well if you've ever submitted an article then you'd know that the user types out the headlines. i can't say rather hemos edited this at all, but i think flaming someone for that is senseless.
i was going to moderate you down a point but i decided just to reply.
maybe if you think slashdot is so bland you should start submitting interesting articles?
Let it be known to all Linux newbies that recompiling your kernel is just one part of many things you need to know. It is a very good thing to master, as is security.
I think another good idea for an article is "Not running all those unneccisary services."
This falls along the same lines of not having a bunch of un-needed crap in your kernel, and also takes care of some security issues.
Oh, by the way, lets not flame Linux newbies please. If there weren't newbies, there wouldn't be this huge crowd of Linux users.
is anyone else starting to see a pattern here? tons of corporate places have hundreds of computers running windows9x. and probably using IE along with outlook express. why is this? because it is the easiest way. the point and click enviorment.
this sort of "non-negotiable" enviorment is sort of dangerous. there are most likely tons of unknown holes (dare i say even a backdoor or two) in the windows operating systems.
how many hours of downtime does a place need to have before they realize windows isnt the way to go? thats one of those impossible to answer questions, obviously they have seen enough yet.
with the millions of people that use both windows media player and real audio i dont think its too big of a privacy concern. more of a marketting concern i would guess.
windows media player also gets "codecs" i think from some microsoft.com server occasionally. im not a big MS person so.. does anyone know what these are?
everyone's favorite monopoly is, of course, everyone's most hated OS.
i noticed a different poll on CNN a couple days ago. the question was: Is Windows a Buggy OS?
hmmmmmmmmmm i thought long and hard, clicked the yes button, and was taken to the results. well im sure this is a huge surprise to everyone, but 98% of the people had voted yes. there were something like 30,000 total votes.
bill, 98% of the people say its buggy. you better stop trying to have all the money in the world and maybe put out a decent product one of these days.
with this latest report about y2k i cant help thinking on thing. i certainly hope im not the only one in the world who has thought; 'what about y3k?' sure its sort of far-fetched, since by then im sure everything will have changed. but its still an interesting thought.
it seems like the governments around the world should take this into mild consideration. maybe leave a note on the whitehouse post it board that says "fix y3k problems long before jan 1st 3000"
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you're either a bsd guy or a linux guy. or you've gone beyond that and maybe you're a QNX guy or a digital unix guy. maybe you're still even a windows guy.
A friend of mine sent me an interesting article on communication observation and it talks about Echelon in it. It talks about the existance of world wide oberservation posts in surprising detail. The writer of this seemed very sure this all existed. To make it even funner, there is some pictures of some big satellites and impressive looking golfball type structures.
I would appreciate it if someone made a mirror of this so my server doesn't get slashdotted. I'm sure everyone will find this article quite interesting.
another example of the government thinking they are better than everyone else. i mean the "general public" has to follow these neat "rfc" thingies, but i dont think we do, right?
well maybe one day things will be different maybe not
well i use a sb128 and it of course configures fine with kernel, oss, or whatever sound drivers you choose to use. the best part about this card is it has 2 speaker jacks, front and rear speakers. it also has a headphones jack a mic jack and a joystick port. great quality and we all know SB are really good sound cards, ever since my old sb16;)
why not make windows open source? i mean, you could keep the MS name and make tons of money off of that. think of the improvements to the operating system open source could provide. remember it isn't all about your stock value and other material things, its about a good OS from what could be a very good company.
well ive seen a lot of people flaming this post but i think it is great. youve got to remember that most execs dont know ISA from PCI. so a simple yet informative method to get them to realize the value of linux and open source is great. sure no one that has been using linux for a few months is going to learn anything new. but i bet some admins who have used NT all their carreer and want a change are finding it very useful the linux4u project is a good idea and probably a little bit of what linux needs to get execs to understand the value.
im sure tons of companys have thought of this, they just have one problem. swiss army has a firm grisp as a monopoly over the pocket-knife market. we always hear about big telcos and backbone providers and their dangerous monoploys but what about the important pocket-knife market. swiss army knives has plauged our economy for years with such activities. someone should like sue them or something.
interesting seeing microsoft talking about linux. bill gates vs. linus torvlads next weeks deathmatch? we'll see.
one thing i didn't like is how a lot of their stats were based on PC mag test results. i think we proved that ZD didn't do a very fair job on thier security tests. i have a feeling other mags (hell ZD makes most of the mags that are mentioned in the artcle) did the same errors.
maybe some sort of collective windows vs linux test needs to be done? i dont think we can rely on magazine writers who haven't used linux more than 2 months. we need some hardcore linux geeks testing this stuff. and i bet linux would come out on top if the testing was done right.
i dont think he was implying that USB is becoming the _hard drive_ connector of choice, but that perepherals(sic) like scanners, digital cameras, etc are being done via USB.
he makes a good point with the UDMA stuff! i know what my next motherboard is going to support.
although the idea of more mp3 storage is nice we still have to remember other factors. what about transfer rates? i sort of doubt that this new technology is going to be run on ide/scsi. i think before we get huge hard drives developed a cheaper-than-scsi, yet very fast transfer method needs to be developed.
Slashdot Mirror
well if you've ever submitted an article then you'd know that the user types out the headlines. i can't say rather hemos edited this at all, but i think flaming someone for that is senseless.
i was going to moderate you down a point but i decided just to reply.
maybe if you think slashdot is so bland you should start submitting interesting articles?
tyler
i have posted a very informative echelon article on my little webserver. please dont break it
you may read the article here
i hope you enjoy it.
tyler
Let it be known to all Linux newbies that recompiling your kernel is just one part of many things you need to know. It is a very good thing to master, as is security.
I think another good idea for an article is "Not running all those unneccisary services."
This falls along the same lines of not having a bunch of un-needed crap in your kernel, and also takes care of some security issues.
Oh, by the way, lets not flame Linux newbies please. If there weren't newbies, there wouldn't be this huge crowd of Linux users.
Tyler
i got my 4 port 'data transfer switch' for 25$ on ebay. its very generic and works great.
my point is, dont go buy some big name brand because these generic plain things work great.
tyler
is anyone else starting to see a pattern here?
tons of corporate places have hundreds of computers running windows9x. and probably using IE along with outlook express. why is this? because it is the easiest way. the point and click enviorment.
this sort of "non-negotiable" enviorment is sort of dangerous. there are most likely tons of unknown holes (dare i say even a backdoor or two) in the windows operating systems.
how many hours of downtime does a place need to have before they realize windows isnt the way to go? thats one of those impossible to answer questions, obviously they have seen enough yet.
tyler
i dont see why the linux version wouldn't.. although that is just a guess.
.wav and encode it? i dunno.. just a guess
ive never heard of a program that specifically does ra -> mp3, but there's ways. maybe record a big
tyler
with the millions of people that use both windows media player and real audio i dont think its too big of a privacy concern. more of a marketting concern i would guess.
windows media player also gets "codecs" i think from some microsoft.com server occasionally. im not a big MS person so.. does anyone know what these are?
tyler
everyone's favorite monopoly is, of course, everyone's most hated OS.
i noticed a different poll on CNN a couple days ago. the question was:
Is Windows a Buggy OS?
hmmmmmmmmmm
i thought long and hard, clicked the yes button, and was taken to the results.
well im sure this is a huge surprise to everyone, but 98% of the people had voted yes. there were something like 30,000 total votes.
bill, 98% of the people say its buggy. you better stop trying to have all the money in the world and maybe put out a decent product one of these days.
tyler
i just have one offtopic question. do you guys really have limos?
and if you dont you should!
tyler
heh you always get a 'installing from floppies' flashback when suse asks you for the next cdrom.
wise move by the suse team, those crazy germans.
with this latest report about y2k i cant help thinking on thing.
i certainly hope im not the only one in the world who has thought; 'what about y3k?'
sure its sort of far-fetched, since by then im sure everything will have changed. but its still an interesting thought.
it seems like the governments around the world should take this into mild consideration. maybe leave a note on the whitehouse post it board that says "fix y3k problems long before jan 1st 3000"
tyler
wake me up when they get quake2 on a PDA.
oh come on it'll only be 2-3 years i bet.
tyler
you're either a bsd guy or a linux guy. or you've gone beyond that and maybe you're a QNX guy or a digital unix guy. maybe you're still even a windows guy.
he makes great points. lets not flame him.
very good input!
tyler
A friend of mine sent me an interesting article on communication observation and it talks about Echelon in it.
It talks about the existance of world wide oberservation posts in surprising detail. The writer of this seemed very sure this all existed.
To make it even funner, there is some pictures of some big satellites and impressive looking golfball type structures.
I would appreciate it if someone made a mirror of this so my server doesn't get slashdotted. I'm sure everyone will find this article quite interesting.
The article may be reached here
Tyler
another example of the government thinking they are better than everyone else. i mean the "general public" has to follow these neat "rfc" thingies, but i dont think we do, right?
well maybe one day things will be different
maybe not
3 billion years eh?
ive got a strong 31 days going heheheh
god that would be cool but very very impossible
well i use a sb128 and it of course configures fine with kernel, oss, or whatever sound drivers you choose to use. ;)
the best part about this card is it has 2 speaker jacks, front and rear speakers. it also has a headphones jack a mic jack and a joystick port.
great quality and we all know SB are really good sound cards, ever since my old sb16
tyler
why not make windows open source? i mean, you could keep the MS name and make tons of money off of that. think of the improvements to the operating system open source could provide. remember it isn't all about your stock value and other material things, its about a good OS from what could be a very good company.
well ive seen a lot of people flaming this post but i think it is great.
youve got to remember that most execs dont know ISA from PCI. so a simple yet informative method to get them to realize the value of linux and open source is great. sure no one that has been using linux for a few months is going to learn anything new. but i bet some admins who have used NT all their carreer and want a change are finding it very useful
the linux4u project is a good idea and probably a little bit of what linux needs to get execs to understand the value.
although thats just my two cents
tyler
im sure tons of companys have thought of this, they just have one problem. swiss army has a firm grisp as a monopoly over the pocket-knife market.
we always hear about big telcos and backbone providers and their dangerous monoploys but what about the important pocket-knife market.
swiss army knives has plauged our economy for years with such activities. someone should like sue them or something.
interesting seeing microsoft talking about linux. bill gates vs. linus torvlads next weeks deathmatch? we'll see.
one thing i didn't like is how a lot of their stats were based on PC mag test results. i think we proved that ZD didn't do a very fair job on thier security tests. i have a feeling other mags (hell ZD makes most of the mags that are mentioned in the artcle) did the same errors.
maybe some sort of collective windows vs linux test needs to be done? i dont think we can rely on magazine writers who haven't used linux more than 2 months. we need some hardcore linux geeks testing this stuff. and i bet linux would come out on top if the testing was done right.
tyler
i dont think he was implying that USB is becoming the _hard drive_ connector of choice, but that perepherals(sic) like scanners, digital cameras, etc are being done via USB.
he makes a good point with the UDMA stuff! i know what my next motherboard is going to support.
although the idea of more mp3 storage is nice we still have to remember other factors. what about transfer rates? i sort of doubt that this new technology is going to be run on ide/scsi. i think before we get huge hard drives developed a cheaper-than-scsi, yet very fast transfer method needs to be developed.
well i hope some good comes out of this. personally i think it was a relatively honest mistake.
:)
maybe not only acts of defiance start change? maybe mistakes do too
i went to defcon 7 also and wrote a 3 page txt the day i got back. there might be errors and such but oh well.
my writeup isnt nearly as uhm... formatted as his is. i didnt use proper anything.
the write up is at
http://pluto.spaceports.com/~disc0re/defcon.txt
i also got some pictures up here
it was a great conferance and i highly suggest going next year if you can make it!
tyler