This is another nail in the "dark matter can be solved with a modified theory of gravity" coffin. If we can find a galaxy composed of stars whose observed motion is entirely explained by the mass of those stars and known theories of gravity (Newton, Einstein) that's a serious blow to theories like MOND.
If you copy the.config then run "make oldconfig" you'll pull in all of the still-relevant settings from your last build and be asked about anything that has changed.
Gentoo is subject to the same problem in reverse - except it's far more annoying and time consuming.
This scenario has happened to me multiple times on production systems:
Updates get pushed out, glsa-check notifies you of some critical patch to openssl or whatever, you go to do the upgrade only to discover that the new version has a.so rev bump. Now you need to use revdep-rebuild to track down every package that links against openssl (i.e. anything important) and recompile them. If any of these packages are more than a minor revision or two behind what's currently in portage the only way to rebuild them is to pull the ebuild from/var/db/pkg and copy it into the portage tree manually, then rebuild the digest and hope to god that portage can track down all of the source files or that they're still sitting in/usr/portage/distfiles. In the meantime you'd better hope that you're either on a dev box (luxury!) or nobody sneezes, since everything that needs the package that was so bumped is now running off cached filesystem data.
Might try a firmware update, will be tricky to do now since it's being used. According to the stats we're pulling via SNMP the CPU is pegged during these times, I figured there wasn't much more to get out of it.
One of my clients has the 4x750GB model in production for storage of backups. It runs Debian Woody on a Sparc and has 512M of memory. Shares can be mounted via NFS or CIFS. The device has gigE, but writes are limited to around 50-60 megabit and reads at around 100 megabit. The status of the disks, fans, power, and temperature can all be monitored via SNMP.
I would be surprised to learn that Google ever deleted anything. I know a few Googlers, and from what I gather information is generally made "unavailable to the public" rather than erased.
Grr... they still haven't done the eyes the way I pictured them while reading the series. Did anyone else picture the eyes as being a deep blue marble color rather than the glowing blue that the movie and TV series have made them out to be?
That aside, I'm hoping that the Sci-Fi series is a whole hell of a lot better than the movie... if not I suppose I can just start drinking heavily partway through it;)
"The TRW Inc.-built spacecraft was the first - and is now the lone survivor - of a series of four identical spacecraft launched between 1965 and 1968."
There are a few TRW research sites near where I live, one of them is up on a hill where they test antennae and other such stuff, they have this upside down airplane up on stilts which they use for their testing. The site is relativly popular amongst the local population, it's commonly refered to as "the upside down airplane". Of course it also has the advantage of being right next to a beautiful overlook of the San Jose suburbia, so it's popular for another reason too;)
Okay, this has been one of my pet peeves for a while now. Mainly, I hate start menus. This isn't specific to the "Windows" start button, it extends to the Gnome foot, the big ugly K and the Apple menu. The problem lies within the reliance on mouse positioning to keep the menu open. On desktop machines this isn't such a problem, you can generaly keep pretty good control over your mouse, provided you don't sneeze or are not attacked by a vagrant feline. But then there's laptops. It's a pain in the arse to keep the cursor on a start menu when you're using a touch pad. Maybe I just have fat fingers, but it's just no fun. A better solution is a more CDE like interface ala XFce. Click the menu, it's open, click the item in the menu and the menu closes, your selection executes. In between the first and the second click you could traverse your mouse cursor around the screen twice and do the lambada for all XFce cares.
I have a Sony MDR-RF950RK and my one of my co-workers has a RCA WHP150 which is also nice. I get better sound quality on my Sony's but his RCAs are easier to recharge (you just plug the lead from the basestand into the headphones, with mine you need to swap the rechargable batteries with the ones in the stand). The range is nice, I can hear them just about anywhere on the floor I work on, certainly no problems just in the lab.
At my work, a bunch of us have 900Mhz wireless headphones that we use to listen to music (clotheslining yourself while rolling around the lab sucks). The cool thing is that we can all tune into eachother's frequencies. So in a way it's kinda like we have our own mini radio staitons:)
as mentioned previously, the whole "let's go colonize other planets" idea doesn't work out because people in general don't want to fund such a thing. well, why not? because they're too stupid to realise the inherit COOLNESS of going to other planets. Okay, how do we make them pay for us to go out and play Star Trek? The answer is obvious, we TRASH THE FSCKING PLANET! Yeah, let's see how you like living here now that 90% of the earth is being bombarded by cosmic radiation! Don't you wish you could live under a nice CLEAN DOME on MARS?! HUH?! SUCK TOXINS!
To that end, I propose that all people who are interested in future colinization of other planets go out and buy a whole smeg load of styrofoam and BURN IT! Then go out and get a bunch of aresol cans and RELEASE THEM INTO THE ATMOSPHERE! BURN CRUDE OIL! NAPALM THE RAIN FORESTS! POUR OIL INTO THE OCEANS!
You'll note that I said I hadn't tried out TrustedBSD. Would you be willing to share this elusive knowlege of yours that's oh-so-superior to the industry standard DoD ratings?
Also, you cause me to question wether or not you've actualy READ the rainbow books, orange in particular. Most of the stuff put forth in them is more general suggestions for methods to be used in a secure OS, stratagies if you will. The same concept applies to physical security of sites, the technology may change over time and require minute changes in implimentation (machine gun turrets and mortar cannons instead of sharp sticks and big rocks) but the basic ideas are still pretty much the same as they have been for hundreds of years.
In the same way we can define a basic set of standards for how a secure computer should operate. For instance, say I have two interfaces (eth0 and eth1). eth0 is attached to my internal network, which I consider to be fairly trustworthy. eth1 is attached to my external network, which I do not trust. I can, under a B1 OS, define a restricted permission set for users/processes coming in over eth1. Say I define these privs to the equivilant of "guest" access, these users/processes have permission to read my apache htdocs directory, but they cannot modify delete or create new files. With my permissions set like this, I can even be so stupid as to allow remote "root" logins (technicaly there is no root user under a B1 OS) and not worry about someone on the outside gaining more access than the interface rules allow for.
Simmilarly I can define more specific rules for my internal interface. Users coming in over vanilla telnet via eth0 are allowed up to a certain ammount of access, but no higher. Users coming in over ssh from the local net are allowed more access than that. Finaly, users logged in on the system's console are allowed unrestricted access, providing (of course) they can authenticate themselves properly (password, biometrics, some combination of the two, who cares?).
I think you'll have to agree that there really isn't much in there that's specific to 1990's technology, all the new tech does is change the details in the implimentation, i.e. 40-bit encryption is no longer secure and should not be used for sensitive transmissions, passwords are not longer an adequite means of authentication, there should be a biometric or cryptographic system to suppliment the traditional password access controls.
www.westernunion.com is running Microsoft-IIS/4.0 on NT4 or Windows 98
D'oh! Seriously, you'd think these big banks and money sending whatever it is western union does people would use a B1 Trusted OS or something.
May I suggest BullDog or possibly TrustedBSD? I haven't tried TrustedBSD, but I was quite impressed with BullDog's stats at this past DefCon. They put a server running thir OS (a modified Solaris) on the CTF (Capture The Flag) network running all sorts of insane services. A day into the competition they still hadn't been cracked so they posted the shadow password file. They never did get cracked.
Sure, sure, I have all this stuff on my hard drive so feel free to request extra greps:) I expect wget to finish sometime today or tonight... or I hope it will anyway:P
In the true spirit of the degrees game (and because wget went off on some.gov tangent) I have limited my recursion to 7 levels, we'll see:)
one interesting side note, at about 10-12 levels down I got onto some raunchy pr0n sites:P I rm -rf'd that stuff though, cuz it was taking up some massive disk space:)
Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of a Linux system kicking the sh*t out of W2K/IIS as much as the next geek, but it seems to me like this was a bit of a biased test. Really, it isn't fair to put a kernel space HTTP server which was built for the sole purpose of kicking @$$ on benchmarks up against a full-size web server thingie like IIS. I'm sure that if MS wanted to they could put out a server very simmilar to TUX and get comperable results. I'd like to see these benchmarks done again with Apache and see how they stack up.
Shaft sucked. Standard bullshit shoot-em-up flick, the mexican drug lords unload thousands of rounds into the back of Shaft's beat up junker car from their SUV assault wagon, Shaft fires randomly with his hand gun and kills half of them. Wahoo!
How about dmesg | less in an eterm running on my 1280x1024 desktop? Besides, I wouldn't be able to read it even at 1024x768 frame buffer mode, as it takes my system 30 seconds to boot. You blink and the screen is cleared and giving you a login prompt:)
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This is another nail in the "dark matter can be solved with a modified theory of gravity" coffin. If we can find a galaxy composed of stars whose observed motion is entirely explained by the mass of those stars and known theories of gravity (Newton, Einstein) that's a serious blow to theories like MOND.
Who else remembers when gas was under $1/gal at the pump?
If you copy the .config then run "make oldconfig" you'll pull in all of the still-relevant settings from your last build and be asked about anything that has changed.
Gentoo is subject to the same problem in reverse - except it's far more annoying and time consuming.
.so rev bump. Now you need to use revdep-rebuild to track down every package that links against openssl (i.e. anything important) and recompile them. If any of these packages are more than a minor revision or two behind what's currently in portage the only way to rebuild them is to pull the ebuild from /var/db/pkg and copy it into the portage tree manually, then rebuild the digest and hope to god that portage can track down all of the source files or that they're still sitting in /usr/portage/distfiles. In the meantime you'd better hope that you're either on a dev box (luxury!) or nobody sneezes, since everything that needs the package that was so bumped is now running off cached filesystem data.
This scenario has happened to me multiple times on production systems:
Updates get pushed out, glsa-check notifies you of some critical patch to openssl or whatever, you go to do the upgrade only to discover that the new version has a
It's a lot of fun.
Might try a firmware update, will be tricky to do now since it's being used. According to the stats we're pulling via SNMP the CPU is pegged during these times, I figured there wasn't much more to get out of it.
What RAID level are you running? We're on 5.
Because 4 3.5" drives is all you can fit in a 1U form factor?
One of my clients has the 4x750GB model in production for storage of backups. It runs Debian Woody on a Sparc and has 512M of memory. Shares can be mounted via NFS or CIFS. The device has gigE, but writes are limited to around 50-60 megabit and reads at around 100 megabit. The status of the disks, fans, power, and temperature can all be monitored via SNMP.
All in all, it's pretty good for the price point.
I would be surprised to learn that Google ever deleted anything. I know a few Googlers, and from what I gather information is generally made "unavailable to the public" rather than erased.
I used mine for Frogger
And here I was thinking that Turbolinux died years ago. Last time I remember hearing about them is back in '99 or '00.
Maybe they just died on the inside.
Someone give me a call when they can beat Lazarus Long. 2500 years and still chasing after his own (mother's) tail...
Grr... they still haven't done the eyes the way I pictured them while reading the series. Did anyone else picture the eyes as being a deep blue marble color rather than the glowing blue that the movie and TV series have made them out to be?
;)
That aside, I'm hoping that the Sci-Fi series is a whole hell of a lot better than the movie... if not I suppose I can just start drinking heavily partway through it
"The TRW Inc.-built spacecraft was the first - and is now the lone survivor - of a series of four identical spacecraft launched between 1965 and 1968."
;)
There are a few TRW research sites near where I live, one of them is up on a hill where they test antennae and other such stuff, they have this upside down airplane up on stilts which they use for their testing. The site is relativly popular amongst the local population, it's commonly refered to as "the upside down airplane". Of course it also has the advantage of being right next to a beautiful overlook of the San Jose suburbia, so it's popular for another reason too
Okay, this has been one of my pet peeves for a while now. Mainly, I hate start menus. This isn't specific to the "Windows" start button, it extends to the Gnome foot, the big ugly K and the Apple menu. The problem lies within the reliance on mouse positioning to keep the menu open. On desktop machines this isn't such a problem, you can generaly keep pretty good control over your mouse, provided you don't sneeze or are not attacked by a vagrant feline. But then there's laptops. It's a pain in the arse to keep the cursor on a start menu when you're using a touch pad. Maybe I just have fat fingers, but it's just no fun. A better solution is a more CDE like interface ala XFce. Click the menu, it's open, click the item in the menu and the menu closes, your selection executes. In between the first and the second click you could traverse your mouse cursor around the screen twice and do the lambada for all XFce cares.
I have a Sony MDR-RF950RK and my one of my co-workers has a RCA WHP150 which is also nice. I get better sound quality on my Sony's but his RCAs are easier to recharge (you just plug the lead from the basestand into the headphones, with mine you need to swap the rechargable batteries with the ones in the stand). The range is nice, I can hear them just about anywhere on the floor I work on, certainly no problems just in the lab.
At my work, a bunch of us have 900Mhz wireless headphones that we use to listen to music (clotheslining yourself while rolling around the lab sucks). The cool thing is that we can all tune into eachother's frequencies. So in a way it's kinda like we have our own mini radio staitons :)
as mentioned previously, the whole "let's go colonize other planets" idea doesn't work out because people in general don't want to fund such a thing. well, why not? because they're too stupid to realise the inherit COOLNESS of going to other planets. Okay, how do we make them pay for us to go out and play Star Trek? The answer is obvious, we TRASH THE FSCKING PLANET! Yeah, let's see how you like living here now that 90% of the earth is being bombarded by cosmic radiation! Don't you wish you could live under a nice CLEAN DOME on MARS?! HUH?! SUCK TOXINS!
To that end, I propose that all people who are interested in future colinization of other planets go out and buy a whole smeg load of styrofoam and BURN IT! Then go out and get a bunch of aresol cans and RELEASE THEM INTO THE ATMOSPHERE! BURN CRUDE OIL! NAPALM THE RAIN FORESTS! POUR OIL INTO THE OCEANS!
You'll note that I said I hadn't tried out TrustedBSD. Would you be willing to share this elusive knowlege of yours that's oh-so-superior to the industry standard DoD ratings?
Also, you cause me to question wether or not you've actualy READ the rainbow books, orange in particular. Most of the stuff put forth in them is more general suggestions for methods to be used in a secure OS, stratagies if you will. The same concept applies to physical security of sites, the technology may change over time and require minute changes in implimentation (machine gun turrets and mortar cannons instead of sharp sticks and big rocks) but the basic ideas are still pretty much the same as they have been for hundreds of years.
In the same way we can define a basic set of standards for how a secure computer should operate. For instance, say I have two interfaces (eth0 and eth1). eth0 is attached to my internal network, which I consider to be fairly trustworthy. eth1 is attached to my external network, which I do not trust. I can, under a B1 OS, define a restricted permission set for users/processes coming in over eth1. Say I define these privs to the equivilant of "guest" access, these users/processes have permission to read my apache htdocs directory, but they cannot modify delete or create new files. With my permissions set like this, I can even be so stupid as to allow remote "root" logins (technicaly there is no root user under a B1 OS) and not worry about someone on the outside gaining more access than the interface rules allow for.
Simmilarly I can define more specific rules for my internal interface. Users coming in over vanilla telnet via eth0 are allowed up to a certain ammount of access, but no higher. Users coming in over ssh from the local net are allowed more access than that. Finaly, users logged in on the system's console are allowed unrestricted access, providing (of course) they can authenticate themselves properly (password, biometrics, some combination of the two, who cares?).
I think you'll have to agree that there really isn't much in there that's specific to 1990's technology, all the new tech does is change the details in the implimentation, i.e. 40-bit encryption is no longer secure and should not be used for sensitive transmissions, passwords are not longer an adequite means of authentication, there should be a biometric or cryptographic system to suppliment the traditional password access controls.
www.westernunion.com is running Microsoft-IIS/4.0 on NT4 or Windows 98
D'oh! Seriously, you'd think these big banks and money sending whatever it is western union does people would use a B1 Trusted OS or something.
May I suggest BullDog or possibly TrustedBSD? I haven't tried TrustedBSD, but I was quite impressed with BullDog's stats at this past DefCon. They put a server running thir OS (a modified Solaris) on the CTF (Capture The Flag) network running all sorts of insane services. A day into the competition they still hadn't been cracked so they posted the shadow password file. They never did get cracked.
Sure, sure, I have all this stuff on my hard drive so feel free to request extra greps :) I expect wget to finish sometime today or tonight... or I hope it will anyway :P
In the true spirit of the degrees game (and because wget went off on some .gov tangent) I have limited my recursion to 7 levels, we'll see :)
:P I rm -rf'd that stuff though, cuz it was taking up some massive disk space :)
one interesting side note, at about 10-12 levels down I got onto some raunchy pr0n sites
$ wget -r -l 7 -H www.mpaa.org ; grep --recursive -i DeCSS * | grep -i href
quoteth the mpaa, "linking any Internet web site, either directly or through a series of links, to any other Internet web site containing DeCSS."
it's a whole new kevin bacon game! let's see how many links deep it takes the MPAA companies to link to DeCSS...
$ wget -r -l 0 -H www.mpaa.org ; grep --recursive -i DeCSS * | grep -i href
mmm... sucking up bandwidth...
Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of a Linux system kicking the sh*t out of W2K/IIS as much as the next geek, but it seems to me like this was a bit of a biased test. Really, it isn't fair to put a kernel space HTTP server which was built for the sole purpose of kicking @$$ on benchmarks up against a full-size web server thingie like IIS. I'm sure that if MS wanted to they could put out a server very simmilar to TUX and get comperable results. I'd like to see these benchmarks done again with Apache and see how they stack up.
Shaft sucked. Standard bullshit shoot-em-up flick, the mexican drug lords unload thousands of rounds into the back of Shaft's beat up junker car from their SUV assault wagon, Shaft fires randomly with his hand gun and kills half of them. Wahoo!
How about dmesg | less in an eterm running on my 1280x1024 desktop? Besides, I wouldn't be able to read it even at 1024x768 frame buffer mode, as it takes my system 30 seconds to boot. You blink and the screen is cleared and giving you a login prompt :)