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Unfortunately for them, they run Windows as their primary desktop and thus, in order to run their remote app, they have 2 choices

What about just using X11 native on Windows?

I even have users asking for VNC on the server... LOL Hey, man you're not alone on this host!

Well, you could set up multiple instances vnc terminal server or get users to launch their own independent sessions. Perhaps you are thinking of X11VNC which does let you take control of the console session.

I think that Wayland developers are that kind of users with that kind of needs.

I wish it was so. Most likely is they want to leave their mark no matter what anybody needs or wants. Others need to justify a paycheck. Some believe in their personal brilliance but they all end up like Ozymandias.

Or do a Google search for "jeroen sixxs". You'll hit the motherlode, including these gems (among many):

http://en.linuxreviews.org/SixXS
http://www.koopman.me/2008/04/stay-away-from-sixxs-run-by-a-couple-kids/
https://rejo.zenger.nl/misc/1221048210.php

You're missing the fact that an IPv6 /64 is what a home user gets, not the total address space. The IPv6 address space is 128 bits, meaning you get 2^64 blocks of 2^64 addresses.

Meaning every square millimeter of the earths surface can be assigned approximately 667 quadrillion unique addresses. With your math, I personally can assign every 0.29cm^2 of the Earth an address out of my block alone.
Please see:
http://en.linuxreviews.org/Why_you_want_IPv6

Please see: http://en.linuxreviews.org/Why_you_want_IPv6

I'll paste the important part, but the main point is, the amount of matter required to even store all of the addresses available in the IPv6 address space doesn't exist on Earth with current technology. Adding the matter to Earth to just be able to store a list of all the addresses would result in our planet collapsing into a black hole long before we finished creating the list, let alone actually using it for anything.

A /48 alone has enough address space to literally IPv6 enable every single device on the planet, and there are
roughly 2^48 of them available in the IPv6 address space! So we've got support for untold billions of planets like ours with everything having its own unique address.

That, to me, qualifies as future proof.

Some Very Huge numbers
Compare the numbers.. ..and realize why IPv6 is great:

Total number of IPv4 IP Addresses: 4,294,967,296
Number of IP Addresses in a IPv6 /64 prefix, the typical space a home user gets: 18,446,744,073,709,551,616
IPv6 gives citizens the opportunity to become real Internet participants. IPv4 makes citizens into passive consumers who are only able to connect to compartmentalized networks run by companies or governments. This is why the establishment does not want IPv6.

There is a total of 2^128, or 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 unique IPv6 adresses. That's roughly 667 quadrillion addresses per square millimeter of the Earth's surface!

Its already well defined, there is no need for anyone to 'agree' on it, it was agreed on years ago.

You are confusing NAT and PAT. I seriously doubt you use NAT anywhere. You are likely refering to PAT, NAT just translates addresses from one to another, a one to one mapping, one address external is used by one address internal. What you are used to using is PAT, with is Port and Address translation, which allows for one external address and many internal addresses.

NATing between IPv6 and IPv4 is well defined and not difficult to do, there are already plenty of cheapy boxes for home use that do it. Hell mine will even setup an IPv6 Tunnel to someplace like he.net.

PAT on the other hand is something no one cares about because the ridiculous amount of IPv6 addresses means we can just give EVERYONE a /64 and they can use REAL NAT rather than PAT to get the job done.

Finally, part of the IPv6 protocol requires support for making IPv4 address space available over IPv6. Practically any router on the planet which supports both IPv4 and IPv6 will have the support to deal with both and bridge between them.

So your statement is incorrect in that NAT is supported by pretty much every router that supports IPv6, what you are thinking of is not NAT, its PAT which no one in the IPv6 world cares about since its an old hack that doesn't need to exist in the new world of IPv6. Because of that, no routers are going to bother supporting it.

For reference, since the defacto standard at the moment appears to be giving individual users a /64 block, From: http://en.linuxreviews.org/Why_you_want_IPv6

Number of IP Addresses in a IPv6 /64 prefix, the typical space a home user gets: 18,446,744,073,709,551,616

IPv6 gives citizens the opportunity to become real Internet participants. IPv4 makes citizens into passive consumers who are only able to connect to compartmentalized networks run by companies or governments. This is why the establishment does not want IPv6.

There is a total of 2^128, or 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 unique IPv6 adresses. That's roughly 667 quadrillion addresses per square millimeter of the Earth's surface!

Basically, we can not possibly exhaust this address space on the planet earth, there simply isn't enough matter on the planet to do so, and adding the matter required to do so would result in a gravitaional singularity forming as the matter collapsed onto itself. So ... there is no actual NEED to do it with IPv6.

If you wanted to pick something to worry about, it would probably be the lack of stateful firewalling in those home/cheapie routers which the NATs of today effectively provide a outbound only initiation of connections, with IPv6 and the fact that cheapie routers aren't firewalling by default, we'll end up with a lot more machines fully exposed to the Internet by default.

If you think 14,000 pages of yesterdays "secrets" delivered by court order are enough to make things work with today's M$ formats, you have been sleeping for the last 25 years.

This whole discussion is crazy because KDE (and desktop) and Gnome both have free groupware stacks. There is no "hole" in the stack, there's just a hole in the submitter's knowledge.

I hate to agree with you, but there's an important point in what you're saying... http://linuxreviews.org/dictionary/Backdoor/ It is possible to write a compiler that is capable of recognizing a piece of code to allow for the insertion of a backdoor. It has been done, it isn't that hard. Heuristics would allow it to recognize patterns of code similar to that. Compilers have been written that allow a person to compile the compiler's source, which in turn injects the code to both infect itself if it recognizes itself, or infect a target program if that is compiled. In this way, users can see generations of clean code, and still not see the actual faults. The up-side is that legislation like this is a step in the right direction. More important than anything else, it's recognition that there is the possibility for non-verifiable voting records to get hacked and go completely unnoticed. With a paper trail, there's at least a means for verification. The reason that computerized systems are nice are that IF the system is actually functioning properly, it doesn't require teams of people working for hours on end shuffling through endless amounts of identical strips of paper trying to count little dots. It simplifies the equation, and allows what many people are looking for: instant gratification. That's the point of technology. That's the same reason we have robots in car factories. People break down when asked to perform the same task millions of times. Ideally, this bill gets put in place, people fight it, and the issue will be discussed, contemplated, and eventually solved.

With gentoo if you have an ebuild version 1.0.0 of a piece of software and you want version 1.0.1, then most of the time you can get a valid ebuild for v1.0.1 with the single command "mv foobar-1.0.{0,1}.ebuild". If the dependances have changed this might not work, even then you can just open the ebuild with a text editor and fix it. (see e.g. http://linuxreviews.org/gentoo/ebuilds/)

I use Ubuntu, but I find the flexibility of ebuild really tempting.

I new copyright law was passed in July last year, as mentioned on Linux Reviews, but that doesn't really answer the question "Why now?".

What planet do you live on? There's lot's excitement for people who discover GNU/Linux. Expectations are typically low, thanks to massive FUD campaigns. A by product of that FUD is an air of the dangerous and new that's irresistible to many. Those that bother to try and stick with it long enough to overcome the bad habits of commercial software are amply rewarded. In the end, they find the joy of free software, which continues to grow. Browsing software repositories is like walking through a candy store where everything is free and the candy only gets better as time goes on. New programs make it feel like Christmas all year long. What does the five year and counting M$ train wreck release cycle have to match that? Zip, zero, zilch, hype, FUD and other hot air.

Most of the people I know have barely heard of free software and are heavily FUDed about it. They have this strange notion that it's hard to use and won't work with their hardware. Some even confuse it with copyright violation and think it's somehow tainted and immoral. Big players, like IBM, Lowes, Chrysler, etc, have helped to alleviate the "rebel" image but the FUD still stick because the big dumb vendors like Dell still don't offer a GNU/Linux desktop machines for end users.

Anyone who's used a GNU/Linux system for any length of time knows the FUD for the BS but the discovery never ends. Media players are a prime example. I've been using free software since Red Hat 5.x in 1998 and I've watched a steady and constant improvement. Back then, things were so nasty I did not even bother with sound. Then came vorbis, sox, autoconfiguration, ALSA, xine and suddenly audio is easy. Today, you can get live CDs that run Amarok, which has to be one of the finest media players available. Amarok excels as a media player as Konqueror and Firefox excel as browsers. Everywhere you look at a GNU/Linux system you see more excellence. The product is greater than the sum of the parts and M$ can't keep up to save their life. Hell, they are finally getting a browser with tabs and a multiple desktop GUI, but it's so bloated and top heavy with, virus checking and DRM it won't even work.

The final, unmatchable and exciting discovery is how free software really works. Far from being evil, free software is morally superior. No free software project has ever sued a public school for copying a text editor and none ever will misuse the government and laws in such a hideous way. What Microsoft dissmisses as "Communism" is actually co-operative capitalism and free market innovation at it's finest. Getting something for nothing and finding out that's the way it should have been all along feels great. The lies and harm M$ heaps on free software all backfire and the user is left with an unshakable commitment to their own software freedom.

Somehow, I think Daniel Cutberth, 28, east London, arrested on January 20th and the Solaris using, Lynx toting 28-year-old east Londoner arrested about the same time are one and the same.

So much for the "Lynx theory".

You know how long it takes to compile Firefox and Thunderbird?

Sure; just ask Gentoo's genlop.

genlop -t mozilla
Average time: ~28 minutes

genlop -t mozilla-firefox
Average time: ~25 minutes

Wow, it is certainly amazing to see how little of a difference there is between these two times.

He had Actinomycosis.
Brave guy to keep working as sick as he was.
You can rad about it here-
http://linuxreviews.org/news/2004/11/17_0_slackwar e_PAT/

``I hope you do not mind I recycled them at http://en.linuxreviews.org/Ssh''

I most certainly don't mind, otherwise I wouldn't have posted them here. You might want to change the wording, though. It sounds a bit strange the way it stands. If you do that, could you also change the link to my site to read "inglorion" instead of "Bob"; I prefer to use my handle rather than my name when it's not about personal communication.

Anyway, thanks for putting it there!

..on any given day.

Box #1:
grep "authentication failure"
/var/log/messages|wc -l
1362

Box #2:
grep "authentication failure" /var/log/messages|wc -l
1520

Thank you very much for more great SSH tips, I hope you do not mind I recycled them at http://en.linuxreviews.org/Ssh (it is a wiki, so I can easily remove your work if you mind, or you can do it..) :-)

smtpd_sender_restrictions = reject_unknown_address
smtpd_recipient_restrictions =
permit_sasl_authenticated,
reject_non_fqdn_sender,
reject_non_fqdn_recipient,
reject_unknown_sender_domain,
reject_unknown_recipient_domain,
reject_unauth_pipelining,
permit_mynetworks,
reject_unauth_destination,
reject_rbl_client ombie.dnsbl.sorbs.net,
reject_rbl_client relays.ordb.org,
reject_rbl_client opm.blitzed.org,
reject_rbl_client list.dsbl.org,
reject_rbl_client sbl.spamhaus.org,
permit

We are also using SpamAssassinn / razor / clamav using amavisd-new. The main mail account used for everything from clients webmaster@ mail to contact@ are getting numerous spam daily, yet only three or perhaps four a month get delivered... and those are added to our body_checks.txt which is publicly available for download by anyone, including spammers who I have a feeling makes spammers think twice and clean us off their list when they find themselves listed there using search engines etc.

You might run into some problems with TCP rate limiting though - it's probably best to run some non-TCP protocol over the satellite link.

http://linuxreviews.org/news/2005/06/0100b_the_pir ate_bay_joke/

Upgrading there servers apparntly

http://linuxreviews.org/news/2005/0...irate_bay_jo ke/

English corroboration can be found here.

porthole

I use Linux and I never hard spyware installed on my computer. Obviously, I also never had to install a anti-spyware program. If you are using a OS that allows spyware, then you are taking a risk. It is you choice do to so. But do not cry about your data loss. You took the risk. You did not use Linux.

Try it. Once. You can download a Live CD and try it even without installing it. If the 5 minutes this takes was a waste of time, then too bad. But if not, then you may just learn how to use a secure, modern OS that does not allow viruses for the rest of your life.

P.S: It's my birthday today. Actually. (as if anyone cares).

Isn't the amount of money thrown at computer security a little high compared to the cost of setting up a free firewall like iptables and verifying that it works with nmap a little high?

What I really like about Gaim is the libraries, they have been the basis for many other excellent tools. Like BitlBee http://www.bitlbee.org/, a very nice gateway that allows you to talk to anyone using anything through your irc client. Aterm + Screen + Irssi is my personal favorite communication's suite.

BitlBee Guide - Talk to msn, icq and jabber contacts using any IRC client: http://linuxreviews.org/software/irc/bitlbee/

Check out the X.org 6.8 Screenshots at LinuxReviews, showing off the new real transparency and drop shadow technology. These things may not increase your shareholder value, but it will allow you to impress people in a big way.

I like FOSS too, but be reasonable. There are flaws in FOSS, as well. Do you remember this from not too long ago?

My personal preference:

screen + aterm + irssi + bitlbee

Screen is a full screen window manager, keep something running on a server and detach/attach from anywayere

aterm is a nice terminal for X11.

irssi is a CLI irc client. Since Bitlbee acts as a normal IRC server, any IRC client can be used. Even CGI::IRC, there are several sites that allow you to use MSN/ICQ/JABBER/AIM/etc from a web page.

Bitlbee is a IRC gateway server. Basically it's a irc server where you can add IM accounts. The gateway gives you a "irc channel" with ALL your contacts, whatever they are using.

More: BitlBee Guide - Talk to msn, icq and jabber contacts using any IRC client.

NOTE: The setup has TWO flaws:
1) You can not exchange files (no filetransfer).
2) Bitlbee does not support GPG encryption for secure commuciation (available in jabber clients like gjabber and psi).

Rule of thumb: Original IM providers clients are never the best choice.

My personal preference:

screen + aterm + irssi + bitlbee

Screen is a full screen window manager, keep something running on a server and detach/attach from anywayere

aterm is a nice terminal for X11.

irssi is a CLI irc client. Since Bitlbee acts as a normal IRC server, any IRC client can be used. Even CGI::IRC, there are several sites that allow you to use MSN/ICQ/JABBER/AIM/etc from a web page.

Bitlbee is a IRC gateway server. Basically it's a irc server where you can add IM accounts. The gateway gives you a "irc channel" with ALL your contacts, whatever they are using.

More: BitlBee Guide - Talk to msn, icq and jabber contacts using any IRC client.

NOTE: The setup has TWO flaws:
1) You can not exchange files (no filetransfer).
2) Bitlbee does not support GPG encryption for secure commuciation (available in jabber clients like gjabber and psi).

Rule of thumb: Original IM providers clients are never the best choice.

It's been quite a while since I made my site LinuxReviews IPv6 Ready. This has made me look at the IPv6-ready Web Server list from time to time and sadly there is very few sites out there that are IPv6 capable.

It is nice to know Tor supports standard protocols like http://. But do you really believe those "Tor Ready!" websites will start popping up any time soon? I don't think so. The majority of todays websites do not validate, doesn't support IPv6 and many don't even render correctly in the majority of web browsers. Will Tor-Ready be prioritized higher by the average webmaster than these and other more serious issues?

I am also very skeptical to the bandwidth requirements and the latency. My Ipv6 connection gives me full bandwidth, but I do notice that connections going through the tunnel are, in fact, much more latent than normal native Ipv4 connections. So why would I prefer to visit some website using Tor when the real difference is a longer loading period? Yes, what the author says about low latency may be true. It may have less latency than alternatives, but do not try to tell me I won't notice significantly higher latency if I try to IRC through a TOR connection.

People are talking about Ipv6 becoming standard in 5-6 years, I will be amazed if tor still exists at that point in time and even more amazed if it's actually implemented on more than 0.0001% of the Internet's services.

It's been quite a while since I made my site LinuxReviews IPv6 Ready. This has made me look at the IPv6-ready Web Server list from time to time and sadly there is very few sites out there that are IPv6 capable.

It is nice to know Tor supports standard protocols like http://. But do you really believe those "Tor Ready!" websites will start popping up any time soon? I don't think so. The majority of todays websites do not validate, doesn't support IPv6 and many don't even render correctly in the majority of web browsers. Will Tor-Ready be prioritized higher by the average webmaster than these and other more serious issues?

I am also very skeptical to the bandwidth requirements and the latency. My Ipv6 connection gives me full bandwidth, but I do notice that connections going through the tunnel are, in fact, much more latent than normal native Ipv4 connections. So why would I prefer to visit some website using Tor when the real difference is a longer loading period? Yes, what the author says about low latency may be true. It may have less latency than alternatives, but do not try to tell me I won't notice significantly higher latency if I try to IRC through a TOR connection.

People are talking about Ipv6 becoming standard in 5-6 years, I will be amazed if tor still exists at that point in time and even more amazed if it's actually implemented on more than 0.0001% of the Internet's services.

Constant death was a necessity in the days of video arcades... This is why I love MAME, the archade game emulator. You got unlimited funds.. just press a key, and play on. Instant death can also be avoided by saving games. It's all the 4500+ games you played as a child, only on your PC.

The strenght of Gentoo Linux is that it does not really matter what version you are using. emerge sync and emerge -u world, wait a while and there: you are running the latest version. The install has not changed much, so this actually means nothing to us Gentoo users. You get the latest version whatever Live CD you use to install, only the pre-buildt GRP packages are different on new releases.

This is why you should try Gentoo today, it is excellent for both servers and desktops. Desktop users can choose to use the latest ("masked"), bleeding edge versions, while older stable packages should be preferred for production environments.

The Gentoo Portage tree has more packages in it's database than any other Linux distribution. The freedom to choose.

There is also a sweet front-end for Gentoo's portage called porthole. It allows you to search through the package database from a GUI GTK interface. You can browse the portage database online to find out how much software is available without installing Gentoo.

..try Gentoo today! It's excellent.

The strenght of Gentoo Linux is that it does not really matter what version you are using. emerge sync and emerge -u world, wait a while and there: you are running the latest version. The install has not changed much, so this actually means nothing to us Gentoo users. You get the latest version whatever Live CD you use to install, only the pre-buildt GRP packages are different on new releases.

This is why you should try Gentoo today, it is excellent for both servers and desktops. Desktop users can choose to use the latest ("masked"), bleeding edge versions, while older stable packages should be preferred for production environments.

The Gentoo Portage tree has more packages in it's database than any other Linux distribution. The freedom to choose.

There is also a sweet front-end for Gentoo's portage called porthole. It allows you to search through the package database from a GUI GTK interface. You can browse the portage database online to find out how much software is available without installing Gentoo.

..try Gentoo today! It's excellent.

The strenght of Gentoo Linux is that it does not really matter what version you are using. emerge sync and emerge -u world, wait a while and there: you are running the latest version. The install has not changed much, so this actually means nothing to us Gentoo users. You get the latest version whatever Live CD you use to install, only the pre-buildt GRP packages are different on new releases.

This is why you should try Gentoo today, it is excellent for both servers and desktops. Desktop users can choose to use the latest ("masked"), bleeding edge versions, while older stable packages should be preferred for production environments.

The Gentoo Portage tree has more packages in it's database than any other Linux distribution. The freedom to choose.

There is also a sweet front-end for Gentoo's portage called porthole. It allows you to search through the package database from a GUI GTK interface. You can browse the portage database online to find out how much software is available without installing Gentoo.

..try Gentoo today! It's excellent.

There is a total of 2^128, or 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,45 6 unique IPv6 adresses.

Isn't this enough?

/risking off-topic moderation, but this had to be corrected

Also, how will I be to apply the patch and where is it? Do I have to recompile my kernel?

If you had read the article, you would know that they provide the patches right there for (I think) ever affected kernel.

A bigger deal would have been made of it, but it would have only taken about a minute of my time.

A minute of your time, a few weeks of Microsoft's time.

here's a direct link to the patch.

not whoring. ;)

Assembly is great because you can kill any linux system you got ssh access to using assembly.

Hardware requirements

These are general rules of thumb. KDE will start on a Pentium 100 with 64 MB RAM, but it will run horribly slow.

For a hot new box with lots of RAM and a fast CPU I recommend KDE 3.x or Gnome 2.x. Gnome is bloated and KDE is even more bloated. This is great, but all those fancy features demand more cpu and ram.

XFCE4 is a very nice complete fast and lightweight Desktop Environment and is probably the best choice for old, but not anicent hardware. The ROX desktop is another good light choice.

For really old hardware you should use something simple to draw icons on your desktop (like idesk) and a fast window manger like fluxbox (based on blackbox), waimea or icewm