Here in the UK, rival banks make it very easy to switch - all you do is sign once and they move all your direct debits, etc. for you (I get frequent offers but I'm happy with my bank right now, so I don't know how well that works)
If you can't find a privacy friendly bank, or it's insanely hard to get all your banking services transfered, you could always randomize your spending habbits:
1. Withdraw all your cash and pay for everything through the whole month in cash
2. Withdraw all your cash and then pay it back in 2 days later. repeat.
3. Pay for everything on a credit card, then clear it at the end of the month.
4. Make frequent small withdrawls instead of weekly large withdrawls
at least then, you'll be partly masking what you're upto and providing less valuable information to their 'partners'....
I don't want to pay a premium for the awful LCD-on-a-stick you get with the iMac. I don't need the portability of an iBook. If i'm not going to use it, i'm not inclined to pay for it.
I just want a little box I can plug my monitor into, preferably one that looks like the G4 cube's they used to make.
A better move would be for Apple to sell cheaper Mac's - I can't afford an iBook and I don't want an iMac or an eMac:
I want a Mac about the size of a SPARCclassic, with a fast 3D card, a dvd+burner and all the rest of the Apple goodness, but with no monitor. I've got my own perfectly good 17" sony. Why can't I get one of those!
I've got a Nokia 3410, which is MIDP1.0 compliant, and this book from O'Reilly which i found helpful. I'm using the J2ME toolkit to help package and test the apps I write (it has an emulator).
To get them onto my phone is a moderate pain. I have apache running on my machine, and added the following into mime.types:
As it says here, the R7 family is "..the most often used and most reliable launch vehicle in history".
The unmanned versions are built to a lower spec, as the cargo isn't as important as human life. Manned soyuz boosters continue to be the safest way into orbit.
A french lab has alread made 'glow-in-the-dark' rabbits (so the ovaries glow, which are used for research purposes). This is done by splicing the protein that causes a jellyfish to glow into a rabbit zygote.
I can't see how glowing hair is going to be useful. anyhow, have a look at this, which covers a bit about it (the article is about an artist trying to get one of the glowing rabbits for an exhibition)
Welcome to the rest of the world. The UK and lots of other countries have been suffering at the hands of terrorism for years. The fact that the USA joined this sad list last year doesn't really change much.
Yes it hurts, but it hurts the victims friends and families more than it effects the man-on-the-street. Let them grieve in peace.
I was soooo tempted to use the mod points i've got right now to slap down some of the people who seem to think that making a profit is evil. Get over it - isn't it the great american dream or something?
Anyhow, I decided to post about what it looks like:(i've got the first closed beta, beta-1)
It seems heavily SuSE influenced. YaST2 is the installer, so it works just like SuSE (from what I tremember installing SuSE 8 a while back). (there are bugs but it is beta-1... no big deal)
It's a 2 CD set right now (sources on disk 2), you get all the usual stuff you'd exepct. It's up to date but not bleeding edge: kernel 2.4.19, apache 1.3.26+mod_ssl2.8.10+mod_php4.2.2+mod_perl1.27, etc., Gnome 2, KDE3.0.3, Mozilla 1.0, perl 5.8, gcc3.2. OpenSSH3.4p1 out of the box, all dangerous services disabled in inetd.conf.
The file system is slightly different than SuSE (docroot in/srv/www/htdocs, floppy and cdrom mount points in/media/*, symlinked into/). Not sure if thats part of LSB. seems like an OK idea.
note to trolls. shut up and wait until you've used it, you might actually think it's an improvement over SuSE (like I do). It's got a lot of potential, and hopefully will give RedHat a bit of competition. A couple of good distros aimed at corps, fighting it out - it can only be good for Linux uptake and the quality of the distros involved.
I hope you weren't expecting someone to have somehow magically reversed engineered the server for linux.
1. it would be a cryptocracking nightmare. 2. It's illegal - RSA wouldn't allow it and would stop people from hurting their revenue stream.
And assuming someone had done it, where would you get the Tokens from. They don't come free in cereal packets....
If you dont mind spending the mony, you don't have a problem
The ACE/agent is available for Linux. See Agent Support. OK, so BSD isn't supported, but you could play around with the Linux compat stuff or have them all authenticate from the Linux box running ACE/client.
You will have to run an ACE/server on Windows unless they've got Solaris, HP-UX or AIX. See Server Support
People on slashdot seem to be obsessed with getting something for nothing. SecurID is *a really good thing* (we use it at work) - do you think that all that work by Crypto experts could be duplicated by a few spotty geeks with too much time on their hands? Get a grip.
What you want to do is called Aperture Synthesis (or Inferometry) - It's what the VLA uses to combine the signals from it's 27 25m dishes to work like a single 130m dish.
There is some information on theory here, but I think building a device to actually do what you want will be very hard. Good Luck!
The current system is getting abused - the TLD's are getting used for pretty much everything other than their original purpose.
ccTLD's should be for entities that actually reside in that country, not because for example.tv happens to resemble television (this in itself speaks volumes about how badly we need new TLD's)
.org was for non-profit organizations
.net was for internet infrastructure
.com was for US companies
I know that.com,.net,.org,.gov and.edu are for US entities, but now the internet is bigger and a bit more important, there should be a rethink:
everything should get a 2 letter ccTLD *unless* it's a global entity.
rules on what type of entity is being registered should be strictly enforced:
e.g. slashdot is a (mostly) US centric, for profit organization, so it's assigned slashdot.com.us
a *lot* more 2nd level domains are required - lets start with:
xxx, name, film, music, food, med(ical), tech, fun, sport, etc.
You could start Xvfb running on your test client(s), and then fire all 450 sessions off, displaying to the virtual frame buffer(s). You get all the downstream network traffic of the 450 sessions, without having to look at them.
Years ago, when electronics was the geek hobby and people designed and built their own computers around Z80 or 6502 processors, electronics magazines published project plans to construct eeprom blowers amongst all the other stuff you'd need to build your own system.
Forget this trendy 'open source' phrase, people have been designing and sharing their circuit diagrams long before this term was coined.
I bet you haven't tried to search for 'eeprom programmer project' on google have you?
Slashdot Mirror
Get everyone a Leatherman Micra. It's fantastically useful and is very portable (2.5" long, 1.75oz).
It's got Scissors, Clip-Point Knife, Tweezers, Nail File / Cleaner, Flat Phillips Screwdriver,
Extra Small Screwdriver, Medium Screwdriver, Bottle Opener & Ruler (Inch / Metric)
Best of all thinkgeek are doing them for $20
(Yes, I've got one. I've also got a Leatherman Wave. They're a bit more expensive...)
What threat does a couple of XP boxes pose to 150 MacOSX boxes?
Is there a known trojan/worm/virus that infects XP and then attacks MacOSX ?
Could this entire story be blatant MS bashing, because it's a slow news day?
Here in the UK, rival banks make it very easy to switch - all you do is sign once and they move all your direct debits, etc. for you (I get frequent offers but I'm happy with my bank right now, so I don't know how well that works)
If you can't find a privacy friendly bank, or it's insanely hard to get all your banking services transfered, you could always randomize your spending habbits:
1. Withdraw all your cash and pay for everything through the whole month in cash
2. Withdraw all your cash and then pay it back in 2 days later. repeat.
3. Pay for everything on a credit card, then clear it at the end of the month.
4. Make frequent small withdrawls instead of weekly large withdrawls
at least then, you'll be partly masking what you're upto and providing less valuable information to their 'partners'....
It's basically a BT dialin, but yahoo branded
0845 609 1350 (local call rate)
login: "yahoo" (but it seems to accept anything)
password: "" (again, it seems to accept anything)
DNS: 194.72.6.52
DNS: 194.72.6.59
DNS: 194.72.6.57
(it works with Linux PPP, using PAP auth)
The trojaned code has been around for almost a year, from the project homepage (where most people would go for the source), and nobody spotted it.
It highlights the fact that a sizeable part of the open source user base either can't read code, or don't want to.
I don't want to pay a premium for the awful LCD-on-a-stick you get with the iMac. I don't need the portability of an iBook. If i'm not going to use it, i'm not inclined to pay for it.
I just want a little box I can plug my monitor into, preferably one that looks like the G4 cube's they used to make.
A better move would be for Apple to sell cheaper Mac's - I can't afford an iBook and I don't want an iMac or an eMac:
I want a Mac about the size of a SPARCclassic, with a fast 3D card, a dvd+burner and all the rest of the Apple goodness, but with no monitor. I've got my own perfectly good 17" sony. Why can't I get one of those!
oops...
and then bookmark 'http:///App.jad' in my phone and then download it over WAP.
I've got a Nokia 3410, which is MIDP1.0 compliant, and this book from O'Reilly which i found helpful. I'm using the J2ME toolkit to help package and test the apps I write (it has an emulator).
To get them onto my phone is a moderate pain. I have apache running on my machine, and added the following into mime.types:
text/vnd.sun.j2me.app-descriptor jad
application/java-archive jar
As it says here, the R7 family is "..the most often used and most reliable launch vehicle in history".
The unmanned versions are built to a lower spec, as the cargo isn't as important as human life. Manned soyuz boosters continue to be the safest way into orbit.
A french lab has alread made 'glow-in-the-dark' rabbits (so the ovaries glow, which are used for research purposes). This is done by splicing the protein that causes a jellyfish to glow into a rabbit zygote.
I can't see how glowing hair is going to be useful. anyhow, have a look at this, which covers a bit about it (the article is about an artist trying to get one of the glowing rabbits for an exhibition)
Welcome to the rest of the world. The UK and lots of other countries have been suffering at the hands of terrorism for years. The fact that the USA joined this sad list last year doesn't really change much.
Yes it hurts, but it hurts the victims friends and families more than it effects the man-on-the-street. Let them grieve in peace.
I was soooo tempted to use the mod points i've got right now to slap down some of the people who seem to think that making a profit is evil. Get over it - isn't it the great american dream or something?
/srv/www/htdocs, floppy and cdrom mount points in /media/*, symlinked into /). Not sure if thats part of LSB. seems like an OK idea.
Anyhow, I decided to post about what it looks like:(i've got the first closed beta, beta-1)
It seems heavily SuSE influenced. YaST2 is the installer, so it works just like SuSE (from what I tremember installing SuSE 8 a while back). (there are bugs but it is beta-1... no big deal)
It's a 2 CD set right now (sources on disk 2), you get all the usual stuff you'd exepct. It's up to date but not bleeding edge: kernel 2.4.19, apache 1.3.26+mod_ssl2.8.10+mod_php4.2.2+mod_perl1.27, etc., Gnome 2, KDE3.0.3, Mozilla 1.0, perl 5.8, gcc3.2. OpenSSH3.4p1 out of the box, all dangerous services disabled in inetd.conf.
The file system is slightly different than SuSE (docroot in
note to trolls. shut up and wait until you've used it, you might actually think it's an improvement over SuSE (like I do). It's got a lot of potential, and hopefully will give RedHat a bit of competition. A couple of good distros aimed at corps, fighting it out - it can only be good for Linux uptake and the quality of the distros involved.
I hope you weren't expecting someone to have somehow magically reversed engineered the server for linux.
1. it would be a cryptocracking nightmare.
2. It's illegal - RSA wouldn't allow it and would stop people from hurting their revenue stream.
And assuming someone had done it, where would you get the Tokens from. They don't come free in cereal packets....
If you dont mind spending the mony, you don't have a problem
The ACE/agent is available for Linux. See Agent Support. OK, so BSD isn't supported, but you could play around with the Linux compat stuff or have them all authenticate from the Linux box running ACE/client.
You will have to run an ACE/server on Windows unless they've got Solaris, HP-UX or AIX. See Server Support
People on slashdot seem to be obsessed with getting something for nothing. SecurID is *a really good thing* (we use it at work) - do you think that all that work by Crypto experts could be duplicated by a few spotty geeks with too much time on their hands? Get a grip.
What you want to do is called Aperture Synthesis (or Inferometry) - It's what the VLA uses to combine the signals from it's 27 25m dishes to work like a single 130m dish.
There is some information on theory here, but I think building a device to actually do what you want will be very hard. Good Luck!
I doubt this will become law, because lots of information which may be useful to naughty terrorists is available in bookshops and libraries.
unless they are also planning on removing all the chemistry books from all the university libraries, this is largely going to solve nothing.
I tried this on some different platforms and found that Solaris 8, AIX 5 and Tru64 4.0F only use 8 chars.
HP-UX 11 uses more than 8.
I could have done a few more, but our SGI IRIX, Dynix PTX, Sinix and DG-UX boxes are offline.
The current system is getting abused - the TLD's are getting used for pretty much everything other than their original purpose.
.tv happens to resemble television (this in itself speaks volumes about how badly we need new TLD's)
.com, .net, .org, .gov and .edu are for US entities, but now the internet is bigger and a bit more important, there should be a rethink:
ccTLD's should be for entities that actually reside in that country, not because for example
.org was for non-profit organizations
.net was for internet infrastructure
.com was for US companies
I know that
everything should get a 2 letter ccTLD *unless* it's a global entity.
rules on what type of entity is being registered should be strictly enforced:
e.g. slashdot is a (mostly) US centric, for profit organization, so it's assigned slashdot.com.us
a *lot* more 2nd level domains are required - lets start with:
xxx, name, film, music, food, med(ical), tech, fun, sport, etc.
well, you get the idea...
You could start Xvfb running on your test client(s), and then fire all 450 sessions off, displaying to the virtual frame buffer(s). You get all the downstream network traffic of the 450 sessions, without having to look at them.
instead of just posting it on 'ask slashdot'?
Years ago, when electronics was the geek hobby and people designed and built their own computers around Z80 or 6502 processors, electronics magazines published project plans to construct eeprom blowers amongst all the other stuff you'd need to build your own system.
Forget this trendy 'open source' phrase, people have been designing and sharing their circuit diagrams long before this term was coined.
I bet you haven't tried to search for 'eeprom programmer project' on google have you?
Is everything on slashdot today a load of bollox ?
How about posting this drivel under the 'it's funny. laff' section ?
If i subscribe, do i get a tickbox to disable april first crap ?
Maybe it's because I'm from the UK, maybe it's because I'm old (30), but IT ISN'T FUNNY.
which supports Win32 Codecs including Quicktime MOV, etc. see Here.
When the First transistor was made, who would have predicted how we'd be using them now?
This thermometer probably isn't too useful on its own, but just shows that stuff you can build from 'big' components can also be done in nano scale.
I wish I was working in nanotech....
then its good enough for you.
See the press release.
There's even a section titled 'Why not use PGP?'
I see all the major players are involved too.
so, how many of the major distros are/will be compliant ?
when will I be able to buy a book on administing an LSB 1.1 system ?