Personally, I don't really want to upgrade to 2.6 on any machine I have. At work, my desktop is 2.4.20. We use an embedded linux distribution based on 2.4. My laptop is still 2.4. I've tried 2.6 on my laptop, but 1/2 the time I can't resume from APM suspend and ACPI is just a big problem. With 2.4 APM suspend/resume works 95% of the time. I just really don't see a reason to upgrade at this time. Perhaps if I purchase some device that will not work with 2.4 and will only work with 2.6, then I might consider it. Anyone else out there who just likes sticking with what works?
I'm not sure I fully understand your comment. If your "we" refers to the collective Slashdot crowd, then yes, I'd say for the most part we've admitted there's a problem.
However, I do not think the United States at large has admitted there is a problem. Information like this isn't common place on local or national news programs, or it is buried deep in the newspaper. Sure, the information is out there, but most people don't go searching for this and most common people do not read slashdot, etc.
Perhaps if some secretary of state responsible for these areas where we've seen some recognition of the problem stood up and made a stand and said that he/she fucked up, the electronic voting machines have tainted the election, and made some major public dispute of the validity of such machines and of our whole recent election. Perhaps then common folk would come to realize what the majority of the slashdot crowd/blackboxvoting.org/many other damn people/etc have realized. But that won't happen.
I agree. This is great news. I'm glad to see LSB still being actively pushed and maintained. Without such standards, it makes it increasingly difficult to maintain complex commercial (and non) applications for Linux. Too bad Loki games still isn't around. I think they did a great job at keeping their games LSB compliant.
I really don't see this as a worthwhile technology. Select a good password, and get on with the show. No need to introduce authentication mechanisms that require you to purchase more hardware. As far as dictionary attacks go, if they have your shadow/master.passwd against which they're performing the dictionary attack, then odds are they have root access, in which case you're screwed anyway. How did they acheive root access in the first place? Probably via some small stupid bug related to bounds checking in a process running as root.
You know, if we developed some kind of huge LCD to go along with these huge digital images, perhaps we could situate it somewhere in the desert to view from space. Then we could share some pr0n with our extraterrestrial friends. If anything, I'm guessing pr0n would finally get their attention.
I think you mean initialization scripts. Initiation scripts sounds like some rules for some type of formally documented hazing procedure. <stupid_joke>
I took a peek at downhillbattle.org and some of the flyers they have available in PDF. The extent of my visit was pretty cursory, but I noticed the flyer where the dude has the gun in his mouth and one of the things it says:
Filesharing and CD-Burning have pushed the Big 5 to the brink of extinction. Sales down 30% in 3 years.
I thought everybody has been hooting and hollaring about how P2P etc has nothing to do with the demise of the record industries, and their downfall was simply a result of crappy music, less demand, blah blah blah. A lot of people would compare cd-burning/p2p to the old days of a friend borrowing a tape and recording a few songs. This seems like people are claiming that they are trying to destroy these companies, instead of harmless filesharing. It seems like it is their intention. Seems a little inconsistent to me.
It's pretty sad really. The first opportunity for me to vote for president was in 2000. Rigged. Now in 2004, another rigged election. This time it was a little less dubious to most. Will I ever get a chance to vote in a free election?
All of this would indicate that the good people at Nullsoft are pretty cool with open source. So if the Winamp 5 source code is not going to be released, then I think we should blame AOL for that, not Nullsoft.
How would you know it was/.ed unless you tried to view it yourself? Shut up and stop trying to pretend like you're somehow different from the rest of us who wanted to see the screenshots.
Look at the few spikes and the vast sea of red. They're pretty well balanced. And, if you check the popular vote, you'll see just how that sea of red overcame the spikes. To me, this translates to the people in the red had different POVs and successfully elected a candidate to office. Nobody said or implied they have the same needs, and the popular vote proved, this time around, that more people had conservative viewpoints than not. One person, one opinion, one vote. The spikes obviously didn't steer the country in the college or in popular vote.
Well, say it contained some crucial evidence to some nefarious plot. You could simply break it into 4 or 5 pieces and munch it down with some salsa and guac.
I'd have to agree that I'm sick and tired of hearing these wanks bitching about outsourcing. I'd rather not read a book that continues to beat this dead horse. I'd say that your inhouse team that's afraid of being outsourced is more likely to pull some security related stunt than some indian guy grateful for the little money he is making.
The places I've worked, there has been an offshore team doing remedial stuff and an in-house, local team doing more complex things. It is very handy to have some guy whom I can delegate a small to medium task to complete and have a patch when I arrive the next morning. It would appear that the organizations that suffer the highest employee loss due to outsourcing are the large companies. It'll probably piss off those who have been outsourced to know that I haven't a lick college background, started in the field right out of high school, and will be stepping into a senior position later this month at a 40% salary increase. All for a company that outsources extensively. Go find a job with a small company and you will immediately see the personal benefits to outsourcing, assuming you get involved with the business side of things enough to prove to PHBs that you're valuable to the organization and not just a code monkey.
Actually, while we're at it, Caltrans and Honda enable me to speed on the freeway. The telephone enables me to call people to make slanderous remarks. The more I think about it, the more lawsuits I see that need to be filed.
Enabling users to share copyrighted material illicitly may put Suprnova and its users on shaky legal ground.
So, if their torrents enable people to share this copyrighted material, breaking the law, does that mean that the means that enable them to provide the enabling torrents are also on legal shaky (e.g. the Internet)? And if so, are those who enabled the Internet as we know it today (Universities, Companies, etc...) are also on legal shaky ground because they started this whole crazy revolution that has resulted in fudamentally enabling someone to commit a crime?
I guess they should start putting disclaimers on all comoputers, recording equipment, writing utensils and paper, since all of which could possibly enable you to commit a crime.
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Personally, I don't really want to upgrade to 2.6 on any machine I have. At work, my desktop is 2.4.20. We use an embedded linux distribution based on 2.4. My laptop is still 2.4. I've tried 2.6 on my laptop, but 1/2 the time I can't resume from APM suspend and ACPI is just a big problem. With 2.4 APM suspend/resume works 95% of the time. I just really don't see a reason to upgrade at this time. Perhaps if I purchase some device that will not work with 2.4 and will only work with 2.6, then I might consider it. Anyone else out there who just likes sticking with what works?
Nothing new to see here, move along.
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I'm not sure I fully understand your comment. If your "we" refers to the collective Slashdot crowd, then yes, I'd say for the most part we've admitted there's a problem.
However, I do not think the United States at large has admitted there is a problem. Information like this isn't common place on local or national news programs, or it is buried deep in the newspaper. Sure, the information is out there, but most people don't go searching for this and most common people do not read slashdot, etc.
Perhaps if some secretary of state responsible for these areas where we've seen some recognition of the problem stood up and made a stand and said that he/she fucked up, the electronic voting machines have tainted the election, and made some major public dispute of the validity of such machines and of our whole recent election. Perhaps then common folk would come to realize what the majority of the slashdot crowd/blackboxvoting.org/many other damn people/etc have realized. But that won't happen.
I agree. This is great news. I'm glad to see LSB still being actively pushed and maintained. Without such standards, it makes it increasingly difficult to maintain complex commercial (and non) applications for Linux. Too bad Loki games still isn't around. I think they did a great job at keeping their games LSB compliant.
I think that applies to all of shashdot, eh?
I really don't see this as a worthwhile technology. Select a good password, and get on with the show. No need to introduce authentication mechanisms that require you to purchase more hardware. As far as dictionary attacks go, if they have your shadow/master.passwd against which they're performing the dictionary attack, then odds are they have root access, in which case you're screwed anyway. How did they acheive root access in the first place? Probably via some small stupid bug related to bounds checking in a process running as root.
You know, if we developed some kind of huge LCD to go along with these huge digital images, perhaps we could situate it somewhere in the desert to view from space. Then we could share some pr0n with our extraterrestrial friends. If anything, I'm guessing pr0n would finally get their attention.
I, for one, welcome our new interplanetary laser communication overlords.
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Man, how I'd like a beowulf cluster of these babys!
I think you mean initialization scripts. Initiation scripts sounds like some rules for some type of formally documented hazing procedure.
<stupid_joke>
I guess I just can't compete with the wit of an individual who posts to slashdot more times in one day than I have in my entire life.
PS- I fucked your mom
nobody gives a fuck about SCO anymore.
That's all fine and dandy except when we're talking about essentially the same group of people. That's when it becomes a joke.
I took a peek at downhillbattle.org and some of the flyers they have available in PDF. The extent of my visit was pretty cursory, but I noticed the flyer where the dude has the gun in his mouth and one of the things it says:
Filesharing and CD-Burning have pushed the Big 5 to the brink of extinction. Sales down 30% in 3 years.
I thought everybody has been hooting and hollaring about how P2P etc has nothing to do with the demise of the record industries, and their downfall was simply a result of crappy music, less demand, blah blah blah. A lot of people would compare cd-burning/p2p to the old days of a friend borrowing a tape and recording a few songs. This seems like people are claiming that they are trying to destroy these companies, instead of harmless filesharing. It seems like it is their intention. Seems a little inconsistent to me.
It's pretty sad really. The first opportunity for me to vote for president was in 2000. Rigged. Now in 2004, another rigged election. This time it was a little less dubious to most. Will I ever get a chance to vote in a free election?
All of this would indicate that the good people at Nullsoft are pretty cool with open source. So if the Winamp 5 source code is not going to be released, then I think we should blame AOL for that, not Nullsoft.
I think we should just blame Microsoft instead.
How would you know it was /.ed unless you tried to view it yourself? Shut up and stop trying to pretend like you're somehow different from the rest of us who wanted to see the screenshots.
Don't be a twink.
Look at the few spikes and the vast sea of red. They're pretty well balanced. And, if you check the popular vote, you'll see just how that sea of red overcame the spikes. To me, this translates to the people in the red had different POVs and successfully elected a candidate to office. Nobody said or implied they have the same needs, and the popular vote proved, this time around, that more people had conservative viewpoints than not. One person, one opinion, one vote. The spikes obviously didn't steer the country in the college or in popular vote.
I'd say on a spaceship in-between jupiter and venus. I've been drinking.
Kevin McBride? Any relation to the famed Darl McBride? And, if so, is that not a conflict of interest?
Wow. Leave it up to a geek to ruin a joke. :)
Well, say it contained some crucial evidence to some nefarious plot. You could simply break it into 4 or 5 pieces and munch it down with some salsa and guac.
Eh?? I'm going to patent it, too
I'd have to agree that I'm sick and tired of hearing these wanks bitching about outsourcing. I'd rather not read a book that continues to beat this dead horse. I'd say that your inhouse team that's afraid of being outsourced is more likely to pull some security related stunt than some indian guy grateful for the little money he is making.
The places I've worked, there has been an offshore team doing remedial stuff and an in-house, local team doing more complex things. It is very handy to have some guy whom I can delegate a small to medium task to complete and have a patch when I arrive the next morning. It would appear that the organizations that suffer the highest employee loss due to outsourcing are the large companies. It'll probably piss off those who have been outsourced to know that I haven't a lick college background, started in the field right out of high school, and will be stepping into a senior position later this month at a 40% salary increase. All for a company that outsources extensively. Go find a job with a small company and you will immediately see the personal benefits to outsourcing, assuming you get involved with the business side of things enough to prove to PHBs that you're valuable to the organization and not just a code monkey.
Actually, while we're at it, Caltrans and Honda enable me to speed on the freeway. The telephone enables me to call people to make slanderous remarks. The more I think about it, the more lawsuits I see that need to be filed.
Enabling users to share copyrighted material illicitly may put Suprnova and its users on shaky legal ground.
So, if their torrents enable people to share this copyrighted material, breaking the law, does that mean that the means that enable them to provide the enabling torrents are also on legal shaky (e.g. the Internet)? And if so, are those who enabled the Internet as we know it today (Universities, Companies, etc...) are also on legal shaky ground because they started this whole crazy revolution that has resulted in fudamentally enabling someone to commit a crime?
I guess they should start putting disclaimers on all comoputers, recording equipment, writing utensils and paper, since all of which could possibly enable you to commit a crime.