Hmm... your definition of "good motherboard manufacturers" seems to be quite different from mine. There's only two manufacturers I would recommend every time, and that's Supermicro and Tyan.
And I'm sure you have absolutely no idea how old Prof. Yamafuji is (he's a Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo). In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if he's been doing robotics for longer than Kamen (see http://www.tokyoclassified.com/tokyofeaturestories archive299/269/tokyofeaturestoriesinc.htm for an article that mentions him). BTW, his name's spelt "Kazuo", not "Kazou". To help you retain this, just remember: "Yamafuji is not a musical instrument!".
Also, WTF is that about the language used for the software? In case you didn't know, a patent is for a *design* - the PTO wouldn't give a shit if it were written in ASM, C++, Cobol or Eiffel.
MAC security doesn't mean shit - most NICs will let you change your MAC at will.
WEP gives fairly good protection (especially in its 128bit form), but it's not perfect. Cracking it only requires around 1GB of data to go out over the air, and once it's cracked, it easy to get the key.
Admittedly, if you have the sort of neighbor who can do that, then you've probably got other things to worry about, but still, it's better to not be overconfident.
Buy a cheapo PC and hook the two together with a cheapo hub and some Cat5. No worrying about two X servers running on sepearate video cards, no worrying about two separate input devices...
Since it requires somewhere in the region of a gigabyte of data to go over the wireless network before it's possible to crack 128-bit WEP, I suggest you change the key update interval to something a little more realistic.
Since 801.11b runs at a maximum of 11Mbps (theoretically, anyway - it's more like 3-5Mbps), it's easy to work out that an attacker would require a minimum of:
(1000 * 8) / 11 / 60 = 12.1 minutes
in order to compromise a fully-saturated WEP connection. (In actual fact, it'd take a lot longer than that for most networks.)
So, set the key to update every ten minutes, and you're pretty much guaranteed to be safe.
It's not easy to bring the summaries down to the level of your average user; certainly, there's plenty of stuff that I don't undertand fully. But anyway, here's some additional explanations for the last two updates:
final:
- David Miller: sparc/scsi scatterlist fixes SCSI on Sparc machines is now more stable.
- Martin Mares: PCI ids, email address update The kernel now identifies some PCI hardware more precisely.
- David Miller: revert TCP hash optimizations that need more checking Remove some changes to the TCP stack, as they're not quite ready for primetime
- Ivan Kokshaysky/Richard Henderson: alpha update (atomic_dec_and_lock etc) Changes to Alpha-specific, er, stuff
- Peter Anvin: cramfs/zisofs missing pieces Properly merge the cramfs/zisofs changes
pre8:
- Andrea: fix races in do_wp_page, free_swap_and_cache Virtual memory handling is now more stable
- me: clena up page dirty handling This also improves VM
- Tim Waugh: parport IRQ probing and documentation fixes Automatic IRQ assignment for parallel ports works better
- Greg KH: USB updates USB subsystem improved
- Michael Warfield: computone driver update Erm... dunno. What's a computone?
- Randy Dunlap: add knowledge about some new io-apics Improve the kernel's handling of particular chipsets' IRQ assignment
- Richard Henderson: alpha updates Who knows?
- Trond Myklebust: make readdir xdr verify the reply packet Since it's Trond, it's probably a RAID or VFS update...
- Paul Mackerras: PPC update Bring Linus's kernel more up-to-date with respect to the PPC tree
- Jens Axboe: make cpqarray and cciss play nice with the request layer Probably RAID stuff...
- Massimo Dal Zotto: SMM driver for Dell Inspiron 8000 Make the kernel work better on a particular type of laptop
- Richard Gooch: devfs symlink deadlock fix Fix a bug in devfs's handling of symlinks
- Anton Altaparmakov: make NTFS compile on sparc Allow people to read NTFS filesystems on Sun Sparc hardware
I'm subscribed to l-k, so if I actually bothered to read the 200-odd messages coming in each day, I could probably give a better summary... anybody know how to stretch a day to 30 hours?
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Kernel 2.4.14 is out
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I'm off to check the FreeBSD release. Less hectic. Better VM.
2. In light of his anti-DMCA actions, it would seem that he has no issue with putting Linux up on the firing line to support his politically motivated beliefs. It doesn't matter if you agree with Alan on the DMCA or not, not posting changelog notes like he did was childish and counterproductive to the goal of Linux: world domination through collaboration.
Bollocks. What's "childish" about it? The whole reason the DMCA got onto the lawbooks was because people were too bloody complacent - you should be glad that people who aren't even American citizens are concerned enough about it to put up a fight. It might even convince some Americanos to grow a spine and stand up to irrational, corporate-financed laws like the DMCA.
Yeah, just 'cause you sold out and got an ID before those of us who held out for the old system....
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Netscape 6.2
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Try Sylpheed. LDAP, IMAP, spellchecking (with the appropriate patch, although it should make its way into the main tree fairly soon), JPilot, VCard... and on top of that, it's a pretty good newsreader as well!
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Hey, people don't read movie reviews to find out what the movie was actually like - they read them to find out what the reviewer *thought* of them.
So what if some people told him it was bad before he went? Just seeing the trailers should have told him that much. Give the guy a break... sheesh.
Hmm... your definition of "good motherboard manufacturers" seems to be quite different from mine. There's only two manufacturers I would recommend every time, and that's Supermicro and Tyan.
Thanks for a good laugh ;)
And I'm sure you have absolutely no idea how old Prof. Yamafuji is (he's a Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo). In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if he's been doing robotics for longer than Kamen (see http://www.tokyoclassified.com/tokyofeaturestories archive299/269/tokyofeaturestoriesinc.htm for an article that mentions him). BTW, his name's spelt "Kazuo", not "Kazou". To help you retain this, just remember: "Yamafuji is not a musical instrument!".
Also, WTF is that about the language used for the software? In case you didn't know, a patent is for a *design* - the PTO wouldn't give a shit if it were written in ASM, C++, Cobol or Eiffel.
Just remember - don't drink the /. Kool-Aid!!
Yeah, like Godzilla.
MAC security doesn't mean shit - most NICs will let you change your MAC at will.
WEP gives fairly good protection (especially in its 128bit form), but it's not perfect. Cracking it only requires around 1GB of data to go out over the air, and once it's cracked, it easy to get the key.
Admittedly, if you have the sort of neighbor who can do that, then you've probably got other things to worry about, but still, it's better to not be overconfident.
As has every other home videogame manufacturer since Nintendo lost its deathgrip on the market...
When was the last time you read about a buffer exploit in Lasso or the TCP/IP stack resulting in an serious compromise in Mac OS 9?
Oh, right about the time of this message to bugtraq...
OK, that's a good reason ;)
ProFTPd? C'mon, they've had more than their fair share of bugs. Maybe your memory just isn't long enough.
Either switch to something like vsftpd or use scp.
Why bother with the temporary file?
. 6.1-16.7x.1.i386.rpm'; done
for each in box1 box2 box3 box4 box5 box6; do echo $each; ssh -l root $each 'rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.1/en/os/i386/wu-ftpd-2
They're left on the side of the road here in Japan, in big rusting piles. I never realized people were selling them on Ebay. Hmmm....
...it's the law of the land until a court overturns it...
And what land would that be? Certainly not Russia, where Dmitry did his coding.
Kind of ironic how things turn out, huh? Russia is now the land of the free, and the USA is the oppressive police state...
Buy a cheapo PC and hook the two together with a cheapo hub and some Cat5. No worrying about two X servers running on sepearate video cards, no worrying about two separate input devices...
Since it requires somewhere in the region of a gigabyte of data to go over the wireless network before it's possible to crack 128-bit WEP, I suggest you change the key update interval to something a little more realistic.
Since 801.11b runs at a maximum of 11Mbps (theoretically, anyway - it's more like 3-5Mbps), it's easy to work out that an attacker would require a minimum of:
(1000 * 8) / 11 / 60 = 12.1 minutes
in order to compromise a fully-saturated WEP connection. (In actual fact, it'd take a lot longer than that for most networks.)
So, set the key to update every ten minutes, and you're pretty much guaranteed to be safe.
Er... no. The word you're looking for in Japanese is "ki" - the word "chi" is Chinese.
No, Trond does NFS. xdr (External Data Representation) is the low-level NFS wire protocol.
Yeah, I realized my error just after posting it... thanks for the correction.
It's not easy to bring the summaries down to the level of your average user; certainly, there's plenty of stuff that I don't undertand fully. But anyway, here's some additional explanations for the last two updates:
final:
- David Miller: sparc/scsi scatterlist fixes
SCSI on Sparc machines is now more stable.
- Martin Mares: PCI ids, email address update
The kernel now identifies some PCI hardware more precisely.
- David Miller: revert TCP hash optimizations that need more checking
Remove some changes to the TCP stack, as they're not quite ready for primetime
- Ivan Kokshaysky/Richard Henderson: alpha update (atomic_dec_and_lock etc)
Changes to Alpha-specific, er, stuff
- Peter Anvin: cramfs/zisofs missing pieces
Properly merge the cramfs/zisofs changes
pre8:
- Andrea: fix races in do_wp_page, free_swap_and_cache
Virtual memory handling is now more stable
- me: clena up page dirty handling
This also improves VM
- Tim Waugh: parport IRQ probing and documentation fixes
Automatic IRQ assignment for parallel ports works better
- Greg KH: USB updates
USB subsystem improved
- Michael Warfield: computone driver update
Erm... dunno. What's a computone?
- Randy Dunlap: add knowledge about some new io-apics
Improve the kernel's handling of particular chipsets' IRQ assignment
- Richard Henderson: alpha updates
Who knows?
- Trond Myklebust: make readdir xdr verify the reply packet
Since it's Trond, it's probably a RAID or VFS update...
- Paul Mackerras: PPC update
Bring Linus's kernel more up-to-date with respect to the PPC tree
- Jens Axboe: make cpqarray and cciss play nice with the request layer
Probably RAID stuff...
- Massimo Dal Zotto: SMM driver for Dell Inspiron 8000
Make the kernel work better on a particular type of laptop
- Richard Gooch: devfs symlink deadlock fix
Fix a bug in devfs's handling of symlinks
- Anton Altaparmakov: make NTFS compile on sparc
Allow people to read NTFS filesystems on Sun Sparc hardware
I'm subscribed to l-k, so if I actually bothered to read the 200-odd messages coming in each day, I could probably give a better summary... anybody know how to stretch a day to 30 hours?
I'm off to check the FreeBSD release. Less hectic. Better VM.
More old farts. No cool hardware. Stuck-up users.
Looks like you'll fit right in.
Try this:
r =1&s=promise+ultra66&q=b
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&w=2&
Other people seem to be running it OK, and there's a patch or two that might be related...
2. In light of his anti-DMCA actions, it would seem that he has no issue with putting Linux up on the firing line to support his politically motivated beliefs. It doesn't matter if you agree with Alan on the DMCA or not, not posting changelog notes like he did was childish and counterproductive to the goal of Linux: world domination through collaboration.
Bollocks. What's "childish" about it? The whole reason the DMCA got onto the lawbooks was because people were too bloody complacent - you should be glad that people who aren't even American citizens are concerned enough about it to put up a fight. It might even convince some Americanos to grow a spine and stand up to irrational, corporate-financed laws like the DMCA.
Yeah, just 'cause you sold out and got an ID before those of us who held out for the old system....
Try Sylpheed. LDAP, IMAP, spellchecking (with the appropriate patch, although it should make its way into the main tree fairly soon), JPilot, VCard... and on top of that, it's a pretty good newsreader as well!
At least they didn't call it "Monkey Balls"...