Has anyone considered that maybe universities don't want to know what is inside carnivore. That maybe the government would prefer not having the specs of carnivore published or even analyzed by J. Random sworn-to-secrecy-grad-student. Okay, call me paranoid.
But it'd be interesting to know on what grounds the universities declined to review carnivore--and who is meant by "universities": which schools, and who specifically at those schools. Have they seen specs, or were they only allowed to review particular portions? Are there stipulations? Are they refusing because of principles, administrative reasons (read $$$), or just lack of interest?
if lilo w/o a password is a security flaw, then they should mention that merely having a floppy disk on the machine or not having welded the case shut is a much worse risk.
rawrite bare.i a:
what about importing/transferring mail
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How do I import my mail from an earlier mozilla build?
What about from other clients?
What about using fetchmail?
If Neo and Agent Smith were playing warcraft... Neo: "Ha! my Orcs just annialated you and you don't have any resources left." Agent Smith: "Pepperoni Pizza Pepperoni Pizza Pepperoni Pizza Pepperoni Pizza" Neo: "Wha?" Later... Neo: "Whoa!" Agent Smith: "I can't stand the smell of you." Neo: "Oh yeah? Maybe that's your pizza breath...What the?! Where did all these dudes come from?" Agent Smith: "Hee hee hee" Samuel L. Jackson: "Use the force *er* think of the spoon, Neo" Neo: "Huh?" Carrie-Anne Moss: "Follow the white rabbit, stupid." Neo: "Eh?" Audience: "Use this exploit to do a buffer overrun and modify the code on the fly" Neo "Oh." [Downloads exploit] "Dude! [Neo's invincible troll army destroys Agent Smiths regenerated troops. He pauses for a moment to reflect on the ramifications of the word h4x0r] John Travolta: "Now that's a tasty burger!" Neo: "Who are you?" John Travolta: "Sorry, wrong movie." Carrie-Anne Moss: "Battlefield Earth sucked"
to explain that this is a bogus article. There may well have been a 13 year old kid who got some pr0n on AOL, but slashdot didn't interview him, or if they did they didn't post his reply.
The only thing that rang true at all about this fake interview is the obvious coverup about altavista being the site he was trying to visit. It was not written by a thirteen year old.
means it will run on NT4# and Win98 TE (Third Edition.) Ask anyone at Microsoft and they will tell you that they officially support 5 operating systems (windows 3.1 and windows for workgroups were discontinued over a year ago)
Nobody develops anything in vb that is meant to last anymore. If you need a quick and dirty app that will actually be *used* (not just for prototyping) you'll be using java or delphi or the web.
Cool isn't meant to compete with java though, not primarily. It's microsoft's attempt to take ideas from java (like the sandbox) and integrate them into the windows script host, which by the way, gets more use out of javascript, and increasingly, perl, than vbscript.
Think about how little cell phone companies care what you actually do with the phones as long as you fulfill your contractual obligation. As long as you have a rational pricing model, all of these "oh my gods the nerd are opening them up" worries vanish. I just don;'t get it.
I'm sure kevin mitnick will be pleased to hear this.
the i-opener is obviously sold as a loss-leader for the service, the LCD alone is worth more than $99. I put together a test network of low end pentiums and 486's using the QNX demo disk and a linux server while investigating options for a cyber cafe. Even a used 14" monitor cost more than the remaining hardware.
But the issue isn't about the price of the hardware. The number of slashdotters who will actually purchase and successfully modify an i-opener is negligible compared to their true potential customer base.
The backers of Netpliace aren't hoping to sell hardware, or even dial-up service. The real goal is in having control to users' access to information. That's where smart money is nowadays. Why do you think Microsoft and Compuserve were offering those huge rebates?
In Oregon and California, courts have ruled that such penalty contracts are unenforceable. You should have seen the lines at Office Depot before Microsoft cancelled their deal. In actuality, they would still be making a profit, and quickly, from the honest (or ignorant) dial-up subscribers. The problem was that they realized that ANYONE could cancel their service and go through another portal.
The reason all the money is going into the internet isn't because people think that online pet stores are going to sell more gritty kitty to point and click shoppers, but because the real stake in the internet is the control of information flow.
I started using linux on Redhat, but tried Slackware on the recommendation of a friend starting with 3.4. The first difference I noticed was that alot of the ideosyncrasies that I prefer (like alias ll='ls -l --color') were set by default. That convinced me.
I am still fairly new to linux and computers, so I was a little intimidated switching to a "less user friendly" distribution. By now I've tried every major distro; and with the possible exception of Redhat 5.2 (solely because of Disk Druid, before I learned how to use fdisk), Slackware was the easiest for me to install with the least hassles. Then again, the only distribution I haven't successfully installed is Corel, so maybe its just me.
I went back to Redhat for a while because of glibc, but I can't stand not knowing what my computer is doing behind my back. I'd like to have rpm support AND control over my files. So, I spend a lot of time creating symbolic links for dependencies. My question is, what is the logic behind choosing a specific file structure?
For example, why do I find the html directory in Slackware under/var/lib/apache/htdocs, in Redhat under/home/httpd/html, and in BSD under/usr/local/httpd/html.
I know how hard it must to be to reach a consensus between all the different flavors of Linux/Unix/BSD/whatever. Having started with Redhat, I tend to look for files where they put them, and the Redhat file structure is beginning to look more and more like a de facto standard, at least to me. Is there a better way than setting dozens of symbolic links or remembering all the different file structures? Wasn't there a move to standardize this very thing a while back, and do you think there is any hope that it may happen any time soon?
Like one poster said, slackware comes closest to what I want, in terms of flexibility, as well as being the most consistently sucessful install on oddball hardware with the fewest necessary post-installation tweaks.
My biggest complaint with slackware is the seemingly illogical placing of files -- having started with redhat. I end up making a bunch of symbolic links to make administration the same as on a redhat system, and to try to get rpms to install properly. That, and I'd like to see more software included. We need a Mandrake for Slackware.
I've wanted to create a custom distribution myself, but the biggest task is to get it to bootstrap itself, if youre not using a generic kernel. If I ever take on the task, I would want to give it the flexibility and common sense approach of slackware with the (option, at least) of a red-hat like file system and the handy hardware configuration of suse. And, most of all, a sane package selection process. The idea of 3 choices, gnome or kde or webserver, or custom package by package selection is insane. Slackware at least lets you choose once and use that template.
If you're serious, send me a note. Though I don't have the expertise for low-level stuff, I'd be glad to help with things like idiot proofing and package selection or even site hosting.
He probably doesn't care how everything is an applet, but all the neat things you can run on the panel are what made me switch from KDE. I think KDE is supposed take this approach in 2.0.
The panel is themable and the ease with which you can put launchers on the pager is cool--just let me put them in the order I want. The cli macro launcher (whatever it's called) is my favorite--once I can alt-tab to it, it's "goodbye, mouse!"
Despite what people think, managers like toys. The day I get my go-fish program to dock on the gnome panel -- okay, the day after, when someone adds solitaire, is the day we have the killer app that will bring the world into submission.
Gandhi could choose not to GPL, if he felt so strong about it.
Anyway, the results of the GPL could be just as bad for software. What if someone came out with their own modified version of Mr. Torvalds' code that was extremely buggy and buried under layers of unnecessary abstraction that made it look bad. (No offense to Red Hat.) Don't you think that Linus would worry about his reputation as a programmer? It is, after all, how he makes his living.
Sure, CERN has a working proof-of-concept, and Lynx was around, but the net wouldn't even have pictures if it wasn't for Mosaic, and little else if Mark Andresson et al hadn't got the venture capital and started Netscape.
Slashdot Mirror
But it'd be interesting to know on what grounds the universities declined to review carnivore--and who is meant by "universities": which schools, and who specifically at those schools. Have they seen specs, or were they only allowed to review particular portions? Are there stipulations? Are they refusing because of principles, administrative reasons (read $$$), or just lack of interest?
rawrite bare.i a:
What about from other clients?
What about using fetchmail?
can somebody tell me how to RTFM?
did you ever play seven cities of gold?
An open-source replacement for Napster(R)(TM).
It's free. It's leet (comes with a command line interface). It's cool. Get your mp3, mpeg, avi, au, ra, nearly all audio/video formats.
download now!!!
ftp://ftp.wupster.shop (we even got one of those cool new tlds!)
Yeah, that's right, you have to use ftp to download it. Which, I guess, makes sense, since really it's just a wrapper for wu_ftp and archie.
moderating today from redmond.corp.microsoft.com
If Neo and Agent Smith were playing warcraft... Neo: "Ha! my Orcs just annialated you and you don't have any resources left." Agent Smith: "Pepperoni Pizza Pepperoni Pizza Pepperoni Pizza Pepperoni Pizza" Neo: "Wha?" Later... Neo: "Whoa!" Agent Smith: "I can't stand the smell of you." Neo: "Oh yeah? Maybe that's your pizza breath...What the?! Where did all these dudes come from?" Agent Smith: "Hee hee hee" Samuel L. Jackson: "Use the force *er* think of the spoon, Neo" Neo: "Huh?" Carrie-Anne Moss: "Follow the white rabbit, stupid." Neo: "Eh?" Audience: "Use this exploit to do a buffer overrun and modify the code on the fly" Neo "Oh." [Downloads exploit] "Dude! [Neo's invincible troll army destroys Agent Smiths regenerated troops. He pauses for a moment to reflect on the ramifications of the word h4x0r] John Travolta: "Now that's a tasty burger!" Neo: "Who are you?" John Travolta: "Sorry, wrong movie." Carrie-Anne Moss: "Battlefield Earth sucked"
its pretty spooky to read the article and then see the moderation
that's why aol is still ad free!
what about the dolphins? -42-
The only thing that rang true at all about this fake interview is the obvious coverup about altavista being the site he was trying to visit. It was not written by a thirteen year old.
pokemon cards can fsck? why bother making a recovery disk?
gated supports a wider variety of protocols that routed including ospf! But isn't there already an open source implementation?
means it will run on NT4# and Win98 TE (Third Edition.) Ask anyone at Microsoft and they will tell you that they officially support 5 operating systems (windows 3.1 and windows for workgroups were discontinued over a year ago)
Cool isn't meant to compete with java though, not primarily. It's microsoft's attempt to take ideas from java (like the sandbox) and integrate them into the windows script host, which by the way, gets more use out of javascript, and increasingly, perl, than vbscript.
Please don't grep the guests.
I'm sure kevin mitnick will be pleased to hear this.
But the issue isn't about the price of the hardware. The number of slashdotters who will actually purchase and successfully modify an i-opener is negligible compared to their true potential customer base.
The backers of Netpliace aren't hoping to sell hardware, or even dial-up service. The real goal is in having control to users' access to information. That's where smart money is nowadays. Why do you think Microsoft and Compuserve were offering those huge rebates?
In Oregon and California, courts have ruled that such penalty contracts are unenforceable. You should have seen the lines at Office Depot before Microsoft cancelled their deal. In actuality, they would still be making a profit, and quickly, from the honest (or ignorant) dial-up subscribers. The problem was that they realized that ANYONE could cancel their service and go through another portal.
The reason all the money is going into the internet isn't because people think that online pet stores are going to sell more gritty kitty to point and click shoppers, but because the real stake in the internet is the control of information flow.
I am still fairly new to linux and computers, so I was a little intimidated switching to a "less user friendly" distribution. By now I've tried every major distro; and with the possible exception of Redhat 5.2 (solely because of Disk Druid, before I learned how to use fdisk), Slackware was the easiest for me to install with the least hassles. Then again, the only distribution I haven't successfully installed is Corel, so maybe its just me.
I went back to Redhat for a while because of glibc, but I can't stand not knowing what my computer is doing behind my back. I'd like to have rpm support AND control over my files. So, I spend a lot of time creating symbolic links for dependencies. My question is, what is the logic behind choosing a specific file structure?
For example, why do I find the html directory in Slackware under /var/lib/apache/htdocs, in Redhat under /home/httpd/html, and in BSD under /usr/local/httpd/html.
I know how hard it must to be to reach a consensus between all the different flavors of Linux/Unix/BSD/whatever. Having started with Redhat, I tend to look for files where they put them, and the Redhat file structure is beginning to look more and more like a de facto standard, at least to me. Is there a better way than setting dozens of symbolic links or remembering all the different file structures? Wasn't there a move to standardize this very thing a while back, and do you think there is any hope that it may happen any time soon?
pinoneer
My biggest complaint with slackware is the seemingly illogical placing of files -- having started with redhat. I end up making a bunch of symbolic links to make administration the same as on a redhat system, and to try to get rpms to install properly. That, and I'd like to see more software included. We need a Mandrake for Slackware.
I've wanted to create a custom distribution myself, but the biggest task is to get it to bootstrap itself, if youre not using a generic kernel. If I ever take on the task, I would want to give it the flexibility and common sense approach of slackware with the (option, at least) of a red-hat like file system and the handy hardware configuration of suse. And, most of all, a sane package selection process. The idea of 3 choices, gnome or kde or webserver, or custom package by package selection is insane. Slackware at least lets you choose once and use that template.
If you're serious, send me a note. Though I don't have the expertise for low-level stuff, I'd be glad to help with things like idiot proofing and package selection or even site hosting.
at least its short.
He probably doesn't care how everything is an applet, but all the neat things you can run on the panel are what made me switch from KDE. I think KDE is supposed take this approach in 2.0.
The panel is themable and the ease with which you can put launchers on the pager is cool--just let me put them in the order I want. The cli macro launcher (whatever it's called) is my favorite--once I can alt-tab to it, it's "goodbye, mouse!"
Despite what people think, managers like toys. The day I get my go-fish program to dock on the gnome panel -- okay, the day after, when someone adds solitaire, is the day we have the killer app that will bring the world into submission.
Lets just hope MacOS X doesn't get there first.
Anyway, the results of the GPL could be just as bad for software. What if someone came out with their own modified version of Mr. Torvalds' code that was extremely buggy and buried under layers of unnecessary abstraction that made it look bad. (No offense to Red Hat.) Don't you think that Linus would worry about his reputation as a programmer? It is, after all, how he makes his living.
What about the web browser?
Sure, CERN has a working proof-of-concept, and Lynx was around, but the net wouldn't even have pictures if it wasn't for Mosaic, and little else if Mark Andresson et al hadn't got the venture capital and started Netscape.