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URPMI For Fedora Core 2
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· Score: 2, Informative
I'm excited to hear that urpmi is available for Fedora. It will give me renewed reason to install it on one of my machines here and play more with Fedora. I've always had a pet peeve for systems that lacked the kind of package installation software such as apt/get, urpmi, etc. Fedora has finally solved that.
However, to make urpmi truly useful, there needs to be a repository of good source trees for ftp download for the particular distribution. Thus the folks at zarb.org created easyurpmi.org to help folks out in configuring source media on Mandrake. Loaded with lots of different mirrors carrying Mandrake RPMS from the various different sources (main, contrib, updates, plf, etc), this tool generates a commandline that will add a urpmi source media entry to the urpmi database.
Now, someone needs to get on the stick and start compiling the sources for Fedora urpmi sources. Hop to it, kids.
This worries me a bit. I personally cannot endorse the use of the RPM system globally until it more stringently ensures package validity.
The RPM system has virtually no assurance of GPG key identification. Basically, if a mirror (or any website that serves RPMs) pushes out malicious RPMs, the GPG check by the RPM installer gives NO warning if the RPM isn't encoded at all, and only a passing warning if it doesn't match the RH public key.
I call bullshit. urpmi has been doing just this kind of checking for some time now, at least since the version used in Mandrake 9.0 or so. I frequently grab Mandrake RPMS from glarb.org's Penguin Liberation Front and see many a warning about lack of GPG signatures.
I've only read about yum, but I've used urpmi with Mandrake for years. I can tell you about how urpmi works:
1. urpmi.addmedia -- allows a user to define new media (cdrom, ftp, nfs, etc) to be used for getting updated rpms and dependencies. Graphical tool is gurpmi.addmedia.
2. urpmi.update -- polls the media sources that are not on fixed media and downloads fresh hdlist files if available.
3. urpmi.removemedia -- samey same as addmedia, only in reverse. No graphical tool as this function is available in guprmi.addmedia utility.
4. urpmi / gurpmi -- command line / graphical utilities to download/install new/updated rpms, solving dependencies along the way.
5. edit-urpm-sources.pl -- a GUI tool available for Mandrake to edit the list of available source media.
I keep hearing about yum, apt, red-carpet, etc, and read a lot of confusion about how they compare to Mandrake's tool. I've messed with Debian's apt/get system on my testbed machine, but I keep coming back to Mandrake and urpmi. It's familiar, easy to use and I likes it.
What will happen when low-cost labor in China is combined with Microsoft technologies?
See subject -EOM-
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Wired on McBride
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· Score: 4, Informative
This story was featured by Pamela Jones on the Groklaw site here.
It's a wonderful story, and lends a *METRIC ASSLOAD* of information that gets inside why The SCO Group decided to change uniforms and start playing for the wrong team in the middle of the game. Darl's just a litigious sonofabitch who happened to find another litigious sonofabitch to help dream up this scheme whereby we try to make money off *everyone else's* ideas.
Why not simply boycott Yahoo's IM product?? If they keep changing the protocol to thwart easy adoption of alternate clients, especially clients that are designed to run on alternative operating systems, why continue to use them??
Today, the sky will be blue with an occasional white puffy cloud. A bright yellow star 93 million miles away will cause large quantities of infrared, visible light and ultraviolet radiation to shower down upon the earth. And Microsoft software will still suck, no matter how hard they try to rebuff Open Source.
Spamhaus is getting amazingly good at figuring out who the spammer is behind most of this stuff. Do a host lookup on that spammed url, plug it into the SBL Lookup page, then check the results. For the fake viagra spams, I've found links back to Campion, Ralsky and Peter Francis-Macrae from England.
Yosemite Darl is the meanest, toughest, rootin-est,tootin-est cowboy there ever was and you should be ashamed of yourself for rustlin' away his code, pardner. Why its getting so a man can't earn a dishonest livin no more.
Now let's all sing with Darl (while reading the SCO finances)... "I can't get a long little dogey, I can't even get one that's small, I can't get a long little dogey, I can't get a dogey at all". (Profuse apologies to Yosemite Sam)
1. Constant crashes -- programs that crash should be programs crashing... not taking out the entire machine.
2. Active Exploit scripts that install spyware behind your back.
3. The inability to see what's going on behind the scenes, without decent process logging. Lack of logging capability for any/every service/process imaginable.
4. No opportunity to see the source code.
5. Spyware, viruses and exploits, OH MY!
6. License fees on a "rent as you go" basis.
7. Bill Gates has too much friggin' money already.
8. Microsoft killed Netscape, Digital Research, WordPerfect, Lotus, and is guilty of anti-competitive behavior to boot!
9. FAT and NTFS file systems.... need I say more???
10. Windows 98: We fixed the bugs. Windows 98SE: We fixed the bugs. Windows 2000: We fixed the bugs. Now, more secure than ever. Windows XP: The most secure MS OS ever!! Right.
I mean, with all the latest press saying that "Linux is a Religion, not an OS", you'd think that they'd get non-profit status as a church or something.
The reason I believe it is Internet Explorer is that I have seen a machine that is behind 2 different firewalls (one of which is a very well configured PIX) get molested. It wasn't used for e-mail, no P2P programs for downloading and nothing else was used except the browser. I am SURE some people were browsing dodgy websites on that machine. So far, it is the only PC on that IP segment that has been infected so it wasn't from another machine.
I'm seeing nothing but and I'm making damned fine cash on the side taking care of friends and strangers alike who come to me with their computer problems. Install Adaware, Spybot S&D, Spywareblaster, Mozilla, ClamWinAV, OpenOffice, set the home page in IE to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com (as it's the only relatively safe website accessible by Internet Exploder, and move the user's email to Mozilla mail. If it weren't for Active-Exploit scripting, we wouldn't have these problems.
Weather today will be periods of widespread brightness, followed later this evening by periods of widespread darkness. Also, Bill Gates is still in the list of top 10 richest people in the universe.
The remaining 74.5% of traffic was spam for mortgages, U.N.I.V.E.R.S.I.T.Y D.I.P.L.O.M.A.S., dick extensions, boob enlargement and clitorious stimulation creams.
if he could read the absolute shite that Brown is spewing from his asshole. From what I've seen of that response, the cheeky bastard thinks that it's high comedy to slander Torvalds and misquote Tanenbaum. Warn the American government about "hybrid source" software??? Right. They already know: It works much better than the closed source model.
To wit: Open Source and Viruses, which I'm certain will receive much attention on Slashdot very soon.
I'll admit that I don't know how Spamhaus operates. However, it doesn't detract from what I said. Costs will still be forced upon me for something that I may have no use for. The government does it, but now it may be done from the private sector?
You could always vote with your feet and your wallet. There have to be plenty of operators out there that will cater to what you're looking for, even if it is email that's not filtered for you in any way, shape or form. Run your own servers if that's what concerns you. You still have a choice no matter what happens.
Won't these costs just be forced down onto the customers? Sure, it funds Spamhaus, but why is this a good thing for a user who doesn't have to deal with spam? I get maybe one spam e-mail a day.
Heh... I love it, it shows that not too many folks understand about how Spamhaus operates, and may be relying on distant memories of the Mail Abuse Prevention System (MAPS). Both organizations, Spamhaus and MAPS, have operated on a free-to-all, volunteer-run system, accepting donations where they could be had to fund themselves. Back in July 2001, MAPS moved to a fee-based for all (except for educational and single operator systems, which could sign a waiver and have free access) model, while Steve Linford kept MAPS in its free-for-all state, where it continues to operate today.
However, several large users, including world governments, have voiced their opinions that they love what Spamhaus has done, however, how can they rely on a free service that may not be in operation in a year or two due to legal shenanigans like what Richter is pulling against Spamcop??
That, in a nutshell, is what's happening here. No one has ever paid to use Spamhaus other than through voluntary contributions. This changes nothing, the blocklist service and website will still remain free to all comers, and those that have large userbases that want to depend on Spamhaus as a going concern can help by paying a fee for use of a zone transfer service to their own database or dns servers.
Simple, ain't it?? The little guys win, the big guys win, the spammers lose.
Wow. Nice little sentence. I know it wasn't strictly for the act of spamming but for the acts of fraud that were committed in relation to the spamming, but this is a good victory and something for the other spammers to consider. I know it's only a drop in the Atlantic relatively speaking, but any victory for the side against spammers is a sorely needed victory.
Microsoft vic^H^H^Husers having to pay IT support professionals $$$ to remove viruses and spyware because their plan for "security through obscurity" is completely fucked up. Two nights ago I finished a marathon session of sitting up, loading antivirus and spyware removal programs on a customer's PC (I'm doing freelance to supplement the unemployment while laid off), then patching the thing with all the latest and greatest fixes.
Tons of spyware and, surprisingly, only a few viruses were found.
Sorry, Chris, but my PC's here at home don't have those problems because security was designed in as part of the system from the get-go. MS is the biggest waste of money on the planet.
is right here in my living room. It seems that most places I go, my Nextel phone works wonderfully. Sit down on the couch and try to take a call and bye-bye little signal bars. I can move around the room and I'm still dropping off. I live in a wood-frame house so I very much doubt it's metal interfering with the signal in any way, and the living room is on the main floor.
I don't suppose having three pc's and two laptops in a constant on state in the house along with my WAP would have anything to do with it, would it??
Comcast cable modem customers aren't allowed to run mail servers anyway, so I doubt the side-effects would bother them
Meaningless. I ran a mail server off my comcast account for years. I finally got fed up with their overpriced services (both tv and broadband) and moved to WOW.
If you don't draw a bunch of attention to yourself, you can run a mail server.
However, mail servers aren't the problem with the Comcast machines. Open proxy software installed by trojan horses on Windows machines run by unwitting non-technophiles who don't patch their systems is.
.. with akamai-hosted sites that has an odd effect in Mozilla Firefox 0.8 on Linux. A combination of Firefox doing an unnecessary reverse lookup on the IP that's being connected to (this is in addition to the regular forward lookup to get the IP, and waits until timeout, usually 30 seconds) and akamai's lack of any reverse zones configured for their boxes.
A buddy of mine worked through further diagnosis to reveal this problem and registered a bug report with the MozDev team, however, after he contacted Google to inform them of the problem, they put in a blank in-addr.arpa zone file for their IP's, which resulted in an immediate negative result on that reverse zone lookup. If the rest of akamai would get on the stick and do the same, the problem would be history.
What is the problem in it? If you've read the article you'd see that there is no difference here compared to tapping a telephone, it's just the first time it's been done this way. If they can catch child pr0n people with this stuff I'm all for it.
What he said. There are some sick fux out there who think that children are sexual playthings. If I were King I'd be all like, "OFF WITH HIS SCROTUM!!"
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I'm excited to hear that urpmi is available for Fedora. It will give me renewed reason to install it on one of my machines here and play more with Fedora. I've always had a pet peeve for systems that lacked the kind of package installation software such as apt/get, urpmi, etc. Fedora has finally solved that.
However, to make urpmi truly useful, there needs to be a repository of good source trees for ftp download for the particular distribution. Thus the folks at zarb.org created easyurpmi.org to help folks out in configuring source media on Mandrake. Loaded with lots of different mirrors carrying Mandrake RPMS from the various different sources (main, contrib, updates, plf, etc), this tool generates a commandline that will add a urpmi source media entry to the urpmi database.
Now, someone needs to get on the stick and start compiling the sources for Fedora urpmi sources. Hop to it, kids.
I call bullshit. urpmi has been doing just this kind of checking for some time now, at least since the version used in Mandrake 9.0 or so. I frequently grab Mandrake RPMS from glarb.org's Penguin Liberation Front and see many a warning about lack of GPG signatures.
Oh. As if that's not easy with urpmi??
urpmi.update -a (updates all media sources)
urpmi kde (grabs latest kde with dependencies)
samey same
I've only read about yum, but I've used urpmi with Mandrake for years. I can tell you about how urpmi works:
1. urpmi.addmedia -- allows a user to define new media (cdrom, ftp, nfs, etc) to be used for getting updated rpms and dependencies. Graphical tool is gurpmi.addmedia.
2. urpmi.update -- polls the media sources that are not on fixed media and downloads fresh hdlist files if available.
3. urpmi.removemedia -- samey same as addmedia, only in reverse. No graphical tool as this function is available in guprmi.addmedia utility.
4. urpmi / gurpmi -- command line / graphical utilities to download/install new/updated rpms, solving dependencies along the way.
5. edit-urpm-sources.pl -- a GUI tool available for Mandrake to edit the list of available source media.
I keep hearing about yum, apt, red-carpet, etc, and read a lot of confusion about how they compare to Mandrake's tool. I've messed with Debian's apt/get system on my testbed machine, but I keep coming back to Mandrake and urpmi. It's familiar, easy to use and I likes it.
See subject -EOM-
This story was featured by Pamela Jones on the Groklaw site here.
It's a wonderful story, and lends a *METRIC ASSLOAD* of information that gets inside why The SCO Group decided to change uniforms and start playing for the wrong team in the middle of the game. Darl's just a litigious sonofabitch who happened to find another litigious sonofabitch to help dream up this scheme whereby we try to make money off *everyone else's* ideas.
Why not simply boycott Yahoo's IM product?? If they keep changing the protocol to thwart easy adoption of alternate clients, especially clients that are designed to run on alternative operating systems, why continue to use them??
Today, the sky will be blue with an occasional white puffy cloud. A bright yellow star 93 million miles away will cause large quantities of infrared, visible light and ultraviolet radiation to shower down upon the earth. And Microsoft software will still suck, no matter how hard they try to rebuff Open Source.
Oh, look.... It's Ryan Campion and AMR Ventures!
Spamhaus is getting amazingly good at figuring out who the spammer is behind most of this stuff. Do a host lookup on that spammed url, plug it into the SBL Lookup page, then check the results. For the fake viagra spams, I've found links back to Campion, Ralsky and Peter Francis-Macrae from England.
I put up a fixed copy of that photo here.
Bad cowboys who rustle cattle then try to blame someone else for it shouldn't go around wearing white hats.
1. Constant crashes -- programs that crash should be programs crashing... not taking out the entire machine.
2. Active Exploit scripts that install spyware behind your back.
3. The inability to see what's going on behind the scenes, without decent process logging. Lack of logging capability for any/every service/process imaginable.
4. No opportunity to see the source code.
5. Spyware, viruses and exploits, OH MY!
6. License fees on a "rent as you go" basis.
7. Bill Gates has too much friggin' money already.
8. Microsoft killed Netscape, Digital Research, WordPerfect, Lotus, and is guilty of anti-competitive behavior to boot!
9. FAT and NTFS file systems.... need I say more???
10. Windows 98: We fixed the bugs. Windows 98SE: We fixed the bugs. Windows 2000: We fixed the bugs. Now, more secure than ever. Windows XP: The most secure MS OS ever!! Right.
I mean, with all the latest press saying that "Linux is a Religion, not an OS", you'd think that they'd get non-profit status as a church or something.
I'm seeing nothing but and I'm making damned fine cash on the side taking care of friends and strangers alike who come to me with their computer problems. Install Adaware, Spybot S&D, Spywareblaster, Mozilla, ClamWinAV, OpenOffice, set the home page in IE to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com (as it's the only relatively safe website accessible by Internet Exploder, and move the user's email to Mozilla mail. If it weren't for Active-Exploit scripting, we wouldn't have these problems.
Weather today will be periods of widespread brightness, followed later this evening by periods of widespread darkness. Also, Bill Gates is still in the list of top 10 richest people in the universe.
The remaining 74.5% of traffic was spam for mortgages, U.N.I.V.E.R.S.I.T.Y D.I.P.L.O.M.A.S., dick extensions, boob enlargement and clitorious stimulation creams.
if he could read the absolute shite that Brown is spewing from his asshole. From what I've seen of that response, the cheeky bastard thinks that it's high comedy to slander Torvalds and misquote Tanenbaum. Warn the American government about "hybrid source" software??? Right. They already know: It works much better than the closed source model.
To wit: Open Source and Viruses, which I'm certain will receive much attention on Slashdot very soon.
World governments == large nations
There, I said it. Happy?
You could always vote with your feet and your wallet. There have to be plenty of operators out there that will cater to what you're looking for, even if it is email that's not filtered for you in any way, shape or form. Run your own servers if that's what concerns you. You still have a choice no matter what happens.
Heh... I love it, it shows that not too many folks understand about how Spamhaus operates, and may be relying on distant memories of the Mail Abuse Prevention System (MAPS). Both organizations, Spamhaus and MAPS, have operated on a free-to-all, volunteer-run system, accepting donations where they could be had to fund themselves. Back in July 2001, MAPS moved to a fee-based for all (except for educational and single operator systems, which could sign a waiver and have free access) model, while Steve Linford kept MAPS in its free-for-all state, where it continues to operate today.
However, several large users, including world governments, have voiced their opinions that they love what Spamhaus has done, however, how can they rely on a free service that may not be in operation in a year or two due to legal shenanigans like what Richter is pulling against Spamcop??
That, in a nutshell, is what's happening here. No one has ever paid to use Spamhaus other than through voluntary contributions. This changes nothing, the blocklist service and website will still remain free to all comers, and those that have large userbases that want to depend on Spamhaus as a going concern can help by paying a fee for use of a zone transfer service to their own database or dns servers.
Simple, ain't it?? The little guys win, the big guys win, the spammers lose.
Whack his pee pee!!
Wow. Nice little sentence. I know it wasn't strictly for the act of spamming but for the acts of fraud that were committed in relation to the spamming, but this is a good victory and something for the other spammers to consider. I know it's only a drop in the Atlantic relatively speaking, but any victory for the side against spammers is a sorely needed victory.
Microsoft vic^H^H^Husers having to pay IT support professionals $$$ to remove viruses and spyware because their plan for "security through obscurity" is completely fucked up. Two nights ago I finished a marathon session of sitting up, loading antivirus and spyware removal programs on a customer's PC (I'm doing freelance to supplement the unemployment while laid off), then patching the thing with all the latest and greatest fixes.
Tons of spyware and, surprisingly, only a few viruses were found.
Sorry, Chris, but my PC's here at home don't have those problems because security was designed in as part of the system from the get-go. MS is the biggest waste of money on the planet.
is right here in my living room. It seems that most places I go, my Nextel phone works wonderfully. Sit down on the couch and try to take a call and bye-bye little signal bars. I can move around the room and I'm still dropping off. I live in a wood-frame house so I very much doubt it's metal interfering with the signal in any way, and the living room is on the main floor.
I don't suppose having three pc's and two laptops in a constant on state in the house along with my WAP would have anything to do with it, would it??
Meaningless. I ran a mail server off my comcast account for years. I finally got fed up with their overpriced services (both tv and broadband) and moved to WOW.
If you don't draw a bunch of attention to yourself, you can run a mail server.
However, mail servers aren't the problem with the Comcast machines. Open proxy software installed by trojan horses on Windows machines run by unwitting non-technophiles who don't patch their systems is.
.. with akamai-hosted sites that has an odd effect in Mozilla Firefox 0.8 on Linux. A combination of Firefox doing an unnecessary reverse lookup on the IP that's being connected to (this is in addition to the regular forward lookup to get the IP, and waits until timeout, usually 30 seconds) and akamai's lack of any reverse zones configured for their boxes.
A buddy of mine worked through further diagnosis to reveal this problem and registered a bug report with the MozDev team, however, after he contacted Google to inform them of the problem, they put in a blank in-addr.arpa zone file for their IP's, which resulted in an immediate negative result on that reverse zone lookup. If the rest of akamai would get on the stick and do the same, the problem would be history.
What he said. There are some sick fux out there who think that children are sexual playthings. If I were King I'd be all like, "OFF WITH HIS SCROTUM!!"