Isn't this a bit wasteful? I mean you can buy 128mb of memory for a LOT cheaper than one of those "ultra cheap 128mb graphics cards".
sometimes we get servers thrown in our laps that already have gfx cards which aren't needed. my last Sun came with 128mb video card plus an onboard 64mb card. i don't use either one since i use serial console on the thing.
I'm working on cd's that will install themselves into memory filesystems. Problem is, to get a decent set of apps i need a lot of memory. Using vram would be very nice, maybe not for a machine that i would spec out since i'd buy it with enough RAM, but what about borrowing/hijacking machines? Imagine using this cd to go to library, boot computer from cd, cd ejects (so there's no trace of you since upon reboot, mem is wiped), you walk on. what you left behind: a machine running gnutella and using memory file systems to store files on. getting more space from the vram would be essential.
I am thinking of setting up a machine, using a utility that works like "Norton Ghost" (if there is such a utility that runs under Linux, there'd be super-nice !), where I can "copy" the whole content of the harddisk (partitions and all) into a CD-R.
Norton Ghost works with linux. Where i work we have a lab full of dual boot (Win2k/RH linux) machines that are installed using ghost.
And since this is open source, it wouldnt be too difficult to roll your own cd that boots up, autoconfigures the machine, and installs OS. It will help if all the machines are the same configuration.
If virii writers can write apps that automatically destroy any given machine, can't we write apps that automatically create any given machine?
the RealWeasel will give you a serial console for i386 hardware. It might be out of your price range, though, at $250 for the ISA and $350 for the pci version.
Dell and other companies come with their own similar solutions - add on boards that allow powering off the server. There are some nice links off of the realweasel site to other places with similar devices.
Otherwise, buy Sun or any other hardware platform that comes with serial console standard.
I (maybe somewhat foolishly) just decided that there were 365.25 days in a year.
the following is an excerpt from a post in the news thread:
(msd = mean solar day) 1 year = 365.2422 msd = 365 + 1/4 - 1/100 + 1/400 + error That's why we have: leapyear 1 out of 4 non leap year 1 out of 100 leapyear 1 out of 400 (So 2400 is a leap year.) Read any basic astronomy book.
i'd rather head to the bar than do the math right now, so i'll pretend you did your math on a '93 pentium.
The telnet banner is ludicrous, as it won't stop anyone, and at the very least is a waste of that individuals time to change.
Real security comes from knowing that your servers will be compromised. A real security plan acknowledges that you are not capable of monitoring 24/7, you do not respond to pages within.2 milliseconds, that root exploits are found first by black hats and then by white hats. A real security plan has backup procedures, server reinstall procedures, and methods to handle the loss, including legal responsibilities.
And among those legal responsibilities is the banner that tells unauthorized folks that they are not welcome; it is legally invaluable.
i think i missed it because it reminded me too much of The Day of the Triffids, which really scared me as a kid. It wasn't until i was around 6 that i gained the skin to withstand and laugh at them all.
Why bother? There's really not all that much need to worry. According to the post, an asteroid of this size is large enough to cause continent wide destruction so even if the asteroid turns out to really be on a collision course, we have a 1 in 7 chance of not getting hit. I'll take those odds to Vegas any day.
But if you really think it'll help, i'll get right on the sex bit.
I'm used to posting on the OpenBSD mailing lists, so my first response is do your homework! (j/k)
how can putting living creatures (yeast) into a dish allow it to stay vegan?
vegan is "someone who eats no animal products at all", yeast is part of the fungus kingdom, not the animal kingdom. it would be the same as plucking fruit from a tree and eating it (in terms of being vegan, but if you really wanna get strict with your eating habits check out fruitarianism)
With regards to this site, i figured it would be relevant to point out the vegan aspect of that dish since it means there is no cholesterol in it, which might be of importance to those whose stereotypical meal consists of big macs[3,3] and pizza (well, the typical pizza. i really like Amy's vegetable pizza). My recipe is also quite low fat and very high protein, by the way.
here's my recipe for a casserole. the name comes from a book i had lying around, couldn't think of anything else.
Here is a photo plus the recipe, in case anyone wants to link to it. It doesn't take much preparation but takes a long cooking time, so halfway through your all night coding session you'll have a good meal.
Cut green pepper,onion and tempeh. Fry the onion and tempeh on low heat in some oil. Cook sobe noodles quite al dente. Pour noodles and water into crock pot (you better not have too much water) Dump pepper, onion, tempeh and quinoa into the crock pot. Mix in thyme, rocoto and nutritional yeast. Sprinkle layer of nutritional yeast on top of food. Place lid on crock pot and leave on low for a few hours, or on high for less time. It's done when the quinoa is cooked, there is no sitting water and you're hungry.
Optional Add corn and calamata olives.
* not meant to be too hot. remember - good hot stuff is tasty first, hot second.
one more thing, it's vegan and has enough fiber for even CowboyNeal.
I'd like to suggest what someone suggested in the "give up linux" article. We need to STOP railing MS, and start boosting Linux. I don't want Linux to be successful if the success is based on dirty marketing against MS.
It's not the first time someone's mentioned this. Check out this Byte article from Feb 1996, as found on an advocating OpenBSD page. Many of the other tips on that advocacy page are relevant to the linux camp as well.
Does your 'absolute requirement' run on my Unix internet pc? And how much of the exact 0 viruses that ever infected it would require it?
amavis + uvscan + dat files from nai.com cleanse our email, all running on a Solaris box. So some stuff we get from nai does work on unices - yeah sure not executables but their dat files are essential. hasnt cleansed any virii for unix that i am aware of, but still we use stuff from nai on a unix server.
NAI also sells a product that cleans your email, proxies and cleans ftp, web data, and all runs on a 1U linux server.
Yest, it is much nicer to have an album with pictures. And not every computer can be taken with you when you go to visit a friend and show some pictures.
a photo album is best on a 3rd or 4th date, curl up on couch with your lover and look at embarassing photos. everything from the turning of the pages to the shifting weight of the photo album makes the whole situation much more intimate with plenty of leadways into whatever you feel like.
However the quality of pictures taken by any camera below $1000
There are plenty of really good $400 digital cameras, like the Kodak DX3900. I bought my Nikon 990 a couple years ago, it cost just over $1000 (you can get it for aroun $500 now) and the photos i get from ezprints.com are great, even at 11x14 (anything higher will NOT be sharp). Look for something 3.1 megapixels at least and you'll get just fine 4x6's. Well, provided you know how to shoot. And it helps to know something about photo editing (particularly contrast and light balancing).
i think it would have been far, far, more impressive if Yoda moved around a lot less and demonstrated his skill with the speed, accuracy and ability
like Keanu from the Matrix. last fight scene, rather well placed.
He expended a lot of useless energy bouncing around. Remember, when you're doing a flip, you're basically defenseless and not doing any real attack.
no, this is wrong.
positioning is very important from a defensive standpoint. relate it to Ali's dancing like a butterfly.
yes, it looked silly, yes it was cheesy, no the scene wont stand the test of time, and no it was nowhere near as good as the final fight scene in Episode I (but that was the best scene in any movie - good action, tense moments, Wonderful scoring - what was up with the lack of all these in E II???), but not b/c Yoda's fighting style is unrealistic.
Maybe there's an aftermarket for stuff like this - premade custom-built internally lit dioramas you bolt to your house to change the view
reminds me of Resident Evil - in the movie the underground lab has fake windows to simluate live topside.
How would you like to wake up on Mars every morning?
and this comment reminded me of the playsets used by the Martian colonists in PK Dick's The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. i think i'd rather have those...
you can control the entire box through the serial port. You can power it up and down and boot it remotely. I've never seen a PC do this to my satisfaction.
Also, Dell's hardware is pretty good. you can get remote management boards for them as well, which allow dialin and let you see bios info, but it's still not OpenBoot PROM. Even so, if i were the original poster i'd wanna get a Dell 1650, put OpenBSD on it and forget it. Sun hardware/software is great for big servers and/or the specialized application, but for small webserving i prefer x86 w/ *bsd or linux (depending on *exact* application).
Another point I'd make is that since sun stopped supporting solaris x86,
they're supposed to be releasing Solaris 9 for x86. there was a/. article about it not too long ago.
I've moved some of my home machines to linux and subscribed to the redhat network. Wow, a lot of things sure got a lot easier. Many services that you would have to install manually on a solaris machine were already there.
9 is also supposed to include openssh (finally!)
also, installing patches on Solaris isn't all that tough. the whole patchdiag process can be easily automated. up2date is *real* easy, but since i'm more used to OpenBSD patching, sometimes i think it's too easy;-)
Obscure packages could easily be found and installed, which isn't always the case with solaris
that's true. lots of packages are available, though. ibiblio is helpful, as are other websites, for packages. by the way, anyone know where i can get a Falcon's Eye rpm for RH 7.X?
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sometimes we get servers thrown in our laps that already have gfx cards which aren't needed. my last Sun came with 128mb video card plus an onboard 64mb card. i don't use either one since i use serial console on the thing.
I'm working on cd's that will install themselves into memory filesystems. Problem is, to get a decent set of apps i need a lot of memory. Using vram would be very nice, maybe not for a machine that i would spec out since i'd buy it with enough RAM, but what about borrowing/hijacking machines? Imagine using this cd to go to library, boot computer from cd, cd ejects (so there's no trace of you since upon reboot, mem is wiped), you walk on. what you left behind: a machine running gnutella and using memory file systems to store files on. getting more space from the vram would be essential.
Norton Ghost works with linux. Where i work we have a lab full of dual boot (Win2k/RH linux) machines that are installed using ghost.
And since this is open source, it wouldnt be too difficult to roll your own cd that boots up, autoconfigures the machine, and installs OS. It will help if all the machines are the same configuration.
If virii writers can write apps that automatically destroy any given machine, can't we write apps that automatically create any given machine?
http://www.microbsd.net/ is based on OpenBSD and FreeBSD.
Dell and other companies come with their own similar solutions - add on boards that allow powering off the server. There are some nice links off of the realweasel site to other places with similar devices.
Otherwise, buy Sun or any other hardware platform that comes with serial console standard.
the following is an excerpt from a post in the news thread:
(msd = mean solar day)
1 year = 365.2422 msd = 365 + 1/4 - 1/100 + 1/400 + error
That's why we have:
leapyear 1 out of 4
non leap year 1 out of 100
leapyear 1 out of 400 (So 2400 is a leap year.)
Read any basic astronomy book.
i'd rather head to the bar than do the math right now, so i'll pretend you did your math on a '93 pentium.
Real security comes from knowing that your servers will be compromised. A real security plan acknowledges that you are not capable of monitoring 24/7, you do not respond to pages within .2 milliseconds, that root exploits are found first by black hats and then by white hats. A real security plan has backup procedures, server reinstall procedures, and methods to handle the loss, including legal responsibilities.
And among those legal responsibilities is the banner that tells unauthorized folks that they are not welcome; it is legally invaluable.
legalities. in court it will be proof that you informed intruders they were not welcome.
This machine isn't being used as an NFS client False, I have all the clients in place. I just haven't any mounted NFS volume
huh? it is not being used.
but in general it looks like that tool really is fucked up. why not repackage nessus, nmap and tripwire?
s/364/365/
today has been no different for me.
(mad props to the time-phone-lady)
i think i missed it because it reminded me too much of The Day of the Triffids, which really scared me as a kid. It wasn't until i was around 6 that i gained the skin to withstand and laugh at them all.
Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare comes to mind.
My favourite are the ant movies like Them! and Empire of the Ants. But as far as B movies go, never doubt their expansiveness - from giant mosquitoes to vengeful frogs to killer rabbits (with DeForest Kelley!), there's a movie for them all
an asteroid of this size is large enough to cause continent wide destruction
so even if the asteroid turns out to really be on a collision course, we have a 1 in 7 chance of not getting hit. I'll take those odds to Vegas any day.
But if you really think it'll help, i'll get right on the sex bit.
well i was caught in a llama stampede when i was younger, so anyone within a 1000 mile radius of me might wanna consider moving...
Why of course, it comes from the finest natural ingredients found in the-
-wAIt a MINute.... Soylent Green is PEOPLE!!! It's PEOPLE!!!
I'm used to posting on the OpenBSD mailing lists, so my first response is do your homework!
(j/k)
how can putting living creatures (yeast) into a dish allow it to stay vegan?
vegan is "someone who eats no animal products at all", yeast is part of the fungus kingdom, not the animal kingdom. it would be the same as plucking fruit from a tree and eating it (in terms of being vegan, but if you really wanna get strict with your eating habits check out fruitarianism)
With regards to this site, i figured it would be relevant to point out the vegan aspect of that dish since it means there is no cholesterol in it, which might be of importance to those whose stereotypical meal consists of big macs[3,3] and pizza (well, the typical pizza. i really like Amy's vegetable pizza).
My recipe is also quite low fat and very high protein, by the way.
Here is a photo plus the recipe, in case anyone wants to link to it. It doesn't take much preparation but takes a long cooking time, so halfway through your all night coding session you'll have a good meal.
PostModern Casserole
Ingredients
1 package sobe noodles
1 green pepper
1 onion
1 measurement quinoa
2 measurements nutrional yeast
1 measurement thyme
1 quantity tempeh
1 spoonful rocoto salsa*
Preparation
Cut green pepper,onion and tempeh.
Fry the onion and tempeh on low heat in some oil.
Cook sobe noodles quite al dente.
Pour noodles and water into crock pot (you better not have too much water)
Dump pepper, onion, tempeh and quinoa into the crock pot.
Mix in thyme, rocoto and nutritional yeast.
Sprinkle layer of nutritional yeast on top of food.
Place lid on crock pot and leave on low for a few hours, or on high for less time.
It's done when the quinoa is cooked, there is no sitting water and you're hungry.
Optional
Add corn and calamata olives.
* not meant to be too hot. remember - good hot stuff is tasty first, hot second.
one more thing, it's vegan and has enough fiber for even CowboyNeal.
It's not the first time someone's mentioned this. Check out this Byte article from Feb 1996, as found on an advocating OpenBSD page. Many of the other tips on that advocacy page are relevant to the linux camp as well.
amavis + uvscan + dat files from nai.com cleanse our email, all running on a Solaris box. So some stuff we get from nai does work on unices - yeah sure not executables but their dat files are essential. hasnt cleansed any virii for unix that i am aware of, but still we use stuff from nai on a unix server.
NAI also sells a product that cleans your email, proxies and cleans ftp, web data, and all runs on a 1U linux server.
a photo album is best on a 3rd or 4th date, curl up on couch with your lover and look at embarassing photos. everything from the turning of the pages to the shifting weight of the photo album makes the whole situation much more intimate with plenty of leadways into whatever you feel like.
However the quality of pictures taken by any camera below $1000
There are plenty of really good $400 digital cameras, like the Kodak DX3900. I bought my Nikon 990 a couple years ago, it cost just over $1000 (you can get it for aroun $500 now) and the photos i get from ezprints.com are great, even at 11x14 (anything higher will NOT be sharp). Look for something 3.1 megapixels at least and you'll get just fine 4x6's. Well, provided you know how to shoot. And it helps to know something about photo editing (particularly contrast and light balancing).
allowing users to pick any password they want will get their accounts hacked.
letting users run any services on their computers and/or allowing their computers full access to the outside world will get their computers fucked.
i'm sure you can come up with more examples of when you need to restrict your users.
being a control freak is fine, provided you have Good Reasons and either you or your Manager can explain those reasons to your users.
i think one of the threads about this started with http://www.monkey.org/openbsd/archive/misc/0205/ms g01351.html or http://www.monkey.org/openbsd/archive/misc/0205/th reads.html#01351 for the full thread of that one.
SMP is really useful, but there are also a myriad applications where it's unnecessary.
like Keanu from the Matrix. last fight scene, rather well placed.
He expended a lot of useless energy bouncing around. Remember, when you're doing a flip, you're basically defenseless and not doing any real attack.
no, this is wrong.
positioning is very important from a defensive standpoint. relate it to Ali's dancing like a butterfly.
yes, it looked silly, yes it was cheesy, no the scene wont stand the test of time, and no it was nowhere near as good as the final fight scene in Episode I (but that was the best scene in any movie - good action, tense moments, Wonderful scoring - what was up with the lack of all these in E II???), but not b/c Yoda's fighting style is unrealistic.
well, you did say Java, didn't you?
reminds me of Resident Evil - in the movie the underground lab has fake windows to simluate live topside.
How would you like to wake up on Mars every morning?
and this comment reminded me of the playsets used by the Martian colonists in PK Dick's The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. i think i'd rather have those...
http://www.realweasel.com/ might be what you're looking for.
Also, Dell's hardware is pretty good. you can get remote management boards for them as well, which allow dialin and let you see bios info, but it's still not OpenBoot PROM. Even so, if i were the original poster i'd wanna get a Dell 1650, put OpenBSD on it and forget it. Sun hardware/software is great for big servers and/or the specialized application, but for small webserving i prefer x86 w/ *bsd or linux (depending on *exact* application).
Another point I'd make is that since sun stopped supporting solaris x86,
they're supposed to be releasing Solaris 9 for x86. there was a /. article about it not too long ago.
I've moved some of my home machines to linux and subscribed to the redhat network. Wow, a lot of things sure got a lot easier. Many services that you would have to install manually on a solaris machine were already there.
9 is also supposed to include openssh (finally!)
also, installing patches on Solaris isn't all that tough. the whole patchdiag process can be easily automated. up2date is *real* easy, but since i'm more used to OpenBSD patching, sometimes i think it's too easy ;-)
Obscure packages could easily be found and installed, which isn't always the case with solaris
that's true. lots of packages are available, though. ibiblio is helpful, as are other websites, for packages. by the way, anyone know where i can get a Falcon's Eye rpm for RH 7.X?