I disagree with your short-term interest argument. Law enforcement does not have your best interest in mind. You do not know what is or is not legal. (Almost) anything can be construed as being illegal. Just shut up and ask for an attorney to be present while they question you.
The iOS Outlook app outsources the server communication to an external server; this server communicates with your exchange server and stores all the data on that external server (in the Cloud). If you decide to want to see an attachment, the external server downloads and archives/keeps the attachment in the Cloud.
The iOS Outlook app uses a cloud to download your email (including attachments should you choose to want to see it). This may or may not be what you (or your employer) want. I know I won't be using it.
Instead of using ndiswrapper try the latest snapshot of the acx1xx driver at http://acx100.erley.org/. It works, supports both ACX100 (PCI/Cardbus/USB) and ACX111 (PCI/CardBus) chipsets just fine. Integration into the kernel is being worked on.
Usually when you write a driver for a specific piece of hardware, you take a look at the specs (of that piece of hardware and/or the stuff the hardware communicates with), and then start implementing it according to specs. Then you try to actually get it working, and the crap piece of hardware doesn't *quite* conform to the specifications. It leaves something out here, does something unexpected there, and before you know it, your driver is riddled with exceptions to make it actually *work*.
It's much better to design your driver to actually work with the hardware, and just disregard the specifications. It means your driver will actually work, instead of conforming to specs and being buggy as hell.
Just like Caldera is/was/used to be based on RedHat as well. I think they took RedHat 2.1 or something and built from that. They've definately evolved since then, but still use some features from way back when (RPM for instance).
I've done and passed both. I've got LPIC 1 and 2 under my belt, and passed my RHCE exam with flying colors.
It's just that I think LPI doesn't quite cut it. Anyone with some time on their hands can cram an exam. Actual hands on experience can't be tested with just a written exam. RHCE gives you that practical thing, where you actually have to show that you know what you're doing...
The following instructions may get you a working upgrade from 7.0 to 7.2. No guarantees though, and it may get you FUBAR'd.
1. Run up2date --config, and set UseGPG to No and versionOverride to 7.2. This will tell RHN that your box is actually a non-up-to-date 7.2
2. Make sure you have enough room on your HD for all the rpm's that have to be updated. That's/var/spool/up2date unless you specify otherwise.
3. Run "up2date -u" and watch the fun. If you're cautious, run "up2date -u -d" so it will only download, and you can run rpm -Uvh yourself. Apply "--tmpdir=/bla/blah" if you haven't got enough room in/var/spool/up2date.
4. Grab some coffee, and watch all the rpm's being downloaded. After up2date is finished, you should get a working system. If you've chosen the "up2date -u -d" option, you can now run rpm -Uvh *.rpm in/var/spool/up2date.
Have fun,
Bas Vermeulen (who's got a box at home upgrading from 7.1 to 7.2 in that fashion)
Are you sure the board supports the voltage needed for the CPU? I think the 500 MHz K6-III needs a lower voltage than your original cpu. I highly doubt your scsi chain has anything to do with the problem, since it works at 300 and 400 MHz. (I'm assuming you're keeping the PCI bus pegged at 33 MHz, if not, that may very well be your problem)
Of course key testing is going to take a while. It's going to take too bloody long. But it IS feasible to do (with enough hardware, processing time etc).
The card is a No Wires Needed Swallow 550/1100. Is 802.11 compliant, and also supports their own encryption technique (Airlock (TM), uses a public key encryption technique, witht he public key based on the cards MAC-address). I can get at the ESSID's with a simple command I send to the card.
I wrote the Linux driver for it, you can find that on my homepage. The companies page is http://www.nwn.com.
I have a card here that does most of that by itself. I get near a basestation, and it will tell me what essid's I can join. Scrap the recovering essid part. Then I can use my driver, and try out all 2^128 keys. (You were right about the nr. of keys, I made a brainfart in that) Since I have access to the driver (you normally do under Linux), it isn't exactly infeasible to get the key. I never said it was going to be easy...:) I'd still have to attack the wep-key (with either brute-force or otherwise, I'm not a cryptographer), but with the equipment I have here the first two steps are a no-brainer.
How about just doing a brute-force attack using a couple of laptops with WaveLAN cards? Of course it'll take some time, but unless you change your key every other day/week or so, it won't buy you anything. All the hardware is compatible (Long Live 802.11:), and does work together... Just find out the session (ESSID), and try all 128^2 keys out on it. When you're in, you're in, untill the next time they change the WEP key.
Yes, that affects the level of security. If you use a 56 bit key, you only get 56 bit encryption. A 128 bit key will definately help, but unless you change your key once in a while, it won't help you that much. Afaik the algorithm doesn't change the key itself.
And I bet if you were busy working on your next/. post, and some clown walked in because your door was unlocked, you would find this OK? ORBS is no better than someone who walks about the neighborhood, looking for unlocked doors or keys under the entry mat. Then they place up a billboard saying "Open door at 321 Evergreen". What shocks me is that you, as a systems manager are not outraged at such behavior.
Except that's not what they do. They first send you a note saying your door is unlocked, wait a month to see if you close it, and then post it on a billboard. You've had the chance to fix it, if you don't that's your problem.
If this was the case, why was a request for the basis of spam claim ignored? Because they can not provide it. I'd LOVE to see the claimed spam mail for my source....yet, this is not forthcoming.
They don't list spammers perse... They list open relays. They don't need a spam complaint, all they need to see is your open relay. It's what they are, a list of open relays. You don't like it, live with it.
So use the kickstart feature present in the RedHat installer? It allows you to say what you want installed (precisely afaik). You put it on a disk, insert it, and it'll do it for you... I'm pretty sure it doesn't do all that over the network though (unless you netboot the box with the modified install-disk, if at all possible:)
I'm pretty sure I've seen this a month or two back on slashdot. Same link, same pics, and still no connection to the thing. (Oh, and according to most of the linux hackers, it's a scam, since you can't write a TCP/IP stack in 512 words)
That driver is for their 5.5 Mbit product (Swallow 550), and should work with their 11 Mbit product as well. (I should know, I am writing the driver:) All that's needed is changing the config for pcmcia.
Hello? Remember Borland C++ for OS/2? It was pretty damn good in my book. Still is for that matter, I just don't use OS/2 that much any more... They are definately not a Windows only shop.
Do you know what it takes to do a quality assurance on a piece of software? If MetroWorks has to support every single distribution out there, with every version of every library used, do you have ANY idea what that would cost?
I highly doubt CodeWarrior will not work on debian, slackware, suse, caldera, or any other distribution with the required libraries. MetroWorks isn't stupid. They just won't support a different distribution to run it on. Same goes for almost any other commercial software, it goes trough quality assurance for one particular platform (which happens to be RedHat on Linux, since they seem to have the largest userbase, or the highest profile), and only support that. It may or may not run on a different distribution, since they have not tested that.
Anyways, that's my rambling about this particular topic, you can agree or not, I'll stand by it.
I think you're missing the point. This is something new, in my experience of Linux. It is not, however, new to Microsoft's way of doing business.
Not at all. You may not have seen it, but almost any commercial application is only supported on one distribution. In the beginning you had WordPerfect, which was only sold and supported along with Caldera OpenLinux, Sybase doesn't give you any support, IBM DB2 was only tested and supported on RedHat 5.1, and I can give you a host of other packages that say the same. That doesn't mean they won't work though.
I've seen quite a few commercial apps for Linux, but never before one advertised to work on a particular distro of Linux only. Sure, it can probably be made to work on others, but it is the advertising of this "quality assurance for RedHat" and that it is only supported, so far, for RedHat that is troubling. In other words, if you aren't using RedHat we can't support you. Why the change?
Again, if you look closely, almost any commercial app does the same. It gets tested on one distribution. That distribution has certain versions of libraries, and that's the way they know it will work. People with distribution Y may get lucky, but since it hasn't been tested, they can't say for sure.
Because this is something new, it is almost impossible to believe that RedHat did not have some hand in an exclusive deal behind closed doors. Even if this was Metro's idea, not RH's, RedHat obviously didn't try to change the wording or the contract for the good of Linux. Instead, RedHat pretends that it is just the fortunate beneficiary of having the largest distro. Hmmm.... This comes across as very dishonest, considering that RedHat could have easily explained how the situation would be interpreted in the "community".
Now why would they do a stupid thing like making a company change the name for a product? MetroWorks probably wanted to make clear that CodeWarrior is only (officially) supported for RedHat Linux. 'Cause it is only officially supported on RedHat Linux. They know it works there, and are willing to put their money where the support is needed. Other distributions may work (I got an email from an employee at MetroWorks, saying they had seen it working on Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 and SuSE), but they cannot guarantee it. Such is the cost of having the diversion in distributions we the "community" seem to want. You don't like it, tell the LSB to hurry up.
*snip parts I don't know anything about*
RedHat promotes certification programs in "RedHat Linux", not certification in Linux. Please, no more about what RedHat has done for the community. Microsoft also claims to have done a lot for its community of users, most of whom were, to begin with, small businesses and home users just like Linux.
RedHat promotes a certification program for people who want to work with RedHat Linux. Why should they invest money in promoting their competitors products? The RedHat certification program has a hefty curriculum, and it can stand on it's own merits. RedHat has done a lot for the community, and continues to do a lot for the community.
Is RedHat evil? Yes, I think so. I think RedHat started with the intention of being right where they are today, and the situation reminds me of Microsoft in too many ways. I'm not even going into details about how RedHat intentionally includes broken libs so that Mozilla, for example, doesn't work with distros that don't include those broken libs which Mozilla was compiled against in its binary releases.
RedHat evil? Hell no. I've been using RedHat since 2.1, and I agree it has had problems (4.0 was bad, but still workable, 5.0 had some childrens diseases as well, because of the transition to glibc) but I've allways been happy using it. But what broken libs are you talking about? And if mozilla doesn't work for you, why don't you use the source to compile it again? I know that's what I do, and I use RedHat.
Finally, Linux doesn't need RedHat to continue to grow at a rapid pace. Linux did not get where it is today because of RedHat; rather, RedHat got where it is today because Linux is free. There are all kinds of ways to promote, advertise and distribute Linux to a large potential user base of home users, students, small businesses, schools and government agencies without this kind of crap. None of this is even necessary to get corporate support, but to get a certain kind of corporate support it is. We don't need or want that kind of corporate support, thank you.
And who made you the official spokesperson for the Linux community? Maybe I do need that kind of support, and I sure can't fault RedHat for doing what it's doing. They're a business, out to make money. *shrug*
Companies wanting to do business with "Linux" need to learn that they don't have to do business in the same way they did business with Microsoft. Sad that they are coming to expect it.
Who are you talking about here? RedHat has never done business with Microsoft, and I highly doubt MetroWorks has had that much to do with them either.
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I disagree with your short-term interest argument. Law enforcement does not have your best interest in mind. You do not know what is or is not legal. (Almost) anything can be construed as being illegal. Just shut up and ask for an attorney to be present while they question you.
The iOS Outlook app outsources the server communication to an external server; this server communicates with your exchange server and stores all the data on that external server (in the Cloud). If you decide to want to see an attachment, the external server downloads and archives/keeps the attachment in the Cloud.
Read the article I linked for more information.
See http://www.theregister.co.uk/2... for some perspective...
The iOS Outlook app uses a cloud to download your email (including attachments should you choose to want to see it). This may or may not be what you (or your employer) want. I know I won't be using it.
Seeing how this happened in New Zealand, probably thousands of miles across the sea?
Got one, thank you!
I'd like an invite as well bvermeul at gmail
Thanks!
Instead of using ndiswrapper try the latest snapshot of the acx1xx driver at http://acx100.erley.org/.
It works, supports both ACX100 (PCI/Cardbus/USB) and ACX111 (PCI/CardBus) chipsets just fine.
Integration into the kernel is being worked on.
Usually when you write a driver for a specific piece of hardware, you take a look at the specs (of that piece of hardware and/or the stuff the hardware communicates with), and then start implementing it according to specs. Then you try to actually get it working, and the crap piece of hardware doesn't *quite* conform to the specifications. It leaves something out here, does something unexpected there, and before you know it, your driver is riddled with exceptions to make it actually *work*.
It's much better to design your driver to actually work with the hardware, and just disregard the specifications. It means your driver will actually work, instead of conforming to specs and being buggy as hell.
That's impossible. They don't breed 'em over there... *eg*
Just like Caldera is/was/used to be based on RedHat as well. I think they took RedHat 2.1 or something and built from that. They've definately evolved since then, but still use some features from way back when (RPM for instance).
Bas Vermeulen
RedHat user since RedHat 2.1
I've done and passed both. I've got LPIC 1 and 2 under my belt, and passed my RHCE exam with flying colors.
It's just that I think LPI doesn't quite cut it. Anyone with some time on their hands can cram an exam. Actual hands on experience can't be tested with just a written exam. RHCE gives you that practical thing, where you actually have to show that you know what you're doing...
Bas Vermeulen
RHCE Certified
LPIC 1 & 2 Alumni
You can *try* using up2date to do that job.
/var/spool/up2date unless you specify otherwise.
/var/spool/up2date.
/var/spool/up2date.
The following instructions may get you a working upgrade from 7.0 to 7.2. No guarantees though, and it may get you FUBAR'd.
1. Run up2date --config, and set UseGPG to No and versionOverride to 7.2. This will tell RHN that your box is actually a non-up-to-date 7.2
2. Make sure you have enough room on your HD for all the rpm's that have to be updated. That's
3. Run "up2date -u" and watch the fun. If you're cautious, run "up2date -u -d" so it will only download, and you can run rpm -Uvh yourself. Apply "--tmpdir=/bla/blah" if you haven't got enough room in
4. Grab some coffee, and watch all the rpm's being downloaded. After up2date is finished, you should get a working system. If you've chosen the "up2date -u -d" option, you can now run rpm -Uvh *.rpm in
Have fun,
Bas Vermeulen (who's got a box at home upgrading from 7.1 to 7.2 in that fashion)
I've had RedHat 7.1 Sig11 on a laptop install, but booting with ide=nodma fixed that problem just fine. Try it, you may like it... :)
The problem was that the ide cdrom couldn't handle DMA transfers.
Are you sure the board supports the voltage needed for the CPU? I think the 500 MHz K6-III needs a lower voltage than your original cpu.
I highly doubt your scsi chain has anything to do with the problem, since it works at 300 and 400 MHz. (I'm assuming you're keeping the PCI bus pegged at 33 MHz, if not, that may very well be your problem)
Of course key testing is going to take a while. It's going to take too bloody long. But it IS feasible to do (with enough hardware, processing time etc).
The card is a No Wires Needed Swallow 550/1100. Is 802.11 compliant, and also supports their own encryption technique (Airlock (TM), uses a public key encryption technique, witht he public key based on the cards MAC-address). I can get at the ESSID's with a simple command I send to the card.
I wrote the Linux driver for it, you can find that on my homepage. The companies page is http://www.nwn.com.
I have a card here that does most of that by itself. I get near a basestation, and it will tell me what essid's I can join. Scrap the recovering essid part. Then I can use my driver, and try out all 2^128 keys. (You were right about the nr. of keys, I made a brainfart in that) Since I have access to the driver (you normally do under Linux), it isn't exactly infeasible to get the key. I never said it was going to be easy... :) I'd still have to attack the wep-key (with either brute-force or otherwise, I'm not a cryptographer), but with the equipment I have here the first two steps are a no-brainer.
How about just doing a brute-force attack using a couple of laptops with WaveLAN cards? Of course it'll take some time, but unless you change your key every other day/week or so, it won't buy you anything. All the hardware is compatible (Long Live 802.11 :), and does work together... Just find out the session (ESSID), and try all 128^2 keys out on it. When you're in, you're in, untill the next time they change the WEP key.
Yes, that affects the level of security. If you use a 56 bit key, you only get 56 bit encryption.
A 128 bit key will definately help, but unless you change your key once in a while, it won't help you that much. Afaik the algorithm doesn't change the key itself.
Except that's not what they do. They first send you a note saying your door is unlocked, wait a month to see if you close it, and then post it on a billboard. You've had the chance to fix it, if you don't that's your problem.
If this was the case, why was a request for the basis of spam claim ignored? Because they can not provide it. I'd LOVE to see the claimed spam mail for my source....yet, this is not forthcoming.
They don't list spammers perse... They list open relays. They don't need a spam complaint, all they need to see is your open relay. It's what they are, a list of open relays. You don't like it, live with it.
So use the kickstart feature present in the :)
RedHat installer? It allows you to say what you
want installed (precisely afaik). You put it on a
disk, insert it, and it'll do it for you...
I'm pretty sure it doesn't do all that over the network though (unless you netboot the box with
the modified install-disk, if at all possible
I'm pretty sure I've seen this a month or two back on slashdot. Same link, same pics, and still no connection to the thing. (Oh, and according to most of the linux hackers, it's a scam, since you can't write a TCP/IP stack in 512 words)
That driver is for their 5.5 Mbit product :) All that's needed is changing the config for pcmcia.
(Swallow 550), and should work with their 11 Mbit product as well. (I should know, I am writing the driver
Hello? Remember Borland C++ for OS/2? It was pretty damn good in my book. Still is for that matter, I just don't use OS/2 that much any more... They are definately not a Windows only shop.
Do you know what it takes to do a quality assurance on a piece of software? If MetroWorks has to support every single distribution out there, with every version of every library used, do you have ANY idea what that would cost?
I highly doubt CodeWarrior will not work on debian, slackware, suse, caldera, or any other distribution with the required libraries. MetroWorks isn't stupid. They just won't support a different distribution to run it on. Same goes for almost any other commercial software, it goes trough quality assurance for one particular platform (which happens to be RedHat on Linux, since they seem to have the largest userbase, or the highest profile), and only support that. It may or may not run on a different distribution, since they have not tested that.
Anyways, that's my rambling about this particular topic, you can agree or not, I'll stand by it.
Bas Vermeulen
I think you're missing the point. This is something new, in my experience of Linux. It is not, however, new to Microsoft's way of doing business.
Not at all. You may not have seen it, but almost any commercial application is only supported on one distribution. In the beginning you had WordPerfect, which was only sold and supported along with Caldera OpenLinux, Sybase doesn't give you any support, IBM DB2 was only tested and supported on RedHat 5.1, and I can give you a host of other packages that say the same. That doesn't mean they won't work though.
I've seen quite a few commercial apps for Linux, but never before one advertised to work on a particular distro of Linux only. Sure, it can probably be made to work on others, but it is the advertising of this "quality assurance for RedHat" and that it is only supported, so far, for RedHat that is troubling. In other words, if you aren't using RedHat we can't support you. Why the change?
Again, if you look closely, almost any commercial app does the same. It gets tested on one distribution. That distribution has certain versions of libraries, and that's the way they know it will work. People with distribution Y may get lucky, but since it hasn't been tested, they can't say for sure.
Because this is something new, it is almost impossible to believe that RedHat did not have some hand in an exclusive deal behind closed doors. Even if this was Metro's idea, not RH's, RedHat obviously didn't try to change the wording or the contract for the good of Linux. Instead, RedHat pretends that it is just the fortunate beneficiary of having the largest distro. Hmmm.... This comes across as very dishonest, considering that RedHat could have easily explained how the situation would be interpreted in the "community".
Now why would they do a stupid thing like making a company change the name for a product? MetroWorks probably wanted to make clear that CodeWarrior is only (officially) supported for RedHat Linux. 'Cause it is only officially supported on RedHat Linux. They know it works there, and are willing to put their money where the support is needed. Other distributions may work (I got an email from an employee at MetroWorks, saying they had seen it working on Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 and SuSE), but they cannot guarantee it. Such is the cost of having the diversion in distributions we the "community" seem to want. You don't like it, tell the LSB to hurry up.
*snip parts I don't know anything about*
RedHat promotes certification programs in "RedHat Linux", not certification in Linux. Please, no more about what RedHat has done for the community. Microsoft also claims to have done a lot for its community of users, most of whom were, to begin with, small businesses and home users just like Linux.
RedHat promotes a certification program for people who want to work with RedHat Linux. Why should they invest money in promoting their competitors products? The RedHat certification program has a hefty curriculum, and it can stand on it's own merits. RedHat has done a lot for the community, and continues to do a lot for the community.
Is RedHat evil? Yes, I think so. I think RedHat started with the intention of being right where they are today, and the situation reminds me of Microsoft in too many ways. I'm not even going into details about how RedHat intentionally includes broken libs so that Mozilla, for example, doesn't work with distros that don't include those broken libs which Mozilla was compiled against in its binary releases.
RedHat evil? Hell no. I've been using RedHat since 2.1, and I agree it has had problems (4.0 was bad, but still workable, 5.0 had some childrens diseases as well, because of the transition to glibc) but I've allways been happy using it.
But what broken libs are you talking about? And if mozilla doesn't work for you, why don't you use the source to compile it again? I know that's what I do, and I use RedHat.
Finally, Linux doesn't need RedHat to continue to grow at a rapid pace. Linux did not get where it is today because of RedHat; rather, RedHat got where it is today because Linux is free. There are all kinds of ways to promote, advertise and distribute Linux to a large potential user base of home users, students, small businesses, schools and government agencies without this kind of crap. None of this is even necessary to get corporate support, but to get a certain kind of corporate support it is. We don't need or want that kind of corporate support, thank you.
And who made you the official spokesperson for the Linux community? Maybe I do need that kind of support, and I sure can't fault RedHat for doing what it's doing. They're a business, out to make money. *shrug*
Companies wanting to do business with "Linux" need to learn that they don't have to do business in the same way they did business with Microsoft. Sad that they are coming to expect it.
Who are you talking about here? RedHat has never done business with Microsoft, and I highly doubt MetroWorks has had that much to do with them either.
Bas Vermeulen