Say what you want about X (a lot of people gripe about it) but I would sorely miss being able to throw the graphical output of my applications to different machines.
Obviously you haven't heard abot VNC which allows doing that on many OSes (including across OSes).
We should have a way of
overriding certain system config files locally, for example, resolv.conf, so that we have a per-user view of the system configuration
I already asked RedHat to implement that some time ago - see this Bugzilla entry
This is exactly my point - stupid imperative languages make programmers think algorithmically. You should be thinking about what you are trying to accomplish and let your compiler worry about how to do it!
The problem is that many programmers do not take the time to harden their programs against such attacks. They are often too focused on the program's real purpose to bother with security.
And this is exactly how it is supposed to be. Why should programmers waste time worrying about something that a language designer and a compiler are supposed to take care of?
Another problem is that the language shapes the way we think about programming. Good language makes it easier to do "the right thing" and makes it harder to do "wrong and potentially insecure" things...
Setup a Linux machine with a password-protected Squid cache and block or redirect back to Squid (using transparent proxy kernel feature) all attempts to go directly to port 80 (and probably 8080 too) on any host outside of the school.
What is desperately needed (now) is an organization and appropriate technologies to construct a publically, freely available list of offensive sites.
I believe it should be obvious for almost everybody on Slashdot that maintaining such list would be absolutely impossible. New "offensive" sites would keep popping up in new places, sites would keep moving and changing their names and URLs, and nobody would be able to keep up with them
It may be possible to create and maintain a list of "good" and "appropriate for children" sites but of course the problem with such list would be that as soon as such list appears, some people would decide that it may be a good idea to force everybody (first schools and libraries, than may be universities, than...) to filter their traffic against it. So if we do not like the idea that the government will find a way to outlaw porn all together we better do not give it such a way!
If you do not think 5.0 was a big mess, it just means you were really lucky. I had tons of problems with 5.0 because of buggy glibc. In particular, when/etc/group had long lines (longer than 4096), login in 5.0 would segfault - not fun.
And I agree that Bugzilla is really good, I was very happy with it several months ago, but after 6.0 was released, RedHat response to Bugzilla problems became very slow.
This is a known problem. Check the RedHat Bugzilla bug report #201 for more information. Basicly, you need to upgrade util-linux.
users.pl suggestion - indicate number of replies
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It would be really nice if users.pl could not only list the comments I recently posted, but also the # of replies (or may be even the replies themselves) for those comments.
If you are looking for a way to ensure the RPM is signed by the person who was supposed to sign it, go to RedHat Contrib|Net (RHCN). RHCN maintainers post their keys there when they register and you can download the public key and make sure that the package is signed by the actual maintainer. Of course, you still have to trust that maintainer, but with RHCN in addition to the usual PGP web of trust you also get additional assurance:
RHCN verifies the e-mail address (as usual, by sending the password there)
You can see when the person signed up. If the person was a maintainer for a long time and maintains lots of useful packages, it gives some reasons to believe that [s]he is not just some kid trying to give you a trojaned software.
First, I wanted to repeat what everybody else is saying: great job! I've just made Slashdot my "Home"-page.
However there are some problems with the way article.pl generates links to the previous and the next article:
The links are to static pages, not to dynamic ones
It does not skip topics I do not want to see.
I use RPMs even for thins I compile myself.
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RPMs are quite nice once you've learned how to use it. When I compile something, I nearly always compile it into an RPM. There are lots of advantages to that, including:
Compiling and upgrading to the new versions becomes much easier (since I do not have to keep track of the configure options I use for each peice of software, of the configuration files I've changed and do not want to be owerwritten be "make install", of the small patches I wrote to better customize the product to my needs).
It keeps track of all the dependancies, so when I upgrade some library, RPM will tell me which packages have to be recompiled.
Once I've compiled it on one computer, it's really fast and easy to install (and/or upgrade!) it on all the others where I need it. When you manage more than one or two computers, RPM helps a lot
Well, Linux is already used by tens of millions of people, so less than 99.9% of people on Earth "couldn't give a crap about linux", not 99.999%. Also, making even a slight difference in lifes of these tens of millions is already something, don't you think?
This shows Linux has lots of growth potential
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I believe this is good news. It shows there are still lots of developers that are ready to partisipate in Oper Source projects, but who are not using Linux (yet!).
I am sure we all believe that many of these people will move to Linux in a near future, which means that not only Linux user community will continue its incredible growth, but also the Linux developer community will continue growing fast.
That means we are going to have even better OS in a future!
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Say what you want about X (a lot of people gripe about it) but I would sorely miss being able to throw the graphical output of my applications to different machines.
Obviously you haven't heard abot VNC which allows doing that on many OSes (including across OSes).
I already asked RedHat to implement that some time ago - see this Bugzilla entry
good programmers think algorithmically
This is exactly my point - stupid imperative languages make programmers think algorithmically. You should be thinking about what you are trying to accomplish and let your compiler worry about how to do it!
The problem is that many programmers do not take the time to harden their programs against such attacks. They are often too focused on the program's real purpose to bother with security.
And this is exactly how it is supposed to be. Why should programmers waste time worrying about something that a language designer and a compiler are supposed to take care of?
Another problem is that the language shapes the way we think about programming. Good language makes it easier to do "the right thing" and makes it harder to do "wrong and potentially insecure" things...
Read their FAQ! They are not rating CORE and TUCOWS registrars. At least, not yet.
Unfortunatelly, they are not rating CORE and TUCOWS registrars yet... And they are usually the least expensive ones.
Setup a Linux machine with a password-protected Squid cache and block or redirect back to Squid (using transparent proxy kernel feature) all attempts to go directly to port 80 (and probably 8080 too) on any host outside of the school.
I believe it should be obvious for almost everybody on Slashdot that maintaining such list would be absolutely impossible. New "offensive" sites would keep popping up in new places, sites would keep moving and changing their names and URLs, and nobody would be able to keep up with them
It may be possible to create and maintain a list of "good" and "appropriate for children" sites but of course the problem with such list would be that as soon as such list appears, some people would decide that it may be a good idea to force everybody (first schools and libraries, than may be universities, than ...) to filter their traffic against it. So if we do not like the idea that the government will find a way to outlaw porn all together we better do not give it such a way!
The Unix (Tcl/Tk) AIM client (called TIK) home page ( http://www.aim.aol.com/tik/) went blank several days ago. Must be related...
But I agree that RedHat sites have too many broken links.
If you do not think 5.0 was a big mess, it just means you were really lucky. I had tons of problems with 5.0 because of buggy glibc. In particular, when /etc/group had long lines (longer than 4096), login in 5.0 would segfault - not fun.
And I agree that Bugzilla is really good, I was very happy with it several months ago, but after 6.0 was released, RedHat response to Bugzilla problems became very slow.
Right, but they did not say that RH 6.0 supports only four processors, they said "at least".
How about giving some extra moderation rights over comments under some story for the person who submitted the story?
This is a known problem. Check the RedHat Bugzilla bug report #201 for more information. Basicly, you need to upgrade util-linux.
It would be really nice if users.pl could not only list the comments I recently posted, but also the # of replies (or may be even the replies themselves) for those comments.
I had the black box too and now it suddenly started working. Cool!
However there are some problems with the way article.pl generates links to the previous and the next article:
Well, Linux is already used by tens of millions of people, so less than 99.9% of people on Earth "couldn't give a crap about linux", not 99.999%. Also, making even a slight difference in lifes of these tens of millions is already something, don't you think?
I believe this is good news. It shows there are still lots of developers that are ready to partisipate in Oper Source projects, but who are not using Linux (yet!).
I am sure we all believe that many of these people will move to Linux in a near future, which means that not only Linux user community will continue its incredible growth, but also the Linux developer community will continue growing fast.
That means we are going to have even better OS in a future!