It's also not made clear that this isn't a BBC production. It's produced by Big Finish, which has been making excellent Doctor Who audio drama for a few years now.
I expect they will have a release on CD before too long.
Please tell that to the big cable providers. Post some messages on the ISC-DHCPD list. Let some of the users with larger networks tell you how scalable it is."
I'm aware that DHCP is used in many large organizations; I personally use ISC-DHCP in several small to mid sized networks. But it sure seems like the story's poster is trying to fit a square peg in to a round hole. DHCP is not designed as an authentication protocol, and probably should not be used as such. From what I read, it seemed like the poster was having scalability problems using DHCP as an authentication protocol, which is to say that he was having problems getting it to do something it wasn't designed to.
"Secure:
We're using secured arp. You can't steal IPs when your provider is using secured arp on the router directly connected to the DSLAMs. When the router 'sees' the DHCP ACK from the DHCP server, it adds a static arp entry for your MAC/IP to _your_ ATM circuit."
It seems like changing your MAC before you send out the DHCP request would result in a denial-of-service, stealing away the IP of the person who owns the MAC you just set, since the static ARP entry gets added after the DHCP server ACKs the REQ. Admittedly, you may have to do this the very first time you connect - I'm assuming that the lifetime of the ARP entry lasts at least until the next DHCP REQ, preventing you from spoofing your MAC once you've gotten an IP from the DHCP server.
The problem is aggravated if you sell ethernet boards with your service. It's pretty safe to assume that the same boards are sold to other customers, so you'd have an excellent chance of hitting upon another valid MAC by just subtracting one from the last octet of yours.
Also, note that the poster didn't detail any specific setup like you did, leaving it pretty open for interpretation.
That in addition to not being scalable or sustainable, this scheme is not secure, either.
MAC addresses can be changed via software ('ifconfig ethX hw ether aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff:gg'), and this stuff is sent in the clear, opening you up to (at least) denial-of-service and man-in-the-middle attacks.
Sorry I don't have a suggestion for what you should use.
[nerd mode] It's The Doctor, not Dr. Who. Dr. Who is the show; The Doctor is the main character. [/nerd mode]
[uber who nerd mode] "Doctor Who" is the show, not "Dr. Who." Besides, you're both wrong. The credits listed The Doctor as "Dr. Who" until it's seventh season, when they listed it as "Doctor Who." The Doctor was never credited as "The Doctor," though it did flip-flip between "Dr. Who" and "Doctor Who" a few times. [/uber who nerd mode]
The work done to produce binaries is not done by the KDE Project, it's done by the vendors or volunteers. The KDE Project only releases source, but they mirror the binaries.
RedHat is much more interested in Gnome, and the RH developer who maintained the KDE packages resigned because of the modification of the KDE look & feel in RH 8.0.
Had you read the release announcement, you would have noticed the section which reads:
"Binary Packages. Some Linux/UNIX OS vendors have kindly provided binary packages of KDE 3.1beta2 for some versions of their distribution, and in other cases community volunteers have done so.... Please note that the KDE Project makes these packages available from the KDE web site as a convenience to KDE users. The KDE Project is not responsible for these packages as they are provided by third parties..." (emphasis mine)
I think you are observing Arrid's first law, which dictates the speed of body odor in a confined space. It appears that your body odor has a particularly strong force, which causes the repulsion you mention.
It's been done, but the other way around. The US version of Kubrick's last film, "Eyes Wide Shut", had a scene censored in the US, because the MPAA ratings board didn't like the way some characters "moved" while having sex. AFAIK, the US DVD release is censored, while the overseas version is not.
This idea is interesting, but flawed. All you are measuring is the volume of certain types of text, not their impact.
I could write a license that explains your right to eat bananas, and a few sentences that give me the right to drain your bank account, elope with your daughter, and reposses your cat.
Use Debian. I'm not saying that it's immune to cruft, but the fact that they have close to 9000 packages which all comply with the Debian Policy (as well as the FHS) means that everything plays nice together, and if it doesn't, it's a bug.
There's even a tool called Cruft, which will locate cruft on your system.
Just like to chime in and say that I've had an Inspiron 8100 for around 6 months.
I had to send it back within two weeks for having a defective LCD panel. Pixels were gradually getting stuck partially on, making the display look like a burnt CRT in places.
I also just had to have the hard drive replaced. After it went into low power mode, it wouldn't spin back up.
"First, what do I do when someone submits a patch that violates my 'mission'? Should I try to be democratic about it and try to add it? Should I ignore it? What should I say to the contributor?"
Just explain how you feel about the patch, and your reasons for not wanting to include it. They can always maintain their own fork with their own patches, even if you don't like them.
"What if I get a patch that I don't understand? Perhaps it is garbage. Perhaps it is over my head and too complex for me to see how I can integrate it and still see the structure of my whole project."
Ask for clarification? Apply it and run the result in a sandbox to see what it does.
"What if someone gets angry and decides to fork the project? Under GPL, they would have the right to do this, but the excess competition could be unbeneficial when it would have been better for the contributor to wait for me to be ready for their suggestions at a later time."
Tough luck, you can't do anything about it. You can maintain your version, and they can maintain theirs. You can take code you like from theirs, and they can take code they like from yours.
It's really not that hard. You take what you like, code what you like, and others do the same.
Orbital - "In Sides". Try to find the earlier release with the 28-minute long version of "The Box". It's awesome.
Juno Reactor - "Bible of Dreams". Absolutely amazing IDM.
Propellerheads - decksanddrumsandrockandroll. Great DNB. Also, try to find the track "Props Got Mo' Skills" from their "Bang On!" CDS. It was recorded live with a turntable, a sampler, and a microphone. Great.
VNV Nation - "Standing/Burning Empires". This was a limited edition, and is hard to come by, but their best release. Their most recent, "Futureperfect", is good, but S/BE is the best. Great live show, too.
The Moog Cookbook - any release. These guys are great, they cover songs with classic synths. Pretty eclectic stuff.
Keoki - "Ego-Trip". Great DJ-mix stuff.
Most of the other recommendations I've seen have been quite good, so listen to them. Personally, I've gotten bored with the crap Electronica/Techno these days, and have turned to Industrial/EBM music. Some notable artists/albums you might enjoy:
Front Line Assewmbly - "Tactical Neural Implant". Widely regarded as their best album. I prefer the earlier (& harder to find) "Gashed Senses & Crossfire" or "Caustic Grip". Their more recent "Implode" is also very good.
Delerium - "Poem". Mellow, ambient side-project of Front Line Assembly. Very very good.
Contagion - "Contaminent PCB". Good EBM.
Front 242 - "Front By Front". Classic EBM.
Einsturzende Neubauten - "Silence is Sexy". Ye Olde Industrial. Older relases had lots of noise (aka Avant Garde or Experimental) elements & were mostly in German. More recent releases like SiS & "Ende Neu" are less harsh and feature some tracks in English. A seminal Industrial act.
Chemlab - "Burn Out at the Hydrogen Bar". One of my all-time favorite albums. Has lots of distorted guitar power-chords, stay away if you dislike that sort of thing. The earlier "10 Ton Pressure" was more electronic, and can be found on the "Magnetic Fields Remixes" release, since it's been out of print for a decade.
Mentallo & The Fixer - "Burnt Beyond Recognition". Fabulous release. Their other releases can't even approach the awesome power of this album.
Suicide Commando - "Mindstrip". A recent release, very aggressive EBM.
Well, that's probably enough, since I'm drifting wildly off-topic. Oh, and make sure you go to Metropolis Records, they release huge amounts of Industrial/Electronic music.
Come on. I fail to see how anyone could take my joke seriously, even someone spoon-fed Microsoft propaganda.
If anything, seeing all the false claims Microsoft has made about the GPL clumped together like that should make people question those claims.
Using humor to criticize is not a new concept. Your statement is akin to saying that political cartoons that satirize the President's actions since 9/11 promote terrorism, and both statements are equally false.
Yeah, but CVS is licensed under the GPL, which means that all Microsoft code in CVS would have to be copylefted, too! This is because the GPL is a viral cancerous anti-american pac-man. A document imbued with pure satanic evil, created by the twisted genius of Richard M. Stallman, who stands poised to destroy the world economy at the drop of a hat.
I used to spend quite a bit of time in various Linux IRC channels, and when someone had a question, I would answer it. But it gets pretty irritating just sticking their question into google and spitting the answer back out. After a while, I would say 'search google'. Some people went into a frenzy, claiming they did search google, and it didn't have anything - blatant lies, since their answer was invariably within the results on the first page when I searched - and generally getting pissy at me for not spweing out whatever knowledge they requested.
Those people do far more to harm the newbie Linux community than anyone else, since they waste the time of people who could be helping with genuine problems instead of 'how do i install nvidia drivers?' or 'how do i set up ppp?', as well as driving people away from helping newbies. I simply won't help anyone I don't know personally any more, since once you answer one question, people expect you to hold their hand all the way through whatever it is they are trying to do. It ends up frustrating me, as well as them.
Maybe it's just me though, I never did like tech support.
"Free Software built the Internet. Not Open Source. Not GNU. Not the Free Software Foundation."
Funny. I was under the impression that BSD software built the internet. As far as I know, 4.2BSD was the first UNIX to contain a TCP/IP stack, and you can be sure it wasn't licensed under the GPL.
Apache - sprang from the CERN httpd project, which has a BSD-style license.
BIND - was originally created by the Berkeley hackers, and had a BSD license.
Wu-FTPD - can't find an old version to check it's license, but it's certainly not GPLd, though the license is similar. Of course, Berkeley had a FTPd before Wu-FTPd was created.
So, no. It wasn't built on Free Software, either. It was built on BSD.
"Many Hartnell episodes are lost, but in the ones I've seen he was damned bloody serious. Quite boring really."
Yes, I just watched "The Ark", and he was very... sharp.
"As for Troughton, I'm not sure he meant to be funny."
Lines like the one about his next regeneration in "The Five Doctors" certainly show a humorous side. ("And who is this?" "That's colonel Crichton, my replacement." "Aah, yes. (coughs) Mine was pretty unpromising, too.")
"Jon Pertwee was deadly serious."
He always came off as mischevious to me. For example, when he escapes from the hospital in "Spearhead from Space."
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It's also not made clear that this isn't a BBC production. It's produced by Big Finish, which has been making excellent Doctor Who audio drama for a few years now.
I expect they will have a release on CD before too long.
"However, he was the script editor for almost all of the Tom Baker years."
No, he was script editor for the 17th season only. Outpost Gallifrey has a list of all his contributions to Doctor Who.
"Scalable/Sustainable:
Please tell that to the big cable providers. Post some messages on the ISC-DHCPD list. Let some of the users with larger networks tell you how scalable it is."
I'm aware that DHCP is used in many large organizations; I personally use ISC-DHCP in several small to mid sized networks. But it sure seems like the story's poster is trying to fit a square peg in to a round hole. DHCP is not designed as an authentication protocol, and probably should not be used as such. From what I read, it seemed like the poster was having scalability problems using DHCP as an authentication protocol, which is to say that he was having problems getting it to do something it wasn't designed to.
"Secure:
We're using secured arp. You can't steal IPs when your provider is using secured arp on the router directly connected to the DSLAMs. When the router 'sees' the DHCP ACK from the DHCP server, it adds a static arp entry for your MAC/IP to _your_ ATM circuit."
It seems like changing your MAC before you send out the DHCP request would result in a denial-of-service, stealing away the IP of the person who owns the MAC you just set, since the static ARP entry gets added after the DHCP server ACKs the REQ. Admittedly, you may have to do this the very first time you connect - I'm assuming that the lifetime of the ARP entry lasts at least until the next DHCP REQ, preventing you from spoofing your MAC once you've gotten an IP from the DHCP server.
The problem is aggravated if you sell ethernet boards with your service. It's pretty safe to assume that the same boards are sold to other customers, so you'd have an excellent chance of hitting upon another valid MAC by just subtracting one from the last octet of yours.
Also, note that the poster didn't detail any specific setup like you did, leaving it pretty open for interpretation.
That in addition to not being scalable or sustainable, this scheme is not secure, either.
MAC addresses can be changed via software ('ifconfig ethX hw ether aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff:gg'), and this stuff is sent in the clear, opening you up to (at least) denial-of-service and man-in-the-middle attacks.
Sorry I don't have a suggestion for what you should use.
[nerd mode]
It's The Doctor, not Dr. Who. Dr. Who is the show; The Doctor is the main character.
[/nerd mode]
[uber who nerd mode]
"Doctor Who" is the show, not "Dr. Who." Besides, you're both wrong. The credits listed The Doctor as "Dr. Who" until it's seventh season, when they listed it as "Doctor Who." The Doctor was never credited as "The Doctor," though it did flip-flip between "Dr. Who" and "Doctor Who" a few times.
[/uber who nerd mode]
You'd be getting a -4 right now if we had these.
The work done to produce binaries is not done by the KDE Project, it's done by the vendors or volunteers. The KDE Project only releases source, but they mirror the binaries.
... Please note that the KDE Project makes these packages available from the KDE web site as a convenience to KDE users. The KDE Project is not responsible for these packages as they are provided by third parties..." (emphasis mine)
RedHat is much more interested in Gnome, and the RH developer who maintained the KDE packages resigned because of the modification of the KDE look & feel in RH 8.0.
Had you read the release announcement, you would have noticed the section which reads:
"Binary Packages. Some Linux/UNIX OS vendors have kindly provided binary packages of KDE 3.1beta2 for some versions of their distribution, and in other cases community volunteers have done so.
Has your knee stopped jerking yet?
"All bets are off though once we get quantum machines up and running...provided we can get around the whole heisenberg principle."
Are you certain?
<rimshot/>
If you have an 802.11b-equipped laptop in the car on your way down, are you then warskydriving?
I think you are observing Arrid's first law, which dictates the speed of body odor in a confined space. It appears that your body odor has a particularly strong force, which causes the repulsion you mention.
"I fear that Sam and Max without Tim is like Monty Phyton with out John Cleese."
Uh, you do know that John Cleese left Monty Python, right? He didn't appear in the 4th series at all.
Also, upgrading the video card on a Dell laptop will not void the warranty. It's considered a user upgrade, just like if they upgraded the RAM.
I'd provide a link, but I can't find it right now.
It's been done, but the other way around. The US version of Kubrick's last film, "Eyes Wide Shut", had a scene censored in the US, because the MPAA ratings board didn't like the way some characters "moved" while having sex. AFAIK, the US DVD release is censored, while the overseas version is not.
More information here, here, and here.
Whoops. Should have read:
"I could write a license that explains your right to eat bananas with four paragraphs..."
This idea is interesting, but flawed. All you are measuring is the volume of certain types of text, not their impact.
I could write a license that explains your right to eat bananas, and a few sentences that give me the right to drain your bank account, elope with your daughter, and reposses your cat.
Use Debian. I'm not saying that it's immune to cruft, but the fact that they have close to 9000 packages which all comply with the Debian Policy (as well as the FHS) means that everything plays nice together, and if it doesn't, it's a bug. There's even a tool called Cruft, which will locate cruft on your system.
Just like to chime in and say that I've had an Inspiron 8100 for around 6 months.
I had to send it back within two weeks for having a defective LCD panel. Pixels were gradually getting stuck partially on, making the display look like a burnt CRT in places.
I also just had to have the hard drive replaced. After it went into low power mode, it wouldn't spin back up.
"First, what do I do when someone submits a patch that violates my 'mission'? Should I try to be democratic about it and try to add it? Should I ignore it? What should I say to the contributor?"
Just explain how you feel about the patch, and your reasons for not wanting to include it. They can always maintain their own fork with their own patches, even if you don't like them.
"What if I get a patch that I don't understand? Perhaps it is garbage. Perhaps it is over my head and too complex for me to see how I can integrate it and still see the structure of my whole project."
Ask for clarification? Apply it and run the result in a sandbox to see what it does.
"What if someone gets angry and decides to fork the project? Under GPL, they would have the right to do this, but the excess competition could be unbeneficial when it would have been better for the contributor to wait for me to be ready for their suggestions at a later time."
Tough luck, you can't do anything about it. You can maintain your version, and they can maintain theirs. You can take code you like from theirs, and they can take code they like from yours.
It's really not that hard. You take what you like, code what you like, and others do the same.
"What did the slashdot user use for birth control? His personality."
I'm sure your godawful sig would work just as well.
Orbital - "In Sides". Try to find the earlier release with the 28-minute long version of "The Box". It's awesome.
Juno Reactor - "Bible of Dreams". Absolutely amazing IDM.
Propellerheads - decksanddrumsandrockandroll. Great DNB. Also, try to find the track "Props Got Mo' Skills" from their "Bang On!" CDS. It was recorded live with a turntable, a sampler, and a microphone. Great.
VNV Nation - "Standing/Burning Empires". This was a limited edition, and is hard to come by, but their best release. Their most recent, "Futureperfect", is good, but S/BE is the best. Great live show, too.
The Moog Cookbook - any release. These guys are great, they cover songs with classic synths. Pretty eclectic stuff.
Keoki - "Ego-Trip". Great DJ-mix stuff.
Most of the other recommendations I've seen have been quite good, so listen to them. Personally, I've gotten bored with the crap Electronica/Techno these days, and have turned to Industrial/EBM music. Some notable artists/albums you might enjoy:
Front Line Assewmbly - "Tactical Neural Implant". Widely regarded as their best album. I prefer the earlier (& harder to find) "Gashed Senses & Crossfire" or "Caustic Grip". Their more recent "Implode" is also very good.
Delerium - "Poem". Mellow, ambient side-project of Front Line Assembly. Very very good.
Contagion - "Contaminent PCB". Good EBM.
Front 242 - "Front By Front". Classic EBM.
Einsturzende Neubauten - "Silence is Sexy". Ye Olde Industrial. Older relases had lots of noise (aka Avant Garde or Experimental) elements & were mostly in German. More recent releases like SiS & "Ende Neu" are less harsh and feature some tracks in English. A seminal Industrial act.
Chemlab - "Burn Out at the Hydrogen Bar". One of my all-time favorite albums. Has lots of distorted guitar power-chords, stay away if you dislike that sort of thing. The earlier "10 Ton Pressure" was more electronic, and can be found on the "Magnetic Fields Remixes" release, since it's been out of print for a decade.
Mentallo & The Fixer - "Burnt Beyond Recognition". Fabulous release. Their other releases can't even approach the awesome power of this album.
Suicide Commando - "Mindstrip". A recent release, very aggressive EBM.
Well, that's probably enough, since I'm drifting wildly off-topic. Oh, and make sure you go to Metropolis Records, they release huge amounts of Industrial/Electronic music.
Come on. I fail to see how anyone could take my joke seriously, even someone spoon-fed Microsoft propaganda.
If anything, seeing all the false claims Microsoft has made about the GPL clumped together like that should make people question those claims.
Using humor to criticize is not a new concept. Your statement is akin to saying that political cartoons that satirize the President's actions since 9/11 promote terrorism, and both statements are equally false.
Yeah, but CVS is licensed under the GPL, which means that all Microsoft code in CVS would have to be copylefted, too! This is because the GPL is a viral cancerous anti-american pac-man. A document imbued with pure satanic evil, created by the twisted genius of Richard M. Stallman, who stands poised to destroy the world economy at the drop of a hat.
Or so I've read.
I can understand the sentiment, but...
I used to spend quite a bit of time in various Linux IRC channels, and when someone had a question, I would answer it. But it gets pretty irritating just sticking their question into google and spitting the answer back out. After a while, I would say 'search google'. Some people went into a frenzy, claiming they did search google, and it didn't have anything - blatant lies, since their answer was invariably within the results on the first page when I searched - and generally getting pissy at me for not spweing out whatever knowledge they requested.
Those people do far more to harm the newbie Linux community than anyone else, since they waste the time of people who could be helping with genuine problems instead of 'how do i install nvidia drivers?' or 'how do i set up ppp?', as well as driving people away from helping newbies. I simply won't help anyone I don't know personally any more, since once you answer one question, people expect you to hold their hand all the way through whatever it is they are trying to do. It ends up frustrating me, as well as them.
Maybe it's just me though, I never did like tech support.
Funny. I was under the impression that BSD software built the internet. As far as I know, 4.2BSD was the first UNIX to contain a TCP/IP stack, and you can be sure it wasn't licensed under the GPL.
- Apache - sprang from the CERN httpd project, which has a BSD-style license.
- BIND - was originally created by the Berkeley hackers, and had a BSD license.
- Wu-FTPD - can't find an old version to check it's license, but it's certainly not GPLd, though the license is similar. Of course, Berkeley had a FTPd before Wu-FTPd was created.
So, no. It wasn't built on Free Software, either. It was built on BSD."Many Hartnell episodes are lost, but in the ones I've seen he was damned bloody serious. Quite boring really."
Yes, I just watched "The Ark", and he was very... sharp.
"As for Troughton, I'm not sure he meant to be funny."
Lines like the one about his next regeneration in "The Five Doctors" certainly show a humorous side. ("And who is this?" "That's colonel Crichton, my replacement." "Aah, yes. (coughs) Mine was pretty unpromising, too.")
"Jon Pertwee was deadly serious."
He always came off as mischevious to me. For example, when he escapes from the hospital in "Spearhead from Space."