for those who like DK and jello in general, go check out LARD (cdnow link).
lard is an industrial rock group with jello biafra and al jourgensen from ministry. they have the same sort of anti-establishment views dk and biafra have pushed, with a slick metal sound.
dare is a complete joke. they spread their message through misinformation and lies. they want the kids to come out of the class as War On Drugs(tm) automatons, Just Saying No(tm).
if you're going to tell kids how bad drugs are, at least have the integrity to tell the whole story. at least have the balls to distinguish drug use from drug abuse. let them know that experimentation with e.g. marijuana is not uncommon, and you shouldn't consider every drug user a pathetic waste of flesh to be pitied.
if they really want to show kids how bad drugs can be, show some photos of people who got crispy-fried when their methlab blew up. show pictures of people going through such terrible herion withdrawl that they would rather die than live without a fix. show cops trying to restrain someone freaking out on pcp. don't lie.
for what it's worth, dare didn't do anything for me other than waste an hour of my time every week, when i could have been out back getting stoned. --
lunix - "little unix" - is a multitasking, multiuser unix clone for a bare commodore 64. it does slip, ppp, a tcp/ip stack and has telnet and ftp clients.
oh, and it's open-source. and has cross-development tools. --
mod_ssl is a dynamic-loaded apache extension. you load it, configure it, and forget it.
apache-ssl is a patch against the vanilla apache tree. i believe you have to run two instances of apache, one for normal requests, and one for ssl requests. i may be incorrect, since it seems pretty lame to have an apache that only serves ssl requests. someone correct me if i'm wrong.
you are incorrect. due to the coarse locking in the kernel, linux 2.2 does not scale well on SMP systems. i believe that the performance drop shows up at >= 4 CPUs.
in an ideal world, you would have a linear increase in throughput/cpu. however, as you throw more CPUs in a system, the latency in the kernel rises. this happens because part of the kernel locks another part (or itself), making any other CPU which needs that data wait for the lock to be released.
2.4.x will have much more fine-grained kernel locking, allowing better SMP scalability. not sure how many cpus they are aiming for (8? 16? 32??) - if anyone knows off hand, post it.:) --
slamming is where the long-distance service on a phone line is changed without the consent of the owner.
e.g. you are signed up for Foo long distance service, and company Bar switches your line to their service instad of Foo's.
i heard a while back that this sort of thing was happening to pay phones as well, since a lot of the newer payphones can take credit cards, and most people don't use 10xxx to select a LD carrier. --
"It would also reinforce the government's case against them in the public eye."
maybe it's the pessimist in me thinking, but who are you kidding? most of the public doesn't care. they know that microsoft is the company that makes windows, office and ie. ms has worked very hard to maintain their public image as the kind, loving company that gives you windows. and for the most part, it has worked. in the eyes of the public, msft has more credibility than the naysayers who point out it's missteps.
unless, by "public eye", you mean the slashdot readership. and it's not like we need more evidence to believe that msft is in the wrong. --
ol2k is not the problem. it's exchange. where i work, we have use outlook2k+exchange. well, everyone but the developers. we use pine.
my main beef with exchange is how it silently converts all attachments to APPLICATION/X-MS-TNEF. yes, ALL attachments. if i send a mime attachment from pine to another pine user, the attachement comes as X-MS-TNEF. joy.
as far as i know, ol2k (while irritating) has never approached this level of insidious behavior.
my favorite was when the exchange server complained because i was using `ISO8859-1' charset, while it was using `US-ASCII' or some other similarly wrong setup. so it encoded the body of my message in a tnef attachment. --
iirc, SLS was the first linux distro. i can't find much about it anymore, but it came on an old (1994-5) infomagic cd set i used to have. slackware was based on SLS.
[sunsite|metalab].unc.edu has reference to MCC Linux 2.0+, circa 1996. i recall it also being onr of the earliest distros. --
whenever i go to check out at rat-shit, the exchange goes somewhat like this:
Employee: Can i get your phone number?
Me: No.
Employee: umm...
they just can't seem to handle any deviation from the usual reply. of course, it seems like they only hire the people who just couldn't hack it at mcdonalds. --
what the living hell are those freaky guys over at intel thinking anyways? this leaves no upgrade path for existing intel customers, unless they can make more "overdrive" processors for slot-1 and -2 mobos. which means that anyone who wants a p4 is going to need a new case & power supply, mobo, and cpu. oh, and probably some rambus rdram.
meanwhile, back in sunnyvale, amd offers smaller, faster, better cpus which actually provide an upgrade path for existing customers.
it seems like intel just keeps getting more and more introverted. when will they find a clue?
perhaps once the low-end celeron-style p4s come out, they will have some sort of upgrade path... --
moderator warning: honest opinion follows. mod me down if you must, but at least read my post.
jesus christ. this show is one of the most horrific pieces of crap i have ever seen.
don't get me wrong; i really like the concept. i enjoyed robot wars the few times i've seen it. but you'd think that a geeky thing like building and fighting robots would be targeted at... well, geeks. battlebots seems to be in position to take a huge chunk out of the audience of the teletubbies.
this show is like a terrible, terrible parody of the local 10 p.m. news crossed with "extreme" sports, lobotomized to attract the average american viewer. which means an iq approaching the single digits. after watching two minutes, i felt so ill that i had no choice but to turn it off. so extreme was my contempt for television in general after watching this asinine show, i went to take a bath and read a book.
i hope they can do better for the real show, versus the "preview". --
this assumes that you are a third party. the original author(s) of the code can change the license for new releases. since aol owns netscape, they just get netscape to make a version specially licensed for aol's use. --
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for those who like DK and jello in general, go check out LARD (cdnow link).
:)
lard is an industrial rock group with jello biafra and al jourgensen from ministry. they have the same sort of anti-establishment views dk and biafra have pushed, with a slick metal sound.
go check it out.
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dare is a complete joke. they spread their message through misinformation and lies. they want the kids to come out of the class as War On Drugs(tm) automatons, Just Saying No(tm).
if you're going to tell kids how bad drugs are, at least have the integrity to tell the whole story. at least have the balls to distinguish drug use from drug abuse. let them know that experimentation with e.g. marijuana is not uncommon, and you shouldn't consider every drug user a pathetic waste of flesh to be pitied.
if they really want to show kids how bad drugs can be, show some photos of people who got crispy-fried when their methlab blew up. show pictures of people going through such terrible herion withdrawl that they would rather die than live without a fix. show cops trying to restrain someone freaking out on pcp. don't lie.
for what it's worth, dare didn't do anything for me other than waste an hour of my time every week, when i could have been out back getting stoned.
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go look at lunix (alternate link)
lunix - "little unix" - is a multitasking, multiuser unix clone for a bare commodore 64. it does slip, ppp, a tcp/ip stack and has telnet and ftp clients.
oh, and it's open-source. and has cross-development tools.
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yep...
they also have rodney-king-beating police figurines as well as a los angeles rioter figurine.
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heh, check out the internet sex photos. they digitally removed all the people from pornographic pictures.
:)
this one is my favorite.
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mod_ssl is a dynamic-loaded apache extension. you load it, configure it, and forget it.
apache-ssl is a patch against the vanilla apache tree. i believe you have to run two instances of apache, one for normal requests, and one for ssl requests. i may be incorrect, since it seems pretty lame to have an apache that only serves ssl requests. someone correct me if i'm wrong.
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you are incorrect. due to the coarse locking in the kernel, linux 2.2 does not scale well on SMP systems. i believe that the performance drop shows up at >= 4 CPUs.
:)
in an ideal world, you would have a linear increase in throughput/cpu. however, as you throw more CPUs in a system, the latency in the kernel rises. this happens because part of the kernel locks another part (or itself), making any other CPU which needs that data wait for the lock to be released.
2.4.x will have much more fine-grained kernel locking, allowing better SMP scalability. not sure how many cpus they are aiming for (8? 16? 32??) - if anyone knows off hand, post it.
--
slamming is where the long-distance service on a phone line is changed without the consent of the owner.
e.g. you are signed up for Foo long distance service, and company Bar switches your line to their service instad of Foo's.
i heard a while back that this sort of thing was happening to pay phones as well, since a lot of the newer payphones can take credit cards, and most people don't use 10xxx to select a LD carrier.
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on security:
"...it was an indirect goal. We wanted to produce a rock solid, commercial grade, open source DNS implementation in the tradition of BIND..."
translation: bind 9 will be just as buggy as the old bind!
"...and with high compatibility with BIND. One important side effect of all that is security."
is it just me, or does the concept of security as a "side effect" seem very frightening?
you'd think that with all the problems in the past with bind, they would have considered security to be a primary goal, not a "side effect".
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"It would also reinforce the government's case against them in the public eye."
maybe it's the pessimist in me thinking, but who are you kidding? most of the public doesn't care. they know that microsoft is the company that makes windows, office and ie. ms has worked very hard to maintain their public image as the kind, loving company that gives you windows. and for the most part, it has worked. in the eyes of the public, msft has more credibility than the naysayers who point out it's missteps.
unless, by "public eye", you mean the slashdot readership. and it's not like we need more evidence to believe that msft is in the wrong.
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and 20 years late.
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ol2k is not the problem. it's exchange. where i work, we have use outlook2k+exchange. well, everyone but the developers. we use pine.
my main beef with exchange is how it silently converts all attachments to APPLICATION/X-MS-TNEF. yes, ALL attachments. if i send a mime attachment from pine to another pine user, the attachement comes as X-MS-TNEF. joy.
as far as i know, ol2k (while irritating) has never approached this level of insidious behavior.
my favorite was when the exchange server complained because i was using `ISO8859-1' charset, while it was using `US-ASCII' or some other similarly wrong setup. so it encoded the body of my message in a tnef attachment.
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umm... what about this story, posted here in mid-august?
or was that just an unfounded rumor? i know lucas denied it, but wouldn't you deny it too?
doing a few searches shows several "fan scripts" for episode 2.
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iirc, SLS was the first linux distro. i can't find much about it anymore, but it came on an old (1994-5) infomagic cd set i used to have. slackware was based on SLS.
[sunsite|metalab].unc.edu has reference to MCC Linux 2.0+, circa 1996. i recall it also being onr of the earliest distros.
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what, and emacs isn't overkill? ;)
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whenever i go to check out at rat-shit, the exchange goes somewhat like this:
Employee: Can i get your phone number?
Me: No.
Employee: umm...
they just can't seem to handle any deviation from the usual reply. of course, it seems like they only hire the people who just couldn't hack it at mcdonalds.
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Just the fact that GPG is open-source software is enough to choose it over PGP if you use pine.
that's an interesting statement, since pine is released under a restrictive license. they don't allow distribution of binaries from patched source.
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according to this posting on the securityfocus INCIDENTS list, trinity is often propagated by the ever-popular rpc.statd exploit.
:)
oh, and the guy who posted to INCIDENTS beat out iss by >1 week.
btw, trinity is old news to the skr1p+ k1ddi3 scene.
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what the living hell are those freaky guys over at intel thinking anyways? this leaves no upgrade path for existing intel customers, unless they can make more "overdrive" processors for slot-1 and -2 mobos. which means that anyone who wants a p4 is going to need a new case & power supply, mobo, and cpu. oh, and probably some rambus rdram.
meanwhile, back in sunnyvale, amd offers smaller, faster, better cpus which actually provide an upgrade path for existing customers.
it seems like intel just keeps getting more and more introverted. when will they find a clue?
perhaps once the low-end celeron-style p4s come out, they will have some sort of upgrade path...
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it's a complete implementation, with with little or no hardware support.
vendors of X software (xfree86, sun, ibm, etc) add support for their hardware and customise/extend X to suit their environments.
in the linux world, xfree does the hardware support end, while the distributions tailor X to work however they have laid their system out.
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moderator warning: honest opinion follows. mod me down if you must, but at least read my post.
jesus christ. this show is one of the most horrific pieces of crap i have ever seen.
don't get me wrong; i really like the concept. i enjoyed robot wars the few times i've seen it. but you'd think that a geeky thing like building and fighting robots would be targeted at... well, geeks. battlebots seems to be in position to take a huge chunk out of the audience of the teletubbies.
this show is like a terrible, terrible parody of the local 10 p.m. news crossed with "extreme" sports, lobotomized to attract the average american viewer. which means an iq approaching the single digits. after watching two minutes, i felt so ill that i had no choice but to turn it off. so extreme was my contempt for television in general after watching this asinine show, i went to take a bath and read a book.
i hope they can do better for the real show, versus the "preview".
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this assumes that you are a third party. the original author(s) of the code can change the license for new releases. since aol owns netscape, they just get netscape to make a version specially licensed for aol's use.
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would someone please explain how corel screwed debian?
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one thing that wasn't mentioned in the specs was the screen ratio: 16x9. at least, as close as 16x9 as one can get using multiples of 16.
as any movie enthusiast knows, 16x9 is the dimension of a theater screen. interesting possibilities, no?
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wow, you must have some upper-class newbies around you. most people who watch me use emacs for anything get scared.
Me: C-x 5 f ~/pr TAB w TAB RET (type type code hack) C-x w M-x compile RET RET
Them: AAAAAaaaaaaaaaugh! (head explodes)
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