The GUI is excellent. I have an iMP-400, and I am very happy with it. The GUI works fine for me. It takes a little getting used to the buttons, but thats with every gadget. The menus are logically laid out and very legible. Its a lot better than GUIs on most mobile phones (most of which are horrid).
So, yeah... buy an iRiver. You won't be dissapointed.
I believe that most of iRiver's products which use USB use the USB mass storage protocol, so there's no problem then is there? I think they also have their own proprietory protocol which has about double the speed or so. But you are not required to use this. So yeah, iRiver products are FreeBSD compatible (assuming FreeBSD has USB mass storage supported).
If your victim is using a unix/linux workstation where you can log in, you can use the eject command for the CD-ROM drive for great amusement:
while true; do eject/dev/cdrom; eject -t/dev/cdrom; sleep 500; done
Of course this would be more fun with random times instead of 500 seconds. But if they're using unix/linux, they're usually bound to be pretty tech savvy, so they'll be onto you pretty quick. But this has a good annoyance factor, nonetheless.:-)
This has been discussed before: there is the issue of trust. People who use the RBLs trust them to mark the spammers as spammers, and not blacklist innocent people. Who determines who goes on the RBL? If you have a central repository, it is still vurnerable to attack.
Of course, maybe it should be done in such a way that the central repository makes the RBLs and hands them out to clients. And clients can query eachother for the file, using some sort of crypto signatures of course, for authenticity. In this case if the central repository cannot be reached, you can query other clients or something.
Oh yes definately. You don't have to write one, just a paragraph, and make sure you include your email address for any questions. Not only will you get spam, you'll get lots and lots of extremely clueless people writing to you:
Subject: help Body: "help. it doesn't work"
And thats pretty much all thats in the email. HOW THE FUCK DO YOU WANT ME TO HELP YOU IF YOU DON'T TELL ME WHATS GOING WRONG?:-)
The only problem is that these days most Windows systems use NTFS, which has readonly support under Knoppix (and Linux). So, you'd be able to find the worm on your HD, but you wouldn't be able to remove it.
Wheelers, by Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen is another excellent SciFi book that deals with a whole host of alien species, plasma beings that live in the sun among them.
A very good/exciting read. I really recommend this book!
He comes across as a complete jerk. On one hand using Linux in their Java Desktop System, which is just a rebranded, rethemed SuSE, or so I gather, and on the other hand dismissing Linux on the server.
Just makes me glad I replaced the Sun Ultrasparc 10 with a Dell/Linux combo at my uni. Stupid Sun...
Okay, I'm sorry about including Britain. I know they have really done their best in trying to use metric. It is a laudable effort, a good example that should be followed by the US (imho).
So why do Americans and English have these weird 'imperial' units? Not base 10, but something very illogical? Base 10 makes sense (this is what we are brough up with). SI units make sense because they are based upon base 10.
So, you can say 'most human being count in 10s' except when they're American or English, and they're talking about weights, lengths, distances, etc.
Yeah, can't we write some script, which will generate random.com addresses and then do a wget -r on the address? And then just run this in a 'while 1' loop. And if lots of people did this, it would be even more fun.:-)
Cheers
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Actually, scrambling middle letters becomes harder as some posts earlier have said. If we take you nth word of length n sentence, and we scramble it, it becomes exceedingly difficult to read (especially the last parts):
I do not konw wehre fialmy dcotros acrqieud iilellgby pexlpenrig hnatdrwinig nheeevtslers, exraodtianrry parhicaeactuml iualciteellntty cailnartcnneobug iitpecaidhrnelbiy, tcrztdasaneleniens ictitmomncuaoninsre' irenlbmpeechonnsises
hvae a ncie day...
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I reufte your htehsyiops. Ensgilh was not my fsrit launggae, Dtcuh was. My Elgnsih is prtety good due to gnoig to an Englsih sepkiang shocol for 8 yeras, but tihs swhos that its not yuor fsrit laugange. I thnik its your orveall epixnercee wtih the lnuaggae.
Well, I called the number listed as toll free on their page and got through... but I assume that I probably paid regular toll for calling to the US (I have one fixed toll price for the whole of the US).
That would probably not be a good idea.:-) He'd start frothing at the mouth and probably punch you, finally taking out his anger at some tangible target.
So is it toll free when you can internationally too? That would be cool.
I called them, didn't get a person on the phone, unfortunately, but an answering machine. I left some them a foreshadowing of Talk Like A Pirate Day, on 19th of September, with a loud "aaarrrr!" Hope they enjoy it.
Except that you can't select which parts you want and which parts you don't want installed. It installs everything on the CD, many programs which you might never use. Oh sure, you could go through them with dpkg -l and apt-get remove them, but that is a lot of work. That said, using the hd-install script was 10x easier than the vanilla Debian install. Way to go, Knoppix!:-)
I'm writing in response to a story you posted about the SCO / IBM / Linux situation:
http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/030909/tech_sco_linux_1. ht ml
The story seems very one sided, only mentioning (as if they were facts) what SCO has said in their various (often contradictory) press releases.
You say: " Leading Linux experts or advocates were not immediately available for comment." How is this possible? The editor writing this story has not done a very good job of their research then. For every press release that SCO has made, every statement done by Darl McBride, various leaders/experts in the Linux community have responded to these claims:
SCO so far has shown no evidence whatsoever for their claims. It is not fair to assume their claims are true without any evidence. Some of their claims have already been shown to be wrong by various people in the Linux community.
Please, as a leading news service in the world, write unbiased and well researched stories.
I've not seen anyone mention that XS4ALL, in their Terms and Conditions, encourages customers to hack their system and gain root access, and tell XS4ALL how you did it. They'll then give you 6 months of free access.
Shows how serious they are about their own security and setup, too.
I second this. XS4ALL is definately the coolest, most techie-friendly ISP that I've ever come across. They provide all sorts of fun techie stuff like a shell account on a FreeBSD server, an IPv6 tunnel, batched SMTP, and a lot more.
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Damn... I've always wondered about Kibo. Nice link. Very informational. :-)
You're new here, aren't you?
The GUI is excellent. I have an iMP-400, and I am very happy with it. The GUI works fine for me. It takes a little getting used to the buttons, but thats with every gadget. The menus are logically laid out and very legible. Its a lot better than GUIs on most mobile phones (most of which are horrid).
So, yeah... buy an iRiver. You won't be dissapointed.
Cheers,
Costyn.
I believe that most of iRiver's products which use USB use the USB mass storage protocol, so there's no problem then is there? I think they also have their own proprietory protocol which has about double the speed or so. But you are not required to use this. So yeah, iRiver products are FreeBSD compatible (assuming FreeBSD has USB mass storage supported).
Cheers,
Costyn.
Cheers,
Costyn.
:-)
:-)
If you look at the statement in a truly logical way, yes, you are correct.
This has been discussed before: there is the issue of trust. People who use the RBLs trust them to mark the spammers as spammers, and not blacklist innocent people. Who determines who goes on the RBL? If you have a central repository, it is still vurnerable to attack.
Of course, maybe it should be done in such a way that the central repository makes the RBLs and hands them out to clients. And clients can query eachother for the file, using some sort of crypto signatures of course, for authenticity. In this case if the central repository cannot be reached, you can query other clients or something.
Or perhaps it's not possible...
Or boot into Linux and watch it with MPlayer. :-)
Cheers,
Costyn.
Oh yes definately. You don't have to write one, just a paragraph, and make sure you include your email address for any questions. Not only will you get spam, you'll get lots and lots of extremely clueless people writing to you:
:-)
Subject: help
Body: "help. it doesn't work"
And thats pretty much all thats in the email. HOW THE FUCK DO YOU WANT ME TO HELP YOU IF YOU DON'T TELL ME WHATS GOING WRONG?
Cheers,
Costyn.
The only problem is that these days most Windows systems use NTFS, which has readonly support under Knoppix (and Linux). So, you'd be able to find the worm on your HD, but you wouldn't be able to remove it.
All the same, its a pretty good idea.
Cheers,
Costyn.
Man, if I had mod points, I'd mod you up. Excellent reply. :-)
Wheelers, by Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen is another excellent SciFi book that deals with a whole host of alien species, plasma beings that live in the sun among them.
A very good/exciting read. I really recommend this book!
Cheers,
Costyn.
He comes across as a complete jerk. On one hand using Linux in their Java Desktop System, which is just a rebranded, rethemed SuSE, or so I gather, and on the other hand dismissing Linux on the server.
Just makes me glad I replaced the Sun Ultrasparc 10 with a Dell/Linux combo at my uni. Stupid Sun...
Okay, I'm sorry about including Britain. I know they have really done their best in trying to use metric. It is a laudable effort, a good example that should be followed by the US (imho).
Cheers,
Costyn.
Most human beings count in 10s
:-)
So why do Americans and English have these weird 'imperial' units? Not base 10, but something very illogical? Base 10 makes sense (this is what we are brough up with). SI units make sense because they are based upon base 10.
So, you can say 'most human being count in 10s' except when they're American or English, and they're talking about weights, lengths, distances, etc.
Have a metric day, won't you...?
Costyn.
Yeah, can't we write some script, which will generate random .com addresses and then do a wget -r on the address? And then just run this in a 'while 1' loop. And if lots of people did this, it would be even more fun. :-)
Cheers
hvae a ncie day...
I reufte your htehsyiops. Ensgilh was not my fsrit launggae, Dtcuh was. My Elgnsih is prtety good due to gnoig to an Englsih sepkiang shocol for 8 yeras, but tihs swhos that its not yuor fsrit laugange. I thnik its your orveall epixnercee wtih the lnuaggae.
crehes
Well, I called the number listed as toll free on their page and got through... but I assume that I probably paid regular toll for calling to the US (I have one fixed toll price for the whole of the US).
:-)
Ah well, just curious.
That would probably not be a good idea. :-) He'd start frothing at the mouth and probably punch you, finally taking out his anger at some tangible target.
Cheers,
Costyn.
So is it toll free when you can internationally too? That would be cool.
I called them, didn't get a person on the phone, unfortunately, but an answering machine. I left some them a foreshadowing of Talk Like A Pirate Day, on 19th of September, with a loud "aaarrrr!" Hope they enjoy it.
Except that you can't select which parts you want and which parts you don't want installed. It installs everything on the CD, many programs which you might never use. Oh sure, you could go through them with dpkg -l and apt-get remove them, but that is a lot of work. That said, using the hd-install script was 10x easier than the vanilla Debian install. Way to go, Knoppix! :-)
Cheers,
Costyn.
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To whom it may concern,
I'm writing in response to a story you posted about the SCO / IBM / Linux situation:
http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/030909/tech_sco_linux_1
The story seems very one sided, only mentioning (as if they were facts) what SCO has said in their various (often contradictory) press releases.
You say: " Leading Linux experts or advocates were not immediately available for comment." How is this possible? The editor writing this story has not done a very good job of their research then. For every press release that SCO has made, every statement done by Darl McBride, various leaders/experts in the Linux community have responded to these claims:
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003
http://www.osdl.org/docs/osd
http://www.perens.com/SCO/SCOSlideSho
http://www.opengroup.org/comm/press/unix-b
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/sco/sco.ht
SCO so far has shown no evidence whatsoever for their claims. It is not fair to assume their claims are true without any evidence. Some of their claims have already been shown to be wrong by various people in the Linux community.
Please, as a leading news service in the world, write unbiased and well researched stories.
Thank you.
I've not seen anyone mention that XS4ALL, in their Terms and Conditions, encourages customers to hack their system and gain root access, and tell XS4ALL how you did it. They'll then give you 6 months of free access.
Shows how serious they are about their own security and setup, too.
I second this. XS4ALL is definately the coolest, most techie-friendly ISP that I've ever come across. They provide all sorts of fun techie stuff like a shell account on a FreeBSD server, an IPv6 tunnel, batched SMTP, and a lot more.
Hooray for XS4ALL!