I thought the KDE team went to great lengths to communicate that 4.0 was a DEVELOPER release and the 'mainstream' should stay with 3.5. Obviously many people chose to ignore what the KDE team was saying and make up their own story.
I was most certainly aware that the KDE team were saying the majority of people shouldn't consider the 4.x series usable on a day to day basis until 4.2 or so.
I was very surprised to learn that some distributions had dropped 3.5 very prematurely. I tested 4.0 and 4.1 but I stuck with 3.5 as my primary DE. I went to 4.2 full time and I'm very happy with 4.3.
Well it's a bit hard to play a *computer* game without a *computer*[1].
Whereas you can go to the movies without owning a computer. Therefore there is a portion of the population that have been excluded from this survey.
[1] Yes I realise that some / many people also play games on dedicated hardware that may not have an Internet connection. Some of those people would also be excluded from this survey.
Regardless of what operating system you're on, there's this little feature called code signing.
If Apple actually signed everything they make, including the Setup/Installer packages, and drummed just that one little piece of security into their users then this type of malware-embedded-in-Apple-software attack just wouldn't be possible.
But these people were downloading a cracked version of the software (just not entirely in the way they expected). So they would expect that this would fail a validity test.
Obviously code signing would help in the user expected that whatever they were installing was totally genuine.
Likewise - I use fail2ban with iptables to drop any packets from someone who fails auth about 5 times in a few minutes. I've toyed with the idea of adding them to a global blacklist for all servers in all locations, but in reality this solution works just fine.
If you RTFA, they tell you that these attacks are coming from different machines, presumably so they don't trip such things as fail2ban et al.
Looking at the logs he supplied, this is a _very_ slow attack, the attempts are many seconds, or even minutes apart. You would have to have a very guessable username / password combination for it to work.
I would comment though that I'm not seeing anything like this attack in my logs. I personally use IPTables rules (using hashlimits) to limit 1 connection / IP per minute to my ssh ports. Typically, I see about 3-6 attempts per day (each only gets 1 or 2 tries before they get blocked). Doing an optical integration of my recent logs shows less than a dozen per day and they are not concentrating on any particular username (with the exception of root).
Prior to using hashlimits, I used to get hundreds or even thousands of attempts per day. My record was over 6,000 attempts from a single host. One guy at work has reported over 30,000 attempts in a single day.
I personally don't like the concept of fail2ban as it is permanently adding an IP address to your banned list. As most of these IPs are dynamic, keeping them in your banned list isn't really serving any useful purpose. I personally prefer a system that temporarily bans an IP.
Not cynical enough good sir. The next Liberal government will just privatise the entire network just like they did to every other bit of government infrastructure to raise enough cash to give themselves a pay rise.
Actually, according to the Whirlpool homepage story they are already planning it's ultimate sale (in the not too distant future)
Private industry would contribute up to 49% of the funds, and the government would sell the company after operating it for 5 years, he said.
And, maybe it might not be popular mentioning Windows 7 on/., but I really like the feature in Windows 7 beta where you can drag a window to a screen border and it resizes to the screen height and 1/2 the screen width. I imagine that this would be easy to do as a plugin for KDE, but (so far) I haven't been able to find one.
KDE does have a feature that is similar, but not the same.
If you right mouse click on the "maximise" button, the window maximises in the VERTICAL direction ONLY. Similarly, you can maximise to full width by clicking with the middle button.
Unfortunately, I don't know of anything to expand to 1/2 height or width.
Hmm, I don't think it's "hate" as such, more profound disappointment. I can't speak for others, but KDE 3.5 was moving along nicely, was functional and had *heaps* of apps to make it a complete desktop. With Compiz Fusion added it was even damn flash, but the main thing is that it did the job and enough apps were available to create some flexibility.
Those KDE 3.5 applications you like still exist, they didn't go away. You can use them with KDE 4.x, 3.5, Gnome, or many other desktop environments.
Along comes 4 and whammo - I even have trouble finding a decent WiFi manager. All those 3.5 apps I was used to don't have a 4 replacement, and I don't really want to be a whining git asking the developers of every single app to upgrade their code (which is AFAIK not that easy either) - besides, I don't have the time.
So use the WiFi manager you like. Personally, I use KnetworkManager. I believe that is a KDE 3.x application.
So 4.0 was for me going from a functional 3.5 desktop to a black hole. I won't bitch about it, I occasionally check in and see if the situation has improved. So far, the answer is "not really", so I'll use Gnome of a lighter desktop.
Sorry, this is an attitude I don't understand. If you like KDE 3.5, but don't like KDE 4.x, why go to Gnome (or other desktop), just use KDE 3.5, it's still available. It seems like people are cutting their noses off to spite their faces (that is assuming are actually changing their desktop and not trolling)
It also means that I can no longer wean people off Windows because KDE 4 just doesn't cut it yet as a replacement.
So why not show them KDE 3.5 instead.
A quote from the KDE website: "KDE 3.5 is the more mature version of KDE. For more conservative users, this is the recommended version of KDE."
In summary, to me, going to KDE 4 was as much an upgrade to 3.5 as Vista was an upgrade to XP..
What I'd like is simply what 3.5 was offering, stable compiz fusion graphics added (flashiness aside, a cube is actually quite a good working desktop model from a functionality point of view) and a complete array of apps form printing, WiFi (well, OK, that still sucks in seven ways to Sunday on Linux IMHO).
Having said that, I'll probably buy a Mac instead. Functionality without the risk or hassle..
So, why not stick with KDE 3.5 for the time being??? You aren't being forced to go to 4.x.
Personally, I now use KDE 4.2 on all of my machines (both home and work). I really like the "Cover Switch" alt-tab tool.
I tried KDE 4.0 and 4.1 and didn't like them. I stayed with KDE 3.5. I found KDE 4.1.3 OK and made the switch.
i've never bothered to look at oracle linux, because i can get 'free' redhat through centos, and when i want paid support, i can get it directly through redhat.
without some other differentiation, what is oracle providing that isnt there from the others?
so yes, it is just a rip off of red hat.
You would ONLY use Oracle Linux to run your Oracle products on. You wouldn't use it for your file and print, or web server. They wouldn't want you to anyway.
It's largely a marketing thing. If you run your Oracle products on Oracle Linux, Oracle will support the entire software stack. That can be important to a lot of enterprise customers, no turf wars about who's fault it isn't.
As a bonus, the Oracle Linux support contract is (and should be) significantly cheaper than Red Hat (or Novell - the other supported Linux vendor). This is because they really only support those functions that are required to run the Oracle products. They aren't interested in supporting your file and print server etc. Whereas Red Hat and Novell have to support everything.
Can you imagine what Oracle would say if you had an issue that was borderline Oracle / OS and you were running CentOS? Even though CentOS is a re-badged Red Hat, it isn't Red Hat, and it isn't on Oracle's supported OS list.
The sensible thing to do would be to run Oracle Linux for your Oracle products and Red Hat (or CentOS if you didn't want support) for everything else. As they are all virtually the same, it's a lot easier for your administrators.
Ubuntu's main strength is their rational versioning system. Some people just start at 0 or 1 and make shit up from there, but Ubuntu goes by the year.
They understand something Microsoft forgot 9 years ago, that version numbers are pointless, and your best bet is to at least make them sort-of useful by encoding the date into them.
This is something Ubuntu and Mandriva has done to great success.
The main problems with that approach from Microsoft's point of view are:
1) Their releases slip that much that they've announced a year based name, but they only *just* manage to ship it during that year (if they are lucky). In vista's case, what would it have been called Windows 2003, 4... 7??
2) More importantly, it reminds users of the age of their OS. The vintage is in the name.
Precisely. As far as I can tell, that is exactly what ZenWorks does.
From the blurb on the linked page:
Control Linux desktops and servers from the comfort of your office. Novell ZENworks Linux Management makes it easy to extend Linux within your existing environment. It uses Policy-Driven Automation to deploy, manage and maintain Linux resources. Advanced policies let you control workstation and server settings as well as certain applications.
Although as many others have pointed out, you probably don't need to go to such lengths, but if you really want to...
Unless users are only given a restricted shell, what prevents them from writing applications in shell script and running them?
It's either a kiosk or a fully functional Universal Turing Machine...
Well, one way to do this is to mount the users home / groups with the noexec flag. Only the system partitions should be mounted with execute permissions, and the users shouldn't have any write privileges on them.
Tellurium is extremely rare, one of the nine rarest metallic elements on Earth. It is in the same chemical family as oxygen, sulfur, selenium, and polonium (the chalcogens).
In a previous life I worked as a Metallurgist for a copper refinery. One project I worked on was refining / recovery of Tellurium from our anode slimes. From a technical point of view it wasn't difficult to recover. I was able to easily get > 99.96% purity in the lab.
At the time we had around 10 Tonnes / year of Tellurium in our slimes. Considering that the total world production is < 40 Tonnes, that was significant.
Even at > $100,000 / tonne, it just wasn't worth our while to go to the trouble of recovering it.
In the end we sold our slimes 'raw' and took the price hit for the impurities (included Copper and Tellurium)
It's not expensive, because no-one's using it. But if you start mass-producing anything with tellurium in it that cheapness will disappear sooner than you can say "exhausted supply".
It would probably be a very good investment to buy (right now) a ton or so of tellurium and put in your basement. Perhaps a bit unorthodox an investment, but before 20 years pass it will be many times more valuable than gold or platinum. Right now it costs between $70 and $100 per pound. You can reasonably expect that to become at least several thousand within the next ten years.
That price is still > $200,000 / Tonne
If the demand (and then price) really do go up, many of the refineries (or the precious metals companies that purchase their slimes) may be induced to actually recover their Tellurium, thus increasing supply.
NB. The major use of Tellurium is currently as a free machining agent in steel (it makes it easier to drill / machine)
Where I live we are in "Band 5", and the total length of the antenna should be 215mm. I can't get my rabbit ears that short. They are about double that at their minimum. They do work, but when the 'loose it', the entire picture goes and it starts squeaking.
I've tried this on a couple of machines at home (both Linux), and I get much the same answer as your BSD version (ie no 'p' in the version string).
Connecting to a Centos 5.2 box
telnet homeserver 22 Trying 192.168.0.249... Connected to homeserver. Escape character is '^]'. SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.3 ^C Connection closed by foreign host.
Connecting to an openSUSE (11.0) box
telnet localhost 22 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.0 ^C Connection closed by foreign host.
How would the botnet know they are attacking an OpenBSD box (vs Linux or something else)?
Is there some sort of server signature involved (that I'm not aware of)
My (Linux) ssh server at home just responds with a password prompt. I don't see any easy way to determine the underlying system from that.
BTW. On my server at home I use Hashlimits to limit each IP to 1 attempt per minute (maximum). This has taken the attacks down from hundreds / thousands per day ( The most attacks I ever got was ~7,000 from one IP) to about 3 to 6. This is typically, 1 attempt each, they then get blocked, and then they go away.
By experience I tend to avoid using the.0 releases as they are often buggy:/
??????
You do realise that there is NO significance to the openSUSE version numbering system? They just go X.0, X.1, X.2, X.3, X+1.0 etc
A.0 release does NOT mean that it is a significant upgrade (as opposed to a point release).
Besides, this is 11.1 we are talking about. Your comment is about 6 months late.
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Well, while you go on in fear, I'm going to continue using what I've found to be the most polished distribution for KDE4 users (out of Fedora, openSUSE, Kubuntu, and Debian). Fedora annoyingly included a pre-release version of xorg that didn't have driver support from nvidia or amd. I have no idea what's up with Kubuntu; the maintainers need to work a little harder at making it stable and fast. Debian is just missing some of the nicer GUI tools for system administration.
If you've got a better distribution to try, I'd love to hear it. (I'm really happy we have KVM ^_^)
Have you looked at Mandriva?
I haven't used Mandrake / Mandriva in many years (I'm an openSUSE user), but it is a KDE oriented distribution. Last time I used it, it was quite polished and worked well. I can only imagine that is still true.
Personally, I will stay with openSUSE for the foreseeable future. For me, it just works (TM)
agreed. on a 500mhz celeron notebook, with 128 ram and probably a horrific harddrive speed...very few current operating systems would be acceptable without major intervention.
Even some not so current OSs
My in-laws had to retire a 500MHz machine that I'd maxed out the ram at 128MB. It had Windows 98 on it and it was terribly slow. There's no way it could run 2000 or XP.
I believe, one of the main reasons for the slowness was the ever increasing resources being taken by the virus scanner etc.
That's the same reason we had to replace my wife's machine a few years ago. It couldn't run the current security package. Apart from that it could still run the same things it ran when she first got it.
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I agree totally.
I thought the KDE team went to great lengths to communicate that 4.0 was a DEVELOPER release and the 'mainstream' should stay with 3.5. Obviously many people chose to ignore what the KDE team was saying and make up their own story.
I was most certainly aware that the KDE team were saying the majority of people shouldn't consider the 4.x series usable on a day to day basis until 4.2 or so.
I was very surprised to learn that some distributions had dropped 3.5 very prematurely. I tested 4.0 and 4.1 but I stuck with 3.5 as my primary DE. I went to 4.2 full time and I'm very happy with 4.3.
Apparently not according to you. Since you claim zero calorie drinks cause you to gain weight.
Actually, that's not what the GP said.
He said that the zero Calorie drinks had a side effect of causing the rats to eat more (and thus increase their Calorific intake)
computer users who are more likely to be gamers.
[citation needed]
Well it's a bit hard to play a *computer* game without a *computer*[1].
Whereas you can go to the movies without owning a computer. Therefore there is a portion of the population that have been excluded from this survey.
[1] Yes I realise that some / many people also play games on dedicated hardware that may not have an Internet connection. Some of those people would also be excluded from this survey.
Regardless of what operating system you're on, there's this little feature called code signing.
If Apple actually signed everything they make, including the Setup/Installer packages, and drummed just that one little piece of security into their users then this type of malware-embedded-in-Apple-software attack just wouldn't be possible.
But these people were downloading a cracked version of the software (just not entirely in the way they expected). So they would expect that this would fail a validity test.
Obviously code signing would help in the user expected that whatever they were installing was totally genuine.
Likewise - I use fail2ban with iptables to drop any packets from someone who fails auth about 5 times in a few minutes. I've toyed with the idea of adding them to a global blacklist for all servers in all locations, but in reality this solution works just fine.
If you RTFA, they tell you that these attacks are coming from different machines, presumably so they don't trip such things as fail2ban et al.
Looking at the logs he supplied, this is a _very_ slow attack, the attempts are many seconds, or even minutes apart. You would have to have a very guessable username / password combination for it to work.
I would comment though that I'm not seeing anything like this attack in my logs. I personally use IPTables rules (using hashlimits) to limit 1 connection / IP per minute to my ssh ports. Typically, I see about 3-6 attempts per day (each only gets 1 or 2 tries before they get blocked). Doing an optical integration of my recent logs shows less than a dozen per day and they are not concentrating on any particular username (with the exception of root).
Prior to using hashlimits, I used to get hundreds or even thousands of attempts per day. My record was over 6,000 attempts from a single host. One guy at work has reported over 30,000 attempts in a single day.
I personally don't like the concept of fail2ban as it is permanently adding an IP address to your banned list. As most of these IPs are dynamic, keeping them in your banned list isn't really serving any useful purpose. I personally prefer a system that temporarily bans an IP.
Not cynical enough good sir. The next Liberal government will just privatise the entire network just like they did to every other bit of government infrastructure to raise enough cash to give themselves a pay rise.
Actually, according to the Whirlpool homepage story they are already planning it's ultimate sale (in the not too distant future)
Useful, but you have them backwards . . .
hawk
So I do ... Sorry about that.
Because 3.5 isn't available in many repositories anymore and bugs for 3.5 aren't being fixed because efforts concentrate on kde 4.
Which of the major distros don't carry KDE 3.5 any more?? I use openSUSE and it is most certainly available.
Looking at http://www.kde.org/download/#v3.5 there appear to be binary packages for Fedora, Kubuntu, Mandriva, openSUSE
Whilst a lot of effort is going into KDE 4.x, the 3.5 line still seems to be worked on.
And, maybe it might not be popular mentioning Windows 7 on /., but I really like the feature in Windows 7 beta where you can drag a window to a screen border and it resizes to the screen height and 1/2 the screen width. I imagine that this would be easy to do as a plugin for KDE, but (so far) I haven't been able to find one.
KDE does have a feature that is similar, but not the same.
If you right mouse click on the "maximise" button, the window maximises in the VERTICAL direction ONLY. Similarly, you can maximise to full width by clicking with the middle button.
Unfortunately, I don't know of anything to expand to 1/2 height or width.
Hmm, I don't think it's "hate" as such, more profound disappointment. I can't speak for others, but KDE 3.5 was moving along nicely, was functional and had *heaps* of apps to make it a complete desktop. With Compiz Fusion added it was even damn flash, but the main thing is that it did the job and enough apps were available to create some flexibility.
Those KDE 3.5 applications you like still exist, they didn't go away. You can use them with KDE 4.x, 3.5, Gnome, or many other desktop environments.
Along comes 4 and whammo - I even have trouble finding a decent WiFi manager. All those 3.5 apps I was used to don't have a 4 replacement, and I don't really want to be a whining git asking the developers of every single app to upgrade their code (which is AFAIK not that easy either) - besides, I don't have the time.
So use the WiFi manager you like. Personally, I use KnetworkManager. I believe that is a KDE 3.x application.
So 4.0 was for me going from a functional 3.5 desktop to a black hole. I won't bitch about it, I occasionally check in and see if the situation has improved. So far, the answer is "not really", so I'll use Gnome of a lighter desktop.
Sorry, this is an attitude I don't understand. If you like KDE 3.5, but don't like KDE 4.x, why go to Gnome (or other desktop), just use KDE 3.5, it's still available. It seems like people are cutting their noses off to spite their faces (that is assuming are actually changing their desktop and not trolling)
It also means that I can no longer wean people off Windows because KDE 4 just doesn't cut it yet as a replacement.
So why not show them KDE 3.5 instead.
A quote from the KDE website:
"KDE 3.5 is the more mature version of KDE. For more conservative users, this is the recommended version of KDE."
In summary, to me, going to KDE 4 was as much an upgrade to 3.5 as Vista was an upgrade to XP..
What I'd like is simply what 3.5 was offering, stable compiz fusion graphics added (flashiness aside, a cube is actually quite a good working desktop model from a functionality point of view) and a complete array of apps form printing, WiFi (well, OK, that still sucks in seven ways to Sunday on Linux IMHO).
Having said that, I'll probably buy a Mac instead. Functionality without the risk or hassle..
So, why not stick with KDE 3.5 for the time being??? You aren't being forced to go to 4.x.
Personally, I now use KDE 4.2 on all of my machines (both home and work). I really like the "Cover Switch" alt-tab tool.
I tried KDE 4.0 and 4.1 and didn't like them. I stayed with KDE 3.5. I found KDE 4.1.3 OK and made the switch.
i've never bothered to look at oracle linux, because i can get 'free' redhat through centos, and when i want paid support, i can get it directly through redhat.
without some other differentiation, what is oracle providing that isnt there from the others?
so yes, it is just a rip off of red hat.
You would ONLY use Oracle Linux to run your Oracle products on. You wouldn't use it for your file and print, or web server. They wouldn't want you to anyway.
It's largely a marketing thing. If you run your Oracle products on Oracle Linux, Oracle will support the entire software stack. That can be important to a lot of enterprise customers, no turf wars about who's fault it isn't.
As a bonus, the Oracle Linux support contract is (and should be) significantly cheaper than Red Hat (or Novell - the other supported Linux vendor). This is because they really only support those functions that are required to run the Oracle products. They aren't interested in supporting your file and print server etc. Whereas Red Hat and Novell have to support everything.
Can you imagine what Oracle would say if you had an issue that was borderline Oracle / OS and you were running CentOS? Even though CentOS is a re-badged Red Hat, it isn't Red Hat, and it isn't on Oracle's supported OS list.
The sensible thing to do would be to run Oracle Linux for your Oracle products and Red Hat (or CentOS if you didn't want support) for everything else. As they are all virtually the same, it's a lot easier for your administrators.
Ubuntu's main strength is their rational versioning system.
Some people just start at 0 or 1 and make shit up from there, but Ubuntu goes by the year.
They understand something Microsoft forgot 9 years ago, that version numbers are pointless, and your best bet is to at least make them sort-of useful by encoding the date into them.
This is something Ubuntu and Mandriva has done to great success.
The main problems with that approach from Microsoft's point of view are:
1) Their releases slip that much that they've announced a year based name, but they only *just* manage to ship it during that year (if they are lucky). In vista's case, what would it have been called Windows 2003, 4 ... 7??
2) More importantly, it reminds users of the age of their OS. The vintage is in the name.
Have you had a look at Novell's Zenworks suite?
Zenworks
Precisely. As far as I can tell, that is exactly what ZenWorks does.
From the blurb on the linked page:
Control Linux desktops and servers from the comfort of your office. Novell ZENworks Linux Management makes it easy to extend Linux within your existing environment. It uses Policy-Driven Automation to deploy, manage and maintain Linux resources. Advanced policies let you control workstation and server settings as well as certain applications.
Although as many others have pointed out, you probably don't need to go to such lengths, but if you really want to ...
Unless users are only given a restricted shell, what prevents them from writing applications in shell script and running them?
It's either a kiosk or a fully functional Universal Turing Machine...
Well, one way to do this is to mount the users home / groups with the noexec flag. Only the system partitions should be mounted with execute permissions, and the users shouldn't have any write privileges on them.
Tellurium is extremely rare, one of the nine rarest metallic elements on Earth. It is in the same chemical family as oxygen, sulfur, selenium, and polonium (the chalcogens).
In a previous life I worked as a Metallurgist for a copper refinery. One project I worked on was refining / recovery of Tellurium from our anode slimes. From a technical point of view it wasn't difficult to recover. I was able to easily get > 99.96% purity in the lab.
At the time we had around 10 Tonnes / year of Tellurium in our slimes. Considering that the total world production is < 40 Tonnes, that was significant.
Even at > $100,000 / tonne, it just wasn't worth our while to go to the trouble of recovering it.
In the end we sold our slimes 'raw' and took the price hit for the impurities (included Copper and Tellurium)
It's not expensive, because no-one's using it. But if you start mass-producing anything with tellurium in it that cheapness will disappear sooner than you can say "exhausted supply".
It would probably be a very good investment to buy (right now) a ton or so of tellurium and put in your basement. Perhaps a bit unorthodox an investment, but before 20 years pass it will be many times more valuable than gold or platinum. Right now it costs between $70 and $100 per pound. You can reasonably expect that to become at least several thousand within the next ten years.
That price is still > $200,000 / Tonne
If the demand (and then price) really do go up, many of the refineries (or the precious metals companies that purchase their slimes) may be induced to actually recover their Tellurium, thus increasing supply.
NB. The major use of Tellurium is currently as a free machining agent in steel (it makes it easier to drill / machine)
This forum has a lot of information on the subject: http://www.dtvforum.info/index.php?showtopic=32846
Whilst this is specifically about Australian DTV channels, I would expect the concepts would be the same for the US implementation.
The main things to note are that you need to have your Rabbit ears HORIZONTAL (or VERTICAL), but NOT in a V shape, and typically very short.
The PDF linked from this posting shows you how to set your rabbit ears up: http://www.dtvforum.info/index.php?showtopic=70193
Where I live we are in "Band 5", and the total length of the antenna should be 215mm. I can't get my rabbit ears that short. They are about double that at their minimum. They do work, but when the 'loose it', the entire picture goes and it starts squeaking.
However Windows 7 is to Vista what Win98SE was to WinME. In other words, they got it right, after a serious misstep.
Sorry, are you saying that 98SE was the dog and ME got it right??? (ME was the successor to 98SE)
I think most people would say it's the other way around
I've tried this on a couple of machines at home (both Linux), and I get much the same answer as your BSD version (ie no 'p' in the version string).
Connecting to a Centos 5.2 box
telnet homeserver 22
Trying 192.168.0.249...
Connected to homeserver.
Escape character is '^]'.
SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.3
^C
Connection closed by foreign host.
Connecting to an openSUSE (11.0) box
telnet localhost 22
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.0
^C
Connection closed by foreign host.
How would the botnet know they are attacking an OpenBSD box (vs Linux or something else)?
Is there some sort of server signature involved (that I'm not aware of)
My (Linux) ssh server at home just responds with a password prompt. I don't see any easy way to determine the underlying system from that.
BTW. On my server at home I use Hashlimits to limit each IP to 1 attempt per minute (maximum). This has taken the attacks down from hundreds / thousands per day ( The most attacks I ever got was ~7,000 from one IP) to about 3 to 6. This is typically, 1 attempt each, they then get blocked, and then they go away.
By experience I tend to avoid using the .0 releases as they are often buggy :/
??????
You do realise that there is NO significance to the openSUSE version numbering system? They just go X.0, X.1, X.2, X.3, X+1.0 etc
A .0 release does NOT mean that it is a significant upgrade (as opposed to a point release).
Besides, this is 11.1 we are talking about. Your comment is about 6 months late.
Well, while you go on in fear, I'm going to continue using what I've found to be the most polished distribution for KDE4 users (out of Fedora, openSUSE, Kubuntu, and Debian). Fedora annoyingly included a pre-release version of xorg that didn't have driver support from nvidia or amd. I have no idea what's up with Kubuntu; the maintainers need to work a little harder at making it stable and fast. Debian is just missing some of the nicer GUI tools for system administration.
If you've got a better distribution to try, I'd love to hear it. (I'm really happy we have KVM ^_^)
Have you looked at Mandriva?
I haven't used Mandrake / Mandriva in many years (I'm an openSUSE user), but it is a KDE oriented distribution. Last time I used it, it was quite polished and worked well. I can only imagine that is still true.
Personally, I will stay with openSUSE for the foreseeable future. For me, it just works (TM)
And besides, the spouses DNA *shouldn't* match as a blood relative ...
Another requirement of *E*U membership might be some continental proximity to Europe...
Time to break out the plastic paddles then...
You mean a bit like this ...
http://stuffucanuse.com/aussie_windows/am.htm
Hey, if you want to believe that I stay awake 24/7 changing my sig every 15 minutes every day, that's your call.
Umm... Your script can't be working too well at the moment, or your random number generator is broken.
You have three posts this morning, all with the same sig:
Thursday November 06, @08:50AM
Thursday November 06, @10:04AM
Thursday November 06, @10:41AM
agreed. on a 500mhz celeron notebook, with 128 ram and probably a horrific harddrive speed...very few current operating systems would be acceptable without major intervention.
Even some not so current OSs
My in-laws had to retire a 500MHz machine that I'd maxed out the ram at 128MB. It had Windows 98 on it and it was terribly slow. There's no way it could run 2000 or XP.
I believe, one of the main reasons for the slowness was the ever increasing resources being taken by the virus scanner etc.
That's the same reason we had to replace my wife's machine a few years ago. It couldn't run the current security package. Apart from that it could still run the same things it ran when she first got it.