would be scarce, and you're better off trying to crack things on your own.
I found a bug -- it doesn't execute Outlook macro worms correctly!
Note: I don't profess that everything below is proven or easily-demonstrated fact. In fact, just to say right out, all of this is my opinion, but I feel my points are practical and easily applicable to many members of the Linux-using community.
"It seems to me that if the Open Source community was half as strong as they profess, there would be ample software that they would *rather* use on Linux
than Windows. "
Exactly.
I use Linux, and I've found good GPL programs that I've even found preferable over Windows programs. You don't hear me complaining about a lack of programs for Linux; the only game I play [besides simple things like mines, sol, same, tetris, and the like] is Quake II, which Linux runs without a hitch.
Now to address some of the points raised...
The most common webpage-reading-problem under UNIX is actually because of the way MS Word converts things to HTML (namely, *incorrectly* -- it does not adhere to the publicized HTML standards.)
And TrueType is actually... (yes, you guessed it) Macintosh technology! (details here) True, the fonts may be from Windows... although there's plenty of free TT fonts out there, and I use those for TT work [which I've done all of... once? hah], not the ones shipped by MS.
I don't dual boot, I don't use emulators, and I do plenty of meaningful work. I use things like AbiWord, LaTeX, vi, PHP, perl, ICON, gcc, Spice and the like to do what I need to do, which includes word processing, network administration, electrical circuit design, and programming in several languages.
Crappy browser? Lynx isn't crappy. It's incapable, sure... but if you want more capabilities, there's a spinoff project that adds all sorts of crazy features to lynx, called links -- it's like IE without graphics.
And if you want the graphics, there's always galeon, Konqueror, Netscape, Mozilla, or Opera...
I haven't gone back to Windows. Maybe that means I'm not an actual member of the community, hah! :)
And I frequently find it's easier to use Linux boot disks to fix DOS and Windows machines, due to the plethora of disk and MBR utilities available for free for Linux that fit easily on a floppy or two along with a few necessary boot files.
Oh yes, and before I forget, I'm not saying any of this to piss anybody off. I just want you to know that Linux works for me. Maybe I *am* an oddball [very likely true ;)] but I *do* use Linux successfully.
In fact, I'll link you: System bandwidth: 716GB/sec
Mwahahaha.
If you believed your own religion was wrong, would you still be practicing it? ;)
SGI's have a very fast bus. My MIPS-4600/200Mhz box is whooped by my Celeron/633Mhz -- except when it comes to any sort of memory transfer.
:)
The SGI bus can handle 2.2G/s.
Let's see an intel box pull *that* one off
Very true...
I wonder if God's really the highest-up. I mean, he might be in charge of *this* universe, but does he have co-workers? a boss?
People seem to think that God is a person...
What if God is closer to.. a mathematical concept? Or a fact?
The only things we know about God are bits and pieces of stories transcribed and translated thousands of times over thousands of years. How close are they to the original meaning?
Suppose God says the Bible is true, knowing that we will argue and in that find our own truth.
Maybe God lies to prove a point...
Doesn't have to be circular reasoning.
:)
Suppose you define God and the Universe to be the same thing.
Where are all your arguments then?
Hah.
I often use these analogies myself when trying to determine if a computer crime is really a criminal act or not, as everybody has their own opinion about what is okay on the Internet....
So I definitely agree with your line of thinking. Plus, it's a public webserver, for crying out loud: You were already invited to tour most of the premises!
True, West may have poked and prodded more than necessary, but why does the company think it's more important to jail a nosy Samaritan than it is to actually fix their own unsecured property?
ACtually, some of the models from object-oriented programming and hte like for managing data may be a good place to start...
Why does the file name have to be there?
Why are we still using file systems?
Computers are quite capable of managing huge organized trees of data. Why are we still fighting with bitstreams like this?
Exactly right. I obtained an SGI without the OS CD's and without the full compiler packages installed, and I managed to get gcc to work on it to compile things... but it is sort of new for these two to be shipped together as a mainstream (?) product.
IIS has a lot of very important bening uses. It's what you put on your honeypot servers to disguise your real webservers so as to lure DoS attacks towards the IIS machines :)
Err.. thanks for trolling? :(
Anyway...
Sorry, it's Windows XP that doesn't have Java support. (For some reason, my mind keeps thinking water guns. Go figure.)
MS XP Drops Java Support
Also, there have been a few /. stories on MS and Java:
Microsoft presents AVAJ
Microsoft's COOL
Microsoft's New Language
Microsoft Manipulating Java
et cetera. Additionally, IE will no longer have java (see Microsoft drops Java support for Mac, Unix)
Note to moderators: in case you're trigger happy and moderate down everything with a score of two, I've set this with a score of one to appease you.
Why else are people rushing to buy 1.7 Ghz processors?
For text editing, my 386/25 with 3M of ram was fine (its even better now, with 7M of ram) and for compiling, a P60 (overclocked to 66) with 24M of ram was about all I needed. Superb small network server: K6/233 with 64M of ram.
But now that I use java programs, I'm barely scraping by on a Celeron-633 with 192M of RAM!
I don't see the point in abandoning C/C++. Sure, Java has its advantage: all platforms (except Windows2000, mwahahah) can run the code, which means closed-source programs don't have to be re-compiled for new platforms. But for most things, closed-source sucks, unless you need a very advanced, comprehensive package for one specific application; in that case, why slow those packages down by making them java? Chances are, you want that package to be as fast as possible! And most likely, you're going to be using it on a specialized platform anyway....
What I'd like to see are *real* hardware java CPU's. *Then*, java wil be a viable option. But it isn't yet, not for most things, anyway.
Just be careful, you might be at risk for MSTD's. The best way to stop these is always using a cond--err, firewall...
Honestly, I haven't seen more than one or two good reviews come out of JonKatz's mouth.. err.. hands in the last few months. Are mainstream movies really that bad, or is he a pessimist? I think it would be preferable if slashdot did reviews and ratings by the type of poll segfault uses, where users can give something a rating on a scale of one to ten; then we can have people's actual opinions averaged (and possibly also with standard deviation so we can see the amount of variance). It could also be broken down into categories, perhaps; "Rating by persons having seen film", "Projected rating by persons having read reviews", "Projected rating by persons having seen previews". Anyway, just my $.02. Apologies for the troll-sounding introduction.
"Slow down cowboy!" Twenty seconds my ass.
Maybe in Japanese, it doesn't rhyme, and yours does! :D
"Slow down cowboy!
Slashdot requires you to wait 20 seconds between hitting reply on comments.pl and submitting a comment.
It's been 12 seconds since you hit 'reply'!"
Okay, screw you, I type fast and I'm on a high-speed connection. Dipshit.
Hmm.. senseless crimes? Hah.
:D
Things like random acts of violence are senseless crimes, right?
Ever seen a hurricane? tornado? flood? lightning?
I think our primary target should be nature. Virus writers can come second!
Actually, it's the other way around, I've noticed.
I burned a CD designed for multisession only and hence didn't allow you to burn the TOC in the normal place (?). My computer read it just fine, but my CD player refused to see any tracks...
What he means is that people often have certain aspects of themselves which are made public (ever been in the paper for any sort of award, for example?). Supposing someone was interested in discussing one of those aspects, they could look up your name in the white pages and politely give you a ring, being curteous and appropriate, including calling only during times when they don't expect your business to be uninterruptible, such as in the afternoon, as long as its not around dinner time.
My view on the whole WHOIS issue: sometimes it's useful to find who to contact when you need to talk to the administrator of a website. I'm afraid that if WHOIS is gone, stupid porn companies, with a renewed sense of anonymity, will being a fresh bombardment of inboxes with spam.
(Yes, yes, I know, filters, but no filter is perfect unless you want to lock yourself into a completely limited group of associates.)
Aha! Didn't think of that. True, very true. But P-code's use is, as far as I know, mostly insignificant today. [Icon has a decent following, and of course Java is inescapably gargantuan.] Pascal isn't a "modern" langauge in most people's eyes. I think that's more what I was talking about.
;)
I'm just saying.. Icon kicks Java's sorry little butt and nobody seems to realize that..