Maybe they're trying to make it sound like the Celeron name to put it in the same market segment... or whatever. CelerON - DurON. I wonder how much it cost to "create" or buy those names?
Yes, we all know you're not really an AOL user because we'd figure that Slashdot would be on the list of blocked "political" sites that happen to talk about new political (software) ideas, like open-source, GNU, etc.
So how long will it take AOL to put Slashdot on the ban list for the kids filter? I mean if they can block Ross Perot and all his neat-o charts, why not Slashdot? (Does anyone remember Ross and all those charts he used? or is it just me?)
I always like it when I have the option to also see photographs of the final product rather than just the a jpeg artwork file.
Esp. on the OpenBSD t-shirts where I'm not really sure exactly what color they are. How blue is it? Words only go so far and sometimes the details come out later... Like in the case of the blue shirt. Originally it was blue tie-dye, but it didn't mention that. I thought it was plain blue. A few weeks later they added the tie-dye note. I would have been ticked to find out it was tie-died had I ordered it. I'm glad I waited.
All this media attention a year later only attracts and inspires more copy-cats. Your journalistic freedom may indirectly cost us more lives.
In my town of Santa Barbara/Goleta there have been several separate threats of Columbine like violence in the past week. The more you and the media keep talking about it the more it happens.
I don't really think this book helps heal anything any ways. That type of "healing" happens between individuals, face to face, not through some menelogium of half inspired comments from an author interspersed with stolen Slashdot comments.
Or c.) mandate a back door be installed in every legal product.
I'm glad we have encryption software that is open source. I would never completely trust closed source encryption to protect my privacy 100%.
With the source we can look for back doors ourselves.
I guess then, we should still really be worried about is how good are the mathematical algorithms used to do the actual encryption. Back doors aren't needed if AgencyX already knows how to "make worthless" encrypted data used by some flawed algorithm.
Hey, I agree with you about gov't's attempts to restrict our freedoms and invade our privacy. They need to back off. I was just saying that I think in the future they will back off more. Whether more is enough or not..
I guess I'm just trying to be optimistic about the future. The more we clamor for better encryption and privacy freedoms/protections the better off we'll be.
Why did I post that link? Well I think that the computer related communications are going to be encrypted more often in the near future. It won't be inconvienent anymore (in the future). No fiddling with PGP keys or whatever - once it reaches a certian point and evolves on a human factor level as well.
When it gets to the point that encryption is just a standard part of the OS, and most all your communications are encrypted, the law-enforcement agencies are going to either have to: a.) spend alot more money on encryption breaking techniques b.) rely alot more on your cohorts to ratt out on you.
Will the governments attempt to thwart encryption adoption in new more aggresive ways? I don't think so. And with certain RSA patents going south for the winter come this September, it only gets easier to spread encryption use even more as US companies/individuals are freed-up in certain respects to compete or offer freely encryption software.
Just because its easy for big governments to intercept and read our private communications, it doesn't make it right.
It was written in '83, (maybe before you where born Plasmoid if your in high school), so it doesn't cover modern stuff, but there is ALOT of crypto history covered in that book which could be very helpful.
400K for Be Inc.? In the U.S. 400K would equate to 400,000 dollars. Does 400K in other countries, like the UK, mean the same thing as 400 million in US lingo?
I figure the tunnels are better in the areas with more colder winters - steam lines to warm buildings - so small and medium sized institutions like UCSB are just gonna be a bore. UCLA supposedly is good though.
I agree. The last thing people who are pissed about how the company went back on their word should do is do something illegal. Do it illegal and you'll lose it - they'll get your money.
Its better to legally contest it, and my other option I'd suggest is taking it to small claims court. They don't want to waste their time dealing with 10,000 small claim court actions so they'd probably give up if you did.
Or - this just occured to me - get a CLASS ACTION lawsuit going against them - for those who were told one thing and another things happening.
Do it legal and do it right.
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Sorry, my post was not entirely correct. It looks as though their newer products use x86, but not their older stuff. I've been staring at their new Raq3 for too long or something.
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This guy means to tell us that a MIPS-based Linux rack-mount solution is a "PC"
The rack mounted cobalts aren't MIPS-based. They use Pentiums and Pentium clones.
Their Cobalt cube, or an earlier version is MIPS-based though.
Thats the OpenBSD "theory" or way of doing it. They don't want to include applications you won't use, and make you install the ones you do want. Its more minimalistic and tailored to your needs. This may improve security somehow by removing the extra applications you don't need which could have a security issue or something. Some people don't like that or agree with that style at all. Thats ok, but its how OpenBSD does it. Here's a qoute from the OpenBSD site. Maybe it will help give you an idea of their philosophy.:
OpenBSD is a fairly complete system of its own, but still there is a lot of software that one might want see added. However there is the problem on where to draw the line as to what to include, as well as the occasional licensing and export restriction problems. As OpenBSD is supposed to be a small stand-alone UNIX-like operating system, some things just can't be shipped with the system.
Anyway, do check out the ports section if you haven't already. Its an easy way to install applications you want. I found it convienent.
While your at it, check out the Blowfish shirt, one of the more "cooler" computer shirts around. Any OS can use blowfish crypto so even Linux-only folks will like it.
When we tell new people to RTFM is sometimes they get overwhelmed. They often don't want all the extra stuff a man page has. The newbies may just want to get a step by step direction sheet of how to do things, which is fine. They learn fast that way - but eventually they're going to learn need the details.
So how do we write docs which help newbies and still give the 'learned' the details they need?
A contract is only viable if it does not break the state or federal laws.
In California, an employer does not have rights to your code if you do it on your own time on your own equipment off the work site. Your employer may have lame-clauses like this even if you work in CA, but its invalid.
Enlighten Software Solutions builds software products that provide easy to use Systems Management Solutions for the Workgroup Environment. Make your life simpler and more productive with Enlighten products and services!
Manage mixed Linux, UNIX and Windows systems from a single EnlightenDSM software console. Resolve problems before they start with the software's proactive monitoring tools, and increase users' productivity by insuring higher system availability. These are just some of the benefits EnlightenDSM offers.
The new edition looks great. I like the style, very clean and easy to read. My strained eyes thank them.
They offered a cool idea for training people on problem fixing in a UNIX environment. I bet lots of other people have done this, but its still cool.
You can let someone see whats going on, i.e. commands and output, on your screen that someone else, the instructor or admin, is doing. That way you can learn too. Neat. The author, Jamie Hermans, explains it better of course, under the "Just Snooping Around... section":
By adding one line to the FreeBSD kernel recompiling and adding a few devices, you enable "snooping" on a server. Anyone logged in as (or su'd to) root can watch any other active session. This is great for literally walking someone through an install of the "latest port" or fixing that stubborn error message.
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We're on the subject of FreeBSD and its newer security features, which I find very cool... but in the process of our conversations I've noticed quite a few errors in the posts tonight which covered FreeBSD's cousin, OpenBSD. Errors which could erroneously tarnish people's images of the OpenBSD system. I would really like to point to the OpenBSD website to get some correct facts. Unfortunately its so late in this article's life span, I doubt anyone will actually read this.
As seen somewhere in the posts: >OpenBSD is more secure because 'they' say so. >Now, why do 'they' say this? >At one time, all the code was gone through line >by line looking for problems.
My response: (and other responses to other concerns follow. I qoute the OpenBSD website alot.) Its not "at one time" as in past tense only concerning the security audit. Please read the security section-audit process of the OpenBSD website:
We have been auditing since the summer of 1996. The process we follow to increase security is simply a comprehensive file-by-file analysis of every critical software component. We are not so much looking for security holes, as we are looking for basic software bugs, and if years later someone discovers a the problem used to be a security issue, and we fixed it because it was just a bug, well, all the better. Flaws have been found in just about every area of the system. Entire new classes of security problems have been found during our audit, and often source code which had been audited earlier needs re-auditing with these new flaws in mind. Code often gets audited multiple times, and by multiple people with different auditing skills>.
The most intense part of our security auditing happened immediately before the OpenBSD 2.0 release and during the 2.0->2.1 transition, over the last third of 1996 and first half of 1997. Thousands (yes, thousands) of security issues were fixed rapidly over this year-long period; bugs like the standard buffer overflows, protocol implementation weaknesses, information gathering, and filesystem races. Hence most of the security problems that we encountered were fixed before our 2.1 release, and then a far smaller number needed fixing for our 2.2 release. We do not find as many problems anymore, it is simply a case of diminishing returns. Recently the security problems we find and fix tend to be significantly more obscure or complicated. Still we will persist for a number of reasons.
The auditing process is not over yet, and as you can see we continue to find and fix new security flaws.
Concerning comments about how OpenBSD doesn't install 100's extra non-vital programs by default (somehow making it bad), or have "xyz" service enabled - I go back to the OpenBSD website again:
To ensure that novice users of OpenBSD do not need to become security experts overnight (a viewpoint which other vendors seem to have), we ship the operating system in a Secure by Default mode. All non-essential services are disabled. As the user/administrator becomes more familiar with the system, he will discover that he has to enable daemons and other parts of the system. During the process of learning how to enable a new service, the novice is more likely to learn of security considerations.
So here's my thoughts.. If you want Foo app. Get it. Install it. Use the ports. The whole point of OpenBSD is to be secure and correct. Some of the philosophies which they use to achieve their goals may rub you the wrong way. Thats ok, don't use OpenBSD. Please just don't unnecesarrily disparrage it. I've just noticed an overall trend of a lack of understanding of the OS here on multiple posts and I wanted share a few concerns I had.
A leg up on OpenBSD?! OpenBSD already has OpenSSH and IPsec. And yes, during install you can choose the US or International crypto, but OpenBSD is done out of the US, so lame-laws need not directly hinder it. Its more an issue being a US business and wanting to pay or not pay RSA lisc. fees. OpenBSD and its dev's played a big role in OpenSSH.
It didn't replace his visual cortex. The implant stimulated the neurons in his visual cortex, which weren't receiving much input from his eyes. Having more neurons in the visual cortex wouldn't help either, because again, the eyes have to send some usuable info to the visual cortex. Nor would adding more supportive glial cells for the visual cortex, or even extra thick mylin sheaths on the neurons in the visual cortex.
Your troll/question was clearly answered in the article. Its all about choice. Linux is about choice. The freedom to do it your way. The freedom to choose your tools, your GUI or no GUI, etc. Scroll down to:
"Why would anyone pay money for development tools for a "free software" OS like Linux?"
On first blush, the notion of taking a commercial product like Delphi to the so-called "free software" Linux platform sounds crazy. Why would anyone pay money for Linux development tools when Linux ships with a free C compiler built-in?
Answer: Quality, Features, Support, and most of all: Choice. Linux is about choice. Any Linux advocate who says Delphi is not welcome in the Linux space is a hypocrite.
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Maybe they're trying to make it sound like the Celeron name to put it in the same market segment... or whatever.
CelerON - DurON. I wonder how much it cost to "create" or buy those names?
Either way I think it sounds silly too.
I kinda feel like Signal 11 here... anyways...
Yes, we all know you're not really an AOL user because we'd figure that Slashdot would be on the list of blocked "political" sites that happen to talk about new political (software) ideas, like open-source, GNU, etc.
So how long will it take AOL to put Slashdot on the ban list for the kids filter? I mean if they can block Ross Perot and all his neat-o charts, why not Slashdot? (Does anyone remember Ross and all those charts he used? or is it just me?)
I always like it when I have the option to also see photographs of the final product rather than just the a jpeg artwork file.
Esp. on the OpenBSD t-shirts where I'm not really sure exactly what color they are. How blue is it? Words only go so far and sometimes the details come out later... Like in the case of the blue shirt. Originally it was blue tie-dye, but it didn't mention that. I thought it was plain blue. A few weeks later they added the tie-dye note. I would have been ticked to find out it was tie-died had I ordered it. I'm glad I waited.
All this media attention a year later only attracts and inspires more copy-cats. Your journalistic freedom may indirectly cost us more lives.
In my town of Santa Barbara/Goleta there have been several separate threats of Columbine like violence in the past week. The more you and the media keep talking about it the more it happens.
I don't really think this book helps heal anything any ways. That type of "healing" happens between individuals, face to face, not through some menelogium of half inspired comments from an author interspersed with stolen Slashdot comments.
Or c.) mandate a back door be installed in every legal product.
I'm glad we have encryption software that is open source. I would never completely trust closed source encryption to protect my privacy 100%.
With the source we can look for back doors ourselves.
I guess then, we should still really be worried about is how good are the mathematical algorithms used to do the actual encryption. Back doors aren't needed if AgencyX already knows how to "make worthless" encrypted data used by some flawed algorithm.
Hey, I agree with you about gov't's attempts to restrict our freedoms and invade our privacy. They need to back off. I was just saying that I think in the future they will back off more. Whether more is enough or not..
I guess I'm just trying to be optimistic about the future. The more we clamor for better encryption and privacy freedoms/protections the better off we'll be.
Hardware Crypto Support in 2.7 http://slashdot.org/article.pl? sid=00/04/13/0520228
Why did I post that link? Well I think that the computer related communications are going to be encrypted more often in the near future. It won't be inconvienent anymore (in the future). No fiddling with PGP keys or whatever - once it reaches a certian point and evolves on a human factor level as well.
When it gets to the point that encryption is just a standard part of the OS, and most all your communications are encrypted, the law-enforcement agencies are going to either have to:
a.) spend alot more money on encryption breaking techniques
b.) rely alot more on your cohorts to ratt out on you.
Will the governments attempt to thwart encryption adoption in new more aggresive ways? I don't think so. And with certain RSA patents going south for the winter come this September, it only gets easier to spread encryption use even more as US companies/individuals are freed-up in certain respects to compete or offer freely encryption software.
Just because its easy for big governments to intercept and read our private communications, it doesn't make it right.
The Puzzle Palace : A Report on America's Most Secret Agency by James Bamford
ISBN: 0140067485
It was written in '83, (maybe before you where born Plasmoid if your in high school), so it doesn't cover modern stuff, but there is ALOT of crypto history covered in that book which could be very helpful.
400K for Be Inc.?
In the U.S. 400K would equate to 400,000 dollars. Does 400K in other countries, like the UK, mean the same thing as 400 million in US lingo?
See if your university is on the list: /ctunnels.html
http://members.tripod.com/~tunnels
Maps page:
http://members.tripod.com/~tunnels/map s.html
I figure the tunnels are better in the areas with more colder winters - steam lines to warm buildings - so small and medium sized institutions like UCSB are just gonna be a bore. UCLA supposedly is good though.
Let me know if anyone has any info for UCSB.
I agree. The last thing people who are pissed about how the company went back on their word should do is do something illegal. Do it illegal and you'll lose it - they'll get your money.
Its better to legally contest it, and my other option I'd suggest is taking it to small claims court. They don't want to waste their time dealing with 10,000 small claim court actions so they'd probably give up if you did.
Or - this just occured to me - get a CLASS ACTION lawsuit going against them - for those who were told one thing and another things happening.
Do it legal and do it right.
Sorry, my post was not entirely correct. It looks as though their newer products use x86, but not their older stuff.
I've been staring at their new Raq3 for too long or something.
This guy means to tell us that a MIPS-based Linux rack-mount solution is a "PC"
The rack mounted cobalts aren't MIPS-based. They use Pentiums and Pentium clones.
Their Cobalt cube, or an earlier version is MIPS-based though.
Dig around on Cobalt's products page
The M-1 Abrams is a 4 person tank if I remember, so bring your friends over if you want to go fully nutz in the proper military approved fashion.
Is OpenSSH standard on the Abrams yet?
Thats the OpenBSD "theory" or way of doing it. They don't want to include applications you won't use, and make you install the ones you do want. Its more minimalistic and tailored to your needs. This may improve security somehow by removing the extra applications you don't need which could have a security issue or something. Some people don't like that or agree with that style at all. Thats ok, but its how OpenBSD does it. Here's a qoute from the OpenBSD site. Maybe it will help give you an idea of their philosophy.:
OpenBSD is a fairly complete system of its own, but still there is a lot of software that one might want see added. However there is the problem on where to draw the line as to what to include, as well as the occasional licensing and export restriction problems. As OpenBSD is supposed to be a small stand-alone UNIX-like operating system, some things just can't be shipped with the system.
Anyway, do check out the ports section if you haven't already. Its an easy way to install applications you want. I found it convienent.
While your at it, check out the Blowfish shirt, one of the more "cooler" computer shirts around. Any OS can use blowfish crypto so even Linux-only folks will like it.
When we tell new people to RTFM is sometimes they get overwhelmed. They often don't want all the extra stuff a man page has. The newbies may just want to get a step by step direction sheet of how to do things, which is fine. They learn fast that way - but eventually they're going to learn need the details.
So how do we write docs which help newbies and still give the 'learned' the details they need?
If you could easily swap out rolls of the tape like cylinders that would be very cheap and very cool.
Disposible harddrives? Use em to wrap your Christmas gifts when your HD goes bad? Recycling takes on new meanings here.
A contract is only viable if it does not break the state or federal laws.
In California, an employer does not have rights to your code if you do it on your own time on your own equipment off the work site. Your employer may have lame-clauses like this even if you work in CA, but its invalid.
I think I found them.
http://www.enlightendsm.com/
Here's their explanitory qoute:
Enlighten Software Solutions builds software products that provide easy to use Systems Management Solutions for the Workgroup Environment. Make your life simpler and more productive with Enlighten products and services!
Manage mixed Linux, UNIX and Windows systems from a single EnlightenDSM software console. Resolve problems before they start with the software's proactive monitoring tools, and increase users' productivity by insuring higher system availability. These are just some of the benefits EnlightenDSM offers.
There's a press release on linuxpr.com at:
http://linuxpr.com/releases/1220.html
Google seemed to come up with good results. Thats where I got this from.
The new edition looks great. I like the style, very clean and easy to read. My strained eyes thank them.
They offered a cool idea for training people on problem fixing in a UNIX environment. I bet lots of other people have done this, but its still cool.
You can let someone see whats going on, i.e. commands and output, on your screen that someone else, the instructor or admin, is doing. That way you can learn too. Neat. The author, Jamie Hermans, explains it better of course, under the "Just Snooping Around... section":
By adding one line to the FreeBSD kernel recompiling and adding a few devices, you enable "snooping" on a server. Anyone logged in as (or su'd to) root can watch any other active session. This is great for literally walking someone through an install of the "latest port" or fixing that stubborn error message.
We're on the subject of FreeBSD and its newer security features, which I find very cool... but in the process of our conversations I've noticed quite a few errors in the posts tonight which covered FreeBSD's cousin, OpenBSD. Errors which could erroneously tarnish people's images of the OpenBSD system. I would really like to point to the OpenBSD website to get some correct facts. Unfortunately its so late in this article's life span, I doubt anyone will actually read this.
As seen somewhere in the posts:
>OpenBSD is more secure because 'they' say so.
>Now, why do 'they' say this?
>At one time, all the code was gone through line >by line looking for problems.
My response: (and other responses to other concerns follow. I qoute the OpenBSD website alot.)
Its not "at one time" as in past tense only concerning the security audit. Please read the security section-audit process of the OpenBSD website:
We have been auditing since the summer of 1996. The process we follow to increase security is simply a comprehensive file-by-file analysis of every critical software component. We are not so much looking for security holes, as we are looking for basic software bugs, and if years later someone discovers a the problem used to be a security issue, and we fixed it because it was just a bug, well, all the better. Flaws have been found in just about every area of the system. Entire new classes of security problems have been found during our audit, and often source code which had been audited earlier needs re-auditing with these new flaws in mind. Code often gets audited multiple times, and by multiple people with different auditing skills>.
The most intense part of our security auditing happened immediately before the OpenBSD 2.0 release and during the 2.0->2.1 transition, over the last third of 1996 and first half of 1997. Thousands (yes, thousands) of security issues were fixed rapidly over this year-long period; bugs like the standard buffer overflows, protocol implementation weaknesses, information gathering, and filesystem races. Hence most of the security problems that we encountered were fixed before our 2.1 release, and then a far smaller number needed fixing for our 2.2 release. We do not find as many problems anymore, it is simply a case of diminishing returns. Recently the security problems we find and fix tend to be significantly more obscure or complicated. Still we will persist for a number of reasons.
The auditing process is not over yet, and as you can see we continue to find and fix new security flaws.
Concerning comments about how OpenBSD doesn't install 100's extra non-vital programs by default (somehow making it bad), or have "xyz" service enabled - I go back to the OpenBSD website again:
To ensure that novice users of OpenBSD do not need to become security experts overnight (a viewpoint which other vendors seem to have), we ship the operating system in a Secure by Default mode. All non-essential services are disabled. As the user/administrator becomes more familiar with the system, he will discover that he has to enable daemons and other parts of the system. During the process of learning how to enable a new service, the novice is more likely to learn of security considerations.
So here's my thoughts.. If you want Foo app. Get it. Install it. Use the ports. The whole point of OpenBSD is to be secure and correct. Some of the philosophies which they use to achieve their goals may rub you the wrong way. Thats ok, don't use OpenBSD. Please just don't unnecesarrily disparrage it. I've just noticed an overall trend of a lack of understanding of the OS here on multiple posts and I wanted share a few concerns I had.
A leg up on OpenBSD?! OpenBSD already has OpenSSH and IPsec. And yes, during install you can choose the US or International crypto, but OpenBSD is done out of the US, so lame-laws need not directly hinder it. Its more an issue being a US business and wanting to pay or not pay RSA lisc. fees.
OpenBSD and its dev's played a big role in OpenSSH.
OpenBSD places alot of importance on security and doing it right. Read all about it and get facts.
http://www.OpenBSD.org
http://www.openssh.com
[Humor]
Which one of us will be the first to put a prank EBay auction on one or all of the Iridium Satellites?
All that money burning up in the atmosphere....
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It didn't replace his visual cortex. The implant stimulated the neurons in his visual cortex, which weren't receiving much input from his eyes.
Having more neurons in the visual cortex wouldn't help either, because again, the eyes have to send some usuable info to the visual cortex. Nor would adding more supportive glial cells for the visual cortex, or even extra thick mylin sheaths on the neurons in the visual cortex.
Your troll/question was clearly answered in the article. Its all about choice. Linux is about choice. The freedom to do it your way. The freedom to choose your tools, your GUI or no GUI, etc. Scroll down to:
"Why would anyone pay money for development tools for a "free software" OS like Linux?"
On first blush, the notion of taking a commercial product like Delphi to the so-called "free software" Linux platform sounds crazy. Why would anyone pay money for Linux development tools when Linux ships with a free C compiler built-in?
Answer: Quality, Features, Support, and most of all: Choice. Linux is about choice. Any Linux advocate who says Delphi is not welcome in the Linux space is a hypocrite.
(emphasis mine.)