real men use nano or vi, only and always;)
but, i never could use dreamweaver even when i started out learning that scary thing they call HTML...i would always look at how messy the code was that it produced and i'd almost puke
so i just started using notepad with devguru.com as my 'bible', and then i found a simple text editor with syntax highlighting called EditPlus2, and then i moved to linux and usually just used nano or vi.
they could just not keep logs, or have them auto-purged every 15min;)
which brings up a question i always had. how DO the ISPs know which customer is (or was) which IP?
i mean i can figure out if they log enough they can probably get it down to the 'node' and they certainly log/keep around mac addy's....but otherwise how do they really know?
firefox also wasn't even a 1.0 product when those vulns were released
IE is now at...6.x or something? even 4 years ago it was a alot higher version number wise...at least 4, mabye 5.
even without the 'security' issue debate firefox is a better browser than IE, especially given all the extensions. i promise you, the first couple of IE vulns that came out weren't causing web crazes of "SEE SEE! They want to keep you on a constant upgrade cycle!", it was after about the billionth one;p
In all honesty - how many people are going to pay for something, when they can get it for free legally?
rofl, how do you think open source companies make money? yes, music is a different thing, but alot of people will pay more to have that official CD with it's pretty artwork and lyrics thing and jewel case.
they just won't pay $20 for a piece of shit.
they will typically pay $10.
and personally a jewel case + CD cost ME no more than a $1 to a $2. that's a huge profit. saying it's mass produced it's even cheaper and so really, $20 is outrageous. and it's not like the artist sees much of that directly anyway, they pretty much survive on tours/shows alot of times AFAIK. if the artists would say 'fuck you music industry' after a point and setup a website to distribute both 'hard' merchandise via cheap shipping (maybe even make a deal with amazon, i'm sure amazon would go for being the sole seller of a big artists music) and then sell cheap for download high quality...you'd get alot of both.
my question is, if there is a law, and everyone who is sane and decently moral is 'breaking that law', is that law really a good law?
You can learn FINE on your own. Books exist, libraries exist.
Negative. This is not the same as guided education.
Um, that doesn't prove that one can't learn 'FINE' on their own. It just means that 'guided education' is a different way to learn.
And to be truthful, you are both correct. In some cases you have colleges (might be fair to only go down to the professor level) where you get out what you put in.
In other cases you have colleges where they are entirely not there for the student, they are huge, and it's just a money game so that you can get a piece of paper.
Now one would hope there are more of the previous than the latter but I think it would take a deep analysis of every college/university out there with a dedicated team sitting in classes and such anonymously.
I don't forsee that happening anytime soon...sooo I don't believe anyone can truly judge across the board what is what.
read the forums linked in the article for the whole process before making a judgment call on how clever it was (a nice 20 minute read), his hack was pretty clever saying he basically did it blind via emulation with a little help from other people (mostly idea wise and testing wise, and notice he would probably not have gotten it done alone, at least not so fast as his first attempts failed horribly and were aimed in the wrong direction)
he didn't actually get a real wireless card to test with until the very end when he made it work...
hacking open source software (this is a software hack remember, not a hardware hack) is by far easier than what he did, even if in the end it turned out to be a 'simple' fix.
ahmen, my father is a statistician of 20+ years and had the same problem.
but open office on linux isn't much better so i can't really give him a better suggestion.
windows has alot of things that i really hate, but XP doesn't boot slowly. or at least, not anymore slowly than my gentoo system + gnome bootup time included.
now after you add alot of apps to XP in startup, and you get spam- and spy- wared to death, yeah, it grinds to a frustrating halt in terms of boot speed.
but a nice fresh XP install that is kept (painstakingly) clean boots rather nicely;)
one would have to have to organize such a group, make sure it is large enough percent of the population, get the media to involved, etc etc or else it would die as fast as it started...
what we lack today are the thomas jeffersons of the past; those rich brilliant thinkers who stand for the common man...us geeks need a figure or two to rally behind, who we could march with to washington should the need arise.
and frankly i think it needs to happen someday soon, before we let Big Brother get so big that we can't change anything.
at this rate i see a future where the constitution gets change, people question, and the government goes: but isn't that the way it always was? and people just accepting that answer...
ok, too many Orwell allusions i suppose!
nope, been in gentoo's portage for ages.
# emerge -p planeshift
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies...done!
[ebuild N ] dev-games/crystalspace-0.98.4
[ebuild N ] games-rpg/planeshift-0.2.010-r1;p
2.7 has been out as a while (ever since 2.5 turned into 2.6 came out afaik), but of course unless you're a real linux fanatic you wouldn't use it
wanna know why?;p
the odd numbers are basically development/test branches and extremely unstable.
when 2.7 is done with development it'll become 2.8 (sometime in mid-2005 i think is the plan)
stop buying.net domains (and have your current one redirect to some DOWN WITH ICANN website) and buy others that ICANN can't tax (i doubt they can tax.co.uk for example, or.jp)?
though, mailing your congressman is a less painful method.
nuclear bombs dropped on ICANN headquarters always work too! (or an APC full of engineers in their base, unload them all, capture everything, sell everything, owned)
heh, ahmen.
and what kinda of real mmorpg website can't handle a slashdotting? that sends a good message to the slashdot viewers who might be interested in playing their game...
it's also alot harder for parents to control computers nowadays, and to use computers in many ways than it was back in the apple IIe days.
with the apple IIe the parents could restrict their kids to fun educational games because the entire thing was a single application on a disk. there weren't really any errors or problems to fix, and doing something didn't take very long if you didn't know how to do it as there was not really an OS of any kind.
i'd kinda love to see a return of that sorta computer (the linux world is perfect for it with liveCDs), cheap computers, with no hard drive, and just have disc(s) with your applications on them that you insert and use. you can even still have internet with that, the parent/teacher just restricts when they are allowed to have that disc. granted CDs scratch and go bad alot easier than those five and three-quarters diskettes. but it would still be interesting.
though i think i would have missed all those hour upon hour gaming bashes on my pentium pro back in my younger years when i was supposed to be working on school work.
well all init and config files are supposed to be in/etc
in which case gentoo doesn't overwrite them automatically! it creates temp new config files, and then you use etc-update to update them.
it auto-merges extremely tiny changes (things that wouldn't damage your custom configs), and then changes that you have to approve you get choices for , and can even merge them line-by-line or just delete the update entirely.
it's a rather decent system, the only thing i don't like is no option (that i have seen yet) to mass delete update config files.
i suppose i should note that etc-update doesn't just help update config files but basically anything in/etc that has an update. including init scripts.
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uh, a cron job in gentoo that does this:
emerge sync
emerge -u world
wow, look an autoupdating system!
i do believe redhat was autoupdating ages ago. and most dists do have the ability for it...
I don't understand how, but the article does point out why.
The whole reason is that apparently using lasers instead of radio allows for more data to be transfered per a second (not necessarily 'faster' transfer since yes it is all the speed of light)
and their estimates for th elaser speed (1mbit worst to 30mbit best) are far greater than the 128kbit that their current radio technology does...
Minimum requirements
-Microsoft Windows 98/Windows 2000/Windows Millennium/Windows XP operating system (XP recommended)
-Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5.01 or later
not so sure about the latter, because i bet it just requires flash and so would work in firefox. but it probably doesn't work in linux since it specifies:
Please note that BT Communicator is not Mac compatible.
All in all, how many windows users want to use something possibly IE-based so that they can talk to hardlines and such for free?
i'm wondering. does it really matter that he got more votes than any American in history?
the voting population was also higher than any time in history.
and the total population compared to say, 50 years ago can't be directly compared as it's alot larger now then it was back then.
i think the media just made a point of that without making it statistically sound.
yeah seriously...the marathon was awesome and the commercials for this new mini-series have been on sci-fi for months...basically any geek who watches the sci-fi channel already knows (And probably anyone who cares about farscape does watch the sci-fi channel)
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real men use nano or vi, only and always ;)
but, i never could use dreamweaver even when i started out learning that scary thing they call HTML...i would always look at how messy the code was that it produced and i'd almost puke
so i just started using notepad with devguru.com as my 'bible', and then i found a simple text editor with syntax highlighting called EditPlus2, and then i moved to linux and usually just used nano or vi.
they could just not keep logs, or have them auto-purged every 15min ;)
which brings up a question i always had. how DO the ISPs know which customer is (or was) which IP?
i mean i can figure out if they log enough they can probably get it down to the 'node' and they certainly log/keep around mac addy's....but otherwise how do they really know?
firefox also wasn't even a 1.0 product when those vulns were released IE is now at...6.x or something? even 4 years ago it was a alot higher version number wise...at least 4, mabye 5. even without the 'security' issue debate firefox is a better browser than IE, especially given all the extensions. i promise you, the first couple of IE vulns that came out weren't causing web crazes of "SEE SEE! They want to keep you on a constant upgrade cycle!", it was after about the billionth one ;p
In all honesty - how many people are going to pay for something, when they can get it for free legally? rofl, how do you think open source companies make money? yes, music is a different thing, but alot of people will pay more to have that official CD with it's pretty artwork and lyrics thing and jewel case. they just won't pay $20 for a piece of shit. they will typically pay $10. and personally a jewel case + CD cost ME no more than a $1 to a $2. that's a huge profit. saying it's mass produced it's even cheaper and so really, $20 is outrageous. and it's not like the artist sees much of that directly anyway, they pretty much survive on tours/shows alot of times AFAIK. if the artists would say 'fuck you music industry' after a point and setup a website to distribute both 'hard' merchandise via cheap shipping (maybe even make a deal with amazon, i'm sure amazon would go for being the sole seller of a big artists music) and then sell cheap for download high quality...you'd get alot of both. my question is, if there is a law, and everyone who is sane and decently moral is 'breaking that law', is that law really a good law?
You can learn FINE on your own. Books exist, libraries exist. Negative. This is not the same as guided education. Um, that doesn't prove that one can't learn 'FINE' on their own. It just means that 'guided education' is a different way to learn. And to be truthful, you are both correct. In some cases you have colleges (might be fair to only go down to the professor level) where you get out what you put in. In other cases you have colleges where they are entirely not there for the student, they are huge, and it's just a money game so that you can get a piece of paper. Now one would hope there are more of the previous than the latter but I think it would take a deep analysis of every college /university out there with a dedicated team sitting in classes and such anonymously.
I don't forsee that happening anytime soon...sooo I don't believe anyone can truly judge across the board what is what.
read the forums linked in the article for the whole process before making a judgment call on how clever it was (a nice 20 minute read), his hack was pretty clever saying he basically did it blind via emulation with a little help from other people (mostly idea wise and testing wise, and notice he would probably not have gotten it done alone, at least not so fast as his first attempts failed horribly and were aimed in the wrong direction) he didn't actually get a real wireless card to test with until the very end when he made it work... hacking open source software (this is a software hack remember, not a hardware hack) is by far easier than what he did, even if in the end it turned out to be a 'simple' fix.
ahmen, my father is a statistician of 20+ years and had the same problem. but open office on linux isn't much better so i can't really give him a better suggestion.
windows has alot of things that i really hate, but XP doesn't boot slowly. or at least, not anymore slowly than my gentoo system + gnome bootup time included. now after you add alot of apps to XP in startup, and you get spam- and spy- wared to death, yeah, it grinds to a frustrating halt in terms of boot speed. but a nice fresh XP install that is kept (painstakingly) clean boots rather nicely ;)
one would have to have to organize such a group, make sure it is large enough percent of the population, get the media to involved, etc etc or else it would die as fast as it started... what we lack today are the thomas jeffersons of the past; those rich brilliant thinkers who stand for the common man...us geeks need a figure or two to rally behind, who we could march with to washington should the need arise. and frankly i think it needs to happen someday soon, before we let Big Brother get so big that we can't change anything. at this rate i see a future where the constitution gets change, people question, and the government goes: but isn't that the way it always was? and people just accepting that answer... ok, too many Orwell allusions i suppose!
nope, been in gentoo's portage for ages. # emerge -p planeshift These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild N ] dev-games/crystalspace-0.98.4
[ebuild N ] games-rpg/planeshift-0.2.010-r1 ;p
2.7 has been out as a while (ever since 2.5 turned into 2.6 came out afaik), but of course unless you're a real linux fanatic you wouldn't use it wanna know why? ;p
the odd numbers are basically development/test branches and extremely unstable.
when 2.7 is done with development it'll become 2.8 (sometime in mid-2005 i think is the plan)
i thought our right to overthrow the government was in the constitution...the preamble even?
stop buying .net domains (and have your current one redirect to some DOWN WITH ICANN website) and buy others that ICANN can't tax (i doubt they can tax .co.uk for example, or .jp)?
though, mailing your congressman is a less painful method.
nuclear bombs dropped on ICANN headquarters always work too! (or an APC full of engineers in their base, unload them all, capture everything, sell everything, owned)
heh, ahmen. and what kinda of real mmorpg website can't handle a slashdotting? that sends a good message to the slashdot viewers who might be interested in playing their game...
ahmen. who would have thought pennsylvania, i mean really, come on! news for geeks. PA == penny arcade >=/
it's also alot harder for parents to control computers nowadays, and to use computers in many ways than it was back in the apple IIe days. with the apple IIe the parents could restrict their kids to fun educational games because the entire thing was a single application on a disk. there weren't really any errors or problems to fix, and doing something didn't take very long if you didn't know how to do it as there was not really an OS of any kind. i'd kinda love to see a return of that sorta computer (the linux world is perfect for it with liveCDs), cheap computers, with no hard drive, and just have disc(s) with your applications on them that you insert and use. you can even still have internet with that, the parent/teacher just restricts when they are allowed to have that disc. granted CDs scratch and go bad alot easier than those five and three-quarters diskettes. but it would still be interesting. though i think i would have missed all those hour upon hour gaming bashes on my pentium pro back in my younger years when i was supposed to be working on school work.
maybe you should submit THAT as a slashdot article. heh. thanks though for clearing everything up =)
well all init and config files are supposed to be in /etc
in which case gentoo doesn't overwrite them automatically! it creates temp new config files, and then you use etc-update to update them.
it auto-merges extremely tiny changes (things that wouldn't damage your custom configs), and then changes that you have to approve you get choices for , and can even merge them line-by-line or just delete the update entirely.
it's a rather decent system, the only thing i don't like is no option (that i have seen yet) to mass delete update config files.
i suppose i should note that etc-update doesn't just help update config files but basically anything in /etc that has an update. including init scripts.
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uh, a cron job in gentoo that does this: emerge sync emerge -u world wow, look an autoupdating system! i do believe redhat was autoupdating ages ago. and most dists do have the ability for it...
I don't understand how, but the article does point out why. The whole reason is that apparently using lasers instead of radio allows for more data to be transfered per a second (not necessarily 'faster' transfer since yes it is all the speed of light) and their estimates for th elaser speed (1mbit worst to 30mbit best) are far greater than the 128kbit that their current radio technology does...
Minimum requirements -Microsoft Windows 98/Windows 2000/Windows Millennium/Windows XP operating system (XP recommended) -Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5.01 or later not so sure about the latter, because i bet it just requires flash and so would work in firefox. but it probably doesn't work in linux since it specifies: Please note that BT Communicator is not Mac compatible. All in all, how many windows users want to use something possibly IE-based so that they can talk to hardlines and such for free?
i'm wondering. does it really matter that he got more votes than any American in history? the voting population was also higher than any time in history. and the total population compared to say, 50 years ago can't be directly compared as it's alot larger now then it was back then. i think the media just made a point of that without making it statistically sound.
yeah seriously...the marathon was awesome and the commercials for this new mini-series have been on sci-fi for months...basically any geek who watches the sci-fi channel already knows (And probably anyone who cares about farscape does watch the sci-fi channel)