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Linux Distro For Linksys WRT54G
scubacuda writes "Here is a tiny Linux distro for the Linksys wrt54g (d/l the distro here). In just a few seconds, you can give your access point's ramdisk syslog, telnetd, httpd (with cgi-bin support), vi, snort, mount, insmod, rmmod, top, grep, etc."
Interesting -- "The script installs strictly to the ram disk of the box. No permanent changes are made. If you mess something up, power-cycle it."
Who is ur daddy?!?!
i hate myself.
I dont know what is happening here at Slashdot, but I seriously hope taco, michael, and the others get off the SCO bandwagon... Why the hell do they only seem to accept mainly SCO, LINUX, and Anti Microsoft articles is becoming so yesterday, and I hope they (and I know some of you are reading this) start accepting things outside of the typical media whore range of articles that have appeared here for the past few months.
- 2003-08-11 NSA's Statement on Cybersecurity (articles,security) (rejected)
- 2003-08-19 DNA based game playing computer (science,science) (rejected)
- 2003-09-06 Brown Dwarfs fingerprinted (radio,science) (rejected)
- 2003-09-06 Study Indicates Possible Surface Water on Mars (science,science) (rejected)
- 2003-09-07 GSM cellular phone encryption cracked (articles,security) (rejected)
Researchers at the Technion claim to have found an effective way to crack the encoding system for cellular telephone conversations conducted over GSM (Global System for Mobile) networks. The team of researchers in Haifa, including Professor Eli Biham and doctoral students Elad Barkan and Natan Keller, presented their findings at the Crypto 2003 conference held two weeks ago at the University of California, Santa Barbara. GSM is one of the two standards widely used for cellular service. This digital technology was originally developed for Europe, but now accounts for over 70 percent of the world market. There are now some 540 cellular companies providing GSM services to approximately 870 million subscribers throughout the world. Full storyIt has been 14 years since two little-known electrochemists announced what sounded like the biggest physics breakthrough since Enrico Fermi produced a nuclear chain reaction on a squash court in Chicago. Using a tabletop setup, Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann, of the University of Utah, said they had induced deuterium nuclei to fuse inside metal electrodes, producing measurable quantities of heat. That was the opening bell for one of the craziest periods in science. Cold fusion, if real, promised to solve the world's energy problems forever. Scientists around the world dropped what they were doing to try to replicate the astounding claim. Full story
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered three of the faintest and smallest objects ever detected beyond Neptune. Each lump of ice and rock is roughly the size of Philadelphia and orbits just beyond Neptune and Pluto, where they may have rested since the formation of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago. The objects reside in a ring-shaped region called the Kuiper Belt, which houses a swarm of icy rocks that are leftover building blocks, or "planetesimals," from the solar system's creation. The results of the search were announced by a group led by Gary Bernstein of the University of Pennsylvania at a meeting of NASA's Division of Planetary Sciences in Monterey, Calif. Full article
MoFscker
Please please please please please!
That embarrassing begging display aside, I would really love if somebody would figure out how to add extra functionality to the SMC Barricade wireless routers. At the very least, something to push the logs to a machine elsewhere in the network, as its current archival options are very limited. This is something my old Linksys router was able to do.
Pedro
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The Insomniac Coder
I used to work as a consultant for a Fortune 500 company (more than 10,000 employees). As an expert in the field of IT
.NET Framework at the kernel level. I didn't use C, because contrary to popular belief, ASP and .NET VB compiler produces code that is more portable and faster than C. I
consulting, I think I can shed a little light on the current climate of the open source community, and Linux in particular.
The main reason that open source software, and Linux in particular, is failing is due to the underlying immaturity of the
technology and the perception of the viral GNU license.
I know that the above statements are strong, but I have hard facts to back it up with. At the Fortune 500 company that I
worked for, we wanted to leverage the power of Linux and associated open source technologies to benefit our server pool. The
perception that Linux is "free" was too much to ignore. I recommended to the company that we use the newest version of Linux,
version 9.0. My expectations were high that it would outperform our current solution at the time, Windows2000, which was doing
an absolutely superb job (and still is!) serving as web, DNS, and FTP servers.
I felt that I was up to the job to convert the entire server pool to the Linux technology. I had several years experience
programming VB, C#, ASP, and
VB can go just as low level as C can, and the latest
took it upon myself to configure and compile all of the necessary shareware versions of software that we needed, including
sendmail, apache, and BIND. I even used the latest version of gcc (3.1) to increase the execution time of the binaries. After
a long chain of events, the results of the system were less than impressive..
The first bombshell to hit my project was that my client found out from another consultant that the GNU community has close
ties to former communist leaders. Furthermore, he found out that the 'x' in Linux was a tribute to the former Communist
philosopher, Karl Marx, whose name also ends in 'x'. The next bombshell to hit my project was the absolutely horrible
performance. I knew from the beginning that Linux wasn't ready for the desktop, but I had always been told by my colleagues
that it was better suited for a "server". As soon as I replaced all of the Windows2000 servers with Linux servers, the Linux
servers immediately went into swap. Furthermore, almost all of the machines were quad-processor x86 servers. We had no idea
that Linux had such awful SMP support. After less than 1 day in service, I was constantly having to restart servers, because
for some reason, many of the servers were experiencing kernel panics caused by mod_perl crashing apache! The hardship did not
end there! Apparently, the version of BIND installed on the server pool was remotely exploitable. Soon after we found that
out, a new worm was remotely infecting all of our servers! We were not expecting this, because our IIS servers running on
Windows2000 had never experienced a worm attack. Microsoft has always provided us with patches in the unlikely event that an
exploit was found. It took us hundreds of man-hours just to disinfect our Linux servers! After just 48 hours of operating
Linux servers in our server pool, we had exhausted our budget for the entire year! It was costing us approximately 75% more to
run Linux than Windows2000.
Needless to say, I will not be recommending Linux to any of my Fortune 500 clients. In the beginning, we thought that since
Linux was such "old" technology, it would be more mature than anything on the market. We also found out the hard way that
rag-tag volunteer efforts responsible for Apache and BIND simply are not able to compete with the professional operations of
Microsoft. I guess the old saying is true; "You get what you pay for!" Needless to say, I will be using Microsoft's "shared
license" solution for my enterprise clients, rather than the communist GNU license.
As it stands now, I d
Have a shitty day!