Ok, this thing will replace my Blackberry and my Palm and maybe my phone, and it weighs ONE AND A HALF POUNDS?
I have a feeling the iPhone will be able to do all this gizmo does, at a fraction of the weight and cost, a bit slower perhaps, but at 10x the [babe version of yor choice]-magnet factor.
I'm not trying to plug iPhones, but what kind of cool stuff has Vulcan lately, versus Apple? (Besides spiffing up downtown Seattle.)
Actually I'm an idiot and don't deserve my mod point. BAD INFORMATION - I should have pointed out that Solaris passwd only uses the first 8 chars, and it's the bottleneck, unless you switch to MD5 as you suggest. So a password entered with passwd by default will only pay attention to the first 8 chars whether you are using telnet or ssh "out of the box".
We use public key authentication, with passwords, and bypass password authentication completely, shoudl have said that.
Oh well, won't be the first time I got caught talking out of my ass on/. Thanks for the amplification.
- The Solaris telnet authenticates against their login PAM modules, which only uses the first 8 chars of the password for authentication. SSH bypasses/bin/login and passwords can be as long as you want. This is more longtime Solaris silliness that has not been fixed in Solaris 10.
At least they do come with a binch of stuff disabled by default, and with a fairly recent version of SSH.
I *DO* have numerous Solaris hosts happily floating in the effuent of an unfirewalled Internet connection, and they are probed continually for guessable passwords. Since my passwords are something like "2q3cb07rqwpexnbyslgfsdjhg" and I use only ssh for acccess I can sleep at night.
At the allegation that Windows is a "consumer grade" OS that is somehow inherently less reliable than Solaris and OpenVMS. OpenVMS? Can you count the number of people you can find in a three month job search who are experienced with OpenVMS on more than one hand? Have you installed Solaris 10 lately? Now that is has a *Registry*? Does Solaris 10 install out of the box with a completely functional, somewhat intercompatible, Kerberos ready to go? Can you choose betwene hundreds of vendors offering all kinds of add-on software? *Nobody* ports their stuff to Solaris anymore.
The only real differentiation is cost. It's expensive to drink the Microsoft koolaid. As for single sourcing, the only way Microsoft would be locked out of a county is if xenophobic politicians legislated it so.
- the missing link is the phone keypad that controls the video. I don't fly much, but I've never seen one of those. The phone is always a separate gizmo from the EFIS.
Anybody ever seen a phone that controls the EFIS?
Not to take away from this story - Hugh told it at his (otherwise somewhat lame) RSA keynote appearance. It was very funny story as told.
Although I'm not losing any more sleep over it knowing that equally talented people are in charge of my bank account, antilock brake system, 911 emergency call center, and missile launch silos.
There was a lot of interest in thin clients at RSA 07, or at least there were lot of people crowding the Citrix, Sun, and Oracle booths ("booths" being a relative term, these booths were the 1/2 the size of a tennis court.)
This technology goes in and out of fashion like anything else, primarily because the clientware bloats up in each generation to the point of making it painful. But all the hoo-hah over SOX, etc, probably is going to justify the pain for a lot of people. Who says the minframe isn't dead? It's the only was to control users, give them a 3270 terminal if you have to.
This is all in fun, it's his "brand". Didi your last marketing effort end up on CNN? Of course he's picked the low-hanging fruit first. Once it's 2008 and it's the "Month of COBOL on DEC Alpha Bugs" let's see if he can still stir up a media cluster f***. Go Stefan!
My hypothesis is that the only systems affected are those that are WAY out of patch revs, JVMs since 1_4_11 (IIRC) and solaris systems patched since Mar 06 are unaffected.So the systems most affected are old enough that is was hard to get people to give a s*** until the last minute.
If you have a system old enough that it can't be patched you can just copy over zoneinfo files from a recent system, it will probably work. If you have a Solaris host that hasn't been patched in 5 years, or a JVM prior to 1.4, "here's a nickel kid, get yourself a better computer", or you could copy zoneinfo files and hope you don't need the libc patch.
Another risk is there is a lot of crappy legacy Java code out there that will not port to 1.4. Be very afraid. Memories of COBOL anyone? Guess what language all the ex-COBOL programmers are using?
Didn't compile right on this really old debian I had to patch (3.0). The "northamerica" file looks OK though, but it generated America/* files with the old dates for 2007 somehow.
In general, compiled zoneinfo files are transportable between systems. It was easier to just copy the already-compiled zoneinfo file from an already-patched host, in this case a Solaris host, even, and copy it to the ancient one.
Solaris is a mess - they put timezone data for timezone names like "US/Pacific" etc in zoneinfo tables but "POSIX" timezones like PST8PDT etc have the rules hardwired into libc.so. So a libc.so patch is required, which also patches various other.so's, PAM config files, a smallish number of prerequisite patches, and of course a system reboot. Making the Solaris patch a non-trivial exercise unlike Linux and Java.
You san say what you want about Kurzweil, but there is one glaring hole in the Singularity. The Singularity is basically a log plot of Time on the X-axis and the Difference in Time between Great Technological Advances on the Y-axis. This produces a remarkable straight line:
| - | A - Invention of tools, speech | - | B - Invention of writing | - | - | C - Invention of computer | - | X - TEH SINGULARITY!!
At The Singularity, all latter in the universe is pervaded by complete computational informational nano-thingys, or something like that.
Well, consider the tecnological progress chart for the Dinosaurs:
- | A - Mmmm, giant ferns, tasty! | - | B - Mmmm, stegosaurus, testy! | - | - | C - "Hey the climate is warming, the mammals are taking over and we all | - have brains the size of a walnut!" | - | X - Asteroid the size of Maryland impacts Yucatan!!
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- they asked their "Chief Ethics Officer" about the mess, wasn't that Hunsacker's title?, about the legality of it all.
You don't ask a lawyer to explain what is ethical. You ask lawyers what's LEGAL, not what's ETHICAL.
how do you know that there won't be 10,000 months, with 100 days each, or in Europe, the other way 'round?
Forward thinking, I think.
Ok, this thing will replace my Blackberry and my Palm and maybe my phone, and it weighs ONE AND A HALF POUNDS?
I have a feeling the iPhone will be able to do all this gizmo does, at a fraction of the weight and cost, a bit slower perhaps, but at 10x the [babe version of yor choice]-magnet factor.
I'm not trying to plug iPhones, but what kind of cool stuff has Vulcan lately, versus Apple? (Besides spiffing up downtown Seattle.)
One of the more amusing threads I've seen, geeks dreaming about water cooling their underwear using Peltier devices and heat pipes:
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http://www.hardforum.com/archive/index.php/t-1091
Q: "What... Do you... do... that requires... watercooled underwear?"
A: "I dono... maybe its just me, but I dont like sweaty balls...:
That just about sums it up, unless someone want to insert a "Chef" quote.
The Redhat/Fedora tzinfo, since May or June 2006.
Solaris patches, since about March 2006.
Don't know about others.
Nice hack! The PIC CPU and 4-AA battery power are nice touches.
For extra pizazz, how about making a case out of cement, or even 2 rocks?
Actually I'm an idiot and don't deserve my mod point. BAD INFORMATION - I should have pointed out that Solaris passwd only uses the first 8 chars, and it's the bottleneck, unless you switch to MD5 as you suggest. So a password entered with passwd by default will only pay attention to the first 8 chars whether you are using telnet or ssh "out of the box".
/. Thanks for the amplification.
We use public key authentication, with passwords, and bypass password authentication completely, shoudl have said that.
Oh well, won't be the first time I got caught talking out of my ass on
- The Solaris telnet authenticates against their login PAM modules, which only uses the first 8 chars of the password for authentication. SSH bypasses /bin/login and passwords can be as long as you want. This is more longtime Solaris silliness that has not been fixed in Solaris 10.
At least they do come with a binch of stuff disabled by default, and with a fairly recent version of SSH.
I *DO* have numerous Solaris hosts happily floating in the effuent of an unfirewalled Internet connection, and they are probed continually for guessable passwords. Since my passwords are something like "2q3cb07rqwpexnbyslgfsdjhg" and I use only ssh for acccess I can sleep at night.
"Banned" is too strong a term. It's an engineering decision.
Just say "Upgrading to Vista is about as appropriate as upgrading to a steam-powered ornithopter."
At the allegation that Windows is a "consumer grade" OS that is somehow inherently less reliable than Solaris and OpenVMS. OpenVMS? Can you count the number of people you can find in a three month job search who are experienced with OpenVMS on more than one hand? Have you installed Solaris 10 lately? Now that is has a *Registry*? Does Solaris 10 install out of the box with a completely functional, somewhat intercompatible, Kerberos ready to go? Can you choose betwene hundreds of vendors offering all kinds of add-on software? *Nobody* ports their stuff to Solaris anymore.
The only real differentiation is cost. It's expensive to drink the Microsoft koolaid. As for single sourcing, the only way Microsoft would be locked out of a county is if xenophobic politicians legislated it so.
They haven't found a way to make them leak oil yet!
A sun D1000 loaded with latest-generation 300GB disk drives? Not a bad solution, slow, and not the cheapest.
Apple X-serve RAID? Cheapest - does it work reliably with Linux or Solaris? Word in the street is that it does, but I have not seen a demo yet.
We're actually going with recycling our ancient D-1000s and A-1000s with no-name 300 GB SCSI drives. Pretty old school, but reliable.
Since it takes 15 or 20 minutes for light to travel to Mars, the correct window size is something like 39482396347044987234982432948.
- the missing link is the phone keypad that controls the video. I don't fly much, but I've never seen one of those. The phone is always a separate gizmo from the EFIS.
Anybody ever seen a phone that controls the EFIS?
Not to take away from this story - Hugh told it at his (otherwise somewhat lame) RSA keynote appearance. It was very funny story as told.
Although I'm not losing any more sleep over it knowing that equally talented people are in charge of my bank account, antilock brake system, 911 emergency call center, and missile launch silos.
Actually I haven't slept in 19 days. Help!
There was a lot of interest in thin clients at RSA 07, or at least there were lot of people crowding the Citrix, Sun, and Oracle booths ("booths" being a relative term, these booths were the 1/2 the size of a tennis court.)
This technology goes in and out of fashion like anything else, primarily because the clientware bloats up in each generation to the point of making it painful. But all the hoo-hah over SOX, etc, probably is going to justify the pain for a lot of people. Who says the minframe isn't dead? It's the only was to control users, give them a 3270 terminal if you have to.
This is all in fun, it's his "brand". Didi your last marketing effort end up on CNN? Of course he's picked the low-hanging fruit first. Once it's 2008 and it's the "Month of COBOL on DEC Alpha Bugs" let's see if he can still stir up a media cluster f***. Go Stefan!
Well, I knew about it 6 months ago.
My hypothesis is that the only systems affected are those that are WAY out of patch revs, JVMs since 1_4_11 (IIRC) and solaris systems patched since Mar 06 are unaffected.So the systems most affected are old enough that is was hard to get people to give a s*** until the last minute.
If you have a system old enough that it can't be patched you can just copy over zoneinfo files from a recent system, it will probably work. If you have a Solaris host that hasn't been patched in 5 years, or a JVM prior to 1.4, "here's a nickel kid, get yourself a better computer", or you could copy zoneinfo files and hope you don't need the libc patch.
Another risk is there is a lot of crappy legacy Java code out there that will not port to 1.4. Be very afraid. Memories of COBOL anyone? Guess what language all the ex-COBOL programmers are using?
Didn't compile right on this really old debian I had to patch (3.0). The "northamerica" file looks OK though, but it generated America/* files with the old dates for 2007 somehow.
In general, compiled zoneinfo files are transportable between systems. It was easier to just copy the already-compiled zoneinfo file from an already-patched host, in this case a Solaris host, even, and copy it to the ancient one.
Be sure to check the zoneinfo file with zdump.
The Wiggles had a personnel change recently and every computer in the country had to be patched!
NTP doesn't know diddly about your timezone. Otherwise, how would you be able to conenct to a NTP host in another TZ?
So you need to patch unless you don't care about your clocks being off. Or you're in an area unaffected by recent changes.
You need to "yum update tzdata" or whatever.
Solaris is a mess - they put timezone data for timezone names like "US/Pacific" etc in zoneinfo tables but "POSIX" timezones like PST8PDT etc have the rules hardwired into libc.so. So a libc.so patch is required, which also patches various other .so's, PAM config files, a smallish number of prerequisite patches, and of course a system reboot. Making the Solaris patch a non-trivial exercise unlike Linux and Java.
As Dr Phil would say "what WERE you thinking"?
This is worse than Y2K because Java needs to be patched, and JVMs proliferate on hosts like cockroaches. Older JVMs cannot be patched.
There are nearly 50 java instances on some of our hosts. The filthy little bastards hide everywhere.
Fortunately the fix can be automated and is very fast to install.
Using java's extensive built-in patch management and version management capabilities, of course.
You san say what you want about Kurzweil, but there is one glaring hole in the Singularity. The Singularity is basically a log plot of Time on the X-axis and the Difference in Time between Great Technological Advances on the Y-axis. This produces a remarkable straight line:
| -
| A - Invention of tools, speech
| -
| B - Invention of writing
| -
| -
| C - Invention of computer
| -
| X - TEH SINGULARITY!!
At The Singularity, all latter in the universe is pervaded by complete computational informational nano-thingys, or something like that.
Well, consider the tecnological progress chart for the Dinosaurs:
-
| A - Mmmm, giant ferns, tasty!
| -
| B - Mmmm, stegosaurus, testy!
| -
| -
| C - "Hey the climate is warming, the mammals are taking over and we all
| - have brains the size of a walnut!"
| -
| X - Asteroid the size of Maryland impacts Yucatan!!
So what happens at "X" is a big question.