Just have enough people threaten to. Haven't you heard of bloodless coups? Governments would almost always choose to exit stage right rather than die any day, if given a chance or a warning. Unless they think that they could crunch the revolt and guess wrong...
Well, your bank note example is a bad one. The value of money in the USA is based entirely on the fact that there IS a limited supply of it. So if your friends all make 1,000,000 $20s each, the $20s that you worked for will buy less goods than they did before. If everybody did that, then what will happen is our money becoming worthless like Germany's did in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The key point is that there is a FINITE SUPPLY.
CDs are not a finite resource. Perhaps if the record companies only stamp a million copies of any one CD then they would be, but as it is now they will make 75,000 or 7,500,000 and charge the same for each CD in either case so it does not reduce the value of anybody's CD if somebody makes a lot of copies of it.
Copying IP is not necessarily right but it is NOT stealing or analogous to making counterfeit money. The consumers don't lose, only the producers when they don't get their royalties for that copy that somebody made without paying them. The reason why copying IP can be bad to the consumers is that if it gets rampant enough (and it is a LONG way from being there!) nobody will make any new products because somebody will just make copies of it and the producers would make no money.
Recompiling a kernel in Linux for your particular CPU type is pretty simple.
1. Download the kernel source from your distribution's package manager. 2. Go to/usr/src and extract the source's compressed file if it not automatically done. 3. Make a link from/usr/src/your_kernel's_extracted_files'_folder to/usr/src/linux. 4. Copy the kernel.config file from/usr/src to/usr/src/linux. 5. Open the kernel config screen by typing in make gconfig (Gnome) or make xconfig (KDE). 6. Go to "processor type" and selct your processor type. Exit the config utility saving changes. 7. Type "make bzImage modules modules_install" and wait about 30 to 90 minutes. 8. Update your bootloader by typing in update-grub or/sbin/lilo. 9. Reboot and you're good to go.
There are a bunch of kernel config howto's online. Find one for your distro and it will be even simpler.
Heck, I am pretty "normal" sized (5'10, 155 lbs, 38" chest and 31' waist, 34" sleeves, 16" neck, 32" inseam) but all I seem to see anymore are clothes that would fit a hippo rather than a human. It is harder than heck to find pants with waists less than 34" in stock in most stores.
Well, that's a good idea if they can. However, they might have an agreement with MSFT that they are on a scheduled upgrade cycle (and thus must pay the $65K) and are looking for a way out.
America will not have more Ph. Ds unless the university climate in conducive to keeping the best and brightest in academia rather than watching them go to more lucrative and enjoyable jobs in the private sector. Nobody wants to be a doctoral student making twelve grand a year being a lab slave or a postdoc making 1/4 of what their buddies do.
Also, the environment is pretty awful if you're not left of center. Most bright people I know are somewhere in the middle and usually resent the constant political sniping that took place from late 2000 to present.
I worked for a research study over the summer and I had to provide my own computer, so I hauled along my laptop that ran SuSE 9.3. I could not connect directly to the domain to access network drives (NOBODY can with a private computer, even permanent staff and physicians who all have their own laptops) but with three clicks from the bored IT guys, I was able to rdp into a almost-never-used Windows 2003 server to access the drives. Printing was a snap- just print to the IP. Exchange worked fine for me with Evolution (I tried it), but I usually just used Thunderbird to get my mail as I only had 20MB on the server and we were working with ~8MB data sets. OOo 1.9.79 worked just fine with everybody's Office 2003 files. Nobody knew I ran Linux for a long time...
Printing was the only thing that gave me away as a Linux user vs. a Windows user. The secreatary wondered how I could print so easily while her newly-reformatted XP box printed out lots of blank pages. One of the IT guys was in there troubleshooting her computer when she ranted about me being able to print when she caught the IT guy smirking. He was forced to divulge my little secret, which once she understood that I ran another OS that was not Mac OS, she got even madder and we laughed even harder when she swore up and down about geeks.
So, if you do happen to be able to run a Linux machine into a Windows shop, keep it on the down-low or you'll be the target of everyone's frustrations. Trust me.
Quit overclocking the Athlon and you'll do better. nForce 2 is for K7 chips if I remember correctly and those only get up to about 2.1GHz. Frankly, I am surpried that it boots *at all.*
Heh, you're seeing them in full-panic-attack mode. TCPA, DRM, new Office file formats, and now this is just exemplifying how MSFT knows they are losing ground. They are giving a huge last shot at lock-in with the DRM, file formats and getting people to buy a new server with Windows licenses before Linux gets to be way too good of a choice to simply ignore.
My prediction is that if TCPA/DRM/new Office 12 file formats fail to have market penetration, MSFT will take a HUGE hit in the next five years and lose their majority in ten.
Yeah, I run Linux on my laptop and have found out that my uptime is solely limited by how long I want to keep hibernating and resuming before I hit restart. Once I got up over two weeks, I think I made my point and restarted to clear up swap/RAM that had old pages in it. My buddy running XP went thee and a half days before his computer would no longer recognize his USB stick and he had to reboot to get it to see it.
My uptimes are generally a few days- whenever the suspend images grow from 300MB to 700MB, I restart so that I can have my RAM back. The system runs okay even with half of its gig of RAM used as paged, but why? I am not trying to set records, only to use my computer.
What wireless card? I popped the Ubuntu 5.10 live CD into a brand-spanking-new Dell laptop (700m) and everything worked perfectly with it from the get-go. I was very surprised!
That G4 is also far less powerful than the Niagra. We're talking about using these chips in servers, not laptops. Server manufacturers do want to reduce power consumption and heat output, but they need a lot more porcessing power than five-year-old laptop chips (such as the G4) can provide. 70W is quite low for a server as most server chips are at least twice as power-hungry as that.
Many people are against logging because they have no experience with it firsthand and also hear a lot of the really irresponsible cases (i.e. the slash-and-burn in the poor soil of Brazil.)
Logging is a very good tool to harvest a renewable resource for forever if done correctly. You log mature trees on a parcel and leave the immature ones to grow. The immature trees now have sunlight and will grow big and tall and feed the squirrels, rabiits, and deer with their mast crop. This not only produces lumber but rids the forest of a lot of old, dead, useless wood and provides lots of food for the wildlife. Old trees produce little for nuts and other mast, they just block out everything else underneath them. They are also perfect fuel for a big forest fire.
Logging is almost always done as I said above because if a crew cuts down everything on their plot and does not re-plant anything, they will cut out all of their future income as no new trees will grow, only scrubby thickets.
That's when you carry around a live CD of the same version as is on your machine and a USB stick or little HDD so you can do what you said.
The hard part is when you made a document in one of those programs and try to send it to people. When they can't open it, they get ticked off. Even though almost all the apps have Windows ports and are free to get- it's too much trouble to select the program listed under the "find program using the Web" find page when XP does not know what the file is. I have ticked off a few when I have forgotten to convert.odt files to.doc files or compressed a files as a bzip2/gzip instead of.zip.
I think a lot of people are lazy and anything not automatically done for them sets off a panic sequence.
I had an old AMD K6-2 500MHz machine that could not, nor can my dad's 1.8 P4, or my 2.2 P4-M laptop. I think the USB booting comes either from a special BIOS on enthusiast/professional boards or through a newer chipset than we have in our machines (newest is i845). Besides, USB 1.1 is pretty slow and the 845 doesn't have USB 2.0 on the board.
My computer shipped with a 4200rpm unit and cost over $2000 (granted, this was in 2002 also.) Hdparm reported the read speed at about 27MB/sec. When it died a squealing death, I replaced it with a 5400rpm Travelstar 5K100 and it is much faster- hdparm says 45MB/sec average read speed. I bet the larger 7200rpm ones are in the high 50s to low 60s, but unfortunately the Seagate 7200rpm drives are $300+ and the 80GB+ 7K100s were backordered for a month when I ordered. But of course those would pale in comparison to an average 7200rpm 300GB desktop drive:(
Why would this make USB ports illegal? If you want to prevent booting from USB devices, simply put the boot order in the BIOS below that of the HDD. With the average newer computer, set the boot order to be such and password the BIOS.
1. Network 2. HDD 3. Floppy 4. CD-ROM/DVD 5. USB
You have to have another computer to do a netboot, so having HDD in order above the optical, floppy, and USB prevents people from using live OSes but still allows the admin on the network to boot if the installed OS fails. And if the admin needed to do other work, hey, he should know the BIOS password and can change boot order.
Or they could use an older computer (like mine) that can't boot from USB. Most library computers I have seen are so old that they might not even *have* USB ports.
Yeah, I just got done trying to get a balky AirPort card in a G4 Powerbook to work correctly, It apparently does not want to remember the ESSID and password correctly in the config dialog. Being a Linux user fed up with that GUI tool's uselessness, I naturally dig up the Terminal and try to change set the ESSID/encryption key with iwconfig, and...iwconfig: command not found. Quite some "UNIX core" there when there are no core commands to run on it!
Isn't not forking over your passwords for your equipment when the authorities act being in contempt of court? And when you are in contempt of court, you sit in the pokey until you either give the court what they are asking for, you die, or somebody else confesses and is found guilty for your crime.
Heh. Bogomips. That's a synthetic number, you know. My old 2.2 P4-M scores 4341 bogomips at full roar, which pretty much ties an Athlon 64 X2 4400+ because both are the same clock speed. The 4400+ would eat my old chip with its fish for lunch in the real world. Mflops would be better. Mine's about 4900 Mflops CPU/~1600 FPU Mflops and that X2 4400+ is over 10 Gflops CPU.
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Just have enough people threaten to. Haven't you heard of bloodless coups? Governments would almost always choose to exit stage right rather than die any day, if given a chance or a warning. Unless they think that they could crunch the revolt and guess wrong...
Well, your bank note example is a bad one. The value of money in the USA is based entirely on the fact that there IS a limited supply of it. So if your friends all make 1,000,000 $20s each, the $20s that you worked for will buy less goods than they did before. If everybody did that, then what will happen is our money becoming worthless like Germany's did in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The key point is that there is a FINITE SUPPLY.
CDs are not a finite resource. Perhaps if the record companies only stamp a million copies of any one CD then they would be, but as it is now they will make 75,000 or 7,500,000 and charge the same for each CD in either case so it does not reduce the value of anybody's CD if somebody makes a lot of copies of it.
Copying IP is not necessarily right but it is NOT stealing or analogous to making counterfeit money. The consumers don't lose, only the producers when they don't get their royalties for that copy that somebody made without paying them. The reason why copying IP can be bad to the consumers is that if it gets rampant enough (and it is a LONG way from being there!) nobody will make any new products because somebody will just make copies of it and the producers would make no money.
Recompiling a kernel in Linux for your particular CPU type is pretty simple.
/usr/src and extract the source's compressed file if it not automatically done. /usr/src/your_kernel's_extracted_files'_folder to /usr/src/linux. .config file from /usr/src to /usr/src/linux. /sbin/lilo.
1. Download the kernel source from your distribution's package manager.
2. Go to
3. Make a link from
4. Copy the kernel
5. Open the kernel config screen by typing in make gconfig (Gnome) or make xconfig (KDE).
6. Go to "processor type" and selct your processor type. Exit the config utility saving changes.
7. Type "make bzImage modules modules_install" and wait about 30 to 90 minutes.
8. Update your bootloader by typing in update-grub or
9. Reboot and you're good to go.
There are a bunch of kernel config howto's online. Find one for your distro and it will be even simpler.
...time to get a new OS vendor. Seriously!
Heck, I am pretty "normal" sized (5'10, 155 lbs, 38" chest and 31' waist, 34" sleeves, 16" neck, 32" inseam) but all I seem to see anymore are clothes that would fit a hippo rather than a human. It is harder than heck to find pants with waists less than 34" in stock in most stores.
Well, that's a good idea if they can. However, they might have an agreement with MSFT that they are on a scheduled upgrade cycle (and thus must pay the $65K) and are looking for a way out.
If you nuke your hard drive and reinstall Windows after you get the rootkit, aren't you circumventing a copy-protection system and violating the DMCA?
Run an ad campaign about all the hot, loose women in the engineering field, on the other hand, and you'll probably end up with six figure graduations.
Funniest thing I read all day [snicker]
America will not have more Ph. Ds unless the university climate in conducive to keeping the best and brightest in academia rather than watching them go to more lucrative and enjoyable jobs in the private sector. Nobody wants to be a doctoral student making twelve grand a year being a lab slave or a postdoc making 1/4 of what their buddies do.
Also, the environment is pretty awful if you're not left of center. Most bright people I know are somewhere in the middle and usually resent the constant political sniping that took place from late 2000 to present.
I worked for a research study over the summer and I had to provide my own computer, so I hauled along my laptop that ran SuSE 9.3. I could not connect directly to the domain to access network drives (NOBODY can with a private computer, even permanent staff and physicians who all have their own laptops) but with three clicks from the bored IT guys, I was able to rdp into a almost-never-used Windows 2003 server to access the drives. Printing was a snap- just print to the IP. Exchange worked fine for me with Evolution (I tried it), but I usually just used Thunderbird to get my mail as I only had 20MB on the server and we were working with ~8MB data sets. OOo 1.9.79 worked just fine with everybody's Office 2003 files. Nobody knew I ran Linux for a long time...
Printing was the only thing that gave me away as a Linux user vs. a Windows user. The secreatary wondered how I could print so easily while her newly-reformatted XP box printed out lots of blank pages. One of the IT guys was in there troubleshooting her computer when she ranted about me being able to print when she caught the IT guy smirking. He was forced to divulge my little secret, which once she understood that I ran another OS that was not Mac OS, she got even madder and we laughed even harder when she swore up and down about geeks.
So, if you do happen to be able to run a Linux machine into a Windows shop, keep it on the down-low or you'll be the target of everyone's frustrations. Trust me.
Quit overclocking the Athlon and you'll do better. nForce 2 is for K7 chips if I remember correctly and those only get up to about 2.1GHz. Frankly, I am surpried that it boots *at all.*
Heh, you're seeing them in full-panic-attack mode. TCPA, DRM, new Office file formats, and now this is just exemplifying how MSFT knows they are losing ground. They are giving a huge last shot at lock-in with the DRM, file formats and getting people to buy a new server with Windows licenses before Linux gets to be way too good of a choice to simply ignore.
My prediction is that if TCPA/DRM/new Office 12 file formats fail to have market penetration, MSFT will take a HUGE hit in the next five years and lose their majority in ten.
Yeah, I run Linux on my laptop and have found out that my uptime is solely limited by how long I want to keep hibernating and resuming before I hit restart. Once I got up over two weeks, I think I made my point and restarted to clear up swap/RAM that had old pages in it. My buddy running XP went thee and a half days before his computer would no longer recognize his USB stick and he had to reboot to get it to see it.
My uptimes are generally a few days- whenever the suspend images grow from 300MB to 700MB, I restart so that I can have my RAM back. The system runs okay even with half of its gig of RAM used as paged, but why? I am not trying to set records, only to use my computer.
What wireless card? I popped the Ubuntu 5.10 live CD into a brand-spanking-new Dell laptop (700m) and everything worked perfectly with it from the get-go. I was very surprised!
That G4 is also far less powerful than the Niagra. We're talking about using these chips in servers, not laptops. Server manufacturers do want to reduce power consumption and heat output, but they need a lot more porcessing power than five-year-old laptop chips (such as the G4) can provide. 70W is quite low for a server as most server chips are at least twice as power-hungry as that.
Many people are against logging because they have no experience with it firsthand and also hear a lot of the really irresponsible cases (i.e. the slash-and-burn in the poor soil of Brazil.)
Logging is a very good tool to harvest a renewable resource for forever if done correctly. You log mature trees on a parcel and leave the immature ones to grow. The immature trees now have sunlight and will grow big and tall and feed the squirrels, rabiits, and deer with their mast crop. This not only produces lumber but rids the forest of a lot of old, dead, useless wood and provides lots of food for the wildlife. Old trees produce little for nuts and other mast, they just block out everything else underneath them. They are also perfect fuel for a big forest fire.
Logging is almost always done as I said above because if a crew cuts down everything on their plot and does not re-plant anything, they will cut out all of their future income as no new trees will grow, only scrubby thickets.
That's when you carry around a live CD of the same version as is on your machine and a USB stick or little HDD so you can do what you said.
.odt files to .doc files or compressed a files as a bzip2/gzip instead of .zip.
The hard part is when you made a document in one of those programs and try to send it to people. When they can't open it, they get ticked off. Even though almost all the apps have Windows ports and are free to get- it's too much trouble to select the program listed under the "find program using the Web" find page when XP does not know what the file is. I have ticked off a few when I have forgotten to convert
I think a lot of people are lazy and anything not automatically done for them sets off a panic sequence.
I had an old AMD K6-2 500MHz machine that could not, nor can my dad's 1.8 P4, or my 2.2 P4-M laptop. I think the USB booting comes either from a special BIOS on enthusiast/professional boards or through a newer chipset than we have in our machines (newest is i845). Besides, USB 1.1 is pretty slow and the 845 doesn't have USB 2.0 on the board.
My computer shipped with a 4200rpm unit and cost over $2000 (granted, this was in 2002 also.) Hdparm reported the read speed at about 27MB/sec. When it died a squealing death, I replaced it with a 5400rpm Travelstar 5K100 and it is much faster- hdparm says 45MB/sec average read speed. I bet the larger 7200rpm ones are in the high 50s to low 60s, but unfortunately the Seagate 7200rpm drives are $300+ and the 80GB+ 7K100s were backordered for a month when I ordered. But of course those would pale in comparison to an average 7200rpm 300GB desktop drive :(
Why would this make USB ports illegal? If you want to prevent booting from USB devices, simply put the boot order in the BIOS below that of the HDD. With the average newer computer, set the boot order to be such and password the BIOS.
1. Network
2. HDD
3. Floppy
4. CD-ROM/DVD
5. USB
You have to have another computer to do a netboot, so having HDD in order above the optical, floppy, and USB prevents people from using live OSes but still allows the admin on the network to boot if the installed OS fails. And if the admin needed to do other work, hey, he should know the BIOS password and can change boot order.
Or they could use an older computer (like mine) that can't boot from USB. Most library computers I have seen are so old that they might not even *have* USB ports.
Yeah, I just got done trying to get a balky AirPort card in a G4 Powerbook to work correctly, It apparently does not want to remember the ESSID and password correctly in the config dialog. Being a Linux user fed up with that GUI tool's uselessness, I naturally dig up the Terminal and try to change set the ESSID/encryption key with iwconfig, and...iwconfig: command not found. Quite some "UNIX core" there when there are no core commands to run on it!
"sledge hammer." Renders any hard drive instantly and permanently unreadable.
Isn't not forking over your passwords for your equipment when the authorities act being in contempt of court? And when you are in contempt of court, you sit in the pokey until you either give the court what they are asking for, you die, or somebody else confesses and is found guilty for your crime.
Heh. Bogomips. That's a synthetic number, you know. My old 2.2 P4-M scores 4341 bogomips at full roar, which pretty much ties an Athlon 64 X2 4400+ because both are the same clock speed. The 4400+ would eat my old chip with its fish for lunch in the real world. Mflops would be better. Mine's about 4900 Mflops CPU/~1600 FPU Mflops and that X2 4400+ is over 10 Gflops CPU.