Where are the differences?
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Debian GNU/Solaris
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I had some contact with AIX, Linux is running at home but other than some minimal stuff I have no idea what makes Solaris different from the other systems. GNU/Solaris sounds like only the kernel is not linux. Can someone give me a hint why I should consider looking at it or switching my router/server/notebook to it?
Either a small script which parses the sshd logs or a couple of things you can find on sourceforge should do the task. I had a lot of dictionary attacks on my sshd. My first solution was a one hour blacklisting of every IP address which tries dictionary attacks. Now I switched to port knocking, which seems even more secure and convenient to me. I use a relatively simple port knocking sequence but that is more than enough to fight off any script kiddie.
Even if you observe the apple falling down from the tree a thousand times that will never proof that Newton and later Einstein was right. A lot of Intelligent Design people argue about methods like C14-dating that the speed of light and other properties in physics might be constant today but that they weren't constant a million years ago. So how will you prove to me that the apple will fall down tomorrow?
We had several low- and high tech things at our Halloween parties. Just to give you some ideas I list some fun stuff:
infrared motion detector in the bathroom, no other lights working and when a person enters a small light in the shower goes on and an mp3-player starts playing music from Psycho
a stuffed animal sitting in the washing machine with a led light and a pen. The animal wrote "help me!" on the inside of the glass door
the obligatory spider coming down from the ceiling on a string
Just google a bit to get plenty of other ideas. Liquid latex is also a very nice thing to make fake body parts, that you can stick between a door or something.
Thank/. for the meta-moderation system, so we can make sure that somebody who wants to mod other peoples comments down without a good reason does not mod again soon. And by the way, you don't know at all if the poster of the parent is a foreigner or not, so please shut up.
The clock looks like ThinkGeek could sell quite a lot of them, it may be a little on the expensive side. A lot of high-tech mechanic combined with a polished look so that any other clock looks childish.
Instead of pasting your Q3-installation-is-so-hard troll into almost every linux article maybe you could look at the state of installations in current distributions.
After reading about port knocking I did a quick search on gentoo.org for example and an "emerge knock" was all I had to do to download, compile and install the port knocking daemon onto my firewall. A few days ago Ubuntu released a new version and updating was easy and simple. Basically a "apt-get update", "apt-get dist-upgrade" and after two hours about 600 software packages where updated without a flaw.
Windows Update is nice but try to update your whole system automatically in two hours with XP, Office, Browser, Games, IDEs, SDKs,...
To me your scenario sounds harder to do, everything has to be done without delays but it is still a possibility. So this whole thing does not prevent security against man-in-the-middle attacks. Maybe the banks could model their security more like it is when you talk to them directly. I go to my bank and speak about finance things with the people who are in the building and have the typical MyBANK(tm) badge. So would it not be enough if we just make sure that we are really communicating with our banks instead of someone else? Usage of signed E-Mails might help (gnupg anyone?), advising users to look for SSL encryption and to _not_ click away the warning message when you are on a phishing website without the proper certificates, etc. As far as I know the current SSL standard has not been broken, so we should make sure that all the features are used instead of using more hassles without encreased security.
Just look for a bone, a teeth or something that you can identify as human. If you can find something like that together with the bones of a t-rex or in a deeper level of the soil you have found evidence that humans existed at same time as dinosaurs. Evolutionists will have to change there theory quite a bit. A single teeth might even be enough, with dating methods that use other substances than C-14 you can date really old things.
Besides the OpenSuSE website they also hacked into wiki.novell.com and forge.novell.com.
Too bad that the Iranian hackers used OpenSuSE for their political stuff. It seems a bit misplaced, what does a linux distribution has to do with the question whether Iran should have nuclear stuff or not?
Re:But are the problems only limited to the one ch
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Airbus A380 Under Fire
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Try to prove the this single atom is not chlorine. Come up with some ideas and you will find problems everywhere. Quantum mechanics kill any attempt in getting a 100% answer. You can't even locate the atom exactly, so how do you want to find out what type of atom it is exactly? You will even have a hard time proving that a chlorine atom is not as big as hour house. The probability will be very low, less than 1 in a trillion but it will never reach zero and so your prove will never work.
It is not easy to find appropriate ways to fight terrorism. Most of the people who critize their governments are just sure that throwing away our rights and replacing them with an authoritarian police and spy system will not prevent future attacks. Especially the recent bombings in London were planned and carried out by people who were English citizens and have not commited a crime, etc. They don't fit into some kind of 'evil terrorist' picture.
The shortsighted answer to this is just to widen your search criteria, but there are a few problems involved with that. At the moment it would be the best thing in Europe to arrest any male student who studies at a technical college, because this seem to be the most significant attribute of the terrorists and maybe your files would be checked quite a few times. Where I live it is common knowledge that students who pay their public tv bill are suspected to be terrorists because they especially want to be 'fitting in'. So the more normal you are the higher is the probability of getting suspected. So the easy way does not work. We have to find other ways, especially the Muslim community should look a bit more for their radical people and the Western world should seriously think about the sources of terrorism. A number one recruting website for suicide bombers just consists of some hate speech and a lot of pictures with US soldiers killing people and children in Iraq.
There were at least two companies in Germany that sold their computers with OS/2 preinstalled. Vobis and Comtech came to my mind. They were trying to get away from putting Windows on every single machine. Both chains were quite large with hundreds of shops around the country. Vobis is still around today and doing pretty well. Comtech went bankrupt but was bought be another company and is still in business today. Unfortunately both are not experimenting anymore, you can buy the usual HP, Acer, Sony notebooks, an ipod or their own brandname computer there with WinXP.
NEW YORK (CNN) "There was some damage to the front window but there are no reports of any injuries at this stage."
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13000 people losing their source of income.
I don't know about your priorities but a bit of broken glass seems not so important to me compared to quite a lot of people who are laid off. Would you be more angry about your boss saying: "Well, we appreciate your work but we are outsourcing to..." or somebody smashing your front window?
Have a look at bincimap. It works well, installs easily and seems to be quite secure. See http://www.bincimap.org/ for more details.
It runs on my small linux server without problems and I can access my emails securely over ssl from anywhere. The only limit is the hd size, so even a couple of GB should be no problem.
Your assumption is only true for some environments. A lot of people I know would not open any word document, either because the don't have MS Office or because they don't want any possible viruses on their system. The science community does use other things than MS Office, Banks and other security sensitive people would rather get something in.pdf than in.doc
So you would get the reply: "PDF or plaintext, please"
I've been to the math museum in Giessen. It contains a lot of interesting stuff about the Golden Ratio, Calculus, some experiments to show Pythagoras idea of a^2 + b^2 = c^2, etc. Prof. Beutelspacher came up with the idea, he has written some very good books about linear algebra and knows how to explain mathematics without scaring people off.
If you are ever near Giessen in Germany don't miss it. Here is the link:
Slashdot Mirror
I had some contact with AIX, Linux is running at home but other than some minimal stuff I have no idea what makes Solaris different from the other systems. GNU/Solaris sounds like only the kernel is not linux.
Can someone give me a hint why I should consider looking at it or switching my router/server/notebook to it?
Either a small script which parses the sshd logs or a couple of things you can find on sourceforge should do the task.
I had a lot of dictionary attacks on my sshd. My first solution was a one hour blacklisting of every IP address which tries dictionary attacks. Now I switched to port knocking, which seems even more secure and convenient to me. I use a relatively simple port knocking sequence but that is more than enough to fight off any script kiddie.
Even if you observe the apple falling down from the tree a thousand times that will never proof that Newton and later Einstein was right. A lot of Intelligent Design people argue about methods like C14-dating that the speed of light and other properties in physics might be constant today but that they weren't constant a million years ago.
So how will you prove to me that the apple will fall down tomorrow?
I got a similar led light for about $60. Not really cheap but you can use it for other occasions as well.
Just google a bit to get plenty of other ideas. Liquid latex is also a very nice thing to make fake body parts, that you can stick between a door or something.
Thank /. for the meta-moderation system, so we can make sure that somebody who wants to mod other peoples comments down without a good reason does not mod again soon.
And by the way, you don't know at all if the poster of the parent is a foreigner or not, so please shut up.
The clock looks like ThinkGeek could sell quite a lot of them, it may be a little on the expensive side. A lot of high-tech mechanic combined with a polished look so that any other clock looks childish.
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The article is rather slow to get already so use mirrodot instead: http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/608e5b4931282247
Instead of pasting your Q3-installation-is-so-hard troll into almost every linux article maybe you could look at the state of installations in current distributions.
After reading about port knocking I did a quick search on gentoo.org for example and an "emerge knock" was all I had to do to download, compile and install the port knocking daemon onto my firewall. A few days ago Ubuntu released a new version and updating was easy and simple. Basically a "apt-get update", "apt-get dist-upgrade" and after two hours about 600 software packages where updated without a flaw.
Windows Update is nice but try to update your whole system automatically in two hours with XP, Office, Browser, Games, IDEs, SDKs,...
France: 259596 square miles, 62M people, so roughly 238 per square mile.
NY: 54471 square miles, 19M people, about 348 per square mile.
So, your argument does certainly not hold for New York state. Sweden for example has a very low population density, so this can't be the only answer.
The current deal here (Germany) is something like 30 Euros for 6Mbit DSL + 30 Euros for telephone (includes flatrate for calls to all landlines).
To me your scenario sounds harder to do, everything has to be done without delays but it is still a possibility.
So this whole thing does not prevent security against man-in-the-middle attacks. Maybe the banks could model their security more like it is when you talk to them directly.
I go to my bank and speak about finance things with the people who are in the building and have the typical MyBANK(tm) badge. So would it not be enough if we just make sure that we are really communicating with our banks instead of someone else? Usage of signed E-Mails might help (gnupg anyone?), advising users to look for SSL encryption and to _not_ click away the warning message when you are on a phishing website without the proper certificates, etc. As far as I know the current SSL standard has not been broken, so we should make sure that all the features are used instead of using more hassles without encreased security.
Seems like the mods don't recognize sarcasm ...
Just look for a bone, a teeth or something that you can identify as human. If you can find something like that together with the bones of a t-rex or in a deeper level of the soil you have found evidence that humans existed at same time as dinosaurs. Evolutionists will have to change there theory quite a bit.
A single teeth might even be enough, with dating methods that use other substances than C-14 you can date really old things.
So, just go out and you will be famous!
He is a movie fan and was just accepted to a university.
Some bits of information can be found here:3 90/
http://www.zone-h.org/en/defacements/view/id=2917
Besides the OpenSuSE website they also hacked into wiki.novell.com and forge.novell.com.
Too bad that the Iranian hackers used OpenSuSE for their political stuff. It seems a bit misplaced, what does a linux distribution has to do with the question whether Iran should have nuclear stuff or not?
Try to prove the this single atom is not chlorine.
Come up with some ideas and you will find problems everywhere. Quantum mechanics kill any attempt in getting a 100% answer.
You can't even locate the atom exactly, so how do you want to find out what type of atom it is exactly? You will even have a hard time proving that a chlorine atom is not as big as hour house. The probability will be very low, less than 1 in a trillion but it will never reach zero and so your prove will never work.
Especially the recent bombings in London were planned and carried out by people who were English citizens and have not commited a crime, etc. They don't fit into some kind of 'evil terrorist' picture.
The shortsighted answer to this is just to widen your search criteria, but there are a few problems involved with that. At the moment it would be the best thing in Europe to arrest any male student who studies at a technical college, because this seem to be the most significant attribute of the terrorists and maybe your files would be checked quite a few times.
Where I live it is common knowledge that students who pay their public tv bill are suspected to be terrorists because they especially want to be 'fitting in'. So the more normal you are the higher is the probability of getting suspected.
So the easy way does not work. We have to find other ways, especially the Muslim community should look a bit more for their radical people and the Western world should seriously think about the sources of terrorism. A number one recruting website for suicide bombers just consists of some hate speech and a lot of pictures with US soldiers killing people and children in Iraq.
http://mirrordot.org/ has some of it already cached. Try this link: http://mirrordot.org/stories/352335d7edc4f5541c0e9 bfc28ab7cd0/index.html
There were at least two companies in Germany that sold their computers with OS/2 preinstalled. Vobis and Comtech came to my mind. They were trying to get away from putting Windows on every single machine. Both chains were quite large with hundreds of shops around the country.
Vobis is still around today and doing pretty well. Comtech went bankrupt but was bought be another company and is still in business today. Unfortunately both are not experimenting anymore, you can buy the usual HP, Acer, Sony notebooks, an ipod or their own brandname computer there with WinXP.
Hum?
NEW YORK (CNN)
"There was some damage to the front window but there are no reports of any injuries at this stage."
vs.
13000 people losing their source of income.
I don't know about your priorities but a bit of broken glass seems not so important to me compared to quite a lot of people who are laid off. Would you be more angry about your boss saying: "Well, we appreciate your work but we are outsourcing to..." or somebody smashing your front window?
Air-tight and full of liquid nitrogen? That would be quite a cool explosion...
Have a look at bincimap. It works well, installs easily and seems to be quite secure.
See http://www.bincimap.org/ for more details.
It runs on my small linux server without problems and I can access my emails securely over ssl from anywhere. The only limit is the hd size, so even a couple of GB should be no problem.
This is the google cache linked with slashcode: http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:GshwWambHvEJ: www.corante.com/getreal/archives/2005/02/11/eight_ years_of_email_stats_pass_1.php
It still tries to access the original site, so it rather slow but you can read the article.
I put up a torrent to distribute the file:
r _Christmas.zip.torrent
:-)
http://www.personal.uni-jena.de/~p0stal/A_Singula
Feel free to use it and enjoy listening to really _interesting_ music
So you would get the reply: "PDF or plaintext, please"
I've been to the math museum in Giessen. It contains a lot of interesting stuff about the Golden Ratio, Calculus, some experiments to show Pythagoras idea of a^2 + b^2 = c^2, etc. Prof. Beutelspacher came up with the idea, he has written some very good books about linear algebra and knows how to explain mathematics without scaring people off.
If you are ever near Giessen in Germany don't miss it. Here is the link:
http://www.mathematikum.de/
It is about 36000 km or 22000 miles above the equator, not 22 miles. Just read your own source again.