Beppe Grillo is an Italian *comedian* turned blogger turned person fed up with the current state of italian affairs. He tried (so far in vain) to promote laws signed by the populace, which would not allow politicians to be in the Parliament if they have been convicted by courts.
On any other country (well, most of them) this would be implied, wouldn't it?
Any reason why this video is on the Microsoft website? It basically shows that things in Linux can be done with a couple piped commands.. and on Windows they require WMI scripting.. True, under Linux you use ps, grep, awk and kill to kill a process... but on windows everything else from adding a user to a group to preventing a service to be run at startup requires a fair amount of WMI scripting..
The problem with English is that "free" is used both to mean "free of charge" and "free to use"..
In other languages, there are separate words for those meanings, and that's why Frenchs call software from the FSF "Software Libre", Italians call it "Software Libero", and do not use the "gratis" word (which means free of charge), which is instead used for freeware (software which is free as in "gratis", free of charge).
You can use GPL-ed code "in-company" without releasing to anyone not even a single line of the stuff you've changed.
However, once you start giving it (free or for a fee or whatever) to third parties, you oughta give them the source (e.g. accompain the binary with it, or give a ftp site address), or a "written notice" for the source to be sent "at a nominal fee".
In this case, if really Maui-X has used GPLed source (and sold it, thus gave it to third parties not inside the company for testing) then they should have either: - given the full source of THEIR product, cause derivative works falls in the GPL license - given an FTP site address where people could've downloaded the source - given a notice saying "write us and we will send you the source in a cdrom for $1 + posting"
On every case, since it's GPLed, everyone would also have been FREE to post the code on sourceforge or gna or whatever you like for other people to be downloaded for free.
Anyway, it would be grat if this project would be somehow implemented by gaim.
gaim-vv is the answer: it's a fork of gaim, specifically created in order to have GAIM capable of doing audio/video conversation.
It relies on external libraries, so the topic's related to the (hopefully near) advances in gaim-vv to support msn and other protocols: as of yesterday you were only able to see other people's webcams from a yahoo! account.
* boot with a boot cd (whatever, really) * become root * mount your/dev/hda1/ onto/mnt * chroot/mnt/bin/bash * passwd * logout (exit the chroot) * umount/mnt * reboot
Enjoy your system with the new password, no/etc/shadow or/etc/passwd touched by hand, minimum hassle.;)
As stated in the article, you *also* need a monitor that knows how to handle the "composite on green line" thing. Some monitors do, many many others do NOT.
Every time I update my system, it automatically checks the MD5 sum of the.tar.gz or.tbz2 of the source or binary I am currently downloading in order to update my system.
That's the way Gentoo updates itself.
It would be nicer, having seen those MD5-junk files, using better algorythms like SHA-256, though.
IMHO it's ok for now:.tar.gz won't decompress cleanly if some bytes are corrupted..
It's the same as a linux distro: you download it and some bytes fail; you then burn the iso to cd, and it says that a file is corrupted.
You should've checked the MD5 before *and* after burning:")
What you don't have is access to the pin protected information, and good luck to attack those since all european telco industry relies on this.
Since you mean a PIN number, which normally is 4 digits 0-9, I think there would be NO problem in doing a brute-force attack to check what information can be found there.
I.e. last number called protected by PIN? no problem, as long as you get strange characters from the decrypt you go on.. then with one PIN you get some ok characters and you investigate.
Or not?
Come on.. just make a copy of those 64k, try to brute-force it, and you have all the information you want.
They've broken BETTER and SAFER encryption method, a 4-digit encryption is nothing.
Did they manage to solve the POP3 problem that's preventing me to fully use Thunderbird?
If no-one knows what I'm talking about, there are many cases in which Thunderbird just "hangs" while receiving messages from POP3 servers, like "Receiving message 1 of 10...".
No solutions found 'til now..
I think it's a stopper.. I had to fwd all my e-mails to gmail in order to have a "central repository" for the e-mail..
Sigh..
Please solve it!;)
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Here for his post http://www.beppegrillo.it/eng/2008/12/open_letter_to_rupert_murdoch.html
Beppe Grillo is an Italian *comedian* turned blogger turned person fed up with the current state of italian affairs. He tried (so far in vain) to promote laws signed by the populace, which would not allow politicians to be in the Parliament if they have been convicted by courts.
On any other country (well, most of them) this would be implied, wouldn't it?
No chance!
Read on to http://www.beppegrillo.it/eng/condannati_parlamento.php for the state of the art of the Italian parliament.
25 politicians in the Italian and European parliament convicted by courts.
Did they steal candy? No chance.
We're talking about judge corruption, extortion, that sort of stuff.
On topic: Berlusconi seems he'd like now to create a UNIQUE ID for every net citizen so that they'd be univocally identified on the Internet.
Sigh.
Wouldn't this describe NWN interface?
Drag, choose option, drag some more..
I'd suggest you check the video for power shell:d eos/windowspowershell.wvx
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/vi
Any reason why this video is on the Microsoft website? It basically shows that things in Linux can be done with a couple piped commands.. and on Windows they require WMI scripting..
True, under Linux you use ps, grep, awk and kill to kill a process... but on windows everything else from adding a user to a group to preventing a service to be run at startup requires a fair amount of WMI scripting..
Again, wasn't this supposed to be PRO-microsoft?
Correct link is http://www.samwel.tk/laptop_mode/
TCP/IP over Avian Carriers (qith QoS) is nothing new..
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2549.html
Quite reliable, actually..
The problem with English is that "free" is used both to mean "free of charge" and "free to use"..
In other languages, there are separate words for those meanings, and that's why Frenchs call software from the FSF "Software Libre", Italians call it "Software Libero", and do not use the "gratis" word (which means free of charge), which is instead used for freeware (software which is free as in "gratis", free of charge).
Like AMSN with which I can show my webcam to people, and see other people's webcam?
;)
it works.. and it even works pretty fine and fast..
get your facts
Is this retro-active?
And.. even for iPods sold *before* they even filed the patent?
Come on, that's really gross!
Simply put, because that would require each and every country in the world to have such legislation.
You can use GPL-ed code "in-company" without releasing to anyone not even a single line of the stuff you've changed.
;)
However, once you start giving it (free or for a fee or whatever) to third parties, you oughta give them the source (e.g. accompain the binary with it, or give a ftp site address), or a "written notice" for the source to be sent "at a nominal fee".
In this case, if really Maui-X has used GPLed source (and sold it, thus gave it to third parties not inside the company for testing) then they should have either:
- given the full source of THEIR product, cause derivative works falls in the GPL license
- given an FTP site address where people could've downloaded the source
- given a notice saying "write us and we will send you the source in a cdrom for $1 + posting"
On every case, since it's GPLed, everyone would also have been FREE to post the code on sourceforge or gna or whatever you like for other people to be downloaded for free.
Is it a little thing?
'till 15:00 UTC today for the _full_ disclosure.
Before the full disclosure, can't say anything..
gaim-vv is the answer: it's a fork of gaim, specifically created in order to have GAIM capable of doing audio/video conversation.
It relies on external libraries, so the topic's related to the (hopefully near) advances in gaim-vv to support msn and other protocols: as of yesterday you were only able to see other people's webcams from a yahoo! account.
I hope that things will change, now
from The Register: iTunes pyMusique.
http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:qosbTf6Ca3gJ: www.quintessenz.org/cgi-bin/index%3Fid%3D000100003 172+&hl=en Google cache.. site's down
Simple: all 50 games are now illegal.
of these, 26 are only found in pirated versions, because they are not distributed in china.
unfortunately, Gaim with Meanwhile does the job: voilà, sametime for Gaim.
Tried, tested, works.
cheers
No way!
/dev/hda1/ onto /mnt /mnt /bin/bash /mnt
/etc/shadow or /etc/passwd touched by hand, minimum hassle. ;)
Instead, you do this:
* boot with a boot cd (whatever, really)
* become root
* mount your
* chroot
* passwd
* logout (exit the chroot)
* umount
* reboot
Enjoy your system with the new password, no
and we, unfortunately, use _all_ the formats known to the world.
I've already tried to encourage the adoption of hassle-free formats (rtf, html, TXT, whatever).. they don't pass.
It seems that people simply can't get it.
Unfortunately.
Yes, sir: you can also set your LOCALE and 80% of the program will "change their language" for you.
;)
But not *all* of them will behave this way.
That's why sometimes new distributions will come out with PROPER wording in one's language.
Hopefully, the changes will also be main-streamed
-marco-
Also on ThinkGeek, the product cannot be sold outside the US, unlike the iPod. Sigh.. I was looking very much forward to it!!
As stated in the article, you *also* need a monitor that knows how to handle the "composite on green line" thing.
;)
Some monitors do, many many others do NOT.
That's why you need the $200 monitor
Every time I update my system, it automatically checks the MD5 sum of the .tar.gz or .tbz2 of the source or binary I am currently downloading in order to update my system.
That's the way Gentoo updates itself.
It would be nicer, having seen those MD5-junk files, using better algorythms like SHA-256, though.
IMHO it's ok for now: .tar.gz won't decompress cleanly if some bytes are corrupted..
It's the same as a linux distro: you download it and some bytes fail; you then burn the iso to cd, and it says that a file is corrupted.
You should've checked the MD5 before *and* after burning :")
What you don't have is access to the pin protected information, and good luck to attack those since all european telco industry relies on this.
Since you mean a PIN number, which normally is 4 digits 0-9, I think there would be NO problem in doing a brute-force attack to check what information can be found there.
I.e. last number called protected by PIN? no problem, as long as you get strange characters from the decrypt you go on.. then with one PIN you get some ok characters and you investigate.
Or not?
Come on.. just make a copy of those 64k, try to brute-force it, and you have all the information you want.
They've broken BETTER and SAFER encryption method, a 4-digit encryption is nothing.
But still, not *every* application in userspace has been programmed to use locales and/or strings in different languages.
;)
On my gentoo I tried setting the language to Italian.. it was a mix of Italian and English, really weird.
If only every programmer programmed with MULTI-LANGUAGE in mind..
Well, as long as programs are OS, one can always send a patch for multi-language inclusion..
Time to do it!
Did they manage to solve the POP3 problem that's preventing me to fully use Thunderbird? If no-one knows what I'm talking about, there are many cases in which Thunderbird just "hangs" while receiving messages from POP3 servers, like "Receiving message 1 of 10...". No solutions found 'til now.. I think it's a stopper.. I had to fwd all my e-mails to gmail in order to have a "central repository" for the e-mail.. Sigh.. Please solve it! ;)