Richard Stallman has just posted on his personal website a request for his readers to 'Don't Buy Harry Potter Books,' and offered to leak the plot
I haven't read any of the books or seen any of the movies but I can guess the plot is something like "stupid dork gets picked on by bullies but through virtue of some hidden talent he manages to defeat a great evil and save the world".
I would never walk into an operating room and critique the surgeon BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE FUCK I'M TALKING ABOUT.
If all the surgeon's patients were dying then, yes, I think somebody should at least critique them, though preferably arrest them for gross incompetence.
In case you haven't noticed, the US public school system is a joke. Something is wrong. Your pitiful cries of "I'm doing my best and it's my job so don't tell me what to do" aren't going to make the problem go away.
That said, here's my 2 cents.
Eliminate funding for sports and divert all those funds to education. When did schools degrade into training grounds for next year's television entertainment? Kids can run laps of the school to stay healthy; they don't need $1m stadiums.
Raise the level of the coursework to what challenges the smartest kids, not to the level that everybody can complete. Students who have difficulty can just damn well work harder. That's life.
Hold students back a year if they can't make the grade... and charge the parents for the extra year of schooling.
Reintroduce corporal punishment. Record all punishment on video to prevent abuses of the system. The lack of discipline in schools is one of the biggest problems.
Expel disruptive students... and charge the parents for any costs incurred.
I'm pretty sure ssh can and does use pam_krb5. system-config-authentication, mention the KDC,/etc/pam.d/system-auth (included from/etc/pam.d/sshd) calls pam_krb5
Why wouldn't it be able to?
The design of Kerberos is that you have a client, a server, and a trusted third party called the KDC. The third party has a copy of your password. On the client you use your password to obtain a ticket from the KDC, without actually transmitting your password to the KDC. The ticket is then used to authenticate yourself to the server, once again without transmitting your password to the server.
When you use pam_krb5 the server prompts you with "Password:", you type in your password, and the client transmits your password to the server. The server then contacts the KDC on your behalf to authenticate the password. This scenario is NOT Kerberos Single Sign On; it is merely the server using the KDC to verify a password. The KDC is fundamentally no better than a RADIUS server when used this way.
The only way to implement Kerberos properly - aka Kerberos Single Sign On - is to code support directly into the client and server software. You can see this in the Debian packaging. The "ssh" package does not support Kerberos Single Sign On, whereas the "ssh-krb5" alternative daemon does.
The point is that "writing to PAM" isn't all you need to do to support authentication in Linux.
Although I've noticed lately that opensores is copying Apple as well. Not that that's bad, of course.
Did you notice how the OS underlying Apple's Tiger looks just like FreeBSD?
Did anybody notice that the printing system in OS X supports the same printers as CUPS?
Anybody else notice that Safari renders web pages very similarly to KHTML in KDE?
Yup, sure seems that crApple has been copying Free Software recently. Not that that's bad, of course.
But all this talk of "innovation" is stupid. The "innovation" meme didn't have any popularity until Microsoft's media blitz in the late 90s, which only proves how easily brainwashed some of you numbnuts really are. The reality is that the sharing of ideas and software has made the industry as a whole far greater. It's the same basic principle behind scientific research. Focusing on "who did what first" is completely myopic behaviour. It doesn't matter. Apple did some things first. Sometimes they didn't - as in the case of transparent windows for which there were countless examples before OS X - but they improved the design in a way that truly advanced the state of the art. Sometimes Microsoft has advanced the state of the art. And sometimes even free software has improved the state of the art. Innovative software such as Sendmail, BIND, X11, RSYNC, Kerberos and BSD - all of which have been fundamental to the evolution of computing.
Oh, wait... I'm not supposed to say these things here. Don't want to put a dent in our vigorous and always funny Microsoft bashing while ignoring the small fact that free software can't innovate to save its life,
It took Apple nearly 20 years to add preemptive scheduling and memory protection to its premiere desktop OS. Now that's an innovative new idea.
If you have a good security model, the only processes listening will be the ones that need to be accessible. At that point, what good would a firewall do?
To catch mistakes; services left running that were overlooked, weren't documented, can't be disabled (common on Windows servers), or whatever.
The strongest principle in security is defence in depth. You turn off unnecessary services AND you run a firewall, just in case you missed one.
Photovoltaic still isn't economical and really is not all that green either. There are better ways to be environmentally proactive.
Solar hot water heaters cost about $1000 and have a 3 year ROI.
Replace your refrigerator with an efficient model. If you have a freezer, get rid of it.
Start recycling vegetable waste into compost, rather than wasting it in landfill. You can buy kitchen compost bins these days, and they don't smell, so even apartment dwellers have no excuse.
Catch public transport once or twice a week; reduces your carbon output more than any other change you might make.
Redirect water from the gutter to a storage tank for later use on the garden, rather than flushing it to the sewerage.
Don't bother with photovolatic. Not yet. The manufacturing process is polluting and the ROI is not worth it.
I store backups of my home directory on my portable player. To secure them, I encrypt the tarballs with gpg and keep the private key on a CD-R at home. The technique is pretty simple;
tar czvf -/home/username | gpg -e -r username > backup.tar.gz.gpg
Then copy the backup to your player. The backup is reasonably safe - at least for a few years - if the player is stolen or lost. If you lose the CD-R with the key you're stuffed, so keep it safe.
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More importantly, the wood enclosure adds a depth and warmth to the music that simply isn't possible with man-made plastics. The resonant frequency of hardwood reduces jitter in the decoding circuit so the result is a higher fidelity experience.
Many open source projects are mimics of commercially available software.
Yeah, you're so right. Open source projects like BIND, sendmail, Mosaic, CERN-httpd... they're just mimics of commercially available software that came before them like... umm... help me out here.
First, Sun steps away from their wins in China [slashdot.org] because they're Linux based, and now every chance he gets he bashes free software while before the settlement McNealey claimed "We're going to immediately roll out the Java Desktop System to between a half million and a million desktops in 2004. It makes us instantaneously the number one Linux desktop play on the planet," McNealy said at the time."
How much more did that $2billion buy.
Sun spends money to turn OpenOffice into Free Software, and they get shit for it. Sun spends money to distribute Solaris as Free Software, and they get shit for it. Sun tries to make a Linux distro, and they get shit for it. They stop making a Linux distro, and they get shit for it. Behind all of this are moronic conspiracy theories about Sun being Microsoft's bitch because Sun forced the biggest settlement from Microsoft in history, for a lawsuit that really could have gone either way.
No wonder Jonathon has a cold relationship with Free Software. From his perspective, the advocates are a bunch of morons.
You think Linus Torvalds bought a powerbook because he is so artistic and wanted a computer that looked cool and was ignorant about how poorly it performed?
I think the real question is... do you think Linus Torvalds bought a powerbook? Because that's one I've not heard before. I know he got given a free G5 PowerMac on which he runs Linux but what's this about a powerbook?
In this case, competition is crap. Competition is what led to the incompatibility fiasco of the late 90s, with completely different DOM and JS implementations from Netscape and Microsoft and Opera. Microsoft had different implementations even within the same version of IE, depending on whether you used Windows or a Mac.
What is desperately needed is COOPERATION, not competition. Standards are the direct result of cooperation. Standards makes web developers happy because they can spend more time writing useful code, instead of working around incompatibilities and differences. Standards allow development of web libraries that can be built upon, instead of having to write applications from scratch every time.
Sadly the ten tonne gorilla - that would be Microsoft - apparently has no desire to cooperate. They're quite happy to snub their noses at CSS. They seem to agree with you, that competition is grand. Unfortunately the rest of us suffer because of their hubris.
Has anyone seen any details about how these hacks work, or what they exploit? I remember reading in gritty detail about the xbox font hacks, but I haven't seen any technical details on the PSP hacking.
The PSP bootloader checks the folder on the memory card (FAT format) for signed code. If it finds unsigned code, it refuses to boot.
The PSP OS does not check for signed code. It assumes the bootloader has done its job. It just runs whatever code it finds.
Fortunately the PSP bootloader FAT driver and the PSP OS FAT driver don't work the same. The bootloader ignores % signs in folder names. So if you create a folder "FOO" containing NO code, as well as a folder "FOO%" containing homebrew code, then the PSP will happily boot and run your code from the "FOO%" directory. Simply place both the directories on the card and try to play the code in "FOO%".
NB: bootloader in this context isn't quite the same thing as bootloaders on PCs.
Yes, but not by much. The Republicans don't have a large majority, so the "average" member (probably median would be more accurate) is still going to be close to the center.
Not by much? I hate to break it to you buddy, but all of your politicians are right-wing.
Yes, because the word he should have used is Zealot.
He did use the word zealot. It's very amusing because apparently a lot of you think "zealot" is an insult. I'm not insulted by that word at all. I'm proud to be a zealot.
zealot (n): one who engages warmly in any cause, and pursues his object with earnestness and ardor
I pity all of you people who are so jaded with life that you can only express yourself with anger and cynicism. It's so... teenager. Try being a zealot. It's much more fun.
Be happy sitting on your little pedestol,
PS: the word you should have used is "pedestal". HTH. HAND.
OSX was build from almost scrath in less than half the time Linux has been in existence.
Woah there nelly. You haven't got that one quite right. The origins of OS X began in 1985 with the first public release in 1988. It's older than Linux by a few years. It evolved a bit between 1988 and 1997 before Apple bought it, and Apple did some fairly major reworking, but OS X has a 20 year history and has spent 8 years with Apple. Linux is only 14 years old and KDE/GNOME are only 8 years old. So to be completely honest, the KDE/GNOME guys have managed to build *two* desktops from scratch in less than half the time OS X has been in existence! You got it exactly backwards.
Some developers completely don't care about that...
Some think it's good enough, and that users should become more competent...
I'm guessing most Linux developers would love to have a more polished interface, but they don't want to do it, because it's boring work...
The less cynical answer is that it is getting done, but that it's a big job and it takes time. It took 15 years for Microsoft to go from Windows 3.0 to Windows XP and they've got more money and talent than most other companies combined. It took Apple 20 years to go from MacOS 1.0 to MacOS X, and according to commonly believed folklore Apple are the bees knees when it comes to UI design.
I've been using Linux since the twm days and I am impressed with the progress. I think people who think nothing is getting done are simply unaware of the change because it's so gradual. I think a good analogy is the "boiled frog". If you throw a frog into boiling water, it notices the hot water and tries to jump out. But if you put a frog into cold water and slowly bring it to the boil, the frog dies without even noticing. Simiarly for UIs on Linux, if you jump from twm to GNOME 2.10 you will immediately notice the distinct improvement. If you slowly boil yourself through each revision of GNOME, you might think nothing has happened.
Also remember that the Linux desktops have needed to build a huge amount of infrastructure that Linux and X11 lacked - hal and udev and dbus and cairo and glitz and render and xrandr and fontconfig and dri and gtk and xdnd and... - but unless you're a developer you don't even see the rapid rate of progress under the hood. All that infrastructure development is chewing up a lot of the developer's time. When the infrastructure begins to settle, I expect a huge increase in visible changes.
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I haven't read any of the books or seen any of the movies but I can guess the plot is something like "stupid dork gets picked on by bullies but through virtue of some hidden talent he manages to defeat a great evil and save the world".
If all the surgeon's patients were dying then, yes, I think somebody should at least critique them, though preferably arrest them for gross incompetence.
In case you haven't noticed, the US public school system is a joke. Something is wrong. Your pitiful cries of "I'm doing my best and it's my job so don't tell me what to do" aren't going to make the problem go away.
That said, here's my 2 cents.
The design of Kerberos is that you have a client, a server, and a trusted third party called the KDC. The third party has a copy of your password. On the client you use your password to obtain a ticket from the KDC, without actually transmitting your password to the KDC. The ticket is then used to authenticate yourself to the server, once again without transmitting your password to the server.
When you use pam_krb5 the server prompts you with "Password:", you type in your password, and the client transmits your password to the server. The server then contacts the KDC on your behalf to authenticate the password. This scenario is NOT Kerberos Single Sign On; it is merely the server using the KDC to verify a password. The KDC is fundamentally no better than a RADIUS server when used this way.
The only way to implement Kerberos properly - aka Kerberos Single Sign On - is to code support directly into the client and server software. You can see this in the Debian packaging. The "ssh" package does not support Kerberos Single Sign On, whereas the "ssh-krb5" alternative daemon does.
The point is that "writing to PAM" isn't all you need to do to support authentication in Linux.
No, you just don't understand what is being discussed here.
That is not Kerberos Single Sign On. Read the man page for sshd_config, in particular the section on GSSAPI authentication.
No. For example, the OpenSSH server needs explicit support for GSSAPI to support Kerberos Single Sign On. That could not be done within PAM.
Looks to me like Apple just copied ideas from daemontools and runit.
Did you notice how the OS underlying Apple's Tiger looks just like FreeBSD?
Did anybody notice that the printing system in OS X supports the same printers as CUPS?
Anybody else notice that Safari renders web pages very similarly to KHTML in KDE?
Yup, sure seems that crApple has been copying Free Software recently. Not that that's bad, of course.
But all this talk of "innovation" is stupid. The "innovation" meme didn't have any popularity until Microsoft's media blitz in the late 90s, which only proves how easily brainwashed some of you numbnuts really are. The reality is that the sharing of ideas and software has made the industry as a whole far greater. It's the same basic principle behind scientific research. Focusing on "who did what first" is completely myopic behaviour. It doesn't matter. Apple did some things first. Sometimes they didn't - as in the case of transparent windows for which there were countless examples before OS X - but they improved the design in a way that truly advanced the state of the art. Sometimes Microsoft has advanced the state of the art. And sometimes even free software has improved the state of the art. Innovative software such as Sendmail, BIND, X11, RSYNC, Kerberos and BSD - all of which have been fundamental to the evolution of computing.
It took Apple nearly 20 years to add preemptive scheduling and memory protection to its premiere desktop OS. Now that's an innovative new idea.
I was thinking the same thing.
To catch mistakes; services left running that were overlooked, weren't documented, can't be disabled (common on Windows servers), or whatever.
The strongest principle in security is defence in depth. You turn off unnecessary services AND you run a firewall, just in case you missed one.
Photovoltaic still isn't economical and really is not all that green either. There are better ways to be environmentally proactive.
Don't bother with photovolatic. Not yet. The manufacturing process is polluting and the ROI is not worth it.
I store backups of my home directory on my portable player. To secure them, I encrypt the tarballs with gpg and keep the private key on a CD-R at home. The technique is pretty simple;
Then copy the backup to your player. The backup is reasonably safe - at least for a few years - if the player is stolen or lost. If you lose the CD-R with the key you're stuffed, so keep it safe.
More importantly, the wood enclosure adds a depth and warmth to the music that simply isn't possible with man-made plastics. The resonant frequency of hardwood reduces jitter in the decoding circuit so the result is a higher fidelity experience.
Yeah, you're so right. Open source projects like BIND, sendmail, Mosaic, CERN-httpd... they're just mimics of commercially available software that came before them like... umm... help me out here.
Sun spends money to turn OpenOffice into Free Software, and they get shit for it. Sun spends money to distribute Solaris as Free Software, and they get shit for it. Sun tries to make a Linux distro, and they get shit for it. They stop making a Linux distro, and they get shit for it. Behind all of this are moronic conspiracy theories about Sun being Microsoft's bitch because Sun forced the biggest settlement from Microsoft in history, for a lawsuit that really could have gone either way.
No wonder Jonathon has a cold relationship with Free Software. From his perspective, the advocates are a bunch of morons.
I think the real question is... do you think Linus Torvalds bought a powerbook? Because that's one I've not heard before. I know he got given a free G5 PowerMac on which he runs Linux but what's this about a powerbook?
GNOME does run great with 128MB of memory. I'm sitting at a GNOME 2.11 desktop with a few apps open, and my current memory consumption is...
124MB for a recent GNOME, the kernel, several apps and all the supporting daemons. Not bad.
In this case, competition is crap. Competition is what led to the incompatibility fiasco of the late 90s, with completely different DOM and JS implementations from Netscape and Microsoft and Opera. Microsoft had different implementations even within the same version of IE, depending on whether you used Windows or a Mac.
What is desperately needed is COOPERATION, not competition. Standards are the direct result of cooperation. Standards makes web developers happy because they can spend more time writing useful code, instead of working around incompatibilities and differences. Standards allow development of web libraries that can be built upon, instead of having to write applications from scratch every time.
Sadly the ten tonne gorilla - that would be Microsoft - apparently has no desire to cooperate. They're quite happy to snub their noses at CSS. They seem to agree with you, that competition is grand. Unfortunately the rest of us suffer because of their hubris.
Why waste your time with mapping sites? Just lobby the government to legislate that all sex offenders have to sew yellow stars onto their clothes.
* giggle
The PSP bootloader checks the folder on the memory card (FAT format) for signed code. If it finds unsigned code, it refuses to boot.
The PSP OS does not check for signed code. It assumes the bootloader has done its job. It just runs whatever code it finds.
Fortunately the PSP bootloader FAT driver and the PSP OS FAT driver don't work the same. The bootloader ignores % signs in folder names. So if you create a folder "FOO" containing NO code, as well as a folder "FOO%" containing homebrew code, then the PSP will happily boot and run your code from the "FOO%" directory. Simply place both the directories on the card and try to play the code in "FOO%".
NB: bootloader in this context isn't quite the same thing as bootloaders on PCs.
Do you still feel the same way with the [US] inserts?
Hitting any neurons yet?
Not by much? I hate to break it to you buddy, but all of your politicians are right-wing.
iTunes, Word, Photoshop, Winamp, Autocad, Antispyware...
Yeah, they all look and work exactly the same. No differences whatsoever. Nosiree. Identical. Windows is a PANACEA for UI consistency, I tells ya.
He did use the word zealot. It's very amusing because apparently a lot of you think "zealot" is an insult. I'm not insulted by that word at all. I'm proud to be a zealot.
I pity all of you people who are so jaded with life that you can only express yourself with anger and cynicism. It's so... teenager. Try being a zealot. It's much more fun.
PS: the word you should have used is "pedestal". HTH. HAND.
Woah there nelly. You haven't got that one quite right. The origins of OS X began in 1985 with the first public release in 1988. It's older than Linux by a few years. It evolved a bit between 1988 and 1997 before Apple bought it, and Apple did some fairly major reworking, but OS X has a 20 year history and has spent 8 years with Apple. Linux is only 14 years old and KDE/GNOME are only 8 years old. So to be completely honest, the KDE/GNOME guys have managed to build *two* desktops from scratch in less than half the time OS X has been in existence! You got it exactly backwards.
The less cynical answer is that it is getting done, but that it's a big job and it takes time. It took 15 years for Microsoft to go from Windows 3.0 to Windows XP and they've got more money and talent than most other companies combined. It took Apple 20 years to go from MacOS 1.0 to MacOS X, and according to commonly believed folklore Apple are the bees knees when it comes to UI design.
I've been using Linux since the twm days and I am impressed with the progress. I think people who think nothing is getting done are simply unaware of the change because it's so gradual. I think a good analogy is the "boiled frog". If you throw a frog into boiling water, it notices the hot water and tries to jump out. But if you put a frog into cold water and slowly bring it to the boil, the frog dies without even noticing. Simiarly for UIs on Linux, if you jump from twm to GNOME 2.10 you will immediately notice the distinct improvement. If you slowly boil yourself through each revision of GNOME, you might think nothing has happened.
Also remember that the Linux desktops have needed to build a huge amount of infrastructure that Linux and X11 lacked - hal and udev and dbus and cairo and glitz and render and xrandr and fontconfig and dri and gtk and xdnd and ... - but unless you're a developer you don't even see the rapid rate of progress under the hood. All that infrastructure development is chewing up a lot of the developer's time. When the infrastructure begins to settle, I expect a huge increase in visible changes.