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OpenSSH 3.5 Released
Dan writes "Markus Friedl announces that OpenSSH 3.5 has just been released with notable updates since 3.4. It will be available from the mirrors listed at http://www.openssh.com/ shortly. Enhancements include bug fixes, improved support for Privilege Separation (Portability, Kerberos, PermitRootLogin handling), RSA blinding in order to avoid timing attacks against the RSA host key and much more. Congratulations are in order for the OpenSSH team's hard work and efforts."
Here's a blast from the past that I found in the Wayback Machine's archive of Slashdot. I'm not the original author but I thought it was wacky enough to be amusing.
Mods: please put this at -1 so it is easier to find. Thanks for your support!
Reading this article, I wonder about the usefulness of this. I personally think that "improved support for Privilege Separation" is pretty pointless. I think that "improved support to petrify Natalie Portman" would be a more productive use of taxpayer dollars.
I'm completely Libertarian.
As a Libertarian, I'm opposed to using taxpayer money to fund scientific research. But as a sensible human being, logic demands that ANY PRICE neccessary to turn Natalie Portman to stone MUST BE PAID. The taxpayers will understand that their money is being taken for a good cause.
Other than that, I'm completely Libertarian.
All taxation is evil and must be abolish, except for taxation used to fund research into transforming actress Natalie Portman into a nude marble statue. People should be required to pay 40% of their income towards this goal.
Other than that, I'm completely Libertarian.
Well, I *DO* think everyone in the world is also entitled to receive, from society if they are unable to afford one, exactly one (1) nude petrified teenage girl. Not neccessarily Ms. Portman, because there's only one of her, but SOME teenage girl.
Other than that, I'm completely Libertarian.
Of course, we don't have enough cute teenage girls in the world for everyone to have one. Therefore, I support the genetic engineering of teenage girls, and I support the citizenry being required to parent and raise these girls who, upon reaching the age of 17, will be turned over to the government for petrification.
Other than that, I'm completely Libertarian.
Those who are required to parent and raise these future statues will be given a 5% tax deduction. Those who are not required but volunteer will receive a 10% tax deduction.
Other than that, I'm completely Libertarian.
Some may say that cute teenage girls like Natalie Portman have the right not to be turned to stone. But I believe it's okay, because it's FOR THE GOOD OF SOCIETY.
Other than that, I'm completely Libertarian.
I also think European people have very bad attitudes and should be banned by law from society.
Other than that, I'm COMPLETELY Libertarian!
...but not as much motivation when the unreleased version is not installed on many machines.
Move along, no sig to see here.
yu0 == teh Rumpelstiltsk1n!!
Because hax0red the FTP server and replaced the good binaries on the FTP server with hax0red binaries. The MD5s (which youcan verify from several places) are of the good binaries. So, the simple answer is don't trust the MD5 from the FTP server.
NT admins have had this philosophy for years, although most people trust Microsoft less and with good reason.
"The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows." -Aristotle Onassis
Why was that deamed flame bait. Because it said an commercial program was better than an open source app.
You mods need to get some perspective
better check your graviton fluxe readings, i'm picking up anomalies in the tachion field!!!!
Theo? Fun?
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dying