I would not recommend using the rpm program (it may sometimes lead to unpredictable results). If debian's alien cannot handle something it usually has very good reasons for not doing so. In other words if a package cannot be installed by alien have a look for the package source.
A CERT advisory takes a few weeks to prepare. And CERT always warns the vendors first and waits until they develop a fix and send it out to all their branches and support contacts.
So it is least likely that Apple just got it out yesterday. It is possible that the release day was shifted but there is a 99% probability that the fix was already developed and just waiting until all Apple distributors have it.
1. Debian actually has the largest market share now. It just does not have the hype.
2. Before Debian it used to be slackware. Once again it did not have the rhat hype.
3. But it was never ever redhat. And considering what you get when you buy redhat (without the additional CD's) and when you buy Debian redhat will never be.
It is simple - bang for the buck. Redhat does have hype and some support but it has never had Debian's bang for the buck (especially after taking into account security and stability).
The point was the way iMS hadles its only proprietary foothold.
In the beginnning of this year I have posted to their developer forum a polite formal request on when will they have QT4 on non-Win and non-MAc platforms. I know other people whod asked the same question (politely) as well. And you know what - the messages dissapeared. Wonder why...
Anyway after releasing an iMac and an iBook they should really rename themselfes to iMS so nobody remains mistaken in their intentions.
Actually I find the article extremely funny. They explain how good and advanced the new CPU is and every time they quote a bench, errr, why is this CPU beaten up by Athlon?
In btw, I stick with AMD as well. Actually, I have done it for quite a while. At the same price always beats Intel by as much as 30% under linux or BSD for typical server duties. And it usually has better power saving mode which for a permanently working machine is a definite plus...
Intel is bound by agreements to produce 8086, 80186, 80286 (this one has been xfered to Harris), 80386 for a few more years.
AMD is still manufacturing 486, It is also manufacturing 386 and 486 embedded derivatives with integrated RAM control, bus control, dma controllers and even PCMCIA controllers (something like 80186 but with all the 486DX100 bells and wistles).
The problem with the standards you quote are that they have long gone jurassic. They assume single hostile attack not a hostile world.
For example:
SCO passes certifications higher than C2 but it can be r00ted in seconds. And actually could have been r00ted in seconds for a long time... See BUGTRAQ for references.
In btw the xploits currently posted about SCO have been known since 1996. Seen it, been there, been r00ted, replaced SCO with Linux...
The situation with most other commercial Unices is similar.
For example a certified B1 DGUX (4.0 releases) in its unpatched form could have been r00ted with 4 commands issued from the shell prompt... (The dump core along symlinks f... up).
This does not mean that having a proper audit trail under linux would not be nice.
Anyway Linux is reasonably secure (at least as secure as commercial Unices). What it is missing for certification and acceptance is the capability to report its security... And of course a certain glimpce of sanity in the standards will also be nice...
I thought You could think: Gandhi There would have been no Ghandi whatsoever if not for Rabindranat Tagor. Though once again this is the indian man of the century.
As mandela is the south african man of the century.
Anyway, they are both politics. They are disposal conumative, greese on the wheels of history, they come and go, Culture (literature, art, architecture) remains.
20th century does not have a diefinitive literature figure. It still has definitive art figures - Picasso and one of the most definitive architecture figures in history - Le Corbusie...
I think Mr Brin once again floated on the surface in his analysis. It is somehow similar to the problem when he analyzed SW1TFM. There he blamed solely lucas and skipped the fact that you should not expect reasonable writing from people with under 7000 words worth of vocabulary (the kind lucas has hired - T. Zan and T. Brooks).
Here I think he followed the lines of Times, namely looking along the lines of people who noisily shaped this century. And, frankly though this century does not have a defined Shakespear, Lermontov, etc there are still people that may be ranked as person of the century.
My opinion is highly subjective, but I would say: How many intelliugent people have not read "The Little Prince?" and put Antoine De Saint-Exupery as the person of the millenium.
Strange? Maybe (Oh well I am not saying I will not agree seeing Hemingway there;-)
Will not help, Generic spreadsheet functionality is not enough, you need to do some confitionals. These are usually done with the excell macrolanguage or VBA. Both cases do not work under SOffice (it does not chew excell macros at all).
Because Slashdot is going to get sued. According to the best of US tradition. This has actually happened a few times with BBS'es in the old days. And guess what, the BBS'es always lost...
Something safer like keeping a separate icon for "community anger" will be more productive. Just do not mention the words "boycot" and "slashdot approved boycot"
Most of the writers you mentioned would probably consider themselves fortunate to write a book this good.Assuming we are talking about the same janre, and the you criteria you have listed:
Strugatzki have more than 15 books that are much much better. Unfortunately the only thing available in English is a movie made after one chapter of their books - Stalker. Have a look in your local video store (pls note this is just one chapter;-). Extrapolate to get an idea...
Iain M.Banks has at least 5: Against A Dark Background, Feersum Enjinn, Inversions, Use of Weapons, The Player of Games, etc.
I am intentionally skipping old classics like Bulgakov's "Master and Margarita", Ray Bradbury (lots of stuff), Clifford D. Simak (lots of stuff), etc, etc, etc... But you know - opinions about food, booze and books are a matter of personal taste...
The problem is that this is for Nth time. Check BUGTRAQ or insecure.org for the previous backdoor in Quacke (allowing ID software to execute arbitrary commands as root on your machine).
Though the initial post was really abusive I have to admit that SGI is a classic example of a case when the left hand does not know what the right hand does:
You ask a SGI salesman on their x86 prices, they answer with a booklet about Origin You ask a SGI salesman on their Linux system, they answer with a booklet on Irix In both cases they also require using conventional mail or phone in order to contact them and do not supply email for contact.
I did had the intention to get some info on their x86 systems but I gave up and threw all the materials (as listed above) in the rounded foulder.
I would say that SGI needs a major cleanup amidst its salesd...s. Otherwise the AC abusive description may prove right.
Having "cool developers (TM)" is not enough. And having "cool hardware (TM)" is not enough either. You can send all the developer's work along with the hardware to/dev/null if the salesforce has not even heard about it (which appears to be the case).
In btw: if this the attitude they applied to Cray I am nmot amazed that its market value dropped 65 times over 3 years...
Laugh at yourself. IDE drives have space set aside since the days of the first Seagate 89M-130M drive series.
So the man is right - no difference in reliability whatsoever.
The question is I think that they are actually hitting not a drive bottleneck but the UFS filesystem bottleneck so they should either abandon Solaris or buy (forgot what's their name) the file server and reliable filesystem solutions for Solaris extensions.
So even if they upgarde to RAID they are not going to get anywehere.
Also on the topic of RAID: There are very good external boxen using proprieatry solutions for IDE hotswap and presenting a single u2w or better SCSI interface to the box. And they are rackmountable. And they cost about 4000-5000 fully populated with 13-17GB EIDE.
Unfortunately most people participating in it at the moment think differently. And the client for some platforms really stinks...
For example they have not done anything to optimize the non-DGUX alpha clients despite the release of CPML and dec CCC.
1. Seti can hardly be convinced to open-source the client until they have means of verifying the blocks they receive.
2. They hardly have resource to develop a good verification scheme and they are afraid to bring openly people from the outside to do this because they can jeopardize the entire experiment.
Overall, unless someone sponsors a closed variant of No 2 disallowing SETI to use the money on anything else we shall not see any open source seti clients and the performance on some really nice number-crunching machines will continue to suck...
Does not matter. Even if the employee has done it jumping across his terms of employment this still leaves CNET with this material on the web site.
And there is noting wrong about it:
Selling guns is not illegal. Firing them at people is.
Distributing tools for commiting a crime is (mostly) not illegal. Using them is.
Distributing software that breaks copy protection is (usually) not illegal. Using it for breaking copy protection is.
The exemptions to these rules are listed in the laws of each country but they usually very old and do not include any computer related equipment (mostly the restrictions deal with specific tools for picking locks and stuff, tools usable for copying bank notes, etc).
Netscape has never been the only browser for linux.
When I did not have a machine with 192M like now days and had to use a few megs from the otherwise overloaded server I used arena (quite unstable) or another now forgotten but actualy very good browser which was lurking along with arena on ftp.tuwien.ac.at (sorry forgot the name but I did not see it mentioned anywhere in the discussion;-)
And I do not understand what is all the comotion. The first thing I tried after installing KDE earlier this year was to load slashdot. And it loaded pretty good;-)
All konq needs is to read jabba droppings (sorry java). Than IE and mozilla are both dead...
Slashdot Mirror
I would not recommend using the rpm program (it may sometimes lead to unpredictable results). If debian's alien cannot handle something it usually has very good reasons for not doing so. In other words if a package cannot be installed by alien have a look for the package source.
Wrong:
A CERT advisory takes a few weeks to prepare. And CERT always warns the vendors first and waits until they develop a fix and send it out to all their branches and support contacts.
So it is least likely that Apple just got it out yesterday. It is possible that the release day was shifted but there is a 99% probability that the fix was already developed and just waiting until all Apple distributors have it.
Debian is Linux development. At least as far as developers are concerned.
Well, this is where you are wrong.
1. Debian actually has the largest market share now. It just does not have the hype.
2. Before Debian it used to be slackware. Once again it did not have the rhat hype.
3. But it was never ever redhat. And considering what you get when you buy redhat (without the additional CD's) and when you buy Debian redhat will never be.
It is simple - bang for the buck. Redhat does have hype and some support but it has never had Debian's bang for the buck (especially after taking into account security and stability).
You missed the point.
The point was the way iMS hadles its only proprietary foothold.
In the beginnning of this year I have posted to their developer forum a polite formal request on when will they have QT4 on non-Win and non-MAc platforms. I know other people whod asked the same question (politely) as well. And you know what - the messages dissapeared. Wonder why...
Anyway after releasing an iMac and an iBook they should really rename themselfes to iMS so nobody remains mistaken in their intentions.
Underdog, with these benchmarks?
Actually I find the article extremely funny. They explain how good and advanced the new CPU is and every time they quote a bench, errr, why is this CPU beaten up by Athlon?
In btw, I stick with AMD as well. Actually, I have done it for quite a while. At the same price always beats Intel by as much as 30% under linux or BSD for typical server duties. And it usually has better power saving mode which for a permanently working machine is a definite plus...
Intel is bound by agreements to produce 8086, 80186, 80286 (this one has been xfered to Harris), 80386 for a few more years.
AMD is still manufacturing 486, It is also manufacturing 386 and 486 embedded derivatives with integrated RAM control, bus control, dma controllers and even PCMCIA controllers (something like 80186 but with all the 486DX100 bells and wistles).
The problem with the standards you quote are that they have long gone jurassic. They assume single hostile attack not a hostile world.
For example:
SCO passes certifications higher than C2 but it can be r00ted in seconds. And actually could have been r00ted in seconds for a long time... See BUGTRAQ for references.
In btw the xploits currently posted about SCO have been known since 1996. Seen it, been there, been r00ted, replaced SCO with Linux...
The situation with most other commercial Unices is similar.
For example a certified B1 DGUX (4.0 releases) in its unpatched form could have been r00ted with 4 commands issued from the shell prompt... (The dump core along symlinks f... up).
This does not mean that having a proper audit trail under linux would not be nice.
Anyway Linux is reasonably secure (at least as secure as commercial Unices). What it is missing for certification and acceptance is the capability to report its security... And of course a certain glimpce of sanity in the standards will also be nice...
I thought You could think:
Gandhi There would have been no Ghandi whatsoever if not for Rabindranat Tagor. Though once again this is the indian man of the century.
As mandela is the south african man of the century.
Anyway, they are both politics. They are disposal conumative, greese on the wheels of history, they come and go, Culture (literature, art, architecture) remains.
20th century does not have a diefinitive literature figure. It still has definitive art figures - Picasso and one of the most definitive architecture figures in history - Le Corbusie...
I think Mr Brin once again floated on the surface in his analysis. It is somehow similar to the problem when he analyzed SW1TFM. There he blamed solely lucas and skipped the fact that you should not expect reasonable writing from people with under 7000 words worth of vocabulary (the kind lucas has hired - T. Zan and T. Brooks).
;-)
Here I think he followed the lines of Times, namely looking along the lines of people who noisily shaped this century. And, frankly though this century does not have a defined Shakespear, Lermontov, etc there are still people that may be ranked as person of the century.
My opinion is highly subjective, but I would say: How many intelliugent people have not read "The Little Prince?" and put Antoine De Saint-Exupery as the person of the millenium.
Strange? Maybe (Oh well I am not saying I will not agree seeing Hemingway there
Will not help,
Generic spreadsheet functionality is not enough, you need to do some confitionals. These are usually done with the excell macrolanguage or VBA. Both cases do not work under SOffice (it does not chew excell macros at all).
Very very good point. Especially about the TV and the library.
Someone who has mod points bump this up pls...
Because Slashdot is going to get sued. According to the best of US tradition. This has actually happened a few times with BBS'es in the old days. And guess what, the BBS'es always lost...
Something safer like keeping a separate icon for "community anger" will be more productive. Just do not mention the words "boycot" and "slashdot approved boycot"
Strugatzki have more than 15 books that are much much better. Unfortunately the only thing available in English is a movie made after one chapter of their books - Stalker. Have a look in your local video store (pls note this is just one chapter ;-). Extrapolate to get an idea...
Iain M.Banks has at least 5: Against A Dark Background, Feersum Enjinn, Inversions, Use of Weapons, The Player of Games, etc.
I am intentionally skipping old classics like Bulgakov's "Master and Margarita", Ray Bradbury (lots of stuff), Clifford D. Simak (lots of stuff), etc, etc, etc... But you know - opinions about food, booze and books are a matter of personal taste...
Compared to better examples of dark sci fi like Iain M. Banks, Strugatzki brothers', etc it is absolute crap.
...
Compared to the usual bulshit the press tries to feed us it rocks.
I would not waste slashdot space with a review on it though
The problem is not there,
The problem is that this is for Nth time. Check BUGTRAQ or insecure.org for the previous backdoor in Quacke (allowing ID software to execute arbitrary commands as root on your machine).
Sexiest hardware in existance.
Yes, if your salesforce knows about its existance and does not try to sell you Origins and Octanes.
Happened to me, happened to other people.
I would suggest that SGI instead of dropping products do a decimation on their salesforce. That will be a much better thing to do.
Have a look at xfmail for example:
It can handle
1. IMAP
2. POP
3. old good spool
It can send via both
1. SMTP
2. sendmail
It has PGP 2.63, PGP5 and GPG integration (and maybe the best pgp integration I've seen so far.
It has reegexp search and regexp filters with possibility to execute stuff if found.
It has executable signatures. Don't you love fortune or murphy in your .sig?
It handles most of the HTML which is appropriate for email
It does not crash (at least on a debian, I do hear some of the folks with RHAT complain sometimes but I will blame this on RHAT libs).
It is available as source
It is under 1NB compiled
Most importantly: it is 7-10 times faster then nestcape
I see no problem whatsoever in generating it.
The site is distributing the source as well.
All you need to do is some playing around with konq or worst case scenario - netscape and gimp.
Note the URL for the headers for Irix 5.3
/dev/null if the salesforce has not even heard about it (which appears to be the case).
Though the initial post was really abusive I have to admit that SGI is a classic example of a case when the left hand does not know what the right hand does:
You ask a SGI salesman on their x86 prices, they answer with a booklet about Origin
You ask a SGI salesman on their Linux system, they answer with a booklet on Irix
In both cases they also require using conventional mail or phone in order to contact them and do not supply email for contact.
I did had the intention to get some info on their x86 systems but I gave up and threw all the materials (as listed above) in the rounded foulder.
I would say that SGI needs a major cleanup amidst its salesd...s. Otherwise the AC abusive description may prove right.
Having "cool developers (TM)" is not enough. And having "cool hardware (TM)" is not enough either. You can send all the developer's work along with the hardware to
In btw: if this the attitude they applied to Cray I am nmot amazed that its market value dropped 65 times over 3 years...
Laugh at yourself. IDE drives have space set aside since the days of the first Seagate 89M-130M drive series.
So the man is right - no difference in reliability whatsoever.
The question is I think that they are actually hitting not a drive bottleneck but the UFS filesystem bottleneck so they should either abandon Solaris or buy (forgot what's their name) the file server and reliable filesystem solutions for Solaris extensions.
So even if they upgarde to RAID they are not going to get anywehere.
Also on the topic of RAID: There are very good external boxen using proprieatry solutions for IDE hotswap and presenting a single u2w or better SCSI interface to the box. And they are rackmountable. And they cost about 4000-5000 fully populated with 13-17GB EIDE.
Unfortunately most people participating in it at the moment think differently. And the client for some platforms really stinks...
For example they have not done anything to optimize the non-DGUX alpha clients despite the release of CPML and dec CCC.
1. Seti can hardly be convinced to open-source the client until they have means of verifying the blocks they receive.
2. They hardly have resource to develop a good verification scheme and they are afraid to bring openly people from the outside to do this because they can jeopardize the entire experiment.
Overall, unless someone sponsors a closed variant of No 2 disallowing SETI to use the money on anything else we shall not see any open source seti clients and the performance on some really nice number-crunching machines will continue to suck...
It is not (in most countries). Unless you count this as the obscure notion of promoting crime... Which actually exists in some country's laws...
Does not matter. Even if the employee has done it jumping across his terms of employment this still leaves CNET with this material on the web site.
And there is noting wrong about it:
Selling guns is not illegal. Firing them at people is.
Distributing tools for commiting a crime is (mostly) not illegal. Using them is.
Distributing software that breaks copy protection is (usually) not illegal. Using it for breaking copy protection is.
The exemptions to these rules are listed in the laws of each country but they usually very old and do not include any computer related equipment (mostly the restrictions deal with specific tools for picking locks and stuff, tools usable for copying bank notes, etc).
Netscape has never been the only browser
;-)
;-)
for linux.
When I did not have a machine with 192M like now days and had to use a few megs from the otherwise overloaded server I used arena (quite unstable) or another now forgotten but actualy very good browser which was lurking along with arena on ftp.tuwien.ac.at (sorry forgot the name but I did not see it mentioned anywhere in the discussion
And I do not understand what is all the comotion. The first thing I tried after installing KDE earlier this year was to load slashdot. And it loaded pretty good
All konq needs is to read jabba droppings (sorry java). Than IE and mozilla are both dead...