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Instead of forcing people to run one OS, why cant we run them both or them all even from one OS?
If you can convince people like Microsoft to work with other people to come up with a common, open API to which all enviroments can adhear, then it's possible. UNIX and X do this already (more or less), a call to an API function on any UNIX or X implementation should do the same thing as on any other UNIX or X implementation...there's POSIX as well, which NT was supposed to be compliant with...not sure how well though.
Assuming you all use the same executable binary format as well, programs should be free to run on whatever implementation you want. FreeBSD can already run Linux code, as long as you have the linux compatibility libs instaled.
I've got a rackmount er, rack, here - it can hold about 20U of devices, atm it has 3 4U PC boxes (canibalised systems, easier to fit into 4U's).
It's got space under the rack bracket for my two full tower units...now I just need to make up something so I can mount my 1603R in it - damn Cisco making 19" rackmount routers way to expensive.
Anyway it's made by NexelShelf It's the EIA Rack on that page.
Damn right. If they could find a FidoNet node list, they must logicaly have had all the other FidoNet zones. Not to mention all the other weird and wonderful BBS networks; BBSNet springs to mind, UK bassed network homed on Ooh! BBS, which was actually still going when I checked last year. *thinks* Peter Friedlos was the SysOp iirc.
Remember having to download a world FidoNet node list for the first time when you set youself up as a point node?:) Downloading 3Mb files on 14.4k or 28.8k modems was fun.
Not sure how German Siemens is, but Siemens HQ is in Nurenberg; I've had to phone their Industrial HMI support team there before and I have to say the Germans are bloody sight more useful that their English counterparts...but I diegress.
Siemens I think is/was owned by Sir William Siemens, the UK HQ is called Sir William Siemens House and it's in Manchester. So maybe it's a half German half English company?
Sir being the title of a Knight in the UK, for those who didn't know.
I don't have any realy objection to the majority of the CCTV camera's, it's not as if they're realling spying on you since they're all stuck on the top of huge posts or bolted to the side of walls.
They are a good thing believe it or not, they do serve a practical purpose, if not reducing crime, making it a damn sight easy to catch the criminals, someone has already given the example of the Brixton nail bomber.
They don't really effect your daily life, they're just there, you get used to them, sure there's scope for abuse (I know the operators in Chelmsford quite often watch people shagging after they've come out of the Nightclub, apparently there's a favored wall).
They do give you something to do when you're in an A-Level Computer Science lecture getting bored out of your skull too, trying to work out a route from Chelmsford College to Chelmsford Bus Station whereby you avoid all the camera's.
Only ocassion I know of where it went "wrong" was where the police had a CCTV camera which could be turned to point straight in some guys bedroom window, he just complained and a court ordered that the police had to physicaly prevent the camera from pointing in that direction. So it now has a piece of metal welded to it.
All in all I have no objections to the camera's as long as someone keeps an eye on them and makes sure there's no scope for serious abuse, which comes tbh when the camera's are in the hands of private companies, but they seem to be fairly responsible in the UK. So far.
The function of gpg I use the most is the signature, I very rarely use the encryption functions, in fact the last time I got an encrypted e-mail was 5 months ago and it was the new root password for a system I admin.
Quite frankly if the police have a desperate need to know the root password on a server I admin, then they can have it...if they want to get in that desperatly they will anyway.
Simple fact is, if the police want into your data, they will get in eventualy...I have nothing that I desperatly need to hide, just things I would rather keep to myself. I mean, if you can't trust the police, who can you trust.
That was irony for the humourly challenge.
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The word buzzword springs to mind for some reason.
Although I suspect it should be possible to intergrate the SEL functionality into the BSD kernel.
The rest of the changes are a number of patches to various user space apps. The SEL bundle, for want of a better words is bassed on a vanilla RedHat 6.2 install. Which I assume is because RedHat is (at least pervieved) the distribution of choice for commercial purposes
"Qualified Parties is that part of this which worries me, who is going to decide who is or isn't a qualified party? I co-admin two boxes which act as both primary and secondary DNS for several domains, would I qualify? I don't work for a company and have no offical status as a DNS admin other than having root access to the boxes.
If I (we) have to find out about the security problems by chinese-whispers, or even worse, our system actually being comprimised becuase of it, it isn't going to be good, for us, or for BINDs reputation.
You can't use laptops during take off and landing, ditto for CD Players. Mobile phones you're allowed to use until the plane leaves the gate (at least on one Airline I've used), then you have to turn them off for the duration of the flight until you reach the gate again.
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They got warp technology from someone else if I remember correctly (or took it more probably).
If you can convince people like Microsoft to work with other people to come up with a common, open API to which all enviroments can adhear, then it's possible. UNIX and X do this already (more or less), a call to an API function on any UNIX or X implementation should do the same thing as on any other UNIX or X implementation...there's POSIX as well, which NT was supposed to be compliant with...not sure how well though.
Assuming you all use the same executable binary format as well, programs should be free to run on whatever implementation you want. FreeBSD can already run Linux code, as long as you have the linux compatibility libs instaled.
I could be wrong of course.
And yes I meant to write UNIX in capitals.
You'd get your account terminated by your own ISP for violating their AUP probably.
And rightly so, two wrongs never make a right, not even on the internet.
I've got a rackmount er, rack, here - it can hold about 20U of devices, atm it has 3 4U PC boxes (canibalised systems, easier to fit into 4U's).
It's got space under the rack bracket for my two full tower units...now I just need to make up something so I can mount my 1603R in it - damn Cisco making 19" rackmount routers way to expensive.
Anyway it's made by NexelShelf It's the EIA Rack on that page.
pic of my one in action :)
What I'd really like is a full height server enclosure from Rittal :)
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Damn right. If they could find a FidoNet node list, they must logicaly have had all the other FidoNet zones. Not to mention all the other weird and wonderful BBS networks; BBSNet springs to mind, UK bassed network homed on Ooh! BBS, which was actually still going when I checked last year. *thinks* Peter Friedlos was the SysOp iirc.
Remember having to download a world FidoNet node list for the first time when you set youself up as a point node? :) Downloading 3Mb files on 14.4k or 28.8k modems was fun.
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Not sure how German Siemens is, but Siemens HQ is in Nurenberg; I've had to phone their Industrial HMI support team there before and I have to say the Germans are bloody sight more useful that their English counterparts...but I diegress.
Siemens I think is/was owned by Sir William Siemens, the UK HQ is called Sir William Siemens House and it's in Manchester. So maybe it's a half German half English company?
Sir being the title of a Knight in the UK, for those who didn't know.
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I don't have any realy objection to the majority of the CCTV camera's, it's not as if they're realling spying on you since they're all stuck on the top of huge posts or bolted to the side of walls.
They are a good thing believe it or not, they do serve a practical purpose, if not reducing crime, making it a damn sight easy to catch the criminals, someone has already given the example of the Brixton nail bomber.
They don't really effect your daily life, they're just there, you get used to them, sure there's scope for abuse (I know the operators in Chelmsford quite often watch people shagging after they've come out of the Nightclub, apparently there's a favored wall).
They do give you something to do when you're in an A-Level Computer Science lecture getting bored out of your skull too, trying to work out a route from Chelmsford College to Chelmsford Bus Station whereby you avoid all the camera's.
Only ocassion I know of where it went "wrong" was where the police had a CCTV camera which could be turned to point straight in some guys bedroom window, he just complained and a court ordered that the police had to physicaly prevent the camera from pointing in that direction. So it now has a piece of metal welded to it.
All in all I have no objections to the camera's as long as someone keeps an eye on them and makes sure there's no scope for serious abuse, which comes tbh when the camera's are in the hands of private companies, but they seem to be fairly responsible in the UK. So far.
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The function of gpg I use the most is the signature, I very rarely use the encryption functions, in fact the last time I got an encrypted e-mail was 5 months ago and it was the new root password for a system I admin.
Quite frankly if the police have a desperate need to know the root password on a server I admin, then they can have it...if they want to get in that desperatly they will anyway.
Simple fact is, if the police want into your data, they will get in eventualy...I have nothing that I desperatly need to hide, just things I would rather keep to myself. I mean, if you can't trust the police, who can you trust.
That was irony for the humourly challenge.
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The word buzzword springs to mind for some reason.
Although I suspect it should be possible to intergrate the SEL functionality into the BSD kernel.
The rest of the changes are a number of patches to various user space apps. The SEL bundle, for want of a better words is bassed on a vanilla RedHat 6.2 install. Which I assume is because RedHat is (at least pervieved) the distribution of choice for commercial purposes
I think I strayed nicely from the point there...
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"Qualified Parties is that part of this which worries me, who is going to decide who is or isn't a qualified party? I co-admin two boxes which act as both primary and secondary DNS for several domains, would I qualify? I don't work for a company and have no offical status as a DNS admin other than having root access to the boxes.
If I (we) have to find out about the security problems by chinese-whispers, or even worse, our system actually being comprimised becuase of it, it isn't going to be good, for us, or for BINDs reputation.
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Shouldn't worry about it, someone else moderated me down as flamebait.
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You can't use laptops during take off and landing, ditto for CD Players. Mobile phones you're allowed to use until the plane leaves the gate (at least on one Airline I've used), then you have to turn them off for the duration of the flight until you reach the gate again.
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iirc, at least one of the window managers which comes with RH already has a Start button©©©I think KDE and Fvwm both have Start buttons©
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Although it does proudly state "Built on NT Technology" - or something along those lines.
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My Nokia 9110 can almost do that©©©I'm not sure how well an ssh client would run on it though©©©could be interesting to find out©
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I guess that makes the Cornish the UK equivilant of the Navajo "Code Talkers" then - just get them to make the calls as no bugger can understand them©©©even when they're talking English©©©god knows how you'd manage if they started talking Cornish©
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To be honest, if anyone wants to record my telephone conversations they're welcome to - the most interesting thing they're likely to hear is phonesex with my girlfriend©
Maybe that's what they're really after anyway©©©;
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Which would basicly only tell you if the box was physicaly up, not if it was reponding to requests, which is more often the case with over loaded sits© Once web servers hit their configured maximum query limit they stop servicing further requests - that's what you should check for; as well as the actual physical up/down status - maybe you should add perl to your list©
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It's also pretty childish - if you're controling the game server you could just add a blackhole rule to drop their packets, just as effective and whole lot less immature©
Ping flooding and fragmentation attacks aren't clever, they just mean you're sinking to the same level as the cheater©
I have several domains under gTLDs, well actually they're all ©org but that's besides the point - and my name and address appears on all of them - does it bother me? No, and I'll tell you why©
The details on my domain records are available easily to anyone who has the time and inclination to look for for them, they appear on my CV on my homepage, in the WHOIS info for my domains and in the WHOIS info for my NIC handle©
Even if this information wasn't available in those places, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't take long to track down - anyone who knew my name ¥which also appears on my homepage on the CV and the bottom of each page could find out where I lived without much difficultly - I'm pretty sure electoral registers are public information, armed with my name and roughly where I live ¥also on my page you can find out my address with out much difficulty, just by flicking through a telephone directory if necesary©
The fact is if people really didn't want other people to be able to find out where they are, they wouldn't register domains, they'd just stick to using the free space from their ISP with the typicaly non-descript URL that comes with it or one of the free hosting services©
You make the choice of having your personal information made public when you register a domain - if you don't like it, don't do it© It's your choice©
I'm not sure ext3 counts as being highly reliable yet© In fact last time I checked it was still alpha code©
iirc this actually what the Roman Republic had - two people sharing power, neither able to make a decision without the others agreement©
Caesar did for that though© He intimidated his opposite number until he was affraid to go out and perform his duties; all the power basicly then rested with Caesar©
I wonder if that makes him the first Italian Mafia Don©©©
My memory is a little flakey though, I could be wrong©
I'd noticed that as well©©©it shows up a perioud though©
Go and buy a copy of The Code Book by Simon Singh, it should answer most of your questions©
You'll find it on Amazon
The point is they still used images from a Linux system© Whatever was being used to actually display it - it came from a Linux box in the first place©