"January 2010 is an exciting month for x86 assembly language developers"
Somehow I have a hard time imagining a bunch of x86 assembly programmers getting excited. I've done assembly on a lot of different architectures, and I can't say "excitement" was ever a term I'd use to describe any emotions related to it.
"Oh wow! There's a new tool that might make some poor saps lives suck slightly less! This is such an awesome month!"
When I worked at RH, I never heard anyone say anything bad about CentOS. CentOS is a good community member. As they rebuild and test packages, they find lots of bugs themselves. They either fix it themselves and send the patches upstream to RH, or file bug reports. Again, it's like having free QA.
And RHEL is after a different market than CentOS. RHEL is for companies that need the insurance of support. These companies need to know that if something goes wrong, someone will be there to help them fix it, or come out and fix it. Sure, you might be able to get someone on a community mailing list to solve the problem, but that kind of support is kind of hit and miss. You need better insurance than that if you've got projects being delayed because of a major issue.
CentOS also has the benefit that the rising generation of geeks without $$$$ can get experience using a RHEL-like OS. So when they start working for big companies who need RHEL, they already have all the expertise they need.
RHEL also has some things that don't make it out to CentOS. RHEL's Satellite Server is nothing short of amazing when it comes to managing large networks of RHEL boxes. They took their up2date server, which all RHEL boxes register with to get updates, and then made that a separate product. So instead of RHEL boxes registering with RH, they can register with their own satellite server to get updates. And with that, they've added all sorts of provisioning options, so you can push out all the updates from the server. Or you can have a group of computers all be installed, upgraded, downgraded, etc, without having to physically visit each system or even manually log into each one. You can control everything from the satellite server.
No, he used JTAG to discover the vulnerability. He will disclose how to take advantage of the vulnerability at the conference. He's just letting other people know they can peek into hardware using the JTAG interface as well.
I don't think you could get any more accurate information than you could from Dilbert. Every my coworker who spent 20+ years at Bell Labs tells me a story about his last job, I can't help but bring up the corresponding Dilbert strip just like it.
I'm posting this from my brand new Kinesis keyboard. It's not really compact, and whether the arrow keys are located someplace sane is debatable, you can have the mouse nice and close to your right hand. I do admit they've got some really cool ideas for keyboard & mouse input, they just take a little bit to retrain your hands to the different layout. Fortunately, you're already prepared to pay a lot for the keyboard. Their products are not cheap: http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/
Intel's official code name scheme is a place or geographic entity in the United States or Canada. Every project picks one of these code names and gets them OK'd by legal. Since a good portion of the engineers live in the Portland, OR area they often pick names from this area. However, McKinley is likely named after Mt. McKinley, and Madison is probably named after the capital of Wisconsin. But the dart method is a good idea. I think I'll try that for my next project.
I've got a friend that blocks email from Nigeria, but I'd never do that. You never know when someone really does need help moving millions of dollars out of the country and will gladly give me a cut of the proceeds. For that reason alone I'd never block them.
I made an account for my dad on my mom's computer so he could have a samba share over the network, and gave it a really easy, completely forgetting that it was also accessible via ssh. Fortunately, I added their computer to my personal DNS domain so I could remember how to get to it easier. Shortly after it was compromised, I got an email informing me that phish spams were being sent from the computer.
I analyzed the system, and quickly determined that the person was not a big time hacker. Looking at his.bash_history file His only attempt to gain root access was to run 'sudo'. He copied over a list of people to spam, a mail script, and an email. He fired off a test email first, and then spammed the email list. A couple days later, he copied over a different list and message and sent those off. After that, I was tipped off and sealed off his entry.
Since he made no effort to cover his tracks or avoid detection, either this script-kiddie didn't know how to, or had so many computers to manage it wasn't worth his while to do so.
And how does the parent watch their child 24 hours a day? Are the parents allowed to leave for the evening for a date? They can do their best by teaching them, keeping computers out of the bedroom, and trying to keep an eye on what they're doing but you're not going to be able to be there every day for 18 years.
Sure, I can set up a web proxy and enforce user authentication, logging all the sites my kid goes to, and then have a cron job run scripts looking for telltale signs of promiscuous web viewing that emails me when it finds any warnings. But your average parent isn't going to have a clue how to do that. Is this a law a perfect solution? Hardly, but it gives a cautious parent one more tool to help enforce the rules. Personally, I think parents should have all the help they can get. It's tough raising kids.
VMware has no right running on low powered desktops. Win4lin will run the windows apps at near native speeds and their latest version finally supports WinXP/2000. I've used all their releases except for this last one and I've got nothing but good things to say about it.
Not really. The AV companies have already developed the application. They're just waiting for the market to want it. If no one has ever heard of a virus for a phone, how many people are going to buy the product?
I've read interviews by some AV companies that say they have already developed an AV program for linux, but they won't release it until there's an actual virus to create the demand.
Besides, do you really think an AV company is going to risk the whole business by covertly developing a virus? If word got out they tried something like that, no one would ever trust them again and would quickly go out of business.
I've got a couple of small children. The 4.5 year old can get around pretty well, knows some programs work in windows and some in linux and can boot into whichever one she wants. She can also recognize the icons and start whatever game or explore the system menu and bring up other games and applications. What she can't do is read.
Sure, she's learning. She enjoys sounding out various words and spelling them. But she's gonna have a pretty difficult time writing programs and debugging code until she can read and understand various error messages. I think about the earliest you can expect learning to code to be productive is around 7 years old.
I've been searching for a job since I got laid off in June. I've seen quite a large number of PHD jobs go by, mostly from big companies like IBM and Intel. What's expected of them varies from job to job, but they want them for the really important jobs. And yes, they get paid what they're worth.
Um, from what I can tell, Intel doesn't require that you use their HSF, just that you have it (I'm guessing that they match the serials to determine whether or not it's an OEM or retail). If the CPU were damaged because the person was using some other fancy HSF, how would Intel know?
And besides, if you end up using some less than adequate HSF instead of the one that comes with it, doesn't the P4 have some special thermal protection to start scaling back the CPU speed to prevent damage? If you turn on the computer w/o an HSF on the CPU, it doesn't fry. I've read reviews where they have the system running some heavy duty benchmark utility when they popped the HSF off, the P4 survived. The Athlon they compared it with at the time, died a horrible death (but recent AMD Bartons also have thermal protection, it saved my CPU already).
So it's not they require you to use their HSF, it's that they require you to return it so they can verify it's a retail model. They couldn't care less if you actually used it.
Um, that's what's supposed to happen. Why should Comcast relay email through their servers from some unknown network? That's what's called an 'Open Relay.' And spammers love them. Unless there's a method for the SMTP server to verify that you are in fact their customer, they really should only relay email for people on their network.
Everybody talks tough on the internet. It's easy to be tough and talk some smack when your opponent is safely away in another country. As far as I'm concerned if you're gonna mock and threaten someone over the internet, you better back up them fightin' words with some real blood and knuckles. Good for them.
You're the Net/Sys Admins and you won't even have admin access to your own boxes?! Come on, I know the job market is bad, but please, have some dignity.
A couple of things: the Fedora community will be offering security patches for these old versions of Redhat. You can continue to use up2date and receive these for free. And if you still feel some obligation to use RH Professional Workstation. You get a year of support and costs $95. They put this out so they can have some middle ground between the free Fedora Project and the high end Enterprise stuff.
They really don't want to leave anyone high and dry. They have made sure that there is a product for everyone. However, while the Professional Workstation looks very nice, I'm always a sucker for !NEW! & !FREE! software. I think I'll always be drawn to Fedora.
Um, I think you misread that. The Fedora Core 1 that is coming out in a couple weeks has no plans whatsoever for supporting kernel 2.6. The following Fedora Core (what you would call RH11) will come with kernel 2.6 if it's ready. If it seem stable enough, they'll hurry up and get the new release out there, but if not, they won't delay the release just to get the new kernel in.
No matter what, they won't be shipping a kernel unless they've been able to test it thoroughly. And it'll probably take several kernel releases before it's ready to be shipped with a distro.
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"January 2010 is an exciting month for x86 assembly language developers"
Somehow I have a hard time imagining a bunch of x86 assembly programmers getting excited. I've done assembly on a lot of different architectures, and I can't say "excitement" was ever a term I'd use to describe any emotions related to it.
"Oh wow! There's a new tool that might make some poor saps lives suck slightly less! This is such an awesome month!"
When I worked at RH, I never heard anyone say anything bad about CentOS. CentOS is a good community member. As they rebuild and test packages, they find lots of bugs themselves. They either fix it themselves and send the patches upstream to RH, or file bug reports. Again, it's like having free QA.
And RHEL is after a different market than CentOS. RHEL is for companies that need the insurance of support. These companies need to know that if something goes wrong, someone will be there to help them fix it, or come out and fix it. Sure, you might be able to get someone on a community mailing list to solve the problem, but that kind of support is kind of hit and miss. You need better insurance than that if you've got projects being delayed because of a major issue.
CentOS also has the benefit that the rising generation of geeks without $$$$ can get experience using a RHEL-like OS. So when they start working for big companies who need RHEL, they already have all the expertise they need.
RHEL also has some things that don't make it out to CentOS. RHEL's Satellite Server is nothing short of amazing when it comes to managing large networks of RHEL boxes. They took their up2date server, which all RHEL boxes register with to get updates, and then made that a separate product. So instead of RHEL boxes registering with RH, they can register with their own satellite server to get updates. And with that, they've added all sorts of provisioning options, so you can push out all the updates from the server. Or you can have a group of computers all be installed, upgraded, downgraded, etc, without having to physically visit each system or even manually log into each one. You can control everything from the satellite server.
No, he used JTAG to discover the vulnerability. He will disclose how to take advantage of the vulnerability at the conference. He's just letting other people know they can peek into hardware using the JTAG interface as well.
I can levitate birds. Nobody cares.
Hahaha, a Gentoo user complaining hand editing files on another distro? Now that's funny.
I don't think you could get any more accurate information than you could from Dilbert. Every my coworker who spent 20+ years at Bell Labs tells me a story about his last job, I can't help but bring up the corresponding Dilbert strip just like it.
I'm posting this from my brand new Kinesis keyboard. It's not really compact, and whether the arrow keys are located someplace sane is debatable, you can have the mouse nice and close to your right hand. I do admit they've got some really cool ideas for keyboard & mouse input, they just take a little bit to retrain your hands to the different layout. Fortunately, you're already prepared to pay a lot for the keyboard. Their products are not cheap: http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/
Intel's official code name scheme is a place or geographic entity in the United States or Canada. Every project picks one of these code names and gets them OK'd by legal. Since a good portion of the engineers live in the Portland, OR area they often pick names from this area. However, McKinley is likely named after Mt. McKinley, and Madison is probably named after the capital of Wisconsin. But the dart method is a good idea. I think I'll try that for my next project.
I've got a friend that blocks email from Nigeria, but I'd never do that. You never know when someone really does need help moving millions of dollars out of the country and will gladly give me a cut of the proceeds. For that reason alone I'd never block them.
I made an account for my dad on my mom's computer so he could have a samba share over the network, and gave it a really easy, completely forgetting that it was also accessible via ssh. Fortunately, I added their computer to my personal DNS domain so I could remember how to get to it easier. Shortly after it was compromised, I got an email informing me that phish spams were being sent from the computer.
.bash_history file His only attempt to gain root access was to run 'sudo'. He copied over a list of people to spam, a mail script, and an email. He fired off a test email first, and then spammed the email list. A couple days later, he copied over a different list and message and sent those off. After that, I was tipped off and sealed off his entry.
I analyzed the system, and quickly determined that the person was not a big time hacker. Looking at his
Since he made no effort to cover his tracks or avoid detection, either this script-kiddie didn't know how to, or had so many computers to manage it wasn't worth his while to do so.
And how does the parent watch their child 24 hours a day? Are the parents allowed to leave for the evening for a date? They can do their best by teaching them, keeping computers out of the bedroom, and trying to keep an eye on what they're doing but you're not going to be able to be there every day for 18 years.
Sure, I can set up a web proxy and enforce user authentication, logging all the sites my kid goes to, and then have a cron job run scripts looking for telltale signs of promiscuous web viewing that emails me when it finds any warnings. But your average parent isn't going to have a clue how to do that. Is this a law a perfect solution? Hardly, but it gives a cautious parent one more tool to help enforce the rules. Personally, I think parents should have all the help they can get. It's tough raising kids.
VMware has no right running on low powered desktops. Win4lin will run the windows apps at near native speeds and their latest version finally supports WinXP/2000. I've used all their releases except for this last one and I've got nothing but good things to say about it.
I can just see this blowing up in their face, just like Unbreakable Oracle. It should be fun to watch.
Not really. The AV companies have already developed the application. They're just waiting for the market to want it. If no one has ever heard of a virus for a phone, how many people are going to buy the product?
I've read interviews by some AV companies that say they have already developed an AV program for linux, but they won't release it until there's an actual virus to create the demand.
Besides, do you really think an AV company is going to risk the whole business by covertly developing a virus? If word got out they tried something like that, no one would ever trust them again and would quickly go out of business.
I've got a couple of small children. The 4.5 year old can get around pretty well, knows some programs work in windows and some in linux and can boot into whichever one she wants. She can also recognize the icons and start whatever game or explore the system menu and bring up other games and applications. What she can't do is read.
Sure, she's learning. She enjoys sounding out various words and spelling them. But she's gonna have a pretty difficult time writing programs and debugging code until she can read and understand various error messages. I think about the earliest you can expect learning to code to be productive is around 7 years old.
I'm selling a much cheaper solution with 2 PCI slots on Ebay right now. If you're interested, I also have an extra docking station available.
I've been searching for a job since I got laid off in June. I've seen quite a large number of PHD jobs go by, mostly from big companies like IBM and Intel. What's expected of them varies from job to job, but they want them for the really important jobs. And yes, they get paid what they're worth.
Um, from what I can tell, Intel doesn't require that you use their HSF, just that you have it (I'm guessing that they match the serials to determine whether or not it's an OEM or retail). If the CPU were damaged because the person was using some other fancy HSF, how would Intel know?
And besides, if you end up using some less than adequate HSF instead of the one that comes with it, doesn't the P4 have some special thermal protection to start scaling back the CPU speed to prevent damage? If you turn on the computer w/o an HSF on the CPU, it doesn't fry. I've read reviews where they have the system running some heavy duty benchmark utility when they popped the HSF off, the P4 survived. The Athlon they compared it with at the time, died a horrible death (but recent AMD Bartons also have thermal protection, it saved my CPU already).
So it's not they require you to use their HSF, it's that they require you to return it so they can verify it's a retail model. They couldn't care less if you actually used it.
Um, that's what's supposed to happen. Why should Comcast relay email through their servers from some unknown network? That's what's called an 'Open Relay.' And spammers love them. Unless there's a method for the SMTP server to verify that you are in fact their customer, they really should only relay email for people on their network.
Everybody talks tough on the internet. It's easy to be tough and talk some smack when your opponent is safely away in another country. As far as I'm concerned if you're gonna mock and threaten someone over the internet, you better back up them fightin' words with some real blood and knuckles. Good for them.
You're the Net/Sys Admins and you won't even have admin access to your own boxes?! Come on, I know the job market is bad, but please, have some dignity.
I just keep my wife out of the office. It's worked so far.
They really don't want to leave anyone high and dry. They have made sure that there is a product for everyone. However, while the Professional Workstation looks very nice, I'm always a sucker for !NEW! & !FREE! software. I think I'll always be drawn to Fedora.
Um, I think you misread that. The Fedora Core 1 that is coming out in a couple weeks has no plans whatsoever for supporting kernel 2.6. The following Fedora Core (what you would call RH11) will come with kernel 2.6 if it's ready. If it seem stable enough, they'll hurry up and get the new release out there, but if not, they won't delay the release just to get the new kernel in.
No matter what, they won't be shipping a kernel unless they've been able to test it thoroughly. And it'll probably take several kernel releases before it's ready to be shipped with a distro.