Also "usbcore" (surprise) and (when it's printing) "printer". Mobo (which sucks) is nForce2-based plus a Radeon 9600SE video card. Still CUPS 1.1.10 under Mandrake 10.0 on an Athlon 2000.
...one being that the no-calorie replacements can cause some severe health problems, another being that they're displacing even healthier drinks, like water, for example, or fresh juice (no, not dead stuff in bottles, cans or cartons).
Yeah, they sometimes have the OK and Cancel buttons in arbitrary order, just like Microsoft Bob.
Use an integrated suite for a while, like KDE. It'll calm you down a lot. Meanwhile, I'll be enjoying my freedom of choice (e.g., I use Konq and KMail constantly, but OOo for the officey stuff). The usual "but you have the source, you can make them consistent if you care" disclaimer applies.
Meanwhile, WINE is able to run an increasing number of vertical apps, and Longhorn will break some of them on MS-Windows anyway. The death of TSG will break even more running on OpenServer and UnixWare. The future's so bright the penguin's gotta wear shades.
Injunct them from injuncting because their injunction continues to impede the safety and freedom with which you speak. That should carry at least as much weight as their own claim to free speech. There is another important priciple at stake, which is:
A man's liberty must be thus far curtailed: me must not make a nuisance of himself to others.
It seems to me that every goverment [I] know is disliked by it's po[p]ulation, independent o[f] what postions they take. That's kin[d] of concer[n]ing isn't it?
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Black Ops 2004 @ LayerOne
Dan Kaminsky
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Introduction
Who am I?
Senior Security Consultant, Avaya Enterprise Security Practice
Author of "Paketto Keiretsu", a collection of advanced TCP/IP manipulation tools
Speaker at Black Hat Briefings
Black Ops of TCP/IP series
Gateway Cryptography w/ OpenSSH
Protocol Geek
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What's On The Plate for Today? /* char descrip[256] = "You'll see"; */
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What is DNS
DNS: Domain Name System
Mechanism for translating human-readable names into machine routable addresses
"Like 411 for the Internet"
As 411 usually but not always yields simple phone numbers, DNS usually but not always yields IP addresses
A: Given name, find IP
MX: Given name, find Mail
PTR: Given IP, find name
TXT: Given name, find "stuff"
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"Useful" Traits of DNS (Very Very Abridged)
Hierarchical
.com says where to find addresses in.doxpara.com, and.doxpara.com says where to find addresses in foo.doxpara.com
Recursive vs. Iterative Lookups
Iterative Lookup: Ask a server a question, it tells you where to go to find out the answer
Recursive Lookup: Ask a server, it goes out and finds out the answer for you, and tells you
Many companies like the one I work for require you to be able to get a service contract for any software.
...MS-Windows doesn't come with a service contract, and if you think the so-called warranty is worth spit then it's time to lay off the grains.
If meatheaded Meta are going to study only people getting service contracts, then they need to include the cost of those contracts in the study for MS-Windows as well, and explain what they're doing. Unless and until they do, Meta are lying, and by extension Microsoft are lying too (even if it can be considered a lie of omission, it's a pretty important one).
Well, anyway... in at least 30% of businesses I visit, a secretary or near equivalent is Level 1 Tech Support. Some of the "dumb blonde" mobile accident catalysts I've seen know an awesome amount about resuscitating MS-Windows.
Once you factor in the costs of viruses and worms (for a timely example, see the article from earlier today on being unable to pull down updates fast enough to avoid having your XP install infected before it can be updated), MS-Windows is danged expensive.
The only time I use a compiler on this machine is to build software for other people, and it's stuff like a tweaked KDM for an Internet cafe. Let's see you tweak MS Windows Login like that at any price, sucker.
Now... let's have some more facts from Microshills, shall we? Big heaps of steaming facts, coming right up! Mooooove over!
...you could at least do stuff like turn every surface into a solar panel to help a hybrid car along, however, suspect nanotech might be more useful for reducing the embodied energy in a vehicle than for revolutionising the propulsion system.
Nanotech repair shop? Or just throw all of the bent bits away and replace them? Either way, not cheap. Hardened paint and all, you'd live in constant fear of vandals.
I, er, can't wait for the nanotech warez. Spray this on to lower your stock sedan... oops, the suspension fell off at speed. Spray this on to grow a bug-proof layer on your windscreen... oops, some asswipe played a BSOD joke with the recipe (you discover as you fly through the midge swarm and straight through the numberplate of the oncoming truck with your trendy new - and opaque - metallic-blue windscreen).
...once the phosphorous got going, the nickel would act somewhat like magnesium. Is that a distress flare in your pants or are you just pleased to see me? (-:
Bruce Perens, editor of the Prentice Hall series cited by Brown, told him so.
Robert Swartz, founder of Mark Williams Co, authors of Coherent, also told him so.
Ilkka Tuomi and several other scientists and historians told him so.
Richard Stallman told him so too.
No less than Dennis Ritchie told him so.
There's a reasonably complete linkfarm on GrokLaw, of course, and even more complete derivative at WikiPedia, including gems from their tobacco-whore days.
...a Microsoft-sponsored IDC telephone survey a couple of days ago did still ask me if "the SCO litigation" was one of the reasons I use Linux.
I said "Yes", of course, since I'd use Linux on principle if I hadn't been already when extortionists like TSG (The Sco Group) sued them. If they turn and sue someone like the NetBSD project, I'd find a place in my organisation for a NetBSD box as well.
For the curious, IDC called from Malaysia into Australia, and "Brian" (no idea if that's his real name) said that IDC were planning on setting up their main Asia-Pacific offices there.
One of many. Since their copy protection doesn't work, I guess they'll have to fall back on the DMCA and suing people incautious enough to not host their music overseas.
...and Perth, Western Australia is way south of the Equator. If you want serious Australian temperatures, try Marble Bar, Pannawonica or Paraburdoo, all of which routinely hit and pass 50C (120F) in summer.
Apparently, places like Sudan are hotter, but we have much better beaches, including the not-named-in-jest "Eighty Mile Beach" up near Broome. And better waves. (-: And better tarts too.:-)
It would be interesting to see what happened if moderation was available for the moderations (the current "meta-moderation" is too simple for this, it's just approve/ignore/disapprove and I'd like to see how many rated this moderation "Insightful", how may rated it "Funny" and how many rated it "Troll".
...which kind of blows your argument away. Hello from Perth, Western Australia, like it says in my/. profile.
No, Germany likes to be in charge of things. It's effectively in charge of the EU. Good thing Germans in general are more focussed than average on doing a competent job, but a bad thing when they get carried away by their own success.
The Americans did a better job than I expected with the Iraq war, but the ongoing violent stupidity is an inevitable consequence of the local culture, and the USA should long ago have worked out a more draconian way of getting the flock out of there and back home after their main job was done. I don't think leaving the situation entirely in local hands is a good idea either - yet - but since America is "the Great Satan" they are definitely not the right people to caretake.
I can sympathise with my peer-poster "mOdQuArK!" in two ways; firstly, I can see that your average Yank is quite different to Mr George "I Know What's Right For Everybody" Dubya Bush; secondly, the Australian government (yes, all parties) is regularly an embarrassment to ordinary Australians, particularly WRT the IT industry - and probably just like Dubya.
Seriously, that works under Mandrake. Then use the drakTermServ GUI tool to configure it, light the blue touch-paper and retire to a safe distance. No worries.
Just think of all those people who will be able to add Open Office and Linux familiarity to their resumes. Will they be able to negotiate raises based on their exceptional proficiency?
The fact that someone's used more than one word-processor successfully is a plus in my mind, so yes, if faced with two people and one had OOWriter experience from work plus MS-Word at home, I'd be more inclined to hire them than the next person who has only ever seen MS-Word.
However, OOo really isn't that different from MSO for your average user. I frequently see people use OOo instead of MSO for extended periods of time (or even Linux instead of MS-Windows), without noticing. I'd be more impressed to see KWord plus MSWord.
If you view the migration away from MS-Windows to anything else to be inevitable, then the migration costs should be largely accounted as removing-MS-Windows costs rather than buying-Linux costs. In which case Linux costs an awful lot less than MS-Windows.
You also have to figure in the ongoing cost of maintenance, along with a number of so-called "extraordinary" items like cleaning up after the next CodeRed or MSBlast hits you. Linux is extremely unlikely to ever raise such costs.
But the big reason is that Germany really, really hates being run by foreigners, particularly Americans (but they have other pet peeves too), in any way.
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My Epson C41UX prints flat strap (such as it is) at a few percent CPU useage, and it hasn't caught fire or even gotten warm yet.
CUPS 1.1.20 on Mandrake 10.0 on an Athlon 2000.
Perhaps Epson haven't implemented the Halt and Catch Fire opcode?
...one being that the no-calorie replacements can cause some severe health problems, another being that they're displacing even healthier drinks, like water, for example, or fresh juice (no, not dead stuff in bottles, cans or cartons).
Use an integrated suite for a while, like KDE. It'll calm you down a lot. Meanwhile, I'll be enjoying my freedom of choice (e.g., I use Konq and KMail constantly, but OOo for the officey stuff). The usual "but you have the source, you can make them consistent if you care" disclaimer applies.
Meanwhile, WINE is able to run an increasing number of vertical apps, and Longhorn will break some of them on MS-Windows anyway. The death of TSG will break even more running on OpenServer and UnixWare. The future's so bright the penguin's gotta wear shades.
Recognise that?
Don't have any to hand, and I've already posted. Volunteers?
The legal eagles involved reckon that I'd need maybe AUD$100,000.00 spare to fund a defense against their probable response.
Yes. Have you a solution handy?
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Black Ops 2004 @ LayerOne
Dan Kaminsky
Introduction
What's On The Plate for Today?
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What is DNS
"Useful" Traits of DNS
(Very Very Abridged)
If meatheaded Meta are going to study only people getting service contracts, then they need to include the cost of those contracts in the study for MS-Windows as well, and explain what they're doing. Unless and until they do, Meta are lying, and by extension Microsoft are lying too (even if it can be considered a lie of omission, it's a pretty important one).
Well, anyway... in at least 30% of businesses I visit, a secretary or near equivalent is Level 1 Tech Support. Some of the "dumb blonde" mobile accident catalysts I've seen know an awesome amount about resuscitating MS-Windows.
Once you factor in the costs of viruses and worms (for a timely example, see the article from earlier today on being unable to pull down updates fast enough to avoid having your XP install infected before it can be updated), MS-Windows is danged expensive.
The only time I use a compiler on this machine is to build software for other people, and it's stuff like a tweaked KDM for an Internet cafe. Let's see you tweak MS Windows Login like that at any price, sucker.
Now... let's have some more facts from Microshills, shall we? Big heaps of steaming facts, coming right up! Mooooove over!
...you could at least do stuff like turn every surface into a solar panel to help a hybrid car along, however, suspect nanotech might be more useful for reducing the embodied energy in a vehicle than for revolutionising the propulsion system.
WRT you tagline, been there, done that.
Here's a fascinating read.
Nanotech repair shop? Or just throw all of the bent bits away and replace them? Either way, not cheap. Hardened paint and all, you'd live in constant fear of vandals.
I, er, can't wait for the nanotech warez. Spray this on to lower your stock sedan... oops, the suspension fell off at speed. Spray this on to grow a bug-proof layer on your windscreen... oops, some asswipe played a BSOD joke with the recipe (you discover as you fly through the midge swarm and straight through the numberplate of the oncoming truck with your trendy new - and opaque - metallic-blue windscreen).
...once the phosphorous got going, the nickel would act somewhat like magnesium. Is that a distress flare in your pants or are you just pleased to see me? (-:
- Andy told him so several times.
- Bruce Perens, editor of the Prentice Hall series cited by Brown, told him so.
- Robert Swartz, founder of Mark Williams Co, authors of Coherent, also told him so.
- Ilkka Tuomi and several other scientists and historians told him so.
- Richard Stallman told him so too.
- No less than Dennis Ritchie told him so.
There's a reasonably complete linkfarm on GrokLaw, of course, and even more complete derivative at WikiPedia, including gems from their tobacco-whore days....a Microsoft-sponsored IDC telephone survey a couple of days ago did still ask me if "the SCO litigation" was one of the reasons I use Linux.
I said "Yes", of course, since I'd use Linux on principle if I hadn't been already when extortionists like TSG (The Sco Group) sued them. If they turn and sue someone like the NetBSD project, I'd find a place in my organisation for a NetBSD box as well.
For the curious, IDC called from Malaysia into Australia, and "Brian" (no idea if that's his real name) said that IDC were planning on setting up their main Asia-Pacific offices there.
One of many. Since their copy protection doesn't work, I guess they'll have to fall back on the DMCA and suing people incautious enough to not host their music overseas.
...and Perth, Western Australia is way south of the Equator. If you want serious Australian temperatures, try Marble Bar, Pannawonica or Paraburdoo, all of which routinely hit and pass 50C (120F) in summer.
:-)
Apparently, places like Sudan are hotter, but we have much better beaches, including the not-named-in-jest "Eighty Mile Beach" up near Broome. And better waves. (-: And better tarts too.
It would be interesting to see what happened if moderation was available for the moderations (the current "meta-moderation" is too simple for this, it's just approve/ignore/disapprove and I'd like to see how many rated this moderation "Insightful", how may rated it "Funny" and how many rated it "Troll".
...which kind of blows your argument away. Hello from Perth, Western Australia, like it says in my /. profile.
No, Germany likes to be in charge of things. It's effectively in charge of the EU. Good thing Germans in general are more focussed than average on doing a competent job, but a bad thing when they get carried away by their own success.
The Americans did a better job than I expected with the Iraq war, but the ongoing violent stupidity is an inevitable consequence of the local culture, and the USA should long ago have worked out a more draconian way of getting the flock out of there and back home after their main job was done. I don't think leaving the situation entirely in local hands is a good idea either - yet - but since America is "the Great Satan" they are definitely not the right people to caretake.
I can sympathise with my peer-poster "mOdQuArK!" in two ways; firstly, I can see that your average Yank is quite different to Mr George "I Know What's Right For Everybody" Dubya Bush; secondly, the Australian government (yes, all parties) is regularly an embarrassment to ordinary Australians, particularly WRT the IT industry - and probably just like Dubya.
Seriously, that works under Mandrake. Then use the drakTermServ GUI tool to configure it, light the blue touch-paper and retire to a safe distance. No worries.
The fact that someone's used more than one word-processor successfully is a plus in my mind, so yes, if faced with two people and one had OOWriter experience from work plus MS-Word at home, I'd be more inclined to hire them than the next person who has only ever seen MS-Word.
However, OOo really isn't that different from MSO for your average user. I frequently see people use OOo instead of MSO for extended periods of time (or even Linux instead of MS-Windows), without noticing. I'd be more impressed to see KWord plus MSWord.
If you view the migration away from MS-Windows to anything else to be inevitable, then the migration costs should be largely accounted as removing-MS-Windows costs rather than buying-Linux costs. In which case Linux costs an awful lot less than MS-Windows.
You also have to figure in the ongoing cost of maintenance, along with a number of so-called "extraordinary" items like cleaning up after the next CodeRed or MSBlast hits you. Linux is extremely unlikely to ever raise such costs.
But the big reason is that Germany really, really hates being run by foreigners, particularly Americans (but they have other pet peeves too), in any way.