JAP: Anonimity & Privacy [http://anon.inf.tu-dresden.de/index_en.html] (Encrypted traffic; Not sure if it encrypts DNS requests or routes it to JAP servers.)
Maybe its employees are. But where were the servers located? And whatever argument you might have, the domains are controlled by the US globally by ICANN [http://www.icann.org/], so the least they can do is take-over/hijack the domain...
MPlayer & Xine! I'm 100% positive that MPlayer can play WMV streams. I use KMPlayer for the GUI.
Oh, and there's a video-media plugin for FireFox to help the user choose which media player to use (MediaPlayerConnectivity: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/446/)
There are CPU frequency-shifting programs (for Linux: cpufreq) that allow the computer's user to change the CPU's frequency to his/her liking... One could easily set the frequency lower than the original maximum, so that spikes can't be detected.
Add to the above approach, keeping the clock in sync, as others have noted.
Open Source & Linux Compatibility are two different things.
I don't think WiFi companies will ever Open Source the drivers since this will allow *anyone* to change the chip's power and communication frequency; This ultimately allows *anyone* to listen on any frequency, including the military's.
On the other hand, companies willing to provide a Linux-compatible driver are most likely providing a binary file that is compatible with the chipset in question.
-> Any electronics guru could construct/re-construct a wireless circuit to match the frequency s/he wants. This sure limits the amount of kiddies lurking around...
The first Linux distro I started with was Slackware 9.0. It took me 3 weeks to get it up & running, with the help of a lot of people from LinuxQuestions.org; But as they say: "Once a slacker, always a slacker"
I tried other distros, but none give me the freedom to manipulate my system like Slackware.
In short: If you like (not mind, but like) reading manuals and changelogs before using a new utility and program, then you'll be able to pull it off with Slackware. Otherwise, go with Kubuntu (It's Ubuntu but with KDE as its Desktop Environment instead of GNOME).
The Fedora Core project has a life cycle of 6 months and is a test ground for RedHat; What ever is new, is thrown there for tests; Once stable, it's moved to the Enterprise & Advanced server editions (not free). And it's really sluggish and you'll face some weird conflicts with some applications.
I recommend KUbuntu, as a free distro. If you want a commercial one where support is ready for you whenever you want, go with Suze, Mandrake or Linspire.
If you'd like to work with both Linux & Windows at the same time, without rebooting each time, consider using Windows as a virtual machine (VMware).
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For your all-in-one needs for programming & web-design, I strongly suggest Eclipse. You can use it for Java, PHP, C++, HTML, CSS,...etc.
To renew the car's registeration book, the car has to be checked by the DMV. During that check-up, the following is what's checked:: * Rear lights are working when hitting the brakes * Front wind-shield has no cracks * Car has no bumper-stickers * All car's parts are the same when it was bought (e.g. can't change rear lights to a new funky look) * No dark-shades on the windows * No white smoke from the exhaust
Other than that, they don't care, even though the facilities & man-power is available...
In Kuwait, we're fined 50 K.D. (almost $150) for going over speed AND we pay 10 extra K.D. per 10 km -> going 120 on a 80km street = 50 + 40 = 90 K.D. ($270)
The gov. profiting quite well too, since they're abusing the idea of installing cameras, so instead of installing them in a visible place to force drivers to slow down, they HIDE them and police officers back at the HQ monitoring, holding popcorn, yell out "GOTCHA!" So, now, whenever I'm in a new street, I got by the law and watch for cams & incase I see one, I point at it and do the "GOTCHA" face, just in case;p
Now, tailtagging! I don't like it, but sometimes it has to be done & there's nothing more effective than an off-road vehicle with Xenon lights! (and it's so cute when the dude in front of you is bald! Hehehehe)
P.S.:: If people are tailtagging me, I just hit the brakes hard & let them crumble in fear! -- The law here says: If you're hit from the back, it's ALWAYS their fault.
A lot of/.ers already mentioned other devices fogging our brains 24/7...
But what about monitors? A few months ago, I took a gauss-meter & put it behind a CRT monitor. The safe level is 2.5 milli-gauss; The result I got was 20-30 mg !!
And regarding those cell phones, I put the same meter near my cellphone and called a friend, the result went beyond 100 mg (100 mg was the device's maximum value)
With Egypt having a population of about 80 million, Saudi Arabia (KSA) with a population of 27 million & UAE with a lot of businesses booming there (especially in Dubai), they all need a decent source of power.
And even though KSA has large oil wells, it's not even remotely enough to power the whole country. I've been there twice, and outside the main cities, it's a miserable situation over there: Poverty is too common. One would think with such huge oil wells, the citizens would be financially comfortable (like the case of people in Kuwait), but that's not the case.
I still think it's a concern for neighbouring countries, like Kuwait, to have KSA running nuclear reactors. They still have some terrorists running around and it would be a catastrophe if they bombed a plant!
"Microsoft spends a lot of time on hardware compatibility"
Excuse me? If you call a successful first-time driver install: hardware compatibility, then I think we have a very different point of views here!!!
I have suffered a lot from Windows-out-of-the-box drivers & even vendor-based drivers under Windows, be it Modem, Graphics, CDRW/DVDRW, Digital Camera or what ever the hardware is.
Even at the company one of the guys always complains of the need to always reinstall printer drivers (HP: old & new printers)...
Honestly, I do feel a bit bad that there's isn't much support for Linux by hardware vendors, but those who do, do it well or someone runs an open source project and support that piece of hardware (Kudos to you people!). Later on, the most stable driver is added to distros, assuring an out-of-the-box operation.
THAT IS what I call hardware compatibility: It either doesn't work or works till the hardware is dead.
P.S.:: An excellent example on vendor-based well-supported drivers: nVidia. Their driver is more stable under Linux that Windows, for me!
People WILL buy Apple's products even if it contained top-notch technology, because they make it easy to use. This is coming from a guy who hates OS-X & all Apple products, but for other reasons.
The main reason why I see this will sell like crazy in the gulf (Kuwait, UAE, KSA), is because of the huge marketing it gets here. The most basic way that iPods were being sold like nuts in Kuwait is that Virgin Megastores were the first to introduce them. And, in Kuwait, if you want to sell something, you put it in an expensive store AND EVERYBODY will buy!!! Seriously, Virgin sells iPods for almost double the price: Where an iPod would worth 60 K.D. ($180 roughly), Virgin sells it at 110-130 K.D. !! And yes, people are STILL buying, even at such high rates.
I really don't understand why rivals like SanDisk target places like Kuwait, where people are stupid enough to pay too much. (If people bought it online and got it shipped to Kuwait, it would still be cheaper than Virgin)
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JAP: Anonimity & Privacy [http://anon.inf.tu-dresden.de/index_en.html]
(Encrypted traffic; Not sure if it encrypts DNS requests or routes it to JAP servers.)
http://proxy.org/ [Web-based proxies]
You might as well shoot for Tor [http://tor.eff.org], but JAP handles that for you.
Need more motivation?
JAP was made to crack the chinese FireWall; And it works.
You might want to film your wedding night with your wife; It's your (plural) right. But that doesn't give the right to others to publish that film.
AllofMp3 isn't Russian...
Maybe its employees are. But where were the servers located?
And whatever argument you might have, the domains are controlled by the US globally by ICANN [http://www.icann.org/], so the least they can do is take-over/hijack the domain...
Cute...
But what if YouTube gets fined and doesn't pay?
MPlayer & Xine!
I'm 100% positive that MPlayer can play WMV streams. I use KMPlayer for the GUI.
Oh, and there's a video-media plugin for FireFox to help the user choose which media player to use (MediaPlayerConnectivity: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/446/)
Plus other distributed projects, like the ones from http://www.distributed.net/
There are CPU frequency-shifting programs (for Linux: cpufreq) that allow the computer's user to change the CPU's frequency to his/her liking...
One could easily set the frequency lower than the original maximum, so that spikes can't be detected.
Add to the above approach, keeping the clock in sync, as others have noted.
Open Source & Linux Compatibility are two different things.
I don't think WiFi companies will ever Open Source the drivers since this will allow *anyone* to change the chip's power and communication frequency; This ultimately allows *anyone* to listen on any frequency, including the military's.
On the other hand, companies willing to provide a Linux-compatible driver are most likely providing a binary file that is compatible with the chipset in question.
-> Any electronics guru could construct/re-construct a wireless circuit to match the frequency s/he wants. This sure limits the amount of kiddies lurking around...
The first Linux distro I started with was Slackware 9.0. It took me 3 weeks to get it up & running, with the help of a lot of people from LinuxQuestions.org; But as they say: "Once a slacker, always a slacker"
...etc.
I tried other distros, but none give me the freedom to manipulate my system like Slackware.
In short: If you like (not mind, but like) reading manuals and changelogs before using a new utility and program, then you'll be able to pull it off with Slackware. Otherwise, go with Kubuntu (It's Ubuntu but with KDE as its Desktop Environment instead of GNOME).
The Fedora Core project has a life cycle of 6 months and is a test ground for RedHat; What ever is new, is thrown there for tests; Once stable, it's moved to the Enterprise & Advanced server editions (not free).
And it's really sluggish and you'll face some weird conflicts with some applications.
I recommend KUbuntu, as a free distro. If you want a commercial one where support is ready for you whenever you want, go with Suze, Mandrake or Linspire.
If you'd like to work with both Linux & Windows at the same time, without rebooting each time, consider using Windows as a virtual machine (VMware).
===========
For your all-in-one needs for programming & web-design, I strongly suggest Eclipse. You can use it for Java, PHP, C++, HTML, CSS,
Good luck.
This is a post about Microsoft... I expected a lot of funny comments...
*ducks Ballmer's chair*
"That's with properly-signed drivers and no buggy software on multiple PCs..."
And by "no buggy software" you mean, Linux?
How come MS's front page mentions nothing of the incident? Shouldn't their visitors/customers be alerted? ...
To renew the car's registeration book, the car has to be checked by the DMV. During that check-up, the following is what's checked ::
* Rear lights are working when hitting the brakes
* Front wind-shield has no cracks
* Car has no bumper-stickers
* All car's parts are the same when it was bought (e.g. can't change rear lights to a new funky look)
* No dark-shades on the windows
* No white smoke from the exhaust
Other than that, they don't care, even though the facilities & man-power is available...
Re-shoot the movie? (with better gfx)
In Kuwait, we're fined 50 K.D. (almost $150) for going over speed AND we pay 10 extra K.D. per 10 km -> going 120 on a 80km street = 50 + 40 = 90 K.D. ($270)
;p
:: If people are tailtagging me, I just hit the brakes hard & let them crumble in fear! -- The law here says: If you're hit from the back, it's ALWAYS their fault.
The gov. profiting quite well too, since they're abusing the idea of installing cameras, so instead of installing them in a visible place to force drivers to slow down, they HIDE them and police officers back at the HQ monitoring, holding popcorn, yell out "GOTCHA!"
So, now, whenever I'm in a new street, I got by the law and watch for cams & incase I see one, I point at it and do the "GOTCHA" face, just in case
Now, tailtagging!
I don't like it, but sometimes it has to be done & there's nothing more effective than an off-road vehicle with Xenon lights! (and it's so cute when the dude in front of you is bald! Hehehehe)
P.S.
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Is this an attempt to gather cool, profiting, un-copyrighted projects & patent them under your name?!
I'd tell you my project, but I hadn't copyrighted it & it's a duck that lays golden eggs!
Such equipment is available for the general public, here in Kuwait.
But the majority of the general public has no use for it. It's mostly deployed in mosques to prevent phones from ringing during prayer.
Why is it banned from public use in the US?!
JAP :: http://anon.inf.tu-dresden.de/index_en.html
Encrypts traffic between the client & nodes; Utilizes Tor. Even works for companies that require an internal proxy.
Communication via radio makes it "easy" to sniff communications using scanners & for those who have the time & equipment, decypher encrypted ones.
If mail is going to be scanned using OCR software, what would prevent the gov. from taking a copy of all the mail, "for security purposes"??
This could also be similar to the scandal of the gov. spying on phones...
True
But the guy/gal behind you is exposed.
A lot of /.ers already mentioned other devices fogging our brains 24/7...
But what about monitors?
A few months ago, I took a gauss-meter & put it behind a CRT monitor. The safe level is 2.5 milli-gauss; The result I got was 20-30 mg !!
And regarding those cell phones, I put the same meter near my cellphone and called a friend, the result went beyond 100 mg (100 mg was the device's maximum value)
Just to remind you: 2.5mg was the safe level.
Why is Sony being blamed for other people's mishaps & actions??
Note to editor: Your dept. of nothing-nice-to-say shouldn't make blatant accusations...
With Egypt having a population of about 80 million, Saudi Arabia (KSA) with a population of 27 million & UAE with a lot of businesses booming there (especially in Dubai), they all need a decent source of power.
I still think it's a concern for neighbouring countries, like Kuwait, to have KSA running nuclear reactors. They still have some terrorists running around and it would be a catastrophe if they bombed a plant!And even though KSA has large oil wells, it's not even remotely enough to power the whole country. I've been there twice, and outside the main cities, it's a miserable situation over there: Poverty is too common. One would think with such huge oil wells, the citizens would be financially comfortable (like the case of people in Kuwait), but that's not the case.
"Microsoft spends a lot of time on hardware compatibility"
Excuse me? If you call a successful first-time driver install: hardware compatibility, then I think we have a very different point of views here!!!
I have suffered a lot from Windows-out-of-the-box drivers & even vendor-based drivers under Windows, be it Modem, Graphics, CDRW/DVDRW, Digital Camera or what ever the hardware is.
Even at the company one of the guys always complains of the need to always reinstall printer drivers (HP: old & new printers)...
Honestly, I do feel a bit bad that there's isn't much support for Linux by hardware vendors, but those who do, do it well or someone runs an open source project and support that piece of hardware (Kudos to you people!). Later on, the most stable driver is added to distros, assuring an out-of-the-box operation.
P.S.THAT IS what I call hardware compatibility: It either doesn't work or works till the hardware is dead.
People WILL buy Apple's products even if it contained top-notch technology, because they make it easy to use.
This is coming from a guy who hates OS-X & all Apple products, but for other reasons.
The main reason why I see this will sell like crazy in the gulf (Kuwait, UAE, KSA), is because of the huge marketing it gets here. The most basic way that iPods were being sold like nuts in Kuwait is that Virgin Megastores were the first to introduce them. And, in Kuwait, if you want to sell something, you put it in an expensive store AND EVERYBODY will buy!!! Seriously, Virgin sells iPods for almost double the price: Where an iPod would worth 60 K.D. ($180 roughly), Virgin sells it at 110-130 K.D. !! And yes, people are STILL buying, even at such high rates.
I really don't understand why rivals like SanDisk target places like Kuwait, where people are stupid enough to pay too much. (If people bought it online and got it shipped to Kuwait, it would still be cheaper than Virgin)