With a targeted platform of the X-BOX, I wonder if it would be possible for the WINE team to get FF running under WINE.
Alternately, with a targeted playform of the PC (likely Windows), I wonder if it would be possible to just run it under WINE without hassle. Easier than dicking around with the (later-to-arrive) X-Box version.
I have three choices, really: use Latin (ISO-8859-1) and have the Hebrew look like gibberish, use Hebrew (ISO-8859-8) and have the accents in the English come out as Hebrew characters, or I can use Unicode. It's just easier that way.
Can you point to any trends, or figures, other then your own personal preferences to indicate why what you are saying might be true?
Given that
Computing power doubles every 18 years
Clips of movies like Shrek and Final Fantasy: The Spirit Within could be passed off as real to all but the most careful and scrutinizing observer
You don't have to get the animation perfect, merely 'damned good'
Every CG movie released tops the previous release by leaps and bounds
It is logical to assume that in five or ten years' time
Computers will be fast enough to render more complex movies than FF:SW in realtime
Animation, modeling, and effect techniques will soon evolve to produce extremely accurate portrayals of the actual universe
I hope they never do get rid of live-acted movies, and I hope speech synthesis never evolves to the point where it too can replace the real thing. At the same time, however, Final Fantasy: Spirits Within would likely have been cost-prohibitive, or at least looked crappier, if they had used live-action instead of CG rendering.
"Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the NONexistence of God.
"The arguement goes something like this: 'I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, 'for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'
"'But,' says Man, 'the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'
"'Oh, dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic."
There's a much easier way to prove that.
It goes something like this: 'There won't be a sixth part in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.'
Douglas Adams was a great author, and his imagination took me places even my own imagination couldn't.
Thank you for showing me what books can be like.
This is my biggest fear about Debian. I use it all the time (it's the only distro I'll use for pretty much anything), but there are easy, EASY pitfalls to fall into.
First of all, NEVER cron apt-get dist-upgrade. Cron apt-get update, if you want, but that's kind of a waste of bandwidth if you're not updating every day. I've had things like SSH break totally because the SSH maintainer f**cked up the packages (this is not, in fact, uncommon; ssh breaks more than any other package I've ever insatlled) - cronning it will pretty much ensure that if ssh goes to hell, no one is logged in to fix it, and you will need to talk to tech support and get them to log in via console (assuming, of course, they can do so), since you won't have telnet installed (I hope I hope).
Debian's pitfall is users assuming that all is well in all cases. This is not true. You need to be just as vigilant with Debian as with other distributions; the difference, however, is that when something needs to be done in Debian, it's usually easier and faster to do. You still need to be on guard; check conf files after debconf creates them, make sure and set passwords on things like mysql, and be wary of the unstable branch (use testing instead), and things should work out for you.
Debian saves you time, but never think it does everything, or you will be rooted faster than RH5.2 on a default install.
Look, there are similar ratings on movies, OK? I know that those ratings are totally s****ed up in the US (like, you can show as much blood, gore and violence as you wish as long nobody says 'fuck' and you can't see a bloody inch of a tit), but that the system is s***ed up in the US doesn't mean it is s***ed up everywhere.
I dunno if people will classify this as 'good' or 'bad', and I don't know the differences between Alberta and BC in this respect, but...
When I lived in Alberta a few years ago, a movie came out, called (I believe) Wild Things or something. I haven't seen this movie, but it was described by all my 15/16-year-old hormone-crazed adolescant friends as 'lesbian pr0n', the day after they went to see it in theatres.
Apparantly, even violent dismemberment and lesbian sex scenes are alright, so perhaps this bodes well for the freedom-of-corruption junkies out there.
On the other hand, whoever reviews/rates the games is going to be from BC, and I doubt movie ratings in Alberta are, so perhaps that bodes well for the 'protect our children' junkies.
For the record, I'm the latter, but when there are holes in the system (the former), I abused them (I'm 19 now, so sex, pr0n, and beer are mine for the taking).
90% is too low. No one should believe and report anything they can not verify themselves.
Yes, the good and right thing to do would be - what, exactly? Give out their private key for all to see?
My guess would be that they encrypt the data so it can't be sniffed en-route to their servers, but I'm sure they'd be happy to send personal information over the net unencrypted.
Seriously though, sometimes paranoia goes just a bit too far. This ludicrous 'trust no one' philosophy makes no sense whatsoever. If you're so scared of people out to get you, go live in a cave or something, and quit annoying the rest of us.
Those "communist regimes" were hardly communist. They were nothing more than your run-of-the-mill dictatorships that claimed to be communist.
On the contrary, they were both. Communism is an economic theory, whereas totalitarianism is a political one.
It would be possible to have a combination of communism and democracy, capitalism and totalitarianism (though that wouldn't be too efficient), and so on. Communism is just a blanket fear that people apply. Most 'communist governments' (if not all) were totalitarian dictatorships with communist economies (i.e. the state owns everything).
Communism is not bad (nor for that matter is totalitarianism), it's just that the people who manage to set up communist governments are corrupt.
Yes they were evil but not nearly as evil as any of the communist regimes. Six million killed in nazi camps to over 60 million killed in soviet gulags.
Maybe it's just my personal views on the subject, but I'd prefer a communist dictator who kills individual political rebels (and anyone else) over a period of, what, 50 years? Compared to a genocidal Hitler, who exterminated 13 million people (Jews, gypsies, blacks, etc) en-masse (gas chambers, mass graves) for doing nothing, in the space of, I believe, less than a decade.
The difference is that Hitler was stopped. If he hadn't been, you can bet your ass that there would have been a LOT more than 60 million deaths, and in a lot shorter time than Stalin was in power.
How about instant messages? I don't know anything on this, but can say aol read your aol ims?
As I recall, all the major messaging services (AIM,MSN,Yahoo) except one (ICQ) go through the server, therefore they should have no problem reading them.
Or how about the next step, could you encypt your instant messages? just wondering
A friend and I used PGPNet, a free handy-dandy addon to PGP (comes with, actually), and we achieved something along these lines with ICQ on Win95/98.
By setting up our PGPNet sessions, me on my cable, to his dial-up subnets, and him on his dialup to my cable IP, and then sending a few ICQ messages back and forth, we eventually managed to get a PGPNet connection established.
I can't guarantee that it was encrypting our messages (there aren't many ports of TCPdump to Windows), but what I DO know is that our ICQ messages were a lot more reliable. They used to take from 5-50 seconds to send, and sometimes would fail to send entirely, or get lost en route. After PGPNet said 'Connection Established', however, they sent almost instantaneously, and with 100% reliability. File transfers, chats, and everything worked admirably.
What I've been looking for, however, is a way to automatically encrypt any communications between two IPs, rather like PGPNet does, except for Linux. stunnel does something similar, but you really have to set it up beforehand, per-service, and it's rather annoying.
~Sentry21~
This opens up worlds of possibilities
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I've been considering writing an IRC client for X for quite a while - XChat is nice, but I think the author and I are looking in different directions, and I'd like to do something on my own anyway.
My problem was that I wanted a good scripting language to use, that wasn't overly complex for the task (C/C++), wasn't ugly as hell (Perl), and wasn't too much of a departure from what I was used to (Python).
Several people on OPN suggested things like Javascript, C interpreters, and so on, but the thing I really wanted was PHP.
Now, not only could I do a client entirely in PHP, which would be easy to develop for, and allow expansion into all sorts of areas that PHP modules provide (databases, XML, FTP/HTTP, mail, and so on, and so on), so bloatifying my program would be easy and simple for anyone to do.
I was actually considering using the gtkhtml widget along with PHP - maybe I could still do that... Hmm... Makes you think.
I've always wondered this... why not hide users ips (or mask part of the ip) and only display their nickname?
This has been a feature on the StarChat IRC network for well over a year now (more like two, I think) (as well as any networks that use their IRCd), it has been available in Unreal IRCd (and on any networks that use it), and I've been informed that a working patch to Hybrid has already been written by the SC coding team (which has been submitted to OPN by InnerFIRE), and will quite probably be sent upstream.
The hostmasking either changes the first section of the host (i.e. to Star8462.mplrdg1.bc.wave.home.com, or some other number), or for a non-reversing IP, something like 24.13.137.000, changing the last block.
Unreal changes the last part of an IP to the same as the first part of a host, which ends you up with 24.13.137.Unreal-25143, which makes IRC clients assume it's a host and ban via *!*@*.13.137.Unreal-25143, which, when 25143 is random, doesn't work too well. I suggested that, in the Hybrid code, the IPs be masked to 256-512 instead of 000, I believe this has been implemented, but I'm not certain.
DCCs could still work with the server relaying the targets ip once they had "ok'd" the connection.
DCC still works the same way it always has.
I guess the hostname/ip is handy for verifying that the person is who they claim to be, but perhaps there is another fingerprint method maybe even more trustworthy than hostnames
Password identification (via NickServ in most cases) is usually standard on the average network - there are IRC 'purists' out there who don't use services, but in general, I think the trend is towards using them.
Electricity gives you better smelting capabilities, electroplating, and opens up lots of cool physics - radio, etc. as well as motors to drive pumps.
Don't forget also, the electrolytic process, which yields you aluminum - light-weight but sturdy metal - it's not titanium, but it would be pretty handy in a lot of things.
Or maybe we all get to see the depth and breadth of my misunderstandings of modern mettalurgy. =:>
All in all, the updating was a little troublesome, but at this point, nothing to worry about. The upgrade from Potato->woody was as normal as any other upgrade I've done (except that most other upgrades I've done don't require 400 megs of downloads =:P)
~Sentry21~
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Hate is too strong a word (it almost always is), but I dislike how it's a pain in the ass to configure (on Debian, since there is a sawfish and sawfish-gnome package, and a sawmill and sawmill-gnome package),
the themes for it all suck really badly, it crashes, it's a pain to update, it's buggy, I've had to delete ~/.gnome several times beacuse it puts my panel in the middle of the screen and won't let me move it,
not to mention alt-dragging the windows suddenly stopped working one day (no one told me it was win-drag now), and a thousand other little things that irk and dismay me.
With Enlightenment, there are things that bug me, but at least they're nice, glaring things, that you can easily point out if you choose, or live with if you desire. I've chosen to live with them (I switched back to E now that I have 80 megs of ram instead of 48, and it's as fast, if not faster, than sawfish was (sawfish didn't get faster on more ram)). It's all what you use and how, I suppose, what you'll give vs. what you want in return.
Turning the speed limit down to 5MPH (8KM/H) on a major highway at the height of rush hour would be a great piece of 'hactivism' to show what a totally brain-dead scheme this is. [ Of course, it would be an even better hack if you could force people to speed up when they are driving 40 in a 55 zone:-) ] I'm sure there are some more creative hacks that could be done as well...
Yea, nothing gets your message across to the government like intentionally causing dozens of fatalities - I hate to tell you, but the idea you just proposed is called terrorism, and would almost definitely cost thousands of dollars in damage, severe trauma, massive casualties, and probably dozens of fatalities.
The government would change their mind, sure enough, but I'd hope they'd nail you (or the perpetrator, whoever) to a tree first.
However, if you imply the latter part (have the GPS report back if you were speeding, then determine if it was necessary or not), that leads to "guilty until proven innocent" attitudes that we need to get away from.
I really do hate to nitpick, but if you're doing 80 in a 60 zone, you ARE guilty, period. If you can prove you had a good reason, then you can get off, but if they use the GPS in the manner you suggest, then they DO prove you guilty.
PS: I'm Canadian, and as such, refer to km/h, not MPH. I'm not even going to get into doing 80 mph on the highway.
Yea, it's horrible when the goverment wants to take away your gGod-given right to blatantly violate traffic laws, or yoru God-given right to staying anonymous while you shoplift, mug someone, purse-snatch, or the like.
For a country that takes such pride in an obviously screwed up government (your wonderfully undemocratic two-party system, the blatantly stupid electoral process, and so on), I'm amazed at how many Americans think the Government is the source of all evil.
Try living in a place like Canada, the UK, Germany, Sweden, and so on. The government is not AGAINST you, it is FOR you, and everything it does, it does in the best interests of the people (with a few exceptions, obviously).
I would rather live in the UK and have cameras watching me and GPS stopping dangerous drivers than live in the US and have people mug me, or get killed by a drunk/dangerous driver.
Anonymity is only good if you're afraid of the people with the information. If you don't trust your government or the parties, run for office. That's what Democracy's about, right? (at least, in Democratic countries it is)
I ran E on a Cyrix 133 (a 200+ underclocked for heat issues) with 32 megs of RAM and a $160 vid card, and X was SO AMAZINGLY SLOW. It was almost unusable. But that's 'cause my computer sucked, I soon found.
Then I used sawfish, and it was like going to a PII/400 - easily ten times faster, if not more, than Enlightenment was. I hate sawfish, true, but it's got the only balance of speed/aesthetics/functionality/customization that I can live with on the hardware I have.
Sure E is bloated with enough graphical slowdowns as to make Photoshop blush, but if the speed-up (hopefully) provided by EVAS will get me back to it. I mean, sure it has tons of alpha hacks and so on - but isn't that what's great about it? =;>
Wasn't the manifest destiny the US's belief that the entirety of the North American continent was God's Gift to them or something of the sort?
We never actually learned that in school, but I remember reading it in the textbook on one occasion that the educational system didn't get in the way of my learning.
It consistantly amazes me the generalizations I see on Slashdot every day. From the 'average Slashdot reader' to the 'average computer geek', everyone assumes that all geeks are the same. The same thing happens outside of 'our culture' - everyone stereotypes us as all the same, we're all geeks, we all sit in our basements alone every night, we all listen to the same music, and so on, and so on.
First of all, if you want a referance to the 'hacker culture', forget about averaging anything, that eliminates the diversity that makes each one of us unique. How can you average a 13 year old male geek from Minnesota, a 22 year old female networking specialist in India, and a 22 year old cybercafe owner in Mexico? The same goes for slashdot posts - some are hardcore geeks, the ones that wrote emacs, designed Debian, were there when ADA first cropped up. Some are aerospace engineers, CIS students. If you take an 'average', you eliminate all of that in one swell foop.
Someone asked if antisocial behaviour came before geekly behaviour, or vice-versa. That is not a yes-or-no thing, it's different for different individuals, and you'd have to ask each individual person. That question can't be answered by one kid.
Someone else asked if geeks were still at the same level, or if we were as revered as doctors and lawyers. Again, some commenters agreed, and said 'yes, they worship us as gods!', whereas my personal experience (and I'm less of an antisocial recluse-geek) was quite the opposite - being harassed, made fun of, butt of jokes, and so on. It's not a general thing, it varies from school to school and area to area.
People, please, can we stop generalizing and averaging everything out? Let's recognize diversity where others have failed to do so, let's not fall into the same trap again and again.
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With a targeted platform of the X-BOX, I wonder if it would be possible for the WINE team to get FF running under WINE.
Alternately, with a targeted playform of the PC (likely Windows), I wonder if it would be possible to just run it under WINE without hassle. Easier than dicking around with the (later-to-arrive) X-Box version.
Think, I could have a Kanji followed by Arabic letters in Unicode, but when is that useful? hardly ever.
Sounds to me like you don't do a lot of dealing with other character sets. What if I was writing a translation, say of a Hebrew song. I can put English on the page, and I can put Hebrew on the page, but how do I say the 'é' in 'cliché', for example? To me, it looks like yud, if I'm using the Hebrew character set, because they occupy the same space in the ISO-8859-X encodings (which are the standards I use).
I have three choices, really: use Latin (ISO-8859-1) and have the Hebrew look like gibberish, use Hebrew (ISO-8859-8) and have the accents in the English come out as Hebrew characters, or I can use Unicode. It's just easier that way.
Can you point to any trends, or figures, other then your own personal preferences to indicate why what you are saying might be true?
Given that
- Computing power doubles every 18 years
- Clips of movies like Shrek and Final Fantasy: The Spirit Within could be passed off as real to all but the most careful and scrutinizing observer
- You don't have to get the animation perfect, merely 'damned good'
- Every CG movie released tops the previous release by leaps and bounds
It is logical to assume that in five or ten years' timeI hope they never do get rid of live-acted movies, and I hope speech synthesis never evolves to the point where it too can replace the real thing. At the same time, however, Final Fantasy: Spirits Within would likely have been cost-prohibitive, or at least looked crappier, if they had used live-action instead of CG rendering.
Just my two bits
--DanI'm feeling very depressed.
"Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the NONexistence of God.
"The arguement goes something like this: 'I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, 'for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'
"'But,' says Man, 'the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'
"'Oh, dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic."
There's a much easier way to prove that.
It goes something like this: 'There won't be a sixth part in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.'
Douglas Adams was a great author, and his imagination took me places even my own imagination couldn't.
Thank you for showing me what books can be like.
This is my biggest fear about Debian. I use it all the time (it's the only distro I'll use for pretty much anything), but there are easy, EASY pitfalls to fall into.
First of all, NEVER cron apt-get dist-upgrade. Cron apt-get update, if you want, but that's kind of a waste of bandwidth if you're not updating every day. I've had things like SSH break totally because the SSH maintainer f**cked up the packages (this is not, in fact, uncommon; ssh breaks more than any other package I've ever insatlled) - cronning it will pretty much ensure that if ssh goes to hell, no one is logged in to fix it, and you will need to talk to tech support and get them to log in via console (assuming, of course, they can do so), since you won't have telnet installed (I hope I hope).
Secondly, don't assume that just because you run dist-upgrade, you're secure. Go to the Debian Documentation Project and read the Securing Debian Manual. While you're there, read the Debian System Administrator's Manual and the Debian Network Administrator's Manual. Debian may be awesome in most respects, but Potato (2.2) comes with a general setup, not a secure one (though it could certainly be worse).
Debian's pitfall is users assuming that all is well in all cases. This is not true. You need to be just as vigilant with Debian as with other distributions; the difference, however, is that when something needs to be done in Debian, it's usually easier and faster to do. You still need to be on guard; check conf files after debconf creates them, make sure and set passwords on things like mysql, and be wary of the unstable branch (use testing instead), and things should work out for you.
Debian saves you time, but never think it does everything, or you will be rooted faster than RH5.2 on a default install.
~Sentry21~
Look, there are similar ratings on movies, OK? I know that those ratings are totally s****ed up in the US (like, you can show as much blood, gore and violence as you wish as long nobody says 'fuck' and you can't see a bloody inch of a tit), but that the system is s***ed up in the US doesn't mean it is s***ed up everywhere.
I dunno if people will classify this as 'good' or 'bad', and I don't know the differences between Alberta and BC in this respect, but...
When I lived in Alberta a few years ago, a movie came out, called (I believe) Wild Things or something. I haven't seen this movie, but it was described by all my 15/16-year-old hormone-crazed adolescant friends as 'lesbian pr0n', the day after they went to see it in theatres.
Apparantly, even violent dismemberment and lesbian sex scenes are alright, so perhaps this bodes well for the freedom-of-corruption junkies out there.
On the other hand, whoever reviews/rates the games is going to be from BC, and I doubt movie ratings in Alberta are, so perhaps that bodes well for the 'protect our children' junkies.
For the record, I'm the latter, but when there are holes in the system (the former), I abused them (I'm 19 now, so sex, pr0n, and beer are mine for the taking).
~Sentry21~
90% is too low. No one should believe and report anything they can not verify themselves.
Yes, the good and right thing to do would be - what, exactly? Give out their private key for all to see?
My guess would be that they encrypt the data so it can't be sniffed en-route to their servers, but I'm sure they'd be happy to send personal information over the net unencrypted.
Seriously though, sometimes paranoia goes just a bit too far. This ludicrous 'trust no one' philosophy makes no sense whatsoever. If you're so scared of people out to get you, go live in a cave or something, and quit annoying the rest of us.
Those "communist regimes" were hardly communist. They were nothing more than your run-of-the-mill dictatorships that claimed to be communist.
On the contrary, they were both. Communism is an economic theory, whereas totalitarianism is a political one.
It would be possible to have a combination of communism and democracy, capitalism and totalitarianism (though that wouldn't be too efficient), and so on. Communism is just a blanket fear that people apply. Most 'communist governments' (if not all) were totalitarian dictatorships with communist economies (i.e. the state owns everything).
Communism is not bad (nor for that matter is totalitarianism), it's just that the people who manage to set up communist governments are corrupt.
~Sentry21~
Yes they were evil but not nearly as evil as any of the communist regimes. Six million killed in nazi camps to over 60 million killed in soviet gulags.
Maybe it's just my personal views on the subject, but I'd prefer a communist dictator who kills individual political rebels (and anyone else) over a period of, what, 50 years? Compared to a genocidal Hitler, who exterminated 13 million people (Jews, gypsies, blacks, etc) en-masse (gas chambers, mass graves) for doing nothing, in the space of, I believe, less than a decade.
The difference is that Hitler was stopped. If he hadn't been, you can bet your ass that there would have been a LOT more than 60 million deaths, and in a lot shorter time than Stalin was in power.
~Sentry21~
Can I trade you the P200 for a Cyrix 133?
~Sentry21~
How about instant messages? I don't know anything on this, but can say aol read your aol ims?
As I recall, all the major messaging services (AIM,MSN,Yahoo) except one (ICQ) go through the server, therefore they should have no problem reading them.
Or how about the next step, could you encypt your instant messages? just wondering
A friend and I used PGPNet, a free handy-dandy addon to PGP (comes with, actually), and we achieved something along these lines with ICQ on Win95/98.
By setting up our PGPNet sessions, me on my cable, to his dial-up subnets, and him on his dialup to my cable IP, and then sending a few ICQ messages back and forth, we eventually managed to get a PGPNet connection established.
I can't guarantee that it was encrypting our messages (there aren't many ports of TCPdump to Windows), but what I DO know is that our ICQ messages were a lot more reliable. They used to take from 5-50 seconds to send, and sometimes would fail to send entirely, or get lost en route. After PGPNet said 'Connection Established', however, they sent almost instantaneously, and with 100% reliability. File transfers, chats, and everything worked admirably.
What I've been looking for, however, is a way to automatically encrypt any communications between two IPs, rather like PGPNet does, except for Linux. stunnel does something similar, but you really have to set it up beforehand, per-service, and it's rather annoying.
~Sentry21~
I've been considering writing an IRC client for X for quite a while - XChat is nice, but I think the author and I are looking in different directions, and I'd like to do something on my own anyway.
My problem was that I wanted a good scripting language to use, that wasn't overly complex for the task (C/C++), wasn't ugly as hell (Perl), and wasn't too much of a departure from what I was used to (Python).
Several people on OPN suggested things like Javascript, C interpreters, and so on, but the thing I really wanted was PHP.
Now, not only could I do a client entirely in PHP, which would be easy to develop for, and allow expansion into all sorts of areas that PHP modules provide (databases, XML, FTP/HTTP, mail, and so on, and so on), so bloatifying my program would be easy and simple for anyone to do.
I was actually considering using the gtkhtml widget along with PHP - maybe I could still do that... Hmm... Makes you think.
I've always wondered this... why not hide users ips (or mask part of the ip) and only display their nickname?
This has been a feature on the StarChat IRC network for well over a year now (more like two, I think) (as well as any networks that use their IRCd), it has been available in Unreal IRCd (and on any networks that use it), and I've been informed that a working patch to Hybrid has already been written by the SC coding team (which has been submitted to OPN by InnerFIRE), and will quite probably be sent upstream.
The hostmasking either changes the first section of the host (i.e. to Star8462.mplrdg1.bc.wave.home.com, or some other number), or for a non-reversing IP, something like 24.13.137.000, changing the last block.
Unreal changes the last part of an IP to the same as the first part of a host, which ends you up with 24.13.137.Unreal-25143, which makes IRC clients assume it's a host and ban via *!*@*.13.137.Unreal-25143, which, when 25143 is random, doesn't work too well. I suggested that, in the Hybrid code, the IPs be masked to 256-512 instead of 000, I believe this has been implemented, but I'm not certain.
DCCs could still work with the server relaying the targets ip once they had "ok'd" the connection.
DCC still works the same way it always has.
I guess the hostname/ip is handy for verifying that the person is who they claim to be, but perhaps there is another fingerprint method maybe even more trustworthy than hostnames
Password identification (via NickServ in most cases) is usually standard on the average network - there are IRC 'purists' out there who don't use services, but in general, I think the trend is towards using them.
~Sentry21~
Don't forget also, the electrolytic process, which yields you aluminum - light-weight but sturdy metal - it's not titanium, but it would be pretty handy in a lot of things.
Or maybe we all get to see the depth and breadth of my misunderstandings of modern mettalurgy. =:>
If you could get titanium, though, you'd be set.
All in all, the updating was a little troublesome, but at this point, nothing to worry about. The upgrade from Potato->woody was as normal as any other upgrade I've done (except that most other upgrades I've done don't require 400 megs of downloads =:P)
~Sentry21~
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'Please state the nature of the medical emergency.'
Hate is too strong a word (it almost always is), but I dislike how it's a pain in the ass to configure (on Debian, since there is a sawfish and sawfish-gnome package, and a sawmill and sawmill-gnome package), the themes for it all suck really badly, it crashes, it's a pain to update, it's buggy, I've had to delete ~/.gnome several times beacuse it puts my panel in the middle of the screen and won't let me move it, not to mention alt-dragging the windows suddenly stopped working one day (no one told me it was win-drag now), and a thousand other little things that irk and dismay me.
With Enlightenment, there are things that bug me, but at least they're nice, glaring things, that you can easily point out if you choose, or live with if you desire. I've chosen to live with them (I switched back to E now that I have 80 megs of ram instead of 48, and it's as fast, if not faster, than sawfish was (sawfish didn't get faster on more ram)). It's all what you use and how, I suppose, what you'll give vs. what you want in return.
~Sentry21~
Turning the speed limit down to 5MPH (8KM/H) on a major highway at the height of rush hour would be a great piece of 'hactivism' to show what a totally brain-dead scheme this is. [ Of course, it would be an even better hack if you could force people to speed up when they are driving 40 in a 55 zone :-) ] I'm sure there are some more creative hacks that could be done as well...
Yea, nothing gets your message across to the government like intentionally causing dozens of fatalities - I hate to tell you, but the idea you just proposed is called terrorism, and would almost definitely cost thousands of dollars in damage, severe trauma, massive casualties, and probably dozens of fatalities.
The government would change their mind, sure enough, but I'd hope they'd nail you (or the perpetrator, whoever) to a tree first.
~Sentry21~
However, if you imply the latter part (have the GPS report back if you were speeding, then determine if it was necessary or not), that leads to "guilty until proven innocent" attitudes that we need to get away from.
I really do hate to nitpick, but if you're doing 80 in a 60 zone, you ARE guilty, period. If you can prove you had a good reason, then you can get off, but if they use the GPS in the manner you suggest, then they DO prove you guilty.
PS: I'm Canadian, and as such, refer to km/h, not MPH. I'm not even going to get into doing 80 mph on the highway.
Yea, it's horrible when the goverment wants to take away your gGod-given right to blatantly violate traffic laws, or yoru God-given right to staying anonymous while you shoplift, mug someone, purse-snatch, or the like.
For a country that takes such pride in an obviously screwed up government (your wonderfully undemocratic two-party system, the blatantly stupid electoral process, and so on), I'm amazed at how many Americans think the Government is the source of all evil.
Try living in a place like Canada, the UK, Germany, Sweden, and so on. The government is not AGAINST you, it is FOR you, and everything it does, it does in the best interests of the people (with a few exceptions, obviously).
I would rather live in the UK and have cameras watching me and GPS stopping dangerous drivers than live in the US and have people mug me, or get killed by a drunk/dangerous driver.
Anonymity is only good if you're afraid of the people with the information. If you don't trust your government or the parties, run for office. That's what Democracy's about, right? (at least, in Democratic countries it is)
~Sentry21~
Where did you get libXrender.so from? I can't run e17-cvs until I find it. =:/
~Sentry21~
Posting anonymously (maybe) because Lynx really, really, really sucks ass.
I ran E on a Cyrix 133 (a 200+ underclocked for heat issues) with 32 megs of RAM and a $160 vid card, and X was SO AMAZINGLY SLOW. It was almost unusable. But that's 'cause my computer sucked, I soon found.
Then I used sawfish, and it was like going to a PII/400 - easily ten times faster, if not more, than Enlightenment was. I hate sawfish, true, but it's got the only balance of speed/aesthetics/functionality/customization that I can live with on the hardware I have.
Sure E is bloated with enough graphical slowdowns as to make Photoshop blush, but if the speed-up (hopefully) provided by EVAS will get me back to it. I mean, sure it has tons of alpha hacks and so on - but isn't that what's great about it? =;>
Wasn't the manifest destiny the US's belief that the entirety of the North American continent was God's Gift to them or something of the sort?
We never actually learned that in school, but I remember reading it in the textbook on one occasion that the educational system didn't get in the way of my learning.
It consistantly amazes me the generalizations I see on Slashdot every day. From the 'average Slashdot reader' to the 'average computer geek', everyone assumes that all geeks are the same. The same thing happens outside of 'our culture' - everyone stereotypes us as all the same, we're all geeks, we all sit in our basements alone every night, we all listen to the same music, and so on, and so on.
First of all, if you want a referance to the 'hacker culture', forget about averaging anything, that eliminates the diversity that makes each one of us unique. How can you average a 13 year old male geek from Minnesota, a 22 year old female networking specialist in India, and a 22 year old cybercafe owner in Mexico? The same goes for slashdot posts - some are hardcore geeks, the ones that wrote emacs, designed Debian, were there when ADA first cropped up. Some are aerospace engineers, CIS students. If you take an 'average', you eliminate all of that in one swell foop.
Someone asked if antisocial behaviour came before geekly behaviour, or vice-versa. That is not a yes-or-no thing, it's different for different individuals, and you'd have to ask each individual person. That question can't be answered by one kid.
Someone else asked if geeks were still at the same level, or if we were as revered as doctors and lawyers. Again, some commenters agreed, and said 'yes, they worship us as gods!', whereas my personal experience (and I'm less of an antisocial recluse-geek) was quite the opposite - being harassed, made fun of, butt of jokes, and so on. It's not a general thing, it varies from school to school and area to area.
People, please, can we stop generalizing and averaging everything out? Let's recognize diversity where others have failed to do so, let's not fall into the same trap again and again.
~Sentry21~