Perhaps you could use normal unsecured teliphone for authentication:
You: Hi Bob! How's it going? BOB: Fine, how's the weather there in Vienna? You: Fine. Say, who was it that had the lampshade on their head at the company party? Bob: Sally. You: OK bob, see out on IM.
Then you could use cheap IM technology, like a Palm Device that has TopGun SSH over a cell connection to the internet.
Voice has a *huge* analog hole - any microphone within 100 ft can pick the converation up, and parabolic dish or laser bounched off the window can extand that range to blocks.
So given that you want to be secure, you *really* have to rule out speach.
Everyone who complained that Microsoft is so evil for the lack in quality of code they put out, raise your hand so we can heckle you.
Microsoft is closed source - so we never get to see their code. And even though they keep it under wraps - it's still more exploitable on average than most Open Source code.
Microsoft still is on the "patch all stck overflows" ramp that most open source software fixed a few years ago.
Most bugs in Open Source, now, tend to be really obscure ones.
Given that the default install has ssh turned on, will they change it to "two remote holes" ?
If you look carefully at the bug - at first glance, it lookls like when SSHD faluts out, some extra memory will be wiped with nulls.
Perhaps there's more to this but basically whats is going on
SSHD need more memory. Memrory counter is added to. Memeory is allocated. Repeat (until memory allocation fails)
then...
Because SSHD needs to wipe all it's memory to null so no crpto stuff is left lying around, all the memory pointed to my them memory counter is wiped. But unfortunalty some of that memory doesen't belong to SSHD because the memory allocation failed.
3Ware 12-Cahannel controller (SATA) 9 250 Meg Drives 9 Sets of SATA Cables 4 sets of 3 drive 3Ware enclosures Big, Huge Antec Server Case with Dual Power Supplies. Old Intel BX Motherboard and Pentium II ~ 1000 MHZ New Fans for Pentium II Intel Gigibit Ethernet Card Free-BSD
Should be around $6000 for 2TB of storage with 1 hot spare.
Damn noisy - but works *very* well for us. Share it with the network with CIFS or NSF.
I *SWORE* that I'd never buy from IBM - they were a nasty company, with horrable anti-cometitive traits and they had the gaul to sell a good friend of mine a PCjr. It was horrable - my TRS-80 was a better computer.
I'm writing this from an IBM ThinkPad. So, perhaps... maby... Royal might have changed enough to merit a second look.
I thought System 5 syle SHMMEM was *always* allocated from RAM and never swapped out to disk. So you prog could grab all of it and flicker to your hears content.
It would make the computer otherwise unuable though.
PostgreSQL grabbs a bunch of it for it's caching, and on a FreeBSD box - once the tables are loaded, the only time a disk fickers is when a row is being saved. It never trashes.
I'm pretty sure Linux has configuable SHMMEM as well.
I love PostgreSQL sequences - I think definatly a feature I would miss.
PGSQL stores it's sequences seperate from the tables. When you need a sequence, you can have PGSQL create one at table creation time, or you can link your table to an already available sequence.
The sequences are under your full controll - you can reset them, roll them back or set them to any value you want.
Clever things you can do with this:
Set one server to have high squence numbers and another to have lower ones - in the middle of the night they can swap data that they have dominion over. This poor-man replicaiton works well over flaky internet connections. Imagine a remote office with a 56K modem that swaps over in the middle of the night.
When you need to update the entire database to take advantage of another type of data abstrations - you can have your new style of tables use the old sequence numbers as well. The older tables grow and the new tables grow - but they never share a sequence number. The every night you can import the newer sytle of table with the old style data - you can let some users use the old front end, and test the new front end and the entire migration can be seamless.
Nope - I'm sure the curent fad of "Hate the Americans, while I sip some Cafe" will fade quickly. This 'hatred' is a ocean wide and an inch deep, and is probably a backlash from the "We're all American" feelings right after 9/11.
Regarding the poll.
We'll we *are* more dangerous than N. Korea. N. Korea - maby, has one small nuke that maby can be deliver at about 600 miles.
We have enough nukes to cover the earth.
We have the capability to destroying man kind with biological weapons.
N. Korea has nothing on us.
The fact that a poll shows less than 100% agreement either means that people are stupid or the poll was improperly taken.
I travel extensivly for pleasure and busines, so I get out in the countrysides enough.
Of course, the typical American tourest with the fanny-pack, tennis-shoes and the propensity to speak English rather loudly is shunned by almost all - but thankfully there ususally confined to the tourest bus, cruze ship and RV.
But at leas were not as bad as German tourests.;)
Two years ago in France, (at the time the French were suposidly pissed at us 'bout Afganistan) I spent a month of time in small towns - at the time the french suposidly were frothing at the mouth with hatred for us is you bieleved the news, but never did I see any evidence of it. I ran into a few people who wanted to vent - I listened, took note and then stated my rational reasons for our actions. Every single time, I was rewared by frindship.
As for the three countries that love us: That's easy - any country that their citizens want to immigrate here, by defininton love our way of life. So the top of the list would be China, Noth Korea, Iran and Iraq. Most of their citizens would glady come to America.
Hell - even Chinese people are willing to risk death in cargo-container to reach our shores. We must be doing somting right.
Don't mistake the few people that are unhappy with our actions for hatred of us - if they really hated us they would be taking up arms against us. Instead - the're just playing silly political games in the UN. That's not hatred - just politics driven by frustration.
Keep in mind that if the Iraqi's *REALLY* hated us - ouy boys would be coming out by the thousands in body-bags daily. Our military is good, but, we'd get our ass handed to us ASAP if the Iraqi's decide that suddenly were the enemy.
Please excuse the rambeling - I'm tired. But don't be too gloomy: A few people may be scared of a overly powerfull America, but most in the world are trying to emulate the good things about us. Sure we make mistakes, sometimes terrible ones, but on the balance - our republic has fought a good strugle for freedom, justice and opertunity. We have a lot to be proud of - in addtion to a bit of soul searching that we need to do, and I can certainly see why a lot of smart people are frustrated with us - but the only people to actually take up arms against us are insane.
If asked, I'm always proud to tell sombody I'm American when I travel - and I'm been very well received.
I'm conservativly dressed accrding to their custom. I make an attempt to speak their language. I'm not bothered by trivial problems. I see joy in just about every facet of their customs.
Face it, just because *YOU* have problems overseas, it's beacuse of *YOU*.
Slashdot Mirror
AHHHH!!!
It absolutly horrable that a company would share information with the law enfocement people of a democratically elected representative republic.
When will the horror end? The next thing you'll know, law enforcemnt people will actuall enforce the law!!!!
Call the ACLU - this is WRONG!
Perhaps you could use normal unsecured teliphone for authentication:
You: Hi Bob! How's it going?
BOB: Fine, how's the weather there in Vienna?
You: Fine. Say, who was it that had the lampshade on their head at the company party?
Bob: Sally.
You: OK bob, see out on IM.
Then you could use cheap IM technology, like a Palm Device that has TopGun SSH over a cell connection to the internet.
Voice has a *huge* analog hole - any microphone within 100 ft can pick the converation up, and parabolic dish or laser bounched off the window can extand that range to blocks.
So given that you want to be secure, you *really* have to rule out speach.
So try IM.
Bank of Between The Matresses.
Even better - The Bank Above The Matresses.
Just date a hooker - pay her, and when you need money - just pimp-slap her.
And for all us Americans, don't do the following in a Commonwealth country.
Scene: At a charmig little resturaunt - after diner has been consumed.
Waiter: Was everything fine?
You: Yes it was excelent - I'm stuffed!
Everyone who complained that Microsoft is so evil for the lack in quality of code they put out, raise your hand so we can heckle you.
Microsoft is closed source - so we never get to see their code. And even though they keep it under wraps - it's still more exploitable on average than most Open Source code.
Microsoft still is on the "patch all stck overflows" ramp that most open source software fixed a few years ago.
Most bugs in Open Source, now, tend to be really obscure ones.
dupe dupe dupe [slashdot.org]
We know it a dupe - but we're simulating stream storage. We can't use that old random access thingy to go back. That would be cheating.
Given that the default install has ssh turned on, will they change it to "two remote holes" ?
If you look carefully at the bug - at first glance, it lookls like when SSHD faluts out, some extra memory will be wiped with nulls.
Perhaps there's more to this but basically whats is going on
SSHD need more memory.
Memrory counter is added to.
Memeory is allocated.
Repeat (until memory allocation fails)
then...
Because SSHD needs to wipe all it's memory to null so no crpto stuff is left lying around, all the memory pointed to my them memory counter is wiped. But unfortunalty some of that memory doesen't belong to SSHD because the memory allocation failed.
B.O.M.
3Ware 12-Cahannel controller (SATA)
9 250 Meg Drives
9 Sets of SATA Cables
4 sets of 3 drive 3Ware enclosures
Big, Huge Antec Server Case with Dual Power Supplies.
Old Intel BX Motherboard and Pentium II ~ 1000 MHZ
New Fans for Pentium II
Intel Gigibit Ethernet Card
Free-BSD
Should be around $6000 for 2TB of storage with 1 hot spare.
Damn noisy - but works *very* well for us. Share it with the network with CIFS or NSF.
That can't program/design their way into the market - so the just buy the whole slices of the market from under everybody else.
Lame.
I *SWORE* that I'd never buy from IBM - they were a nasty company, with horrable anti-cometitive traits and they had the gaul to sell a good friend of mine a PCjr.
It was horrable - my TRS-80 was a better computer.
I'm writing this from an IBM ThinkPad. So, perhaps... maby... Royal might have changed enough to merit a second look.
I thought System 5 syle SHMMEM was *always* allocated from RAM and never swapped out to disk. So you prog could grab all of it and flicker to your hears content.
It would make the computer otherwise unuable though.
PostgreSQL grabbs a bunch of it for it's caching, and on a FreeBSD box - once the tables are loaded, the only time a disk fickers is when a row is being saved. It never trashes.
I'm pretty sure Linux has configuable SHMMEM as well.
I would hardly call x86 an industry standard in that field.
Agreed..
x86 is a standard in the same way that Herpes is a standard.
BitBoys will come back I tell you!
Crappy x86 ...Intel Itanium 2 specifically is the leading TPC-C platform
Itaniam is not x86.
AFAIK The HP Superdomes run multiple images. That's great for TPC-C performace, not so go for everything else.
There is no 64 bit version of MS SQL.
Oh... great... it looks like it made it out of Alpha rather quickly.
Hope you like being a beta tester. Enjoy.
I love PostgreSQL sequences - I think definatly a feature I would miss.
PGSQL stores it's sequences seperate from the tables. When you need a sequence, you can have PGSQL create one at table creation time, or you can link your table to an already available sequence.
The sequences are under your full controll - you can reset them, roll them back or set them to any value you want.
Clever things you can do with this:
Set one server to have high squence numbers and another to have lower ones - in the middle of the night they can swap data that they have dominion over. This poor-man replicaiton works well over flaky internet connections. Imagine a remote office with a 56K modem that swaps over in the middle of the night.
When you need to update the entire database to take advantage of another type of data abstrations - you can have your new style of tables use the old sequence numbers as well. The older tables grow and the new tables grow - but they never share a sequence number. The every night you can import the newer sytle of table with the old style data - you can let some users use the old front end, and test the new front end and the entire migration can be seamless.
Oracle has some amazing features, but PostgreSQL kicks the crap out of MS SQL Server -
MS SQL skips record when it queries - more info here
MS SQL crashes for no fucking reason.
MS SQL requires x86 hardware - No Sparc, No POWER, No MIPS. Just crappy x86.
There is no 64 bit version os MS SQL.
PostgreSQL has a very robust multi-version concurency controll mechanism - somthing MS SQL could only dream of.
And if your *REALLY* need to scale PostgreSQL - run is on a SUN/SGI/IBM.
Not a bunch of fucking Intel toys.
Check out the new replication at postgresql.org: it's master -> multiple slave replication.
Then have your slave database query the master database - and if it no longer responds, it could promote itself to master.
The replication is the easy bit - the slave promotion is the hard and gritty bit.
Nope - I'm sure the curent fad of "Hate the Americans, while I sip some Cafe" will fade quickly. This 'hatred' is a ocean wide and an inch deep, and is probably a backlash from the "We're all American" feelings right after 9/11.
Regarding the poll.
We'll we *are* more dangerous than N. Korea. N. Korea - maby, has one small nuke that maby can be deliver at about 600 miles.
We have enough nukes to cover the earth.
We have the capability to destroying man kind with biological weapons.
N. Korea has nothing on us.
The fact that a poll shows less than 100% agreement either means that people are stupid or the poll was improperly taken.
Russia.
s /w twta/poll/html/political/general.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/programme
Ta Ta.
Good grief,
I have better thigs to do that ramble with a poor self-hater. Wake up, or the rest of you life will be quite pathetic.
Microsoft released a study that showed that Windows-based servers were cheaper to run than those on Linux in four out of five common server tasks."
The tasks were:
1) Rebooting
2) Blue-screening
3) Patching
4) Playing Solitare
5) Serving Files, Databases and Connections.
I travel extensivly for pleasure and busines, so I get out in the countrysides enough.
;)
Of course, the typical American tourest with the fanny-pack, tennis-shoes and the propensity to speak English rather loudly is shunned by almost all - but thankfully there ususally confined to the tourest bus, cruze ship and RV.
But at leas were not as bad as German tourests.
Two years ago in France, (at the time the French were suposidly pissed at us 'bout Afganistan) I spent a month of time in small towns - at the time the french suposidly were frothing at the mouth with hatred for us is you bieleved the news, but never did I see any evidence of it. I ran into a few people who wanted to vent - I listened, took note and then stated my rational reasons for our actions. Every single time, I was rewared by frindship.
As for the three countries that love us: That's easy - any country that their citizens want to immigrate here, by defininton love our way of life. So the top of the list would be China, Noth Korea, Iran and Iraq. Most of their citizens would glady come to America.
Hell - even Chinese people are willing to risk death in cargo-container to reach our shores. We must be doing somting right.
Don't mistake the few people that are unhappy with our actions for hatred of us - if they really hated us they would be taking up arms against us. Instead - the're just playing silly political games in the UN. That's not hatred - just politics driven by frustration.
Keep in mind that if the Iraqi's *REALLY* hated us - ouy boys would be coming out by the thousands in body-bags daily. Our military is good, but, we'd get our ass handed to us ASAP if the Iraqi's decide that suddenly were the enemy.
Please excuse the rambeling - I'm tired. But don't be too gloomy: A few people may be scared of a overly powerfull America, but most in the world are trying to emulate the good things about us. Sure we make mistakes, sometimes terrible ones, but on the balance - our republic has fought a good strugle for freedom, justice and opertunity. We have a lot to be proud of - in addtion to a bit of soul searching that we need to do, and I can certainly see why a lot of smart people are frustrated with us - but the only people to actually take up arms against us are insane.
If asked, I'm always proud to tell sombody I'm American when I travel - and I'm been very well received.
I'm conservativly dressed accrding to their custom.
I make an attempt to speak their language.
I'm not bothered by trivial problems.
I see joy in just about every facet of their customs.
Face it, just because *YOU* have problems overseas, it's beacuse of *YOU*.
How can the americans say so lightly that cia organised a coup, and in the same breath ask why people around the world dislike them?
Because, most people around the world like Americans.
The only people who don't like Americans are psudo-intelectuall trust-fund 'liberals.'* and a few nut jobs in the middle east.
* no offence ment to the true liberals who came to their ideas through thought.