When your average Joe tries to optimize their computer, it usually means that they're deleting files to make the hard drive run faster.
Specifically the files from C:\Windows\System32.
Thus, I have no fear of people your average Joe trying to tweak their car.
Really? I didn't know my HDD could run faster than 7200RPM if I deleted files! Wow, I gotta try this!
Joke aside, if average Joe is running a unprivileged account and the system has proper permissions set, then average Joe should have nothing to fear (except deleting his own stuff). That and the fact that you missed the point entirely, just because the car software is opensource it does not mean you will be able to fine tune all the parameters conveniently from the car touchscreen located in front of the driver's seat.
Many are keen on the concept of open source electric cars — that is, electric cars where the built-in software can be tweaked, parameters can be changed, and in theory, the cars can be improved.
Operating systems can also be tweaked, parameters can be changed, and they have indeed been improved. Do you see average Joe tweaking the swappiness of his kernel? Also, opensource isn't just about tweaking but also contributing back to the community the improvements found.
so allowing average Joe to tweak the car's inner workings seems like a bad idea.
So what? Average Joe can also play with the inner workings of his phone, router, TV, etc.. does he do that? No, if he wants to mess with his router he asks to the geek living next door.
Indeed. Still, coming from a Portuguese itself, this is the most stupid idea ever! I got a better idea, why don't they reduce the parliament size to the minimum required by law and reduce their own wages to a sane value?
As the article that you linked points out: The moment you open your third legitimate SSH window, you're blocked, and an IP whitelist won't work if you often have to work from home or somewhere else that has an IP address that changes nightly.
Then: - don't open a third ssh connection within 300 seconds (even if you do it is a temporary block, on contrary to what your argument is suggesting). - increase the hitcount parameter. - use GNU screen to multiplex several terminals into a single ssh connection - use sshguard (it isn't just a whitelist, it is actually a dynamic blocklist - fail login several times and your IP is temporarily blocked).
You are bringing up a non issue and you missed my point entirely. TFA suggests there is an optimum attack rate for ssh brute forces which, despite still interesting, is far from reality. I do limit the connections to my sshd server and I'm no sysadmin. So I'm pretty sure any good sysadmin is using better tricks to slow down bruteforces to the point of making them nonviable.
Furthermore, a botnet with thousands of compromised Windows PCs on separate IPs can still bruteforce your account.
Can they? Considering my previous example on using iptables to slow down brute forces, each botnet node can only try 3 passwords in the first 5 minutes and then one password per 5 minutes from then on. Even if the botnet has "thousands" of nodes (lets say 9000 nodes), they can only try 3* 9000 + 11*9000 = 126000 passwords during the first hour. Do you really think this is even near a successful bruteforce rate?? (given that the password is minimally secure).
The n-gage was actually a very good phone! I mean, a very good console! I mean.. oh wait..
Ignoring the strange "calling position" http://stiffopposition.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/ngage.jpg, the n-gage was actually very well built for the time. It survived a bunch of drops and it was also very comfortable to type in. Also, I never understood why but everytime I had it inside my pocket girls always asked me if I was that happy to see them.
A tube radio? That is crazy! I stopped traveling with reinforced aluminium handcases cause they always arrive full of holes and damaged. I don't even know how a He-Ne laser (which was travelling inside that case) survived that trip. Thinking in putting yellow stickers with fragile symbol? I think it only makes it worse!
A year ago I got stopped at the X-ray screening section when departing from France. I giggled a bit when I saw how the 6 C-size battery pack and some disassembled electronics (including a LED 7-segment display) looked like in the screen, they sure looked like a bomb to me. I was asked to stop and a guy hand searched my body and then proceeded to open my bag with my authorization. It was quite funny when he picked out the battery pack (with cables running out of it) out of the heavily compacted travel bag and asked me - what is this? I'm sure he knew already, can't they differentiate the contents of batteries from the X-ray scan?
Thing is, I bet this would be a lot less funny if it happened outside Europe, in particular in the USA.
It is interesting to see that even with all of current scaremongering about nuclear power, the oil spills still were orders of magnitude MORE dangerous to oceanic wildlife than the Fukushima radioactive leak. This should be something to think about..
That is something I really like when buying electronic equipment within Europe, knowing that warranty is always 2 years (with exceptions like batteries). How does it work out in other places?
I don't play commercial games anymore. The only reason why I have one virtual machine with Windows is to use Tax software
Really? At least around here the tax program is java and runs quite nicely in Linux. Since you are paying taxes, it makes sense you ask your government that..err.. the tax program is cross-platform, no?
get involved in a opensource project, the bigger the better, they often do QA reviews and force you to adhere to their guidelines and coding practices. Your ultimate test will be pushing something into kernel.org.
Just stop using paper! Just as soon as a simple 8.5x11 epaper-pads is available at the right price that has wifi and nfc I'm going to either get fired or get those deployed. Paper is a horrible waste as is maintaining printers and storing the crap and all of that. We use paper for trivial bullshit that then gets thrown away. Paper and printing are costing us 12 million over the last 10 years though costs have decreased some it's leveled off and my prediction is it will cost 9 million for the next ten. I want us weened off paper for the trivial bullshit NOW. Hell I could by sixty thousand of the damn things for 150 each with 9 million. Several 'paper is god' dinosaurs will by gone soon so I may have a shot. Dunno.
Mr. Ballmer wishes to believe that this will be the year of Bing On The Desktop.
I propose that we in the linux community dispatch a team of our chair-hardened counselors in order to help him work through the stages of the inevitable grieving process in an efficient and healthy manner...
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Changes are made to a ecosystem and the ecosystem reacts to those changes, news at eleven.
I never used it but they partnership with sourceforge.net for that same purpose:
http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb080205-story03.html
I'm not against them on advertising their product but it is just not correct when they do so using FUD tactics:
http://techrights.org/2009/10/28/black-duck-scare-tactics/
From TFA:
That was the conclusion of Matthew Aslett's analysis of recent data from Black Duck Software
Do we even need to say anything else?
http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Black_Duck
When your average Joe tries to optimize their computer, it usually means that they're deleting files to make the hard drive run faster.
Specifically the files from C:\Windows\System32.
Thus, I have no fear of people your average Joe trying to tweak their car.
Really? I didn't know my HDD could run faster than 7200RPM if I deleted files! Wow, I gotta try this!
Joke aside, if average Joe is running a unprivileged account and the system has proper permissions set, then average Joe should have nothing to fear (except deleting his own stuff).
That and the fact that you missed the point entirely, just because the car software is opensource it does not mean you will be able to fine tune all the parameters conveniently from the car touchscreen located in front of the driver's seat.
Many are keen on the concept of open source electric cars — that is, electric cars where the built-in software can be tweaked, parameters can be changed, and in theory, the cars can be improved.
Operating systems can also be tweaked, parameters can be changed, and they have indeed been improved. Do you see average Joe tweaking the swappiness of his kernel? Also, opensource isn't just about tweaking but also contributing back to the community the improvements found.
so allowing average Joe to tweak the car's inner workings seems like a bad idea.
So what? Average Joe can also play with the inner workings of his phone, router, TV, etc.. does he do that? No, if he wants to mess with his router he asks to the geek living next door.
lame
Indeed. Still, coming from a Portuguese itself, this is the most stupid idea ever! I got a better idea, why don't they reduce the parliament size to the minimum required by law and reduce their own wages to a sane value?
Did my Portuguese friends knew that the government servers that used to run Linux were just migrated to Microsoft DURING A RECESSIVE CRISIS?? It was for that reason that their web sites went down for several days:
http://exameinformatica.sapo.pt/noticias/internet/2012/04/04/sistema-de-redundancia-do-portal-do-governo-nao-funcionou
translation:
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=pt&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fexameinformatica.sapo.pt%2Fnoticias%2Finternet%2F2012%2F04%2F04%2Fsistema-de-redundancia-do-portal-do-governo-nao-funcionou
Is someone willing to start a online petition with me?
In other news, how Steve Ballmer gave rise to the dancing monkeys throwing chairs .
Time for tinfoil overalls.
At least it will be a shiny future.
Great!!! I can finally dress my astronaut suit without looking awkward in the streets. I'm looking forward for that future.
As the article that you linked points out: The moment you open your third legitimate SSH window, you're blocked, and an IP whitelist won't work if you often have to work from home or somewhere else that has an IP address that changes nightly.
Then:
- don't open a third ssh connection within 300 seconds (even if you do it is a temporary block, on contrary to what your argument is suggesting).
- increase the hitcount parameter.
- use GNU screen to multiplex several terminals into a single ssh connection
- use sshguard (it isn't just a whitelist, it is actually a dynamic blocklist - fail login several times and your IP is temporarily blocked).
You are bringing up a non issue and you missed my point entirely. TFA suggests there is an optimum attack rate for ssh brute forces which, despite still interesting, is far from reality. I do limit the connections to my sshd server and I'm no sysadmin. So I'm pretty sure any good sysadmin is using better tricks to slow down bruteforces to the point of making them nonviable.
Furthermore, a botnet with thousands of compromised Windows PCs on separate IPs can still bruteforce your account.
Can they? Considering my previous example on using iptables to slow down brute forces, each botnet node can only try 3 passwords in the first 5 minutes and then one password per 5 minutes from then on. Even if the botnet has "thousands" of nodes (lets say 9000 nodes), they can only try 3* 9000 + 11*9000 = 126000 passwords during the first hour. Do you really think this is even near a successful bruteforce rate?? (given that the password is minimally secure).
Using sshguard makes it even harder...
Meh, just add proper rules to iptables and you will be fine:
http://www.ducea.com/2006/06/28/using-iptables-to-block-brute-force-attacks/
sshguard is pretty good too:
http://www.sshguard.net/
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The n-gage was actually a very good phone! I mean, a very good console! I mean .. oh wait..
Ignoring the strange "calling position" http://stiffopposition.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/ngage.jpg, the n-gage was actually very well built for the time. It survived a bunch of drops and it was also very comfortable to type in. Also, I never understood why but everytime I had it inside my pocket girls always asked me if I was that happy to see them.
A tube radio? That is crazy! I stopped traveling with reinforced aluminium handcases cause they always arrive full of holes and damaged. I don't even know how a He-Ne laser (which was travelling inside that case) survived that trip. Thinking in putting yellow stickers with fragile symbol? I think it only makes it worse!
Did the tubes survive?
A year ago I got stopped at the X-ray screening section when departing from France. I giggled a bit when I saw how the 6 C-size battery pack and some disassembled electronics (including a LED 7-segment display) looked like in the screen, they sure looked like a bomb to me. I was asked to stop and a guy hand searched my body and then proceeded to open my bag with my authorization. It was quite funny when he picked out the battery pack (with cables running out of it) out of the heavily compacted travel bag and asked me - what is this? I'm sure he knew already, can't they differentiate the contents of batteries from the X-ray scan?
Thing is, I bet this would be a lot less funny if it happened outside Europe, in particular in the USA.
Why that couldn't be included in the summary?
The author wanted us to think, April fools!
I'm not a nuclear supporter. In fact, I live in a country where more than 50% of energy already comes from renewable sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_Portugal
Still, I find the nuclear power less problematic (or cleaner) than fossil fuel, hence my comparison above.
It is interesting to see that even with all of current scaremongering about nuclear power, the oil spills still were orders of magnitude MORE dangerous to oceanic wildlife than the Fukushima radioactive leak. This should be something to think about..
That is something I really like when buying electronic equipment within Europe, knowing that warranty is always 2 years (with exceptions like batteries). How does it work out in other places?
What about unlimited encrypted storage?
you need TCP forwarding enabled in your sshd_config, then
ssh -L localhost:2222:localhost:2222 localhost
$ echo "data you wanna save" | nc localhost 2222
# or if you want to backup your hdd, try: /dev/sda1 | nc localhost 2222
$ cat
# the data will be forwarded forever in the loopback link at no cost until you read it back:
$ nc localhost 2222 > hdd-backup.bin
# profit!
Sorry, around here is Portugal.
And around here is Germany :-)
Funny coincidence then :P
Really? At least around here the tax program is java and runs quite nicely in Linux.
You must say where "around here" is :-)
Sorry, around here is Portugal.
I don't play commercial games anymore. The only reason why I have one virtual machine with Windows is to use Tax software
Really? At least around here the tax program is java and runs quite nicely in Linux. ..err.. the tax program is cross-platform, no?
Since you are paying taxes, it makes sense you ask your government that
get involved in a opensource project, the bigger the better, they often do QA reviews and force you to adhere to their guidelines and coding practices. Your ultimate test will be pushing something into kernel.org.
Just stop using paper! Just as soon as a simple 8.5x11 epaper-pads is available at the right price that has wifi and nfc I'm going to either get fired or get those deployed. Paper is a horrible waste as is maintaining printers and storing the crap and all of that. We use paper for trivial bullshit that then gets thrown away. Paper and printing are costing us 12 million over the last 10 years though costs have decreased some it's leveled off and my prediction is it will cost 9 million for the next ten. I want us weened off paper for the trivial bullshit NOW. Hell I could by sixty thousand of the damn things for 150 each with 9 million. Several 'paper is god' dinosaurs will by gone soon so I may have a shot. Dunno.
I don’t believe you, continue.
Signed - Dwight Schrute
Mr. Ballmer wishes to believe that this will be the year of Bing On The Desktop.
I propose that we in the linux community dispatch a team of our chair-hardened counselors in order to help him work through the stages of the inevitable grieving process in an efficient and healthy manner...
There, fixed it for you