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Slashdot Load Testing (Continues) Posted by CmdrTaco on Mon August 30, 02:13 PM EDT
from the ain't-this-fun? dept.
Fixed so far:- Dropped http MaxClients down to 75
- increased mysql max_connections to to 250
( Read More... | 190 of 190 comments )
Help Test Our New Server! Posted by CmdrTaco on Mon August 30, 12:51 PM EDT
from the load-testing-is-cool dept.
So here it is: A mirror of Slashdot (as of a week or so ago). It exists now for testing: So feel free to post comments and help test the new load balancer. For the curious, the new system has 3 http machines (P2s) and one mysql box (a dual P2) with a load balancer trying to keep everyone all equally busy. And its about time: the old setup has been really stressed out trying to keep up with everyone. Anyway, don't get to attached to any of your comments here, when we're satisfied that the new setup is stable, I'm gonna mirror over Slashdot and make the final switcheroo.( Read More... | 335 of 335 comments )
Interview: Mandrake Answers Posted by Roblimo on Fri August 20, 12:00 PM EDT
from the x-leads-to-enlightenment dept.
Monday a whole bunch of people had questions for Mandrake, one of the heavies behind Enlightenment. Slashdot Moderators picked the best ones. We forwarded them, unedited, to Mandrake on Tuesday. His (excellent) answers appear below.( Read More... | 11562 bytes in body | 9 of 9 comments )
Geeks in the Space: The Attack of 5 Posted by Hemos on Thu August 19, 04:10 AM EDT
from the more-stuff-to-listen-to dept.
Well, we've done it again. Yes, Geeks in Space, Episode 5 has been released. In it, we lament the lack of good news, talk about anti-matter, and the hiring of hacks by companies. You can also become...educated in my long-term plan for the hostile takeover of a certain Redmond-based company.( Read More... | 14 of 17 comments )
Apple announces Darwin 0.3 Posted by Hemos on Thu August 19, 12:24 AM EDT
from the more-to-download dept.
J. FoxGlov writes "Macintouch reports that v0.3 of Darwin, the open-source foundation for Mac OS X Server is available on Apple's Public Source site. Apple Developer Connection members can get it on CD for $29. Check Public Source for more about the Darwin SDK and the new Darwin. "( Read More... | 67 of 68 comments )
Microsoft's New Audio Format Cracked Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 05:23 PM EDT
from the secure-this-buddy dept.
Barcode (JPB) was one of the first to send us the word from Wired that the new audio format Microsoft introduced (Two days ago), supposed to be a secure format (resricting playback) has already been cracked. Dimension Music first carried the news-and what a name the crack has *grin*.( Read More... | 238 of 240 comments )
Find your Star Wars Twin Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 05:16 PM EDT
from the what-freud-really-wanted-to-do dept.
The_Monk writes "Ever wanted to know your Star Wars twin? Now this incredibly important information can be verified. It placed me the likes of Astro Mech Droids, 'Tarkin, and R2-D2. " Ahem-as the lost twin of Lando (extraversion), I have a Cloud City I'd like to sell someone. But I'm about as agreeable as Boba, always a bonus.( Read More... | 94 of 94 comments )
Now Police Can 'See' Through Walls Posted by Roblimo on Wed August 18, 12:40 PM EDT
from the move-along-there's-nothing-to-see-here dept.
Bram writes "Just found an article about another way to invade privacy." He's talking about hand-held radar systems police can use to detect breathing, beating hearts or other motion through walls and other obstacles. Sounds like a declassified version of the Ground Support Radar [GSR] units we used years ago in the Army. I can see why police would want them, and I can also see why Bram considers them a privacy threat. Depends on how they're used, I suppose.( Read More... | 205 of 205 comments )
FreeType posts patent warning Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 11:53 AM EDT
from the i-want-my-verdonna dept.
Anonymous Coward writes "According to the the FreeType web page, there have been some new concerns raised about Apple's patents on TrueType. I hope this doesn't affect the planned TrueType support in XF86 4. " It appears that they are still checking into the issue, but I'd really like TrueType support. A lot. Let's hope Apple responds nicely.( Read More... | 202 of 206 comments )
Microsoft to "publish code" to Instant Messenger Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 09:49 AM EDT
from the want-more-market-share dept.
VFVTHUNTER writes "According to this article at cnet, MS, in an attempt to gain a share of AOL's Instant Messenger Service Market, announced today it is going to publish the protocol to its own messenger service. " It's important to note it's NOT the source code, just the protocol.( Read More... | 192 of 192 comments )
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Comments:383 | Votes:24104Features The latest installment of Geeks in Space is up at The Sync. We talk about the Red Hat IPO, crazy naming schemes, and much more.
Perhaps you are seeking Jon Katz's series of articles related to recent events in Colorado. These articles include Voices from the Hellmouth, More Stories from the Hellmouth or The Price of Being Different,
With all the hype about the recent MindCraft Linux/NT benchmarks, you might be interested in reading ESR's Response to the Mindcraft Fiasco
For something different, try reading my little essay Thoughts from the Furnace about the internet, and flame.
Update: 05/03 01:48 by CT : Past Features
Mozilla BOF at O'Reilly OSS Convention
cvs-mirror.mozilla.org Is (no longer) Sick
Mozilla Birds-Of-A-Feather Session
Load Test the New Slashdot Setup
Feature: Is Open Source for Windows Less Important?
LinuxPPC challenge rides again
Review: The First 20 Million is Always the Hardest
Star Office to become Open Source?
Palm Gameboy Emulator update & screens
Your Hotmail Account Has Been Exposed
Securing The Home Linux System: Updated
Segfault.org: South Park Story
TWO New Slackware Mailing Lists More LinuxNewbie.org...
Magnetic spacecraft propulsion
Interview with Borland Sr. Product Mgr
Oracle Offer Linux Technology Track More LDN...
Wednesday August 18
Scientists create digital bug-life (131)
New Space Propulsion System Uses Sun's Magnetic Field (120)
Cassini visits Earth (175)
Tuesday August 17
Playstation 2 Outperforms Everything? (240)
SIGGRAPH '99 OpenGL/Linux BOF Minutes (37)
Dell Belgium forced to install Windows only? (75)
Relativity Used to Devise New Form of Crypt (24)
Robots Battle to the Death! (124)
Will PPC Become the Preferred Linux Platform? (277)
IBMs 15 hour Laptop Batteries (72)
Feature: After the Red Hat IPO Ball is Over (236)
Feature:Obscurity as Security (194)
l0pht develops Sniffer Sniffer (101)
NASA collecting anti-matter with giant ballon (109)
CIA releases its own X-Files (111)
Packet Storm Security is back (36)
Monday August 16
Sun Claims MS Steals Vision (162)
Scientists Find Evidence of Black Holes Sucking (163)
MS Dirty Pool Against AOL? (204)
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Slashdot Load Testing (Continues) Posted by CmdrTaco on Mon August 30, 02:13 PM EDT
from the ain't-this-fun? dept.
Fixed so far:- Dropped http MaxClients down to 75
- increased mysql max_connections to to 250
( Read More... | 190 of 190 comments )
Help Test Our New Server! Posted by CmdrTaco on Mon August 30, 12:51 PM EDT
from the load-testing-is-cool dept.
So here it is: A mirror of Slashdot (as of a week or so ago). It exists now for testing: So feel free to post comments and help test the new load balancer. For the curious, the new system has 3 http machines (P2s) and one mysql box (a dual P2) with a load balancer trying to keep everyone all equally busy. And its about time: the old setup has been really stressed out trying to keep up with everyone. Anyway, don't get to attached to any of your comments here, when we're satisfied that the new setup is stable, I'm gonna mirror over Slashdot and make the final switcheroo.( Read More... | 335 of 335 comments )
Interview: Mandrake Answers Posted by Roblimo on Fri August 20, 12:00 PM EDT
from the x-leads-to-enlightenment dept.
Monday a whole bunch of people had questions for Mandrake, one of the heavies behind Enlightenment. Slashdot Moderators picked the best ones. We forwarded them, unedited, to Mandrake on Tuesday. His (excellent) answers appear below.( Read More... | 11562 bytes in body | 9 of 9 comments )
Geeks in the Space: The Attack of 5 Posted by Hemos on Thu August 19, 04:10 AM EDT
from the more-stuff-to-listen-to dept.
Well, we've done it again. Yes, Geeks in Space, Episode 5 has been released. In it, we lament the lack of good news, talk about anti-matter, and the hiring of hacks by companies. You can also become...educated in my long-term plan for the hostile takeover of a certain Redmond-based company.( Read More... | 14 of 17 comments )
Apple announces Darwin 0.3 Posted by Hemos on Thu August 19, 12:24 AM EDT
from the more-to-download dept.
J. FoxGlov writes "Macintouch reports that v0.3 of Darwin, the open-source foundation for Mac OS X Server is available on Apple's Public Source site. Apple Developer Connection members can get it on CD for $29. Check Public Source for more about the Darwin SDK and the new Darwin. "( Read More... | 67 of 68 comments )
Microsoft's New Audio Format Cracked Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 05:23 PM EDT
from the secure-this-buddy dept.
Barcode (JPB) was one of the first to send us the word from Wired that the new audio format Microsoft introduced (Two days ago), supposed to be a secure format (resricting playback) has already been cracked. Dimension Music first carried the news-and what a name the crack has *grin*.( Read More... | 238 of 240 comments )
Find your Star Wars Twin Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 05:16 PM EDT
from the what-freud-really-wanted-to-do dept.
The_Monk writes "Ever wanted to know your Star Wars twin? Now this incredibly important information can be verified. It placed me the likes of Astro Mech Droids, 'Tarkin, and R2-D2. " Ahem-as the lost twin of Lando (extraversion), I have a Cloud City I'd like to sell someone. But I'm about as agreeable as Boba, always a bonus.( Read More... | 94 of 94 comments )
Now Police Can 'See' Through Walls Posted by Roblimo on Wed August 18, 12:40 PM EDT
from the move-along-there's-nothing-to-see-here dept.
Bram writes "Just found an article about another way to invade privacy." He's talking about hand-held radar systems police can use to detect breathing, beating hearts or other motion through walls and other obstacles. Sounds like a declassified version of the Ground Support Radar [GSR] units we used years ago in the Army. I can see why police would want them, and I can also see why Bram considers them a privacy threat. Depends on how they're used, I suppose.( Read More... | 205 of 205 comments )
FreeType posts patent warning Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 11:53 AM EDT
from the i-want-my-verdonna dept.
Anonymous Coward writes "According to the the FreeType web page, there have been some new concerns raised about Apple's patents on TrueType. I hope this doesn't affect the planned TrueType support in XF86 4. " It appears that they are still checking into the issue, but I'd really like TrueType support. A lot. Let's hope Apple responds nicely.( Read More... | 202 of 206 comments )
Microsoft to "publish code" to Instant Messenger Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 09:49 AM EDT
from the want-more-market-share dept.
VFVTHUNTER writes "According to this article at cnet, MS, in an attempt to gain a share of AOL's Instant Messenger Service Market, announced today it is going to publish the protocol to its own messenger service. " It's important to note it's NOT the source code, just the protocol.( Read More... | 192 of 192 comments )
Unisys gif-lzw-license Model Changed
BeNews Is Moving - Outages Planned
Audio Buzz "Fixes" Announced
Austin BUG Meeting This Wednesday
ACE Bot, Devastation for Quake2
Be.com Frontpage Layout Updated Get more Be...
Alta Vista Search Alta Vista
any language Chinese Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Finnish French German Greek Hebrew Hungarian Icelandic Italian Japanese Korean Latvian Lithuanian Norwegian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Spanish Swedish
John Carmack Updated His
More Ass Kicking Quake Action...
What's Wrong with HTTP and Why It Doesn't Matter
A Brief History of Unix and the Internet
Author of sendmail on open-source and early days of email
Linus Torvalds on State of Linux
Creator of Tcl/Tk: Open-Source Creates Commercial Opportunities
Inside the Netscape Gecko Open Source Browser Team More TechNetCast
Review: Bowfinger - 'Funniest Eddie Murphy movie in a decade. Steve Martin showed...'
Review: Mickey Blue-Eyes - 'Not as funny as it could have been'
Feature: Robert Towne - From Chinatown to Hollywood. More from Hollywood Bitchslap
Slashdot Poll Preferred Compression
zip
gzip
bzip
compress
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[ Results | Polls ]
Comments:383 | Votes:24104Features The latest installment of Geeks in Space is up at The Sync. We talk about the Red Hat IPO, crazy naming schemes, and much more.
Perhaps you are seeking Jon Katz's series of articles related to recent events in Colorado. These articles include Voices from the Hellmouth, More Stories from the Hellmouth or The Price of Being Different,
With all the hype about the recent MindCraft Linux/NT benchmarks, you might be interested in reading ESR's Response to the Mindcraft Fiasco
For something different, try reading my little essay Thoughts from the Furnace about the internet, and flame.
Update: 05/03 01:48 by CT : Past Features
Mozilla BOF at O'Reilly OSS Convention
cvs-mirror.mozilla.org Is (no longer) Sick
Mozilla Birds-Of-A-Feather Session
Load Test the New Slashdot Setup
Feature: Is Open Source for Windows Less Important?
LinuxPPC challenge rides again
Review: The First 20 Million is Always the Hardest
Star Office to become Open Source?
Palm Gameboy Emulator update & screens
Your Hotmail Account Has Been Exposed
Securing The Home Linux System: Updated
Segfault.org: South Park Story
TWO New Slackware Mailing Lists More LinuxNewbie.org...
Magnetic spacecraft propulsion
Interview with Borland Sr. Product Mgr
Oracle Offer Linux Technology Track More LDN...
Wednesday August 18
Scientists create digital bug-life (131)
New Space Propulsion System Uses Sun's Magnetic Field (120)
Cassini visits Earth (175)
Tuesday August 17
Playstation 2 Outperforms Everything? (240)
SIGGRAPH '99 OpenGL/Linux BOF Minutes (37)
Dell Belgium forced to install Windows only? (75)
Relativity Used to Devise New Form of Crypt (24)
Robots Battle to the Death! (124)
Will PPC Become the Preferred Linux Platform? (277)
IBMs 15 hour Laptop Batteries (72)
Feature: After the Red Hat IPO Ball is Over (236)
Feature:Obscurity as Security (194)
l0pht develops Sniffer Sniffer (101)
NASA collecting anti-matter with giant ballon (109)
CIA releases its own X-Files (111)
Packet Storm Security is back (36)
Monday August 16
Sun Claims MS Steals Vision (162)
Scientists Find Evidence of Black Holes Sucking (163)
MS Dirty Pool Against AOL? (204)
Older Articles
Yesterday's EditionWeather24.com
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Most of this seems to refer to Linux 1.0I checked out the RFC refered to by Kruse. It refers to paper by V. Paxon that details severe problems with the Linux 1.0 TCP stack. However, on page 14 they describe the tests they made with 2.0.30 and 2.1.34, and most of the problems seem to have been fixed. They found what looks like a few minor issues that they communicated to the Linux people. They thank Eric Schenk, David S. Miller, Craig Metz and Alan Cox for their assistance in the acknowledgements section.
This article is the major reference for the RFC and is written by the same guy as the RFC. It also has a lot of tough criticism of other systems, including Solaris and several BSD-dervived stacks. Windows gets a fairly clean bill, and they are very critical of Trumpet Winsock.
I tried to check Dawson's paper, but his server seems to be down.
For the other problems in the RFC they were either clearly marked as BSD problems, or I couldn't follow up the references. (Either because there weren't any, or because they were paper and not online.) The RFC doesn't name names, so it's impossible to say which of the others Linux has been guilty of, or is guilty of.
I think Holger Kruse should tell us what his 4 workarounds are, that he has been forced to put in to work around Linux. Linux has plenty of stuff put in to work around other people's mistakes of course. I guess having to put that sort of thing in your code can make you arrogant.
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Take a look at muLinux (Micro Linux)
muLinux is probably the most versatile and interesting one-floppy-disk distribution of Linux out there. (Mr.) Michele Andreoli has written some incredible apps, such as an http server that's less than 1500 bytes in size. You can get X-windows on a second floppy, too. If you want it all (gcc compiler, ssh...), you'll have three floppies to deal with. I've been having lots of fun with this package...and very little bloat.
Check it out at www.sunsite.auc.dk/mulinux -
Re:Crystal Storage?
Check out FreakTech I think your find a link to silicon needle
device you talk about + a some more. -
General Linux (and unix) security links
Use shadow passwords. That way, a malicious web writer can't grab the encrypted passwords and try to break them. It's easy: "pwconv" is the (only) command to run if your system is relatively modern (this may be somewhat specific to the Linux implementation of the shadow password system?).
If you need to protect the users from each other, you might consider:
- Using Apache's suexec system. However, some people say that the system is so complex that there is risk of actually decreasing security due to misunderstandings; your milage may vary.
- If you use PHP, consider running it in 'safe mode'
Some general purpose Linux/unix related security links:
- The Security-HOWTO
- Kurt Seifried's Linux Administrators Security Guide (LASG)
- The IPCHAINS-HOWTO (packet filtering)
- The Firewall-HOWTO (rather out-dated)
- The World Wide Web Security FAQ
Finally: Keep your system up-to-date with the latest official patches. Consider joining the BugTraq mailing list.
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General Linux (and unix) security links
Use shadow passwords. That way, a malicious web writer can't grab the encrypted passwords and try to break them. It's easy: "pwconv" is the (only) command to run if your system is relatively modern (this may be somewhat specific to the Linux implementation of the shadow password system?).
If you need to protect the users from each other, you might consider:
- Using Apache's suexec system. However, some people say that the system is so complex that there is risk of actually decreasing security due to misunderstandings; your milage may vary.
- If you use PHP, consider running it in 'safe mode'
Some general purpose Linux/unix related security links:
- The Security-HOWTO
- Kurt Seifried's Linux Administrators Security Guide (LASG)
- The IPCHAINS-HOWTO (packet filtering)
- The Firewall-HOWTO (rather out-dated)
- The World Wide Web Security FAQ
Finally: Keep your system up-to-date with the latest official patches. Consider joining the BugTraq mailing list.
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General Linux (and unix) security links
Use shadow passwords. That way, a malicious web writer can't grab the encrypted passwords and try to break them. It's easy: "pwconv" is the (only) command to run if your system is relatively modern (this may be somewhat specific to the Linux implementation of the shadow password system?).
If you need to protect the users from each other, you might consider:
- Using Apache's suexec system. However, some people say that the system is so complex that there is risk of actually decreasing security due to misunderstandings; your milage may vary.
- If you use PHP, consider running it in 'safe mode'
Some general purpose Linux/unix related security links:
- The Security-HOWTO
- Kurt Seifried's Linux Administrators Security Guide (LASG)
- The IPCHAINS-HOWTO (packet filtering)
- The Firewall-HOWTO (rather out-dated)
- The World Wide Web Security FAQ
Finally: Keep your system up-to-date with the latest official patches. Consider joining the BugTraq mailing list.
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Connected to pulse radio technology ??
This reminds me of the pulse radio technology.
Measured before on slashdot.org and FreakTech
Maybe they have combined the pulse radio technology in a power grid modem.
The companies claim of gigabit/s is far faster that the europaen experiments, whish have transferee speed around megabit/s.
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Re:56k is a nasty hack
Well, ISDN is still a pretty expensive solution
Because it isn't mainstream. Also because of regulatory issues in the USA, as I understand it.
or not that much more bandwith
It's not so much the bandwidth, as the low latency, fast connects and total reliability
IDE isn't that bad. I certainly don't mind being able to add 17 gigs for less then 250.
But if IDE didn't exist you would be able to add 17 gigs of SCSI for less than 250. There's nothing inherently more expensive about SCSI, it's just that the existence of two incompatible standards has enabled the disk manufacturers to overcharge the high-enders, knowing they don't have the option of going to EIDE because limited cable lengths and the low maximum number of units would make it unusable. And the max cable lengths on EIDE are much shorter than people think. That's apart from all the other issues people have because IDE keeps running out of bits every other year.
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Go to the mirrors
Try the local Danish mirror - I'm downloading as we speak (write?)
My girlfriend told me I had a body like a God. Unfortunately I found out she's a buddhist. -
Don't forget PenguinPlay, GGI and GSI
PenguinPlay games SDK (probably the API that compares most closely to DirectX) at http://sunsite.auc.dk/penguinplay/.
GGI (General Graphics Interface, compares to DirectDraw, Direct3D and DirectInput portions of DirectX) at http://www.ggi-project.org/.
GSI (General Sound Interface) at http://wouters.www.cistron.nl/gsi/gsi.ht ml.
All these projects could use some help from any of you out there with a bit of free time.
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PenguinPlay Games SDK
There is a project similar to what you describe called PenguinPlay.
URL: http://sunsite.auc.dk/penguinplay/.
Please help this project along!!
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It's not MesaGL + other comments (DirectX sucks)
This is nitpicking, I know; sorry.
But Brian Paul has asked that it not be referred to as "MesaGL". It is the "Mesa graphics library" or "Mesa 3D library". It is OpenGL-compatible, but it is NOT a licensed implementation of OpenGL, which is why, I believe, he prefers people to not use "GL" with it.
Mesa is not all that similar to DirectX. Mesa is similar perhaps to a combination of DirectDraw and Direct3D (which are large parts of DirectX.) Mesa (and OpenGL) are much cleaner and better designed and more efficient. Direct3D has more features, although is a horrible nightmare to program. OpenGL is lower-level
I would hate to see DirectX on linux. DirectX is, techically, a total horrific kludge; and ONLY Microsoft could ever have gotten away with forcing something so awful down the throats of developers, hardware vendors and consumers. The linux world should be able to come up with a much cleaner design, but it is going slowly - there is not enough support.
Promising libs:
Clanlib (http://www.clanlib.org/.)
GGI (http://www.ggi-project.org/.)
PenguinPlay games SDK (http://sunsite.auc.dk/penguinplay/.) (This is the closest equivalent to DirectX in the free software world.)
To any developers out there with a bit of spare time, please support these projects!! Either directly, or write apps for them!
It would be ideal if we could see some major software vendor (with a commercial interest in seeing a decent cross-platform API which could be used to make games for Linux and Windows) could lend some full-time developers to one of these projects, such as PenguinPlay SDK and/or GGI.
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umHow does this relate, if at all, to PenguinPlay?
(Im a PenguinPlay dveloper)
I actually think PenguinPlay and that one fit together quite nicely. They are defining a standard client environment (i.e. for people wanting to play games) while PPlay is assembling/defining a suite of game *development* code/tools.
Anyway, well talk with them.
Cu
Christian
PS: Yup, I know that the PPlay homepage looks pretty dead. Our Webmaster disappeared some time ago and the new one starts to completely reorganize it. Will take some time. In the meanwhile the FAQ is really up-to-date. Promise
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Penguin Play
I found the Penguin Play link, it's here: Penguin Play