Have the suits changed Linux, yes. Well, indirectly at least.
You have this company NetApp, they have an embedded online storage built on top of NFS. The problem it doesn't work well with Linux. Not because of a problem with their product but with the Linux kernel itself. So they go to Linus and offer to fix the NFS. He declines and pretty much tells them I only want Trond to work on it, because I trust him and not a company. So they go and hire Trond, pay him big bucks for him to approve the code to go into the kernel.
So the question was have suits changed Linux? Short answer, yes. Long answer, yes, but in a good way for the company, kernel hackers, and everyone in general. Company makes more from sales because of less money spent on supporting Linux. Kernel Hacker make more money, because Linus trusts him. Everybody else reaps the benefits of having better code, isn't that great?
Funny you should mention, "...you can forget about using linux on the desktop...". Planet Lab is built on Linux. Since this article is, in fact, about Planet Lab. Linux is a very large part of the picture.
"...RUCKUS WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO ANYONE WITH RESPECT TO ANY DAMAGES, LOSS OR CLAIM WHATSOEVER IN CONNECTION WITH ACCESS TO OR USE OF THE CONTENTS OF THIS SITE. IN NO EVENT SHALL RUCKUS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT, EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE, COPYING OR DISPLAY OF THE CONTENT..."
So where is the guarantee that this is in fact legal, and/or you won't get hunted down by the RIAA/MPAA? How is this not breaking copyright laws?
It sounds like a nice advertisement, but might be too good to be true. The adage, "There ain't such a thing as a free lunch.", rings true. They want personal information in return. Oh, and the privacy statement reads like adware/spyware.
If institutions are to adopt this for their College networks there has to be a guarantee in writing that I won't be sued for copyright infringement. Where is the guarantee I am legally licensing this for private use?
Here is the slashdot link: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05 /05/144 1249&tid=103&tid=106
There is no publicly available cd image of this. You have to contact the authors to get a copy.
I was going to try this out in one of the computer labs at school. I even contacted one of the author's and got no reply.
Instead I just did it myself. We had some crappy 200 and 300 Mhz machines for this.
1. I loaded a bare slackware system with network support.
2. Put mozilla firefox on the systems.
3. Unzip the browser.jar for mozilla (Java Archive, compatible with zip).
4. Hand edit the browser.xul file to disable unwanted features (save to disk, bookmarks, preferences).
5. Zip the new browser.xul into browser.jar.
It might sound like a lot of work involved, but there are tutorials on kiosking a browser available via google. It took me two hours at the most to get mozilla locked down and kiosked.
The hardest thing I had to do was get mozilla to start up in place of a logon manager. Because I tried it a few ways and ended up with nasty infinite loops that don't play nice with init. Beside the point, because you probably want something other than just browser access in your library. What I ended up with was a nice locked down browser in fullscreen mode and nothing else. Which was the original goal to have browser kiosk. Extremely easy to modify mozilla to fit your needs. One alternative I have seen is a 10 headed server (1 server, and 10 screens, keyboards and mice). A turnkey solution with applications loaded, exactly what you are looking for. The downside is a price ranging in tens of thousands, depending on what optional packages you want added.
QT uses the QPL not GPL. If you develop using the free version of QT it must be a free application, and only then is it GPL compatible. If you use the commercial version of QT it must be a commercial application, and is not GPL compatible. Note there is no free QT compiler and utilities for Windows. So free cross-platform developing is not possible with QT in and of itself.
Slackware 10 shipped with 2.4.26 as the default kernel. The 2.6.7 kernel was in/testing on one of the other cd's. So it changes nothing about Slackware shipping with a vanilla stable kernel.
I once read the two most common causes of people oversleeping is Clinical Depression and Alcoholism. Drinking probably won't help in this case, you will still be worn out when you wake.
That did come out a little wrong: The removepkg *, should have said removepkg \*. It got thrown away as invalid html. Yes, I know removepkg * would not be very pleasant.
Slackware uses.tgz files, glorified tarballs with an install script. Same as an rpm on a low-level, just without dependencies and a fancy database to track things. You use upgradepkg, installpkg, removepkg mostly to manage these. Information about each package is kept in/var/log/packages in plain greppable text. One package per file under/var/log. Every file coming from a package is kept in it's corresponding entry under/var/log. If I want to know where a file came from I can type grep/var/log/packages/*. If I want an inventory ls/var/log/packages > inventory.
Why do I think this is better than rpm or other package systems? With RPM I have to know the name and version number of something to remove it. With Slack packages, I just cd to/var/log/packages and removepkg *. Most packages are independent of each other, exceptions of course are libraries and backend programs. I must say I have had more headaches with RPM than I ever have with a Slack Package.
I was lucky enough to get a review copy from O'reilly. One of the first things I tried was faking your OS signature for port scans. It was interesting to try it out, but I had to downgrade my Linux Kernel to 2.4.18 *gasp*. So after a recompile, and configuring iptables for IP Personalities, nmap detected "Sega DreamCast Console" on aforementioned machine. There are other signatures, I just wanted to try out the most amusing one. The problem is the patch is deprecated, buggy, not being developed, and the sparse documentation mentions it can make your TCP sequences less secure. Hey, it was amusing to try it, but too much hassle, and maybe it is not the most secure solution. Don't know what this one was doing in a security book, considering it could cause your system to be less secure. Nmap detects the faked signature about 90% of the time, depends on how the network is routed and such.
Most of the Windows hacks are a matter of downloading 3rd party software, however there was one registry hack to turn off Default SMB shares (C$ and ADMIN$), this was the only Win Hack.
I have enjoyed reading so far, and will get around to finishing it...eventually. Much like the other hack books there are hacks in here for beginners, intermediates, and wizards.
The article is about Cedega being a PITA. Yet, she never tried the Cedega product as a standalone package. She had problems with Point2Play, according to her article. I had quite a few problems. I tried Point2Play, Cedega, CVS WineX. After about two days of installing, uninstalling, downloading, compiling, tweaking, and hand editing in vim 100 or so times...I had the game run (although not playable). My vid-card wasn't fast enough is the conclusion. I will be purchasing an Nvidia card soon to resolve this problem. Point2Play's system tests even claimed my card was fast enough to run games. One of the most frustrating things was the wine config was rewritten after every time I edited it, and I never figured that one out. Even after playing around with find and grep, I never figured out where it was writing this config from.
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I can't wait until Unreal ED is available for linux. I guess I will have to patiently wait for 2005/06 versions.
Hmm, it must be "Jam Echelon Day" again? How many times does this Slashdot article have the word Bomb or Thermonuclear in it?
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...where netApp gets a change pushed into the kernel for the purpose of hindering one of their competitors...
Not likely to happen, as Trond gets creative control and may reject anything he does not see fit.
Have the suits changed Linux, yes. Well, indirectly at least.
You have this company NetApp, they have an embedded online storage built on top of NFS. The problem it doesn't work well with Linux. Not because of a problem with their product but with the Linux kernel itself. So they go to Linus and offer to fix the NFS. He declines and pretty much tells them I only want Trond to work on it, because I trust him and not a company. So they go and hire Trond, pay him big bucks for him to approve the code to go into the kernel.
So the question was have suits changed Linux? Short answer, yes. Long answer, yes, but in a good way for the company, kernel hackers, and everyone in general. Company makes more from sales because of less money spent on supporting Linux. Kernel Hacker make more money, because Linus trusts him. Everybody else reaps the benefits of having better code, isn't that great?
Funny you should mention, "...you can forget about using linux on the desktop...". Planet Lab is built on Linux. Since this article is, in fact, about Planet Lab. Linux is a very large part of the picture.
Soon enough all valid Visa numbers will be slashdotted by orders at ThinkGeek.
But the average penguin lives 15-20 years. So that is like 46 in penguin years. So Tux would be going through a mid-life crisis about now.
"...RUCKUS WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO ANYONE WITH RESPECT TO ANY DAMAGES, LOSS OR CLAIM WHATSOEVER IN CONNECTION WITH ACCESS TO OR USE OF THE CONTENTS OF THIS SITE. IN NO EVENT SHALL RUCKUS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT, EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE, COPYING OR DISPLAY OF THE CONTENT..."
So where is the guarantee that this is in fact legal, and/or you won't get hunted down by the RIAA/MPAA? How is this not breaking copyright laws?
It sounds like a nice advertisement, but might be too good to be true. The adage, "There ain't such a thing as a free lunch.", rings true. They want personal information in return. Oh, and the privacy statement reads like adware/spyware.
If institutions are to adopt this for their College networks there has to be a guarantee in writing that I won't be sued for copyright infringement. Where is the guarantee I am legally licensing this for private use?
Just imagine all the money they are making for the Republicans from google ads by reloading their web page continuously.
Here is the slashdot link:5 /05/144 1249&tid=103&tid=106
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/0
There is no publicly available cd image of this. You have to contact the authors to get a copy.
I was going to try this out in one of the computer labs at school. I even contacted one of the author's and got no reply.
Instead I just did it myself. We had some crappy 200 and 300 Mhz machines for this.
1. I loaded a bare slackware system with network support.
2. Put mozilla firefox on the systems.
3. Unzip the browser.jar for mozilla (Java Archive, compatible with zip).
4. Hand edit the browser.xul file to disable unwanted features (save to disk, bookmarks, preferences).
5. Zip the new browser.xul into browser.jar.
It might sound like a lot of work involved, but there are tutorials on kiosking a browser available via google. It took me two hours at the most to get mozilla locked down and kiosked.
The hardest thing I had to do was get mozilla to start up in place of a logon manager. Because I tried it a few ways and ended up with nasty infinite loops that don't play nice with init. Beside the point, because you probably want something other than just browser access in your library. What I ended up with was a nice locked down browser in fullscreen mode and nothing else. Which was the original goal to have browser kiosk. Extremely easy to modify mozilla to fit your needs. One alternative I have seen is a 10 headed server (1 server, and 10 screens, keyboards and mice). A turnkey solution with applications loaded, exactly what you are looking for. The downside is a price ranging in tens of thousands, depending on what optional packages you want added.
QT uses the QPL not GPL. If you develop using the free version of QT it must be a free application, and only then is it GPL compatible. If you use the commercial version of QT it must be a commercial application, and is not GPL compatible. Note there is no free QT compiler and utilities for Windows. So free cross-platform developing is not possible with QT in and of itself.
www.katiethebook.com doesn't seem to resolve. Quick somebody grab it before her lawyer figures it out.
Slackware 10 shipped with 2.4.26 as the default kernel. The 2.6.7 kernel was in /testing on one of the other cd's. So it changes nothing about Slackware shipping with a vanilla stable kernel.
Sticking feathers up your ass does not make you a chicken. Just as listening to The Dead will not make you a Security Professional.
I would like to see a mathematical proof written to support the claim.
No "Bugs" link to my left!
Just kidding, made you look!
Sleep won't help in this case, drinking might.
I once read the two most common causes of people oversleeping is Clinical Depression and Alcoholism. Drinking probably won't help in this case, you will still be worn out when you wake.
"Cheers, mate!"
That did come out a little wrong: The removepkg *, should have said removepkg \*. It got thrown away as invalid html. Yes, I know removepkg * would not be very pleasant.
In Slackware, how are packages managed?
.tgz files, glorified tarballs with an install script. Same as an rpm on a low-level, just without dependencies and a fancy database to track things. You use upgradepkg, installpkg, removepkg mostly to manage these. Information about each package is kept in /var/log/packages in plain greppable text. One package per file under /var/log. Every file coming from a package is kept in it's corresponding entry under /var/log. If I want to know where a file came from I can type grep /var/log/packages/*. If I want an inventory ls /var/log/packages > inventory.
/var/log/packages and removepkg *. Most packages are independent of each other, exceptions of course are libraries and backend programs. I must say I have had more headaches with RPM than I ever have with a Slack Package.
Slackware uses
Why do I think this is better than rpm or other package systems? With RPM I have to know the name and version number of something to remove it. With Slack packages, I just cd to
bash-2.05b$ bash -r
bash: SHELL: readonly variable
bash: PATH: readonly variable
bash-2.05b$ ls
bash: ls: No such file or directory
bash-2.05b$
Now users cannot run anything that is not symlinked to their home directory.
I was lucky enough to get a review copy from O'reilly. One of the first things I tried was faking your OS signature for port scans. It was interesting to try it out, but I had to downgrade my Linux Kernel to 2.4.18 *gasp*. So after a recompile, and configuring iptables for IP Personalities, nmap detected "Sega DreamCast Console" on aforementioned machine. There are other signatures, I just wanted to try out the most amusing one. The problem is the patch is deprecated, buggy, not being developed, and the sparse documentation mentions it can make your TCP sequences less secure. Hey, it was amusing to try it, but too much hassle, and maybe it is not the most secure solution. Don't know what this one was doing in a security book, considering it could cause your system to be less secure. Nmap detects the faked signature about 90% of the time, depends on how the network is routed and such.
Most of the Windows hacks are a matter of downloading 3rd party software, however there was one registry hack to turn off Default SMB shares (C$ and ADMIN$), this was the only Win Hack.
I have enjoyed reading so far, and will get around to finishing it...eventually. Much like the other hack books there are hacks in here for beginners, intermediates, and wizards.
I should mention that the game was rated 4 out of 5 on playability from transgaming.
The article is about Cedega being a PITA. Yet, she never tried the Cedega product as a standalone package. She had problems with Point2Play, according to her article. I had quite a few problems. I tried Point2Play, Cedega, CVS WineX. After about two days of installing, uninstalling, downloading, compiling, tweaking, and hand editing in vim 100 or so times...I had the game run (although not playable). My vid-card wasn't fast enough is the conclusion. I will be purchasing an Nvidia card soon to resolve this problem. Point2Play's system tests even claimed my card was fast enough to run games. One of the most frustrating things was the wine config was rewritten after every time I edited it, and I never figured that one out. Even after playing around with find and grep, I never figured out where it was writing this config from.