don't like new features, DONT USE THEM, this is one of the few cases where teh new version will not degrade in performance if you ignore the new features!
Just because I add a bag doesn't mean you have to use it! If I add wings and pontoons to my car the model without them is still roadworthy, and while i could get an airline ticket instead, perhaps I'd rather use my car becuase going by plane is a PITA(often litterally) and boarding takes file too long! It would also be nice if the majority of my car (all the parts sans wings) was serviceable at one of the many auto-repair shops instead of having to go find an aerorepair company.
If I can't understand a Geordie, let alone a god damn American, how the fuck will a computer, I doubt the Africans/Asians (who despite above claims probably speak the queens English a damn sight better than most of you guys (assuming slashdot is populated by gorram Americans)) will get it spot on, but their internal algorithms have had a data set of at least 18 years to train on, this beats any automated system!. Voice recognition* has its places (e.g the iPhone does it right), but transcription is not one of them, if humans work best (and I'm pretty fucking sure they will), just use humans and perhaps use automated cleanup on the input (remove names) and the output (use grammar checking).
It's brain dead easy on Windows to try beta software, and uninstall it if it breaks something. What am I missing on Linux?
/opt seriously in a worst-case scenario linux package management becomes the same as windows package managment (you install and maintain all versions yourself).
that I want to always have the latest released version
You are on the wrong disto then, If you want the latest version of everything, you definetly want a rolling release distro (sid/arch) of those if you want cutting edge i suggest arch. If you just want the latest stable version of a few apps, then:/opt and maintaining them yourself (as you would under windows) AUR, PPA, (other people compile them and host them, then apt updates them, most distros have these but they are particularly prevevalent on ARCH) grokk apt/yum and figure out how to safely use package from a cutting edge release (e.g sid/F12) alongside your stable release.
Ideally all projects would host their own cutting-edge/stable repo, however while most of the time the same binary will run across most distros: 1) packaging it up and providing the correct metadata for each release is a PITA, although opensuse have a tool that will do this for you, but nobody seams to bother:( 2) testing against all distos is a major PITA, its much easier to let somebody familiar with the distro do it (hence PPAs/AUR are quite good) 3) bug spam, not to be too harsh, but if a newbie can't figure out how to install the vanilla version of your releases, they are probably not going to understand enough about their system to understand when something is/isn't your fault and you end up with bugs opened against the wrong projects.
No, there were some pretty graphs but generally it said very little about distro upstream interaction. The comments,which sometimes provide insight round here, where additionally bleak talking only about release schedules and squabbling over who's distro has the newest penis!
on wine AFAIK, you don't actually need to install IE to get steam working, there is some sort of hack to get it working using gecko! can this be done on windows? OFC if embedded IE uses IE6bugs then IE8 with compatibility mode is probably your only choice,
you keep using that phrase, I don't think it means what you think it means. 1) your WM runs at user level, an exploit would therefore at best gain the ability to run code at user level. 2) you WM can be locked down pretty tough by apparmore/selinux/etc, so whatever code it can execute is limited to the functions of a WM anyway (no net access, no disk writes, etc) 3) if your downloading random themes from untrusted users, it's easier to attack you by giving you a widget/screenlet or random script to run. 4) if there is a security flaw in the webkit rendering engine, surely you can just exploit peoples browsers when they go to download your theme.
In summary please never talk about security ever again.
What are you talking about? AFAICT (quick google and wikiread) the only type of error correction you get on CD-Rs is inherent in the format of the disk, so it doesn't cost you any storage space (for data anyway). If you start adding extra layers of ECC (e.g duplicate all files and keep a hash table)then your not dealing with anything CD specific anyway.
Problem with FOF is that it looks ugly and doesn't ship with any music, so its a PTIA to setup. I got my brother to install it on his wii but we ended up playing GH more simply because it 1) had a story mode 2) was easier to just play 3) very few of the frets
Its a shame FOF would be much better than GH when you have mates round a 4GB dvd could easily fit ~1000 oggs, i reckon i could fix most of my GH worthy music on a single dvd meaning instead of playing some generic 80s metal i don't care for we can rock out to what i personally like (RATM,muse,etc). Perhaps if it was more well known FOF+a dont look retarded mod+1000 popular songs would be a popular torrent, maybe indie artists would be tempted to sell their own FOF spins, i supose it comes down to the fact GH/RB has much more marketing hype:(
Your doing it wrong! They restrict programs to what they should be doing, ofc it depends on how well they are configured (e.g ive never seen anybody notice apparmor on ubuntu, but plenty of people bitch about selinux on fedora (even though it has stopped in the wild vulnerabilities)).
We agree that running a program as root where it can do anything is a bad idea, follow the idea through and you shouldn't let a network daemon access to your home, a web browser shouldn't be writing anything to/etc. The idea of security modules is great, atm the problem is that its either to hard for your average user to understand what's going on or security experts claim it cant do enough, but once the interaction with them is perfected your average user should benefit significantly as even relatively unsafe software (firefox,sendmail,etc) will be unexploitable.
Thats nice in theory but vulnerabilities like this are less likely to get into debian/RHEL or even ubuntu/fedora kernels because they are tested for months after the kernel is released and benefit from reports like this.
The worst that can happen (if you keep your original kernel in the boot menu, and the modules to support it) is that your new shiny kernel sits there and tells you that there is no way on earth it can boot the system and it is having a bit of a panic with itself.
No the worst that can happen is that you miss a kernel patch announcement or are too busy actually using your systems to update (even a well optimised kernel is still going to take a while to recompile) and you sit there running a vulnerable/faulty kernel for months. Sure distros might take a couple of days to patch, test, release, but 1) apt-get/yum update, will be a lot easier, quicker and can be automated 2) Is pretty unlikely (if you chose a good distro) to give you any headaches There are plenty of reasons to use your own kernel but security isn't one.
It isn't bleeding edge, it is the latest stable. Bleeding edge kernels have -xxn appended
I'm not a kernel developer but afaik: 2.6.30.x is pretty close to bleeding edge, only 2.6.31-rcx (and perhaps 2.6.31-next) more on the edge for users, (technically there is -mm but that is more for developers), all other -xxn will be kernels patched for particular purposes and its hard to really call them bleeding edge (in many stacks they may be behind -mm or even -next)
2.6.30 is the latest stable vanilla kernel, I doubt its in widespread use as no distro (or no major/security conscious distro) ships with it (atm i think the latest kernel in a major distro is 2.6.29.5(-191) in fedora 11. It may have got into some rolling release distros (debian sid, maybe even squeeze, arch) but the impact of a bug in 2.6.30 is minimal, what really matters is if it affects earlier kernels. This is why its very hard to compare linux security to anything else, even when vulnerabilities get into the vanilla kernel unless they go unspotted for several versions (1/2 for desktop distros, 3/4 for server distros) they never make it to distros.
I hate fox as much as the next guy *shed's a tear for firefly*, but isn't it possible that the voice actors are asking for too much, at the end of the day its the writers that make the show great (well the animators add little details in the background too) and while the voices are important, they may be letting it go to their heads. TBH i don't know, you don't know, all we know is fox don't want to pay the voice actors what they want!
FB is a tool, I use at such, it is useful for organising events/parties/nights out/etc Are you amish? do you shun phones? perhaps letters too? Just because you drive round peoples houses (assuming you don't shun houses/cars) to organise events, doesn't mean its the best way to do it.
If i didn't use facebook my social life would diminish, I get invites to parties/gigs/etc that i probably wouldn't otherwise, why bother ringing up 30+ people and make definite plans when you can just send put the idea out there as a facebook event and then sort out the details later.
The people with the best social lives aren't dependent on Facebook. The hangers-on who are desperate for attention and peer approval are the rabid FB users who use it to stay visible without the strain (oh no!) of actually having to see or speak with people.
The same can be said for many types of socialising phoning, texting, going to parties, etc, I'm not the kind of person who spends much time on facebook, I do have one friend who spends plenty of time on there and also does a lot more "real" socialising that spends a lot of time on it but rarely comes out, each to their own i guess. Perhaps the only reason your soo angry about it is because you feel left out? does everybody have more e-friends than you:(???
NTLM is still used in the following situations: * The client is authenticating to a server using an IP address. * The client is authenticating to a server that belongs to a different Active Directory forest, or doesn't belong to a domain. * No Active Directory domain exists (commonly referred to as "workgroup" or "peer-to-peer"). * Where a firewall would otherwise restrict the ports required by Kerberos (of which there are quite a few)
So kids getting their teeth wet on home networks, which probably explains why its not being supported. MD5 is still used by applications that arn't quite sure what they are doing/can't do much more e.g grub, im clients, etc.
Because slashdot used to be a site for geeks, however recently anytime somebody uses a simple TLA/ETLA people start bitching that they don't know what it meant and they are too lazy to google and/or wikipeida it, so instead you get a stupid thread full of people who have !RTFA commenting on a subject that is of no interest to them, if it was they would have understood the TLA in TFS, this really annoys the few geeks that actually RTFA as it dilutes the comments. As a TFS contains redundant information to prevent people going "what are rainbow tables?", lets be honest if you're the kind of geek that has ever done any 'cracking' you knew what it mean, if you're not then you don't care.
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don't like new features, DONT USE THEM, this is one of the few cases where teh new version will not degrade in performance if you ignore the new features!
Just because I add a bag doesn't mean you have to use it! If I add wings and pontoons to my car the model without them is still roadworthy, and while i could get an airline ticket instead, perhaps I'd rather use my car becuase going by plane is a PITA(often litterally) and boarding takes file too long! It would also be nice if the majority of my car (all the parts sans wings) was serviceable at one of the many auto-repair shops instead of having to go find an aerorepair company.
If you want gc then, C/C++ are not the languages you are looking for!
If I can't understand a Geordie, let alone a god damn American, how the fuck will a computer, I doubt the Africans/Asians (who despite above claims probably speak the queens English a damn sight better than most of you guys (assuming slashdot is populated by gorram Americans)) will get it spot on, but their internal algorithms have had a data set of at least 18 years to train on, this beats any automated system!. Voice recognition* has its places (e.g the iPhone does it right), but transcription is not one of them, if humans work best (and I'm pretty fucking sure they will), just use humans and perhaps use automated cleanup on the input (remove names) and the output (use grammar checking).
*s/Voice recognition/Any natural language input/g
bender does the job perfectly over and over for a lower cost.
You obviously haven't seen bender work.
It's also where people who write marketing buzzwords go to die.
I thought that was Redmond!?
Batshit
Insane
Old
Scientologist
???
It's brain dead easy on Windows to try beta software, and uninstall it if it breaks something. What am I missing on Linux?
/opt
seriously in a worst-case scenario linux package management becomes the same as windows package managment (you install and maintain all versions yourself).
that I want to always have the latest released version
You are on the wrong disto then, /opt and maintaining them yourself (as you would under windows)
If you want the latest version of everything, you definetly want a rolling release distro (sid/arch) of those if you want cutting edge i suggest arch.
If you just want the latest stable version of a few apps, then:
AUR, PPA, (other people compile them and host them, then apt updates them, most distros have these but they are particularly prevevalent on ARCH)
grokk apt/yum and figure out how to safely use package from a cutting edge release (e.g sid/F12) alongside your stable release.
Ideally all projects would host their own cutting-edge/stable repo, however while most of the time the same binary will run across most distros: :(
1) packaging it up and providing the correct metadata for each release is a PITA, although opensuse have a tool that will do this for you, but nobody seams to bother
2) testing against all distos is a major PITA, its much easier to let somebody familiar with the distro do it (hence PPAs/AUR are quite good)
3) bug spam, not to be too harsh, but if a newbie can't figure out how to install the vanilla version of your releases, they are probably not going to understand enough about their system to understand when something is/isn't your fault and you end up with bugs opened against the wrong projects.
No, there were some pretty graphs but generally it said very little about distro upstream interaction. The comments ,which sometimes provide insight round here, where additionally bleak talking only about release schedules and squabbling over who's distro has the newest penis!
I was a long term ubuntu users, but im now on Fedora11 and its perecty...*no carrier*
not in Europe :P
on wine AFAIK, you don't actually need to install IE to get steam working, there is some sort of hack to get it working using gecko! can this be done on windows? OFC if embedded IE uses IE6bugs then IE8 with compatibility mode is probably your only choice,
What more is there to say?
gofuckyourself
and a pre-made rootkit to gain access.
you keep using that phrase, I don't think it means what you think it means.
1) your WM runs at user level, an exploit would therefore at best gain the ability to run code at user level.
2) you WM can be locked down pretty tough by apparmore/selinux/etc, so whatever code it can execute is limited to the functions of a WM anyway (no net access, no disk writes, etc)
3) if your downloading random themes from untrusted users, it's easier to attack you by giving you a widget/screenlet or random script to run.
4) if there is a security flaw in the webkit rendering engine, surely you can just exploit peoples browsers when they go to download your theme.
In summary please never talk about security ever again.
What are you talking about? AFAICT (quick google and wikiread) the only type of error correction you get on CD-Rs is inherent in the format of the disk, so it doesn't cost you any storage space (for data anyway). If you start adding extra layers of ECC (e.g duplicate all files and keep a hash table)then your not dealing with anything CD specific anyway.
Problem with FOF is that it looks ugly and doesn't ship with any music, so its a PTIA to setup. I got my brother to install it on his wii but we ended up playing GH more simply because it
1) had a story mode
2) was easier to just play
3) very few of the frets
Its a shame FOF would be much better than GH when you have mates round a 4GB dvd could easily fit ~1000 oggs, i reckon i could fix most of my GH worthy music on a single dvd meaning instead of playing some generic 80s metal i don't care for we can rock out to what i personally like (RATM,muse,etc). Perhaps if it was more well known FOF+a dont look retarded mod+1000 popular songs would be a popular torrent, maybe indie artists would be tempted to sell their own FOF spins, i supose it comes down to the fact GH/RB has much more marketing hype :(
Your doing it wrong! They restrict programs to what they should be doing, ofc it depends on how well they are configured (e.g ive never seen anybody notice apparmor on ubuntu, but plenty of people bitch about selinux on fedora (even though it has stopped in the wild vulnerabilities)).
We agree that running a program as root where it can do anything is a bad idea, follow the idea through and you shouldn't let a network daemon access to your home, a web browser shouldn't be writing anything to /etc. The idea of security modules is great, atm the problem is that its either to hard for your average user to understand what's going on or security experts claim it cant do enough, but once the interaction with them is perfected your average user should benefit significantly as even relatively unsafe software (firefox,sendmail,etc) will be unexploitable.
Thats nice in theory but vulnerabilities like this are less likely to get into debian/RHEL or even ubuntu/fedora kernels because they are tested for months after the kernel is released and benefit from reports like this.
The worst that can happen (if you keep your original kernel in the boot menu, and the modules to support it) is that your new shiny kernel sits there and tells you that there is no way on earth it can boot the system and it is having a bit of a panic with itself.
No the worst that can happen is that you miss a kernel patch announcement or are too busy actually using your systems to update (even a well optimised kernel is still going to take a while to recompile) and you sit there running a vulnerable/faulty kernel for months. Sure distros might take a couple of days to patch, test, release, but
1) apt-get/yum update, will be a lot easier, quicker and can be automated
2) Is pretty unlikely (if you chose a good distro) to give you any headaches
There are plenty of reasons to use your own kernel but security isn't one.
It isn't bleeding edge, it is the latest stable. Bleeding edge kernels have -xxn appended
I'm not a kernel developer but afaik:
2.6.30.x is pretty close to bleeding edge, only 2.6.31-rcx (and perhaps 2.6.31-next) more on the edge for users, (technically there is -mm but that is more for developers), all other -xxn will be kernels patched for particular purposes and its hard to really call them bleeding edge (in many stacks they may be behind -mm or even -next)
2.6.30 is the latest stable vanilla kernel, I doubt its in widespread use as no distro (or no major/security conscious distro) ships with it (atm i think the latest kernel in a major distro is 2.6.29.5(-191) in fedora 11. It may have got into some rolling release distros (debian sid, maybe even squeeze, arch) but the impact of a bug in 2.6.30 is minimal, what really matters is if it affects earlier kernels. This is why its very hard to compare linux security to anything else, even when vulnerabilities get into the vanilla kernel unless they go unspotted for several versions (1/2 for desktop distros, 3/4 for server distros) they never make it to distros.
I hate fox as much as the next guy *shed's a tear for firefly*, but isn't it possible that the voice actors are asking for too much, at the end of the day its the writers that make the show great (well the animators add little details in the background too) and while the voices are important, they may be letting it go to their heads. TBH i don't know, you don't know, all we know is fox don't want to pay the voice actors what they want!
My assumption is that 20th Century Fox Television is either making stuff up
I watch fox news you insensitive clod!
funny story, when facebook changed their TOS, it made all the major news channels in the UK and the anti-new-tos group quickly racked up ~150k people and got an official response and a TOS change
FB is a tool, I use at such, it is useful for organising events/parties/nights out/etc Are you amish? do you shun phones? perhaps letters too? Just because you drive round peoples houses (assuming you don't shun houses/cars) to organise events, doesn't mean its the best way to do it.
If i didn't use facebook my social life would diminish, I get invites to parties/gigs/etc that i probably wouldn't otherwise, why bother ringing up 30+ people and make definite plans when you can just send put the idea out there as a facebook event and then sort out the details later.
The people with the best social lives aren't dependent on Facebook. The hangers-on who are desperate for attention and peer approval are the rabid FB users who use it to stay visible without the strain (oh no!) of actually having to see or speak with people.
The same can be said for many types of socialising phoning, texting, going to parties, etc, I'm not the kind of person who spends much time on facebook, I do have one friend who spends plenty of time on there and also does a lot more "real" socialising that spends a lot of time on it but rarely comes out, each to their own i guess. Perhaps the only reason your soo angry about it is because you feel left out? does everybody have more e-friends than you :(???
The site host/cracked NTLM LM MD5
NTLM is still used in the following situations:
* The client is authenticating to a server using an IP address.
* The client is authenticating to a server that belongs to a different Active Directory forest, or doesn't belong to a domain.
* No Active Directory domain exists (commonly referred to as "workgroup" or "peer-to-peer").
* Where a firewall would otherwise restrict the ports required by Kerberos (of which there are quite a few)
So kids getting their teeth wet on home networks, which probably explains why its not being supported. MD5 is still used by applications that arn't quite sure what they are doing/can't do much more e.g grub, im clients, etc.
Lookup tables are still useful in cracking WPA
Because slashdot used to be a site for geeks, however recently anytime somebody uses a simple TLA/ETLA people start bitching that they don't know what it meant and they are too lazy to google and/or wikipeida it, so instead you get a stupid thread full of people who have !RTFA commenting on a subject that is of no interest to them, if it was they would have understood the TLA in TFS, this really annoys the few geeks that actually RTFA as it dilutes the comments. As a TFS contains redundant information to prevent people going "what are rainbow tables?", lets be honest if you're the kind of geek that has ever done any 'cracking' you knew what it mean, if you're not then you don't care.
p.s irony of this post not lost on me!