This rocks, I've been using X.org on my slackware-current system all along. With kernel 2.6.6, even. Works fantastic. I just played a few rounds of UT2004 as well. Woo hoo!
I'm insanely jealous that I don't have one of those WRT54G routers. I have a netgear mr814v2... not a bad little 802.11b router. I figured today I'd try hacking it a bit, see what exactly it is.
My interest was piqued because I found services (locally) running on the router I was unaware of... a UK site says my router has a DNS proxy and cache, something I've seen nowhere else. I used nslookup and dig, and sure enough, it answers dns queries. I also can tftp into it. (No idea names of files tho).
So this prompted me to take a peek at the.img file for the firmware. It doesn't look like any format I'm familiar with... the linux "file" command calls it a "MS Windows TrueType font"... well let's run strings on it... hmm only one word shows up twice at the end of the file "sErCoMm".
So I head off to Sercomm's site... and lo and behold they make wireless routers! Namely, I think my MR814v2 is just a rebadged Sercomm IP706SM. I know this comes as no surprise, many pieces of hardware are just rebadged and sold under a brand name. But look at the specs, they're identical! Right down to the dimensions, the Netgear router is only a few milimeters off.
So this is where my hacking hit a wall. Think I might go home and take apart the router and see for myself. Or just sell it and get a WRT54G. (Hey my birthday's next week, you never know.)
...that gets more embellished everytime I hear it. I think I'm gonna go mention to someone "hey, have you heard about Cisco's new 20 billion dollar router?"
This is sorta revelent... I am a geek, and do support for an ISP. While in Best Buy once, I overheard a guy giving an explanation of a hard drive, and it went something like this:
"Yes, anytime you buy a 20 gig hard drive, it won't actually be 20 gigs. It will actually be about 18-19 gigs because all drives come with some bad blocks."
I felt like tackling him, strangling him then having a quaint conversation with the customer about how people count in tens and computers count in twos. The whole mega vs mebi thing, etc etc.
That was by far, the funniest, oddest, and worst explanation I've ever heard.
I read the interview and followed the other two articles, the original and Linus' reply. I think this stuff is a must-read. [conspiracy theory] Perhaps someone, somewhere funding anti-Linux FUD is realizing the whole SCO thing is falling through? [/conspiracy theory]. It outlines the differences between what Linus believes in and what Tanenbaum believes in. The more articles I see like this, the better I feel. There's a lot of people out there who know the truth, and I don't care how many billions you have, your underhanded sneakiness will be revealed. This whole situation has been the posterchild for Open Source.
This is how I feel about Linus, I'm thankfull he put Linux under the GPL, and that he's responsible for bringing us this cool technology - but I think his casual/neutral attitudes about freedom really suck, and in the long term will cause alot of uneeded harm. The goal shouldn't be to win a popularity contest, or to fit in, but to secure our freedoms in the technology space.
In one of the "Revolution OS" interviews, he states he's merely the engineer, and RMS is more like the philosopher. I think he wants to remove himself from the political aspect and just enjoy the work. Think Einstein and the atomic bomb.
... in high school. It was about 1990 and called something to the effect of "International Computer Problem Solving Contest". Of course then it wasn't about the Internet at all, and the programming was done in Basic on 286's. Think our school had one or two 386's at the time. They gave you something like 4 hours to solve 5 problems... and they were pretty hard (well for me being a sophmore at the time). You could work in teams, a friend of mine David and I were a team, we took first place for the school in answering 3 questions in the allotted time. Had we done 4, we would have gone to the national level. One of the downsides, I can remember we were only allowed to use one computer.
Anyone know if this is related? I didn't see any mention of it on the site, maybe it's a coincidence?
... they would push to make sure the majority of the "benefit" would go back to end users. But that wouldn't serve their purpose. After reading the article and a million different posts... they're just angry about having to pay their opponents' lawyer's fees. Hey, I would be too.
Not that I care for MS or their tactics, but isn't it a bit sad? If there are 13 million Californians who are going to recieve the benefit, a $10 coupon would not cut it. That gives you $130 million to the end users and $260 to the prosecuting lawyers. Looks like they'd have to double it... the saddest thing is that the big winners in all this are the lawyers and not the people.
... "custom software". You know, it's software someone customized. As opposed to, say, the software created by God that you go out and pick off a tree.
The packets need to have source and destination IP addresses that match the established connection as well as the same source and destination TCP ports.
I can also successfully steal your identitiy, if I know your full name, address, phone number (with area code), date of birth and social security number.
I wrote an AI program back on my C64 as a teen, that tore apart sentences (and questions) and tried to derive the meaning of them from a database. The idea was I would add more info to the database, and sooner or later it would learn by itself and add to the database. The idea never got off the ground, but I did try with a quick small database, and asked it a quick question (which would be my submission):
Who are you?
(To which it replied "I am I"... technically correct but totally useless.) Always wondered how a real robot would answer that...
After reading the posting, I have to ask that question. Propretary commercial licenses assume you must (and will) follow the outlines of the license. Why do some commercial entities assume that the GPL is invalid? Why does it have to be tested in court? I've said this before... an EULA you don't agree with is still an EULA, and you should agree (and follow) the guidelines. You don't see other popular licenses being "tested in court". Everyone just assumes they stick... so it's about time for people to take the GPL seriously and realize, it too, sticks.
DRM is by nature, designed to disallow people rights. It's a positive spin on a bad thing. Think about it, it's not like Rights need to be "managed"... the people who have the right to legally use something already can... it's the people who don't that you want to deny. So perhaps "Denying Right to Mankind" would be a better description. And in fact, it's 100% the opposite as to what the GPL was meant to do, give rights and freedoms.
Speaking of putting a positive spin on something negative (time for a George Carlin moment)... would you drive a car with a new device or "feature" called a "Decaptiation Support"? You know, it's there in case you get your head cut off, it will still hold it on your shoulders, preventing it from rolling around on the mats, making a mess. Sounds pretty good, huh?
For those of you (like me) who might have an EPIA-V mini-itx board and want to use lm_senors, the chipset (vt8231) doesn't look like it's been ported to 2.6 yet.:( grep i2c ChangeLog came up with quite a bit, but no port for that chip yet...
...that's for sure. I implore you to name a company that's been around for 1000 years. 2000? 5000? Get my drift? Everything dies out eventually.
Microsoft will probably give up in the future and just become open source. (j/k)
I've always said that millions of years in the future when we're all dead and gone and the likes of mankind have eradicated themselves out of exsistence, the cockroaches of the world will be using CockRoach Linux 3.7. (And the damn thing will be based on Debian).
It's like driving a car you're not accostumed to every day. It's just different.
But to be slightly OT...
It sort of reminds me of something... I'm a huge Linux fan, but I also use windows. (Often tagged, albeit incorrectly, as a 'Microsoft Hater'). Anyhow, my point... what happens when someone open sources windows? Or, more specifically, comes up with an Open Source Windows clone?
I've always wanted to write a book talking about how the two camps actually need each other. Microsoft would have more to fear from an open source windows variant than any threat Linux could ever bring.
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This rocks, I've been using X.org on my slackware-current system all along. With kernel 2.6.6, even. Works fantastic. I just played a few rounds of UT2004 as well. Woo hoo!
..it doesn't run Windows... else they might see..
... ok ready to groan on a Sunday morning? ...
... I almost can't type it ...
... Get ready for a +5, Bad Pun...
... NYPD Blue Screen.
I'll try not to make this OT ...
... not a bad little 802.11b router. I figured today I'd try hacking it a bit, see what exactly it is.
... a UK site says my router has a DNS proxy and cache, something I've seen nowhere else. I used nslookup and dig, and sure enough, it answers dns queries. I also can tftp into it. (No idea names of files tho).
.img file for the firmware. It doesn't look like any format I'm familiar with... the linux "file" command calls it a "MS Windows TrueType font" ... well let's run strings on it ... hmm only one word shows up twice at the end of the file "sErCoMm".
I'm insanely jealous that I don't have one of those WRT54G routers. I have a netgear mr814v2
My interest was piqued because I found services (locally) running on the router I was unaware of
So this prompted me to take a peek at the
So I head off to Sercomm's site... and lo and behold they make wireless routers! Namely, I think my MR814v2 is just a rebadged Sercomm IP706SM. I know this comes as no surprise, many pieces of hardware are just rebadged and sold under a brand name. But look at the specs, they're identical! Right down to the dimensions, the Netgear router is only a few milimeters off.
So this is where my hacking hit a wall. Think I might go home and take apart the router and see for myself. Or just sell it and get a WRT54G. (Hey my birthday's next week, you never know.)
1. Convince all the software manufacturers in the country that they need someone to manage their industry.
2. Become president of the SIAA (Software Inudstry Association of America).
3. ???
4. Profit!!!
I think #3 has something to do with lawsuits...
...that gets more embellished everytime I hear it. I think I'm gonna go mention to someone "hey, have you heard about Cisco's new 20 billion dollar router?"
This is sorta revelent... I am a geek, and do support for an ISP. While in Best Buy once, I overheard a guy giving an explanation of a hard drive, and it went something like this:
"Yes, anytime you buy a 20 gig hard drive, it won't actually be 20 gigs. It will actually be about 18-19 gigs because all drives come with some bad blocks."
I felt like tackling him, strangling him then having a quaint conversation with the customer about how people count in tens and computers count in twos. The whole mega vs mebi thing, etc etc.
That was by far, the funniest, oddest, and worst explanation I've ever heard.
I read the interview and followed the other two articles, the original and Linus' reply. I think this stuff is a must-read. [conspiracy theory] Perhaps someone, somewhere funding anti-Linux FUD is realizing the whole SCO thing is falling through? [/conspiracy theory]. It outlines the differences between what Linus believes in and what Tanenbaum believes in. The more articles I see like this, the better I feel. There's a lot of people out there who know the truth, and I don't care how many billions you have, your underhanded sneakiness will be revealed. This whole situation has been the posterchild for Open Source.
In one of the "Revolution OS" interviews, he states he's merely the engineer, and RMS is more like the philosopher. I think he wants to remove himself from the political aspect and just enjoy the work. Think Einstein and the atomic bomb.
... in high school. It was about 1990 and called something to the effect of "International Computer Problem Solving Contest". Of course then it wasn't about the Internet at all, and the programming was done in Basic on 286's. Think our school had one or two 386's at the time. They gave you something like 4 hours to solve 5 problems... and they were pretty hard (well for me being a sophmore at the time). You could work in teams, a friend of mine David and I were a team, we took first place for the school in answering 3 questions in the allotted time. Had we done 4, we would have gone to the national level. One of the downsides, I can remember we were only allowed to use one computer.
Anyone know if this is related? I didn't see any mention of it on the site, maybe it's a coincidence?
http://home.insightbb.com/~ryanvm/tinyutilities/vi trite/
Vitrite allows you to do this with any Win32 Window (on 2k, XP, etc).
... they would push to make sure the majority of the "benefit" would go back to end users. But that wouldn't serve their purpose. After reading the article and a million different posts... they're just angry about having to pay their opponents' lawyer's fees. Hey, I would be too.
Not that I care for MS or their tactics, but isn't it a bit sad? If there are 13 million Californians who are going to recieve the benefit, a $10 coupon would not cut it. That gives you $130 million to the end users and $260 to the prosecuting lawyers. Looks like they'd have to double it... the saddest thing is that the big winners in all this are the lawyers and not the people.
... "custom software". You know, it's software someone customized. As opposed to, say, the software created by God that you go out and pick off a tree.
...I was fined 3 cents for peeing on the sidewalk.
Boy, I won't do that again.
Oooh the "check mark"... hmm I remember it being around slightly longer than Verizon. I could be wrong.
From the article:
The packets need to have source and destination IP addresses that match the established connection as well as the same source and destination TCP ports.
I can also successfully steal your identitiy, if I know your full name, address, phone number (with area code), date of birth and social security number.
...this guy's never had an irq conflict where his sound card wants to use the only irq that his isa nic card requires.
We all remember the Win98 Scanner incident, don't we? That was televised...
Give this guy enough blue screens and he'll be begging for penguin.
I wrote an AI program back on my C64 as a teen, that tore apart sentences (and questions) and tried to derive the meaning of them from a database. The idea was I would add more info to the database, and sooner or later it would learn by itself and add to the database. The idea never got off the ground, but I did try with a quick small database, and asked it a quick question (which would be my submission):
... technically correct but totally useless.) Always wondered how a real robot would answer that...
Who are you?
(To which it replied "I am I"
...FS/OSS finally having such a positive effect on Microsoft.
After reading the posting, I have to ask that question. Propretary commercial licenses assume you must (and will) follow the outlines of the license. Why do some commercial entities assume that the GPL is invalid? Why does it have to be tested in court? I've said this before... an EULA you don't agree with is still an EULA, and you should agree (and follow) the guidelines. You don't see other popular licenses being "tested in court". Everyone just assumes they stick... so it's about time for people to take the GPL seriously and realize, it too, sticks.
DRM is by nature, designed to disallow people rights. It's a positive spin on a bad thing. Think about it, it's not like Rights need to be "managed"... the people who have the right to legally use something already can... it's the people who don't that you want to deny. So perhaps "Denying Right to Mankind" would be a better description. And in fact, it's 100% the opposite as to what the GPL was meant to do, give rights and freedoms.
Speaking of putting a positive spin on something negative (time for a George Carlin moment)... would you drive a car with a new device or "feature" called a "Decaptiation Support"? You know, it's there in case you get your head cut off, it will still hold it on your shoulders, preventing it from rolling around on the mats, making a mess. Sounds pretty good, huh?
It was dark and there were no computers.
For those of you (like me) who might have an EPIA-V mini-itx board and want to use lm_senors, the chipset (vt8231) doesn't look like it's been ported to 2.6 yet. :( grep i2c ChangeLog came up with quite a bit, but no port for that chip yet...
Offshore gambling sites are sucking american money from the american economy?!?! OMG! Someone call the in the republicans!
Seriously folks... I went on a cruise last year (first ever!) and the casino didn't open till we were like 12 miles off the coast.
How many people were lined up outside, waiting? How many were americans? I think the WTO is in the right in this decision...
...that's for sure. I implore you to name a company that's been around for 1000 years. 2000? 5000? Get my drift? Everything dies out eventually.
Microsoft will probably give up in the future and just become open source. (j/k)
I've always said that millions of years in the future when we're all dead and gone and the likes of mankind have eradicated themselves out of exsistence, the cockroaches of the world will be using CockRoach Linux 3.7. (And the damn thing will be based on Debian).
Or, I could be wrong...
It's like driving a car you're not accostumed to every day. It's just different.
... I'm a huge Linux fan, but I also use windows. (Often tagged, albeit incorrectly, as a 'Microsoft Hater'). Anyhow, my point... what happens when someone open sources windows? Or, more specifically, comes up with an Open Source Windows clone?
But to be slightly OT...
It sort of reminds me of something
I've always wanted to write a book talking about how the two camps actually need each other. Microsoft would have more to fear from an open source windows variant than any threat Linux could ever bring.