You can do the latter, but it's not recommended. You are guaranteed to have a mess. I did an upgrade from 7.10 to 8.04, and that was sticky. 8.10 to 9.04 went okay, but doing two in one go is going to cause all sorts of trouble. I would expect, at the very minimum, that you will have sound randomly crapping out on you.
I'm fairly sure they've done this unofficially for years. A friend of mine was murdered several years ago, and her family maintains her Facebook page. The first thing in her about me is that it's maintained solely as a memorial. I assume Facebook gave them access, and they didn't have the password.
Hm. That seems to me like it shouldn't do that. But yeah, I can see now that it does. Anything that isn't explicitly invoked with sudo shouldn't be able to call sudoed programs without password auth. Seems like the shell should be handling that explicitly and only passing off sudo privileges if told to (or prompting for a password at the very least.)
WYSIWYG is still too complex for a lot of people, and that's why Twitter and Facebook have taken off.
WYSIWYG is also very error-prone, which is part of why it's not shameful that especially Geocities-like early ones were hard to operate for the average user.
Why not have a gateway admin account that exists only for that purpose? I'd stay you're still vulnerable to alt-tabbing and entering a command in the wrong shell, unless you have screen or your xterm to be an obnoxious shade of red when you're logged in as root, which probably would be enough to stop you.
Personally, I prefer sudo, and I think there are a variety of ways you could go about configuring remote root to use two passwords in a manner that would be just as secure as your non-sudo path.
So, firstly, don't run ldd as root. (I use sudo, so no issues there.)
Secondly, don't use ldd on untrusted binaries. If you don't trust it why are you trying to run it? I suppose this is useful to see if the attacker is being really obvious and dynamically linking to net-code in a program that shouldn't need net, but other than that I don't see where this is going to be a serious problem, except in the case where you have a direct line to your sysadmin, but if that's the case there are probably a dozen different ways you can trick him into running arbitrary code, not the least of which is "hey, can you install this for me? I need it to get x done." If you're intelligent enough to hack a binary, I think you're intelligent enough that you can come up with a plausible reason your admin should install something you compiled yourself.
Of course not, unless by 'change' you mean 'abolish.'
But for these sorts of pharmaceuticals, I have to question the wisdom of allowing patents at all. Nobody really properly understands how most of this works, it's almost entirely statistics. That's not to trivialize the importance of new drugs, but patent exclusivity will discourage widespread use, reducing the statistical information we can glean from the new drugs, and making combining treatments much less safe.
Of course, the same argument works fairly well against the current pharmaceutical patent system, but again, this is Slashdot.
Murdoch doesn't own much content worth paying for.
Hulu on the other hand offers some shows that could be worked out. I currently happily subscribe to Pandora, and wouldn't mind a similar arrangement with Hulu. Especially if it meant Dr. Who.
I agree in general that there isn't a serious competition. But I can't believe that Microsoft chose the Ubuntu fall RC date by accident, given that it was on the Ubuntu calendar back in June when MS announced the Windows 7 release. They want the buzz as people begin using Windows 7 in the next couple weeks to totally eclipse the usual buzz that comes with a new Ubuntu release (Anemic as it may be, you still get gushing Slashdot posts and the like.) MS wants all eyes on Windows.
Ubuntu's fall release date has been set in stone for years, the RC release date has been up since before Windows 7's release date was announced.
Microsoft is the company that chose to release Windows 7 on the same day as Ubuntu's release candidate, not the other way around. Seems like Microsoft wanted to overshadow and minimize the latest release of Ubuntu, and do so without actually permitting Ubuntu to compete.
This shouldn't be legal. Cleartext password internet-facing consumer hardware? This is worse than those idiots using unsecured wireless routers for their credit card swiping machines. If I owned a Time Warner router I'd really feel justified in suing them for gross negligence.
Yeah, any non-technical person setting one of these things up is going to feel real stupid when the server blows up and kills everyone in their office. People just don't realize that computers are serious business, and should only be operated by experts.
Well, my Desktop in college was also a server, in that it hosted an openssh-server as well as apache2 which I often used to grab files stored in my room while I was around campus. I still don't think it really qualified as a server any more than I'd expect this thing to.
The problem is that Sharepoint should naturally suffer from the same issues that I've seen when Wikis are adopted: nobody is willing to adapt their practices, and the new technology sits idle.
My first reaction was remembering that even though I own the 3.5 manual (which I paid $90 for some years back) I still don't have pdfs, and need to obtain them.
If the particles weren't directed towards Earth, they wouldn't show up on the sensors of a probe in orbit around Earth. Ignoring this would commit the fallacy you accuse him of, that of assuming that just because we see something from our viewpoint means it has a solar-system-wide implication.
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You can do the latter, but it's not recommended. You are guaranteed to have a mess. I did an upgrade from 7.10 to 8.04, and that was sticky. 8.10 to 9.04 went okay, but doing two in one go is going to cause all sorts of trouble. I would expect, at the very minimum, that you will have sound randomly crapping out on you.
Clean install is best.
I think the word you're looking for is fascism. But hey, it's all the same thing, right?
I'm fairly sure they've done this unofficially for years. A friend of mine was murdered several years ago, and her family maintains her Facebook page. The first thing in her about me is that it's maintained solely as a memorial. I assume Facebook gave them access, and they didn't have the password.
Hm. That seems to me like it shouldn't do that. But yeah, I can see now that it does. Anything that isn't explicitly invoked with sudo shouldn't be able to call sudoed programs without password auth. Seems like the shell should be handling that explicitly and only passing off sudo privileges if told to (or prompting for a password at the very least.)
I thought AOL was the AOL of the web...
WYSIWYG is still too complex for a lot of people, and that's why Twitter and Facebook have taken off.
WYSIWYG is also very error-prone, which is part of why it's not shameful that especially Geocities-like early ones were hard to operate for the average user.
Can a binary do that? A shell script might be able to. But doesn't the sudo timeout only extend to the shell? It shouldn't extend to a child process.
But you're right of course that compromising my user account isn't much better than root. Except that it's much more detectable.
Why not have a gateway admin account that exists only for that purpose? I'd stay you're still vulnerable to alt-tabbing and entering a command in the wrong shell, unless you have screen or your xterm to be an obnoxious shade of red when you're logged in as root, which probably would be enough to stop you.
Personally, I prefer sudo, and I think there are a variety of ways you could go about configuring remote root to use two passwords in a manner that would be just as secure as your non-sudo path.
So, firstly, don't run ldd as root. (I use sudo, so no issues there.)
Secondly, don't use ldd on untrusted binaries. If you don't trust it why are you trying to run it? I suppose this is useful to see if the attacker is being really obvious and dynamically linking to net-code in a program that shouldn't need net, but other than that I don't see where this is going to be a serious problem, except in the case where you have a direct line to your sysadmin, but if that's the case there are probably a dozen different ways you can trick him into running arbitrary code, not the least of which is "hey, can you install this for me? I need it to get x done." If you're intelligent enough to hack a binary, I think you're intelligent enough that you can come up with a plausible reason your admin should install something you compiled yourself.
Of course not, unless by 'change' you mean 'abolish.'
But for these sorts of pharmaceuticals, I have to question the wisdom of allowing patents at all. Nobody really properly understands how most of this works, it's almost entirely statistics. That's not to trivialize the importance of new drugs, but patent exclusivity will discourage widespread use, reducing the statistical information we can glean from the new drugs, and making combining treatments much less safe.
Of course, the same argument works fairly well against the current pharmaceutical patent system, but again, this is Slashdot.
Murdoch doesn't own much content worth paying for.
Hulu on the other hand offers some shows that could be worked out. I currently happily subscribe to Pandora, and wouldn't mind a similar arrangement with Hulu. Especially if it meant Dr. Who.
I agree in general that there isn't a serious competition. But I can't believe that Microsoft chose the Ubuntu fall RC date by accident, given that it was on the Ubuntu calendar back in June when MS announced the Windows 7 release. They want the buzz as people begin using Windows 7 in the next couple weeks to totally eclipse the usual buzz that comes with a new Ubuntu release (Anemic as it may be, you still get gushing Slashdot posts and the like.) MS wants all eyes on Windows.
Ubuntu's fall release date has been set in stone for years, the RC release date has been up since before Windows 7's release date was announced.
Microsoft is the company that chose to release Windows 7 on the same day as Ubuntu's release candidate, not the other way around. Seems like Microsoft wanted to overshadow and minimize the latest release of Ubuntu, and do so without actually permitting Ubuntu to compete.
The Kindle runs Linux. The impressive thing was setting up a chroot and installing Ubuntu in full on the device.
It was also fairly useful, as it enabled certain features that you couldn't get off a normal Kindle.
I assume that the GP would like to improve his English, so I imagine he cares, otherwise I wouldn't have mentioned it.
You should be using the infinitive "to give" not to + gerund there. "They're actually starting to give up."
Not to be a pedant, but I suspect English isn't your first language, because a native would be unlikely to make that mistake.
This shouldn't be legal. Cleartext password internet-facing consumer hardware? This is worse than those idiots using unsecured wireless routers for their credit card swiping machines. If I owned a Time Warner router I'd really feel justified in suing them for gross negligence.
Yeah, any non-technical person setting one of these things up is going to feel real stupid when the server blows up and kills everyone in their office. People just don't realize that computers are serious business, and should only be operated by experts.
Well, my Desktop in college was also a server, in that it hosted an openssh-server as well as apache2 which I often used to grab files stored in my room while I was around campus. I still don't think it really qualified as a server any more than I'd expect this thing to.
The problem is that Sharepoint should naturally suffer from the same issues that I've seen when Wikis are adopted: nobody is willing to adapt their practices, and the new technology sits idle.
Yeah, that sort of thing can get you downvoted. I certainly ain't brave enough to risk Slashdot karma.
All those American HD manufacturers...
Oh, I see, you mean Microsoft taking an 80% profit margin on the exact same hard drives imported from Taiwan and locked down.
Thanks, I wasn't sure how to go about doing that. I didn't realize people just post these things in full.
My first reaction was remembering that even though I own the 3.5 manual (which I paid $90 for some years back) I still don't have pdfs, and need to obtain them.
If the particles weren't directed towards Earth, they wouldn't show up on the sensors of a probe in orbit around Earth. Ignoring this would commit the fallacy you accuse him of, that of assuming that just because we see something from our viewpoint means it has a solar-system-wide implication.